Not really. He always did the "I'm taking a break from the forum for a while" thing when his awful arguments were dissected by Legs or Rafuh or whatever and he felt the heat. It was his way of not grappling with his own complete inadequacy
In this instance, I think it was this post that did him in
After it, Holliday had to that acknowledge that there's a more than decent chance Brand is a dangerous sex pest and pivot to the "timing" of the case (that they've been building for 4 years), and vague allusions to an "establishment" that was out to get Brand. Of course, whatever way you cut it, he was defending a dangerous sex pest for no other reason than the "wokes" and "liberals" were condemning him.
And such was the way with D. Instead of just looking at a case on its own merits, he would obsess solely on whatever he perceived the "woke narrative" to be, and rail against that whatever that was and whoever it led him to defend. It's a weird way to live, and the reason someone like Kev has survived here, as grotesque as he is, is that he at least holds his awful opinions and offers a genuinely different POV. Holliday just pretended to have a different opinion so he could satisfy his fetish of having arguments. Arguments for the sake of arguments are not the same as a different POV, as Holliday still seems to not have understood from the mountain of internet bans he has received
