[Alamo-Girl]

To the contrary, I broached the subject cautiously using the words "manner ... suggests ... subject is not ... but rather a goal ... " so as not to impute motive or read minds.

[Senator Bedfellow]

I see. So if I, hypothetically speaking, post that you are actively defending something you know to be a falsehood, that's beyond the pale. If, however, I hypothetically post that your manner suggests that you are actively defending something you appear to know is a falsehood, that's not assigning motives, and is hence acceptable posting.

That whole bit about not assigning motives was always the most completely unworkable bit of the whole agreement of the willing, which should be tolerably obvious by the fact that we can say exactly the same thing in both instances by simply adding a little "seems to be" fig leaf to the second. It is completely unenforceable, as a posting rule. I am, in fact, rather surprised that you chose to resurrect it here in this forum, given how easy it is to evade.