“you’re confusing cash with assets”
you are incorrect again. I wrote assets, because I was talking about total assets(which, this sounds like it’s going to blow your mind, includes cash!)
maybe you aren’t reading closely enough and are conflating my comments with the one sentence in the two articles you don’t like for some weird reason?
your next comment kind of explains another one of your blind spots:
“And, for pedantic ness: “what the fuck are you talking about?””
questions are not pedantic.
you can’t find out what somebody else meant unless you ask them a question.
what you are doing is assuming an answer and then extrapolating off of that, which is very easy for you to attack, but is often wrong because you’re making things up.
The fact that you’ve finally except in my tutoring and have begun asking questions is a huge step forward.
I’ll go look for someone who knows how to golf clap.
“I sort of assumed that basic literacy”
that sounds like it’s your problem, you should stop assuming basic literacy and practice reading.
If you’re just assuming literacy, in your head it sounds good, but out here it is rough for others to deal with you.
"So again, what “mistakes” are you correcting? "
that there’s no way to confuse 300 with 400.
that you can’t tell the difference between an opinion and a number from financial audit.
that because of one incorrect number you’re dead set that both articles are wrong, even though their numbers are from the financial audit that you originally referenced.
you mistake a statement for a question.
there are more, but four of your mistakes should be enough of a start for you to recognize a few of your errors.
don’t want to move too fast for you.
ps, good work on finally asking a question!
all I had to do was teach you what a question was for half a dozen comments comments consecutively and you learned!
that’s progress.
You’re a surprisingly dense person. You’ve managed to mistake a news article for a financial audit, misread a number of comments, misinterpret numbers, think that the phrase “article I agree with” means I don’t agree with it, and somehow take “hey, your number’s wrong” to mean “your numbers are wrong, your conclusion is wrong, and everything you say is wrong”.
I wrote assets, because I was talking about total assets
Except, you didn’t. And neither did the article I said was inaccurate where you plainly pulled that number from.
Maybe go actually read the second article you shared, which doesn’t get their cash or assets wrong or make grossly inaccurate assertions about their financial status.
Also, congrats on actually running with “bold of you to assume I can read”.
“You’re a surprisingly dense person.”
Huhh?
“You’ve managed to mistake a news article for a financial audit,”
nope, that’s a straw man you’ve been trying to prop up for a dozen comments because you can’t refute my main point that WMF has plenty of money and shouldn’t be lying to and manipulating donors for more.
“misread a number of comments”
still no evidence for that after a dozen comments? rad.
“misinterpret numbers”
you don’t think three is next to four… that one’s on you.
“think that the phrase “article I agree with” means I don’t agree with”
also nope
so your strategy is to keep making things up?
consistent.
"the second article you shared, which doesn’t get their cash or assets wrong "
see, every time you respond, you make up a whole bunch of stuff, and then right at the end you angrily insist “also, I agreed with you all along!”
fine, I’m glad you can’t refute these things anymore.
You can keep ranting about irrelevant details and then agreeing with my original conclusion.
from the first comment.
I’m fine with that.
“Also, congrats on actually running with “bold of you to assume I can read”.”
thank you!
given that I’ve roundly quashed all of your efforts here, I figured that insult was a facetious, last-ditch attempt of yours to distract from your illogical meandering and thought it would be fun to turn that little insult back on you.
it was fun!
your insults and tangents have that “water off a duck’s back” quality I enjoy.
you can’t refute my main point that…
This is the part where you’re dense as fuck. As I said from the get go, I wasn’t trying to do that, you absolute insecure buffoon.
Go back and re-read the first comment, and try not being insecure and combative. I was literally, as you say, correcting a typo (Although then using that typo in math makes me feel like it was a misunderstanding of the numbers and not a typo).
You can keep ranting about irrelevant details and then agreeing with my original conclusion.
“Wikipedia has a half billion cash and is evil for asking for more” is really different from “Wikipedia isn’t in as bad a situation as you might think, and donation isn’t as crucial as they might lead you to believe”.
Your first comment is grossly misleading. I don’t really give a shit about your conclusion, since I’m ambivalent about donating. See also: the paragraphs I quoted from your second article I liked.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s like I’ve been saying and you refuse to accept: I’m not trying to “gotcha” you, I just actually cared about accurate numbers. If you actually care about accurate numbers for drawing conclusions, like a person who goes and reads financial audits might, then perhaps they aren’t “irrelevant details”. Or, as I like to call them: A $320 million dollar error.
You’re the one who can’t accept that someone saying “hey, their financials are by no means weak but they don’t have decades of cash saved up” isn’t a disagreement with your main point.
Then you went off on insane ad hominem tangents and refused to believe that maybe someone isn’t attacking you.
given that I’ve roundly quashed all of your efforts here
You really haven’t. If you’ll recall: “what the fuck are you even talking about”? Insecure gibberish isn’t the masterful debate strategy you think it is. You aren’t coming across as cleverly as you seem to think you are.
