GC: What should happen to trans people after the media storm fizzles out by rainynights in GCdebatesQT

[–]divingrightintowork 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There is a discord if you're interested! Indeed it's sad this place doesn't have the virve, vim, or vigor that the subreddit had, for obvious reasons - though I'm guessing things can go back to what it was like in the 70s/80s where generally people didn't really care all that much outside of a few edge case scenarios but generally fine in so much that you were just wanting to live your life / be respectful / not be overly disruptive, etc.

Senate votes to pass House's Stopgap Funding Bill without Ukraine Aid by ageingrockstar in WayOfTheBern

[–]MeganDelacroix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Matt Gaetz might be at a special Timcast IRL this Friday.

We're fucked by bucetao6969 in TumblrInAction

[–]divingrightintowork [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oooooh whowherewhat - how is it going one day in?

Qanon as a Pre-Plandemoneum Psyop by zyxzevn in conspiracy

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do people forget Q started on /pol

Openweb.com values: the future of the internet is all spam all the time by PanzerDivision in Internet

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting read. Our minds are under attack by bad actors and their AI. Use the computer, but don't let the computer use you.

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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You both make me laugh, does that count?

Rishi Sunak is causing a meltdown by xoenix in TumblrInAction

[–]Q-Continuum-kin [score hidden]  (0 children)

One of the best parts of this is that the whole propaganda that the sex binary is white colonialism gets attacked simply by people like Sunak existing.

Biden's "Secret Money Machine": New Book Delves Into Hunter's China-Linked Partnership With University Of Delaware by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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Other articles and interviews at Breitbart

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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yawn

You're worse than Louis, constantly whining in Interview with the Vampire.

Barack Obama Born in Kenya? by In-the-clouds in history

[–]thomastheglassexpert 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As I recall this was championed by Sheriff Joe Arpillo of Phoenix. Nothing came of it to any court. No evidence presented, no judge has seen and nothing done exactly as Republicans are well known for. Worthless mud slinging.

Actual NY Times headline from Monday: "Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say | Russian spy agencies and new technologies could be used to push conspiracy theories, U.S. officials say." by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Thank God that our officials know Putin and every US resident well enough to realize Putin and only Putin could cause anyone to dare question the USA's continued funding with our tax dollars of a bullshit proxy war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians just to weaken Russia.

It's funny how our propagandists hadn't thought of this in the past.

Viet Cong’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Vietnam, Officials Say Viet Cong spy agencies and new technologies could be used to push conspiracy theories, U.S. officials say.

Who knew that Walter Cronkite was actually a Viet Cong operative!?!?11111!!????

Missouri teacher on leave after OnlyFans account discovered by Drewski in Education

[–]Southpawn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Realistically what can save us from this non sense?

Pakistan Orders Illegal Immigrants, Including 1.73 Million Afghans, to Leave by PanzerDivision in WorldNews

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I wonder if we will do the same when illegal immigrants begin suicide bombing our country...

Cloudfare rising to the occasion by Cancelthis in SaiditCanary

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Might want to short that...

When half of the Internet relies on one central point of failure and they fail big time, then half of the Internet is broken.

At least for me, on 3 systems....You can only get on saidit.net for a few minutes at a time, then you get 30 min+ gap of clicking checkboxes for Cloudflare. Captcha's were annoying, but at least they let you in if you got them right you could continue....

It used to be just for logging in, but since Cloudflare's massive design blunder had been made public, this is the cost of just viewing saidit.net at all. For many countries, saidit.net doesn't even DNS resolve today.

People are deluded to think that Cloudflare is saving them from a massive DDoS right now.....but the DDoS is coming from within Cloudflare. Their vulnerability related to the flawed design of Cloudflare's whole public/private key infrastructure allows anyone with a free Cloudflare key to DDoS Cloudflare "protected" websites.

Cloudflare was warned back in March with a proper security disclosure and had the standard months to act....yet, here we are.

Weaponized Introspection | Why "check your privilege" is performative, self-aggrandizing empty virtue signaling ritual by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Excerpt:

Young Lord Stancil here is a reliable instrument for unwittingly illustrating the internal contradictions of contemporary social justice politics. In theory, the concept of privilege checking is inherently introspective - it’s a way for the individual to ask him- or herself whether his or her perspective is impacted by privilege in such a way as to cloud judgment or create prejudice. That probably sounds unobjectionable, and (again in theory) it more or less is. The concept of “privilege” is typically abstracted so much as to be useless, but looking at your own perspective and what influences it is a useful exercise.

So what’s the issue? Look at Stancil here: what is introspective for him in these tweets? Where is his introspection? If privilege checking is a self-critical exercise, where is the self-criticism here? There’s literally none to be found, just like there’s none in anything Stancil ever says about social justice issues. He’s a man who has never met an intersectional analysis he could not bend into an advertisement for himself. I suppose we’re meant to presume that he’s been busily doing all of “the work” in the background, but as a public figure he exists in a state of total and ceaseless certainty about everything, all the time. What’s so wild here is that he parrots the standard-issue line that race and gender color people’s perspectives, but he appears totally incurious about how his white maleness influences his own performance of being an ally. Because people of his type are incapable of second-order thinking, he can’t ask himself if there’s more than one way to be influenced by your race and gender. Specifically, he’s a guy who’ll never wonder whether the way that he’s bent the critique of white men into a tool to glorify himself might not be, itself, an expression of white male privilege. This was the whole point about Good White Men: they have critiques of white men that they think are quite cutting, but they inevitably exempt themselves from those critiques in effect if not explicitly, which perversely means that complaining about white men advances their careers and interests as white men. I find that gross.

This is of course much greater than Stancil and greater even than privilege checking: modern identity politics contains a vast set of discursive tools that are meant to prompt self-critique but which are used, in practice, for the valorization of the individuals who most aggressively and shamelessly beat the drum. The person who would go on Tumblr to declare their white privilege would be aping a self-flagellating act, but would do so knowing full well that in the contrast they were drawing with peers, they were in fact participating in self-celebration. He who humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. And this is why privilege checking, in practice, is horseshit. I did six years in grad school in the humanities. Trust me: though conversations about failing to check one’s privilege grew like crabgrass, none of those conversations were inwardly focused. They were all inevitably about how some other person didn’t perform the necessary ablutions. Whatever theoretical value privilege checking might have collapses under the weight of its use as a tool for competing white people to assert greater virtue. If Stancil actually believed in the concept of privilege checking, and had integrity, he’d check his own privilege in private and then shut the fuck up about it. That would be actual introspection! Instead it’s all just part of his sales job.

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Are you ready for the cell phone test tomorrow? (October 4, 2023) by In-the-clouds in whatever

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you're anti-technology

I have a degree in electrical engineering, so I know you are not right on this claim. I like technology and wish for it to be used to benefit humanity.

And I believe Jesus told the truth. His kingdom is not of this world. If you could see the kingdom of God, you would see the worthlessness of human technology, as it will save no one from the Great Tribulation or from the spiritual wickedness in high places. Many of the works of man are corrupt and bring death.... including the man-made COVID and his genetic modifiers.

You have not judged me correctly, so you have demonstrated that you could be wrong about other things. I will no longer talk to you, until you have a change of heart.

Brain-eating cannibal back in public life after 10 years by Oyveygoyim in news

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Send him to the democrat party, unfortunately he might starve.

Fascism Question: If Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera's Falangism WAS NOT fascism, why did Italian Fascists say it WAS fascism by 8thmonitor in debatealtright

[–]VraiBleu [score hidden]  (0 children)

Maybe ur reading too much into s/Markimus ‘ comment? Jose Antonio was by most categorisations, a Fascist (just like the NSDAP) & his movement was closely aligned with Italian Fascism.

That doesn’t mean there weren’t important distinctions. Spanish French or German Fascism are naturally going to look quite different to their Italian predecessor.

Is this a confession? by P-38lightning in TumblrInAction

[–]ClassroomPast6178 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, Scotland was also trying to legislate that “trauma evidence” would be admissible in court.

The SNP and Scottish Greens are absolutely captured by this critical social justice nonsense.

Missouri teacher on leave after OnlyFans account discovered by Drewski in Education

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She's married? When her youth has passed and her beauty fades, would her husband stay with her? Her "fans" certainly won't. When financial trouble comes to their house, would she stay with him? I don't see how a marriage like that could last.

This story has the effect of normalizing adultery and sexual perversion, and even pedophilia. Is the teacher the victim? No children were harmed? What's next: pornography in the classroom? That's already happened, but it is not yet normalized. Then what? Pornography with the children? How low do we go? The story also has the effect of giving her free publicity which helps her generate far more money than the women get who remain to teach the children.

Is this a confession? by P-38lightning in TumblrInAction

[–]OuroborosTheory [score hidden]  (0 children)

probably why Scotland's trying to switch to eliminating juries from sexual crimes (the ones only women can be victims of, natch): gotta get those conviction rates up

The Absurd Fight Between the EPA and Berkey Water Filters | EPA Region 8 is actively working to make Berkey systems unavailable to the American people by classifying them as "pesticides" because their filters contain silver (that does not leach into the water) to protect the filter from microbes. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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LOL at the irony of the EPA trying to outlaw filtered water by declaring water filters "pesticides."

Excerpt:

Shepherd Trust, the brand owner of Berkey Water Systems, filed a lawsuit against the EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) this week seeking to stop its unjustified treatment and perceived persecution of Berkey Water Filters based on the EPA’s decision this year to treat Berkey Water Filters as though they are pesticides, rather than water filters.

For more than a quarter of a century, Berkey has provided water filters to the public, providing an effective, economical means of removing harmful contaminants from freshwater sources for consumers to have clean water at home or on the go.1 In fact, an entire generation has grown up with a Berkey filter in their kitchen. If the EPA wants to regulate gravity-fed mechanical water filters, it has a process to follow, at the very least. Berkey’s filters have never caused any harm to anyone, and the removal of Berkey filters from the market inexorably means that Berkey owners will not be able to replace the filters in their systems and therefore, the demand will be met with untested knockoff and counterfeit filters that claim to be replacements that provide the same benefits—when in fact they do not.2

The EPA’s decision to persecute the market leader may well cause actual damage to the American people who the EPA is supposed to be protecting. For example, on July 11, 2023, CBS recommended the Travel Berkey system, both in print and in their broadcast news, based upon the Environmental Working Group’s testing that found Travel Berkey systems removed toxic PFAS to below detectable limits3. And on June 7, 2023, popular consumer health advocate Mike Adams recommended Big Berkey systems reporting that they removed an impressive 99.99% of radioactive cesium-137.4 However, EPA Region 8 is actively working to make these systems unavailable to the American people.

Berkey’s filters have never caused any harm to anyone, and the EPA’s arbitrary—and arguably irrational—new interpretation of its regulations would have a huge impact, directly threatening not only the jobs of 500+ employees globally, lost sales for Berkey distributors and retailers around the world (some of which sell only Berkey products—effectively putting them out of business) and also the well-being of the American people, the very consumers who the EPA is supposed to protect. Moreover, it would have the same impact on other outdoor water filter manufacturers, potentially putting them out of business as well.

The EPA has been regulating pesticides since 1947, mostly through the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.5 FIFRA is exactly what it looks like – a law that seeks to regulate chemical pesticides, primarily for agricultural purposes. But the law distinguishes between actual pesticides, “substances or mixtures of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest”, and “treated devices”, which use registered pesticides in their construction, e.g., seeds that are sold after being treated with a registered pesticide.

The EPA has never sought to force registration of mechanical-type water filters as pesticides until last year when the EPA decided to start regulating Berkey’s water filters without warning after more than two decades of indisputably safe manufacture and sale.

Though there was no notice or opportunity to discuss that issue, Berkey and its manufacturing arms agreed to a request from the EPA for Berkey filtration products to be identified as “treated devices” (which is a different classification than a pesticide or a pesticide device), because they incorporate silver (a registered pesticide) in their filter media (a common additive in water filters which does not leach into the water) that protects the filter from biological grow through, a common problem with water filters.

Berkey has not hidden from the EPA, and has tried to comply with applicable laws and regulations regarding the manufacture and distribution of Berkey products. First, Berkey products were designated by the EPA as treated devices; the EPA then reinterpreted their rules and arbitrarily reclassified Berkey filters as a pesticide, issuing orders (without due process) preventing Berkey filters from being sold in some parts of the country by select Berkey dealers and vendors that received Stop-Sale Orders. This change in the rules is without notice or a shred of legal support. Berkey’s filters are not “substances or mixtures of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest”, as FIFRA defines pesticides. Rather, they mechanically remove contaminants through a tortuous maze of micropores, absorption and ionic adsorption.6

A problem arises when a water filter system is classified as a registered pesticide because a whole host of time-consuming regulations and requirements go into play, including onerous labeling requirements that must be placed upon all packaging. Basically, the regulations that require labels to go on the packaging assert that the product is a hazardous material. Other required labels include hazard precautionary statements, environmental hazards statements, directions for use and storage, disposal statements and mandatory statements that ensure the proper use of the pesticide and to prevent the occurrence of unreasonable adverse effects on the environment, which is defined in FIFRA etc. Therefore, Berkey would be required to label its water filters with pesticide language that could be very disconcerting and frightening to its customers—especially when similar and competing products are not being held to the same standard or requirements. Moreover, pesticide registration is an expensive process that can take years to get EPA approval and in the meantime, Berkey products would not be available to the American public.

As an administrative body, the EPA does not make actual law; its authority is limited to creating rules, which enforce laws that are passed by the United States Congress. As it is making rules, it is obligated to give notice of new rules and take input from those who will be impacted, which in our case did not occur.

In part, the EPA is excusing its new regulations that now classify Berkey filters as a pesticide on a notice issued in 2007 regarding electrode-equipped ion-generating devices, asserting that the use of silver in Berkey filters makes the filters into ion-generating devices, even though the 2007 notice specifically excepts that interpretation.

Is reddit just filled with AI content at this point? Are there any actual humans left on it? Look at the comments on this post about trans women being banned from female wards in hospitals. by bucetao6969 in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]B-scandiacus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I agree with all that.

The issue is that what LGBT people see as "harm" is not really a lot of other people's ideas of "harm" (same with "bullying"). The easiest example is pronouns. If you 'misgender' a person or refuse to call them something other than what they appear to be, many LGBT people will call this violence. They want constant validation from the world, they want special treatment, rather than to be left alone. It's easy to leave them alone because I honestly don't care about them and can't relate to their lifestyle. It's the fact that they are loud and demanding (and not all of them are, I will concede) and impose themselves on others that goes against their own idea of tolerance.

Dindus call a white kid a cracker and then jump him when he calls them the n-word back. by Keri10 in TumblrInAction

[–]AriShekelsteinDDS [score hidden]  (0 children)

Of course, yes, blacks want the freedom to use racial slurs against others while wanting the right to assault people who say them back, without any consequence.

The Walls Are Closing In — Around Free Speech | The censors are stepping up their game. | Western "democracies" are now instituting basic government censorship with extra steps. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Excerpt:

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It wasn’t long ago that I was laughing at the idea of the “Chinese Internet”, which (as the name suggests) is basically run (or at least censored) by the CCP. While sitting upon my comfortable “free speech throne” inside the “shining city on the hill”, I lobbed freedom-based insults down upon the dirty commies — like any good American should! How arrogant are those Chinese “leaders” to assume they can control information! How sad for the people of China who, when attempting to find actual news, will only find state-sanctioned propaganda! Destined to be led by morons making political decisions, the Chinese will never be free — not like us here in America!

I am no longer laughing.

It turns out that for years — and mostly undetected — the US government has been using ‘allies’ to covertly censor the information available to Americans. The Twitter Files were an important part of uncovering this vast “Censorship Industrial Complex”, as were the lawsuits of Missouri v. Biden and Berenson v. Biden. Information is slowly revealing how far-reaching this effort to censor the internet really is — which should also tell you how IMPORTANT this effort is to government. (As does government fighting back in Missouri v. Biden!)

The good news is the Censorship Industrial Complex is being exposed for the tyrannical, controlling system it is. The bad news is the CIC has largely been successful in achieving what I believe was its main goal: by normalizing (and gaining support through politicizing) censorship of supposedly free people, it set the stage for laws now being imposed or proposed around the globe. (Censorship fluffing, if you will)

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Seemingly before we can blink, we’re facing the dangerous ideas of censorship that we used to laugh at the Chinese for putting up with — and all done completely “legally”. The plan was actually quite simple: use government-controlled social media companies to create new censorship rules, then kick the “authority” to censor up the chain to a different bought-off (and undemocratic, but they don’t mention that) institution.

In practice, this means government effectively tells Google what to censor, then Google creates a new policy declaring the “truth” is ordained by “experts” in a higher centralized authority — in the case of covid, this was often the World Health Organization. Finally, government swoops in to complete the circle, declaring the new Google/WHO policy (which is really government’s desired policy) to be the only acceptable truth.

This is basic government censorship with extra steps.

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This is the type of propaganda the CIC wants to funnel you into — “information” disseminated from bought-off organizations that are STILL doubling down on vaccines and masks in the face of overwhelming real-world evidence. (Because it’s not about health, it’s about CONTROL!)

Online news sites, in-print newspapers, even in podcasts, the medium is irrelevant — because the fact is once you start censoring, you can’t stop or the house of cards collapses. More and more stories (and journalists) must be squashed, more sites must be infiltrated and sabotaged, and more drastic measures must be taken — all of which leads to a huge swell of pushback……..requiring more drastic measures…….

This is where we find ourselves. The current “authorities” have been “wrong” (on purpose) about basically everything — and they know it. From covid to crime, from foreign policy to monetary policy, THINGS JUST SUCK all over the world — and people know it’s because of incompetent (at best) leadership.

Desperate to hold onto power (and probably to prevent their political opponents from showing the public how “the sausage is made”), the “authorities” have opted to turn to the age-old “solution” of MORE censorship. Take a look at what’s coming down the pike in Canada:

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The most accurate portrayal... by xoenix in TumblrInAction

[–]AriShekelsteinDDS [score hidden]  (0 children)

To anyone who grew up around this guy: now you know what happened to your dog.

Don't Miss It: Important meeting on the DNA plasmid contamination of the COVID mRNA vaccine | IMHO, this is THE smoking gun revealing premeditated harm-and the fact the vaccines were not pulled after this discovery became known is the best evidence of malfeasance by regulators around the world by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Entire announcement:

https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/urgent-hearing-dna-contamination-mrna-vaccines/

Sign up at the above URL!

The World Council for Health, in collaboration with expert advisers, is dedicated to providing the public with accurate and reliable information to promote health and well-being. In light of recent concerns regarding bacterial DNA and genetic sequences in mRNA vaccines, the World Council for Health has organized an Urgent Expert Hearing on this critical topic.

The hearing, moderated by World Council for Health Steering Committee members Dr Mark Trozzi and Christof Plothe, DO, will take place virtually on October 9th at worldcouncilforhealth.org/dna and aims to address the implications of these findings for all people of the world.

International expert panel: Kevin McKernan, Dr Janci Lindsay, Prof Sucharit Bhakdi, Assoc Prof Byram Bridle, Dr Peter McCullough, Prof Brigitte König and Dr Jessica Rose

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Are you ready for the cell phone test tomorrow? (October 4, 2023) by In-the-clouds in whatever

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Obviously, no claim can be definitively proven, beyond perhaps cogito, ergo sum. For example, it's completely possible that we're living in a two-day universe - that we were all created yesterday and that we will all be annihilated at the stroke of midnight. There's no way to prove that, and there's no way to disprove it.

Inconsistencies are easier to spot, though, so I have to ask: if you're anti-technology, what on Earth are you doing talking to me over the Internet? Isn't this an obviously unnatural way to communicate?

Judge issues gag order after Trump’s comments on court clerk in civil trial by ActuallyNot in news

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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. You know the tree by its fruit.

Missouri teacher on leave after OnlyFans account discovered by Drewski in Education

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How to productively push back against the identity trap | "Even at their best, these ideas are a trap. While they promise to eradicate injustices and create a better world, they make it more difficult to realize the traditional aspirations of the left." by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Excerpt:

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In my new book, The Identity Trap, I trace where this ideology originated and how it became so powerful. While I have fundamental disagreements with the thinkers whose work helped to inspire this tradition, I found their concerns to be reasonable and their work to be serious. But then their ideas entered the mainstream in the most viral—and, often, the most vulgar—possible form.

The insights of Michel Foucault inspired the bromides of Robin DiAngelo. The concerns of Derrick Bell turned into the Manichean slogans of Ibram X. Kendi.

Even at their best, these ideas are a trap. While they promise to eradicate injustices and create a better world, they make it more difficult to realize the traditional aspirations of the left. The adoption of these ideas has made it harder for progressive organizations to fulfill their missions. It has led to the adoption of public policies that actively harmed the poor and marginalized people it was supposed to serve. And far from being the most effective bulwark against the danger from the far-right, their ascendancy is a key reason why Donald Trump is now running head-to-head with Joe Biden in polls for the 2024 election. Theoretically speaking, right-wing populism and the identity trap may be adversaries; in practical and political terms, one is the yin to the other’s yang.

The corrosive influence of the identity trap can now be felt in many areas of our public and political life. The popularized version of this novel ideology is putting healthy forms of cultural exchange under a general pall of suspicion. It is responsible for dangerous attacks on the norms sustaining a genuine culture of free speech. It has helped to inspire the practice of “progressive separatism,” leading influential institutions from elementary schools to nonprofit organizations to create racially segregated “affinity groups.” And it is behind the rise and rise of the idea of equity, which mandates positive discrimination to eradicate all disparities in outcomes between different groups, pitting different ethnic groups against each other in a zero-sum competition for resources.

Each of these applications is important in its own right; indeed, I respond to all four in my new book. But a fifth, though more abstract and philosophical, is even more foundational: the claim, originally inspired by Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality, that somebody who stands at one intersection of identities cannot understand somebody who stands at another intersection of identities—and should, especially if the latter comes from a more oppressed group, defer to their political judgment.

Why So Many Now Believe that We Just Can’t Understand Each Other

For centuries, the political left cherished a humanist tradition that emphasized the ability of different people to understand each other. Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto, a character in a much-quoted play by the ancient Roman playwright Terence said: “I am human, and nothing human is alien to me.”

But of late, a big part of the left—and, increasingly, much of the mainstream—has turned on universalism. Invocations of Terrence have gradually been supplanted by an emphasis on the way in which the members of privileged groups, like straight white men, are incapable of understanding the experiences of oppressed groups.

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There is significant variation in the exact nature of these views. But four interlocking claims are particularly central to the forms of standpoint theory that now routinely influence public debate:

  • There is a set of significant experiences that (virtually) all members of (particular) oppressed groups share.
  • These experiences give members of the group special insight into the nature of their oppression and other socially relevant facts.
  • Members of the group cannot fully or satisfactorily communicate these experiences to outsiders, even insofar as they have important political implications.
  • When an oppressed group makes political demands based on the identity its members share, outsiders should defer to them.

Do these claims hold water?

Why Standpoint Theory Is Philosophically Wrong

The first core claim of standpoint theory runs into trouble because it is extremely hard to identify meaningful experiences that all members of a socially relevant group share. Feminist philosophers originally tried to ground the special perspective of women in the fact that they have historically been expected to be in charge of rearing children, for example. But other feminist philosophers such as Elizabeth Spelman soon pointed out that there have, all through history, been many women who never had children. In a similar vein, men may be less likely to raise children on their own than women, but it is not clear why any particular single dad should have less insight into the burden of caregiving than any particular single mom. As Rachel Fraser, an associate professor of philosophy at Oxford University who herself defends a more moderate form of standpoint epistemology, told me on the Persuasion podcast, “You’re going to have to abandon the simple idea that there’s some kind of experiential core that all and only women have.”

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Warning: The OP writer is a bit of a windbag.

@FiorellaIsabelM: "How far from the “revolutionary” that once went to the Soviet Union! Sanders isn’t just a disgrace to his supporters but a warmonger posing as an anti-war hero, arresting activists for simply wanting to stop arming NEO-NAZIS using depleted uranium & illegal weapons on civilians." by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

[–]3andfro 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit doesn't allow sub name changes; don't know whether saidit operates differently. For now, the sidebar's top subhead is probably the best option, short of creating an entirely new sub and starting over again with whatever migration might follow. Many of us are already here as a result of 1 or even 2 migrations.

Army War College Report Predicts Mass Casualties in Near-Peer Fight Against [Russia] - Analysis by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

[–]sdl5 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wait, are they trying to tell U.S. citizens:

A nation who's govt was determined to shut down NEARLY ALL heavy industry and resource extractions domestically, AND outsource critical bits to foreign nations potentially-not-allies, THEN send off virtually all stockpiled ammo and mil equipment to be blown up after seeing minimal to no offensive use, AFTER drawing down the strategic oil reserves to basically zero while ALSO refusing to purchase lower cost replacement volume at the dip, AS WELL AS both shutting down domestic extraction and tightly limiting expanding or adding refineries...

....A nation who set a PRIMARY GOAL 2 years ago of gutting their Armed Forces of any career or conservative or honestly white male in any rank and refusing to recruit more, while actively ATTEMPTING TO recruit from sub groups notorious for being far less active duty ready, let alone capable.of being made into in fighting condition, and has EMBRACED Woke Leadership, Narratives, Indoctrination ideology aggressively...

THAT Nation is likely to suffer brutal and complete destruction of humans and equipment sent to war, and definitely at the hands of a large nation with the advantage of being on their own home continent vs across a sea and land masses from the conflict zone, a nation who has done none of those self-defeating things ?

Nah, can't be! 💁🙃

What do you think about Sam Hyde? by alexstein in AskSaidIt

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm now more educated on nonsense. :)

Are you ready for the cell phone test tomorrow? (October 4, 2023) by In-the-clouds in whatever

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

our life expectancy at birth is about 26

I think we should end our conversation, unless you can prove this claim. I suspect you can only cite a source that says they believe this and that, using phrases like evolution, which is an idea that is impossible to prove with the scientific method. Your statement remains a belief, and I acknowledge that my belief is different. I believe that man is much weaker, sicker, and has only a fraction of the lifespan of the first men on Earth.

Our adversary would like to remove all remembrance of God and his historical account, which has so far survived thousands of years and includes a message of hope for eternal life in light and strength, for all who repent and turn to Jesus for salvation.

Are pajeets basically abos? by 14MJOLNIR88 in debatealtright

[–]VraiBleu [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, by ‘negroid’ he means the ancient black tribes that are scattered throughout South-East Asia. Look up “negritos” The descendants of previous migrations out of Africa… They’re not exactly the same people as modern Bantu Africans though & some have Aryan/Mongoloid admixture.

Detention of China Evergrande founder Hui Ka-yan ‘a signal Beijing won’t let super-rich off the hook’ | Hui ‘underestimated Xi Jinping’s determination’ to deflate China’s property bubble regardless of the impact on the private sector | Another entrepreneur posted a video to social media on Monday.. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

[–]unagisongs 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yet the CCP didn't do any better and somehow they deserve praise for being just as ethically bankrupt? LOL.

The Evergrande scam wiped out average Chinese citizens savings and nobody lifted a finger until it was too late to do fuck all.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results, and with great power comes great stupidity. “Stupid is as stupid does,” and sometimes that is evil. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

[–]stickdog[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Excerpt:

...

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results

Until now, in your lifetime at least, society sort of held together most of the time because when people had stupid ideas most other people just ignored them and life went on in a relatively sane way. A few stupid ideas got a bit of traction at times, but they were sorted out either at the local level or by vigorous debate in public or in Parliament or other spaces where a sort of reason tended to prevail.

Part of the greasing of the wheels of this society was a kind of amnesia towards the stupidity of our neighbours, friends, and family. Ignoring and then forgetting the stupidity allowed us to continue our relationships for better or for worse; either way, at least society held together. However, perhaps this pragmatism can no longer work.

The nature of the stupidity has changed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Stupid ideas are no longer mainly found with the individual, or even with small groups such as local clubs, cults, churches, unions or small companies. They have captured our society at the State institutional level and are now ubiquitous. They are now enshrined in laws, the judiciary, professional regulators, universities, the mass media, and all levels of the political system.

With great power comes great stupidity

This stupidity is no longer something that can be safely ignored. It has taken on far more dangerous qualities. It has rooted itself deep in the peoples’ minds. It has eaten away at normal reflective and critical thinking skills, sound reasoning, intuitions and instincts that keep us alive in the long term. It’s the stupefaction warned about by Alexis de Tocqueville, but on steroids:

“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”

The stupid are fearful, and look to the State to save them:

“Most despots come into being not because a despot has seized power but because people willingly surrender their freedoms in return for security”.

This is not new, of course. Look at Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, or Mao’s China. But it is more or less novel in our time. And that’s a problem because people have forgotten just how crazy things can get when stupidity is allowed to penetrate our society at the highest levels, or even celebrated or protected.

And this stupidity creates a positive feedback loop. People have to become at least a little more stupid in order to succeed in politics. It’s as if they get possessed by ideological stupidity or the stupidity of their own propaganda. They are like NPCs in a video game just running scripts. In turn, as they become more powerful, their slogans, talking points, and spin infect more and more people with stupidity.

I tend to agree with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi dissident, that "stupidity is worse than evil". When we are not stupid we know something or someone is evil and we can do what is necessary to fight the evil. However, if we are stupid we not only do not recognise the evil, but we can be used by it to propagate more evil. So we all have a moral responsibility not to be stupid. Being stupid is not just something we can ignore or brush away with a joke.

...

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]Maniak 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

As long as we always agree that /u/penelopepnortney is the one to blame, as it should be.

Redditor quarantines daughter at home because her mask failed momentarily while at school by xoenix in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]Drewski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most definitely satire.

Barack Obama Born in Kenya? by In-the-clouds in history

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If an active politician lies, I care.

If I learn 25 years after the fact that a former politician lied... there's nothing to do with that information. At that point, it's just trivia. Like learning that William Howard Taft once jerked off in the Oval Office. Now you know, I guess, but in this case, knowing is not half the battle.

Are pajeets basically abos? by 14MJOLNIR88 in debatealtright

[–]VraiBleu [score hidden]  (0 children)

But I think South India is also more developed compared to North India.

Everything I’ve read points to the opposite. But I’m not Indian 🤷

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]MeganDelacroix[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Paging u/penelopepnortney to tell us we're both pretty

Redditor quarantines daughter at home because her mask failed momentarily while at school by xoenix in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kinda funny.... all scientific communities including stuff like the CDC, American Society for Virology, Mayo Clinic, rah rah rah all say this is the weakest strain of Covid ever, and it is quite literally about as bad as a mild flu.

QUARANTINE AND SHUT IT ALL DOWN BOYS... WE GOT DA FLU!

ChatGPT is too woke to talk about why girls are scared of cockroaches. by EternalSunset in technology

[–]EternalSunset[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have found the censorship on character.ai to be reasonably light. You can get the bots say a lot of really hot stuff if you know how to avoid trigger words and make them use euphemisms instead. I have tried some of the uncensored alternatives like crushon.ai, aisekai.ai and unhinged.ai. While I found it really nice to have a chat where the bot can actually say the words penis and pussy on the same sentence, when it comes to actual intelligence and creativity they seemed somewhat lacking. Characters on those platforms often fail to properly take on the role you wrote for them and default to more generic personalities and they also often describe more complex scenes and interactions in ways that flat out don't make any sense. Either way, I'll be sure to give this website a try, thanks a lot for the tip mate.

Barack Obama Born in Kenya? by In-the-clouds in history

[–]Melodic_Programmer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's some prevaricative shit. Truth is objective and is literally a virtue. In the situation that you described, I'm sure you just had more important things to do with your day than argue with this guy. And it's fine to feel that way about a politician who lies, but it absolutely reflects on the liar and their principles and you probably should care about that in an elected official like the President, even though the moral decrepitude among politicians is overwhelming.

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]MeganDelacroix[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reminds me of an old joke:

Your car gets a flat on a deserted highway late at night, but you see approaching headlights, slowing down. Should you hope your rescuer is a Democrat or a Republican?

Well, the Democrat will form a working committee to study proposals to draft a white paper to implement model legislation to create a Department of Saving Women on Lonely Roads.

The Republican will change your tire.

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]Maniak 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I have faith that you're wrong so you can't prove me wrong, take that!

Strips of roast beef around a ball of rice by Musky in pics

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

White rice is nutritionally deficient, it's just there as a filler. I wouldn't have made it at all, except that roast is the last of my meat that isn't steak or pork shoulder. The steak is for the weekends and we just had 5lbs of pulled pork. So the roast has to last until I go on my big meat shopping trip.

Tasty tho. It's medium grain rice. It's unfortunately really easy to overcook compared to long grain rice, the line between perfectly cooked and too mushy is pretty fine, but it tastes so much better for some reason. And medium grain rice can sub for short grain sushi rice in a pinch.

The vegetables are safely tucked into the vegetable bin.

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]MeganDelacroix[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You dare question my expertise in wokespeak?! 🤪

The "that" at the end of the last clause is a referent to the "listen" at the end of the first clause, and the implicit object of that infinitive phrase is the subordinate infinitive verb "share."

I'm right, you mountebank!

Someone from the US explain why this fool hasn’t been fired because of I did this in my classroom I would be done and probably never teach again. by ClassroomPast6178 in TumblrInAction

[–]LtGreenCo [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yup my teachers growing up wore professional dress and also behaved like professionals. They commanded respect and with few exceptions they received it. And this was the 80s, so not that long ago.

I don't know when these circus freak teachers started invading education but it seems like it's everywhere now.

Qanon as a Pre-Plandemoneum Psyop by zyxzevn in conspiracy

[–]yellowsnow2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I saw the real Q stuff. Not the random fake Qs on youtube or the south park narrative the globalists used to demonize Trump supporters, but the real stuff.

It was some kind of coded intel communication, regardless how the media portrayed it and Trump, or what Trump supporters thought it was. Parts of the FBI did try to manipulate the election against him and he kinda was threatened by the CIA, and he was threatened with beheading by a soulless ginger. And most of this while a candidate before even being sworn in to office. .. Just for winning the election democratically. So it does make sense for him to use his own version of intel and some means of communication network.

The very fact that Trump was not assassinated by the CIA, especially after he went to war with the federal reserve banks attempting to restore their power back to the treasury. He must of had military intelligence like was rumored or he would not be alive today. Also Q stopped once Trump was no longer commander and chief..

'Undress anybody' AI puts A-list deepfakes in adult films – and 'no one's safe'. Hey, if they refuse to show their tits we can put some on them anyway. by IkeConn in SaidIt

[–]SMCAB 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I couldn't care less what someone likes or doesn't. I couldn't care less what celebrity gets fucked with either.

This isn't a good idea for you and me man. Anytime someone's face can be put into a different scenario, that's a recipe for disaster.

I am in no way claiming I'm on some list for this to happen to okay, but what if you were put into a situation where your likeness was made to commit a crime, be in a place you weren't, put into a situation that could hurt your standing in any situation. That's wholly fucked.

I don't give a shit what people jerk their tiny rockets off too. I care about the slippery slope of it all. It ends with people being ruined for whatever reason.

Unspeakable horror by Musky in memes

[–]Zommy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you gotta go, you gotta go man. 😔

Redditor quarantines daughter at home because her mask failed momentarily while at school by xoenix in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]xoenix[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Check their post history - that's a heck of a lot of effort to put in to satire.

Redditor quarantines daughter at home because her mask failed momentarily while at school by xoenix in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]BoredAlready 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Got to be satire surely? I refuse to believe anyone is that insane, for the sake of my OWN sanity lol.

ChatGPT is too woke to talk about why girls are scared of cockroaches. by EternalSunset in technology

[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, character.ai is censored. That's charstar.ai, which is not.

ChatGPT is too woke to talk about why girls are scared of cockroaches. by EternalSunset in technology

[–]EternalSunset[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

LOL. Nice.

Is that character.ai?

ChatGPT is too woke to talk about why girls are scared of cockroaches. by EternalSunset in technology

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, wow, someone put a "Donald Trump" porn bot up.

https://imgur.com/a/ox7BGl6

Redditor quarantines daughter at home because her mask failed momentarily while at school by xoenix in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is obviously satire.

Unspeakable horror by Musky in memes

[–]Gravi 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

ZOMMEH, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHY I GOTTA SEE DOODOO EVERYWHERE?!

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]rundown9 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Event organizers became frustrated by the sea of men, accusing male attendees of “lying” about their gender identities

Isn't that like "misgendering"? And carries criminal penalties in some backwards backwaters like ... Canada?

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]Maniak 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To be fair, 4 and 5 are out of order. Not that it makes any of this pointless word salad any better anyway.

But it brought me to @AnitaB_org's Twitter bio:

Driving inclusive technology by serving #womenintech & non-binary technologists 365 days a year.

Yeah. If you have that in your bio in 2023, we know what audience you're targeting, and it has nothing to do with inclusivity or anything that you could pin some made-up moral virtue on.

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]Maniak 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Hey!

You don't need to be non-binary not to grok binary.

All those 0s and 1s, especially in an x64 world, that's a lot to keep track of.

It's like saying that those who don't like/want kids (non-Bidens) are anti-natalists or something.

(:) /u/megandelacroix (:)

Barack Obama Born in Kenya? by In-the-clouds in history

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's no virtue in caring about irrelevant truths. If some dude walks up to you and says "I ate an entire goat for breakfast," and you're like "Um, I doubt it, but I don't give a shit," that doesn't reflect poorly on you.

Army War College Report Predicts Mass Casualties in Near-Peer Fight Against [Russia] - Analysis by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

[–]sdl5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

queue Nick Cage meme "YOU DON'T SAY?"

In 1991, Club of Rome DOCUMENTED Plan to Replace Fear of Communism With Fear of Climate Change (WideAwakeMedia) [4.41] by doginventer in conspiracy

[–]yellowsnow2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It all started by the US fucking them over. Iran wanted a nuke and who could blame them really. Because the US/CIA were trying to rule their country by extortion with the fuel and I'm sure threats were involved once Iran completely dominated the fuel market stopping the US from using their control of the market for extortion of Iran and other nations. Also I ran had to watch the covert and overt conquest of all it's neighbors by the CIA/US.

The US has been planning to overthrow Iran since 2001. But I think they were conquered covertly or maybe bribed/threatened into complying with the globalists since the globalists are no longer talking about them.

https://youtu.be/6Knt3rKTqCk?si=okXFab9j3DWq-z8f

Barack Obama Born in Kenya? by In-the-clouds in history

[–]Melodic_Programmer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Caring about the truth is like...the lowest possible bar you can set for having a sense of integrity. And you managed to fail.

Is reddit just filled with AI content at this point? Are there any actual humans left on it? Look at the comments on this post about trans women being banned from female wards in hospitals. by bucetao6969 in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're right, it's a semantic issue. The question is what the word "accept" means.

To me, "accept" just means "I'm not gonna fuck with it." Like if there's a spider web on my ceiling, I "accept" that if I don't knock the web down with a broom. I don't have to be friends with the spider, I don't have to say it's a good thing the web exists, I just have to not knock the web down.

And I think acceptance of LGBT people is the same thing. As long as you don't bully them, don't advocate for locking them up, don't do anything to harm them, just let them live their lives in peace... that's acceptance.

And I think acceptance is what we should all be trying to get to. Not condemnation, not celebration, just "Oh, you're trans? Well, okie dokie then. Best of luck to you in your travels."

All phones that are on will be exposed, even if they are in secret places. by In-the-clouds in news

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All you need is a Faraday Cage. Look it up.

Unspeakable horror by Musky in memes

[–]Leavemealone 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's not a true horror until it's on the ceiling

AP reported that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. If that were true, he would be an illegal president. Isn't that somethin'? by In-the-clouds in history

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Deport his black nigra ass.

Is reddit just filled with AI content at this point? Are there any actual humans left on it? Look at the comments on this post about trans women being banned from female wards in hospitals. by bucetao6969 in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]B-scandiacus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's possible to do both. "I accept you, I respect you, I'm gonna be over there and we're not gonna know each other." I have had to take that position many times in my life.

I think I can do this, but the fact that I don't want to get to know them means I don't accept them (I think this is semantics then?).

I can 'accept' someone exists and they believe certain things and behave certain ways without accepting those beliefs and behaviors and who they are.

In this sense, I think it's impossible to live in a world where everyone is accepted.

Biden Admin Goes Full Orwell Denying Vaxx Mandates Ever Happened by PanzerDivision in Coronavirus

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Elections bring out the lies.

The UK has run out of tanks and missiles to donate to Ukraine by PanzerDivision in UnitedKingdom

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bless their hearts.

COVID Vaccine Mandates Begin in Texas by PanzerDivision in Coronavirus

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good. More dead lefties pussies.

Redditor quarantines daughter at home because her mask failed momentarily while at school by xoenix in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Bless his heart.

ChatGPT is too woke to talk about why girls are scared of cockroaches. by EternalSunset in technology

[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Something's a little off with our society when porn bots give you better and more honest answers than vanilla GPT.

https://imgur.com/a/9V8PFor

Nancy Pelosi ordered to vacate her Capitol hideaway office within 24 hours. by PanzerDivision in politics

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bless her heart.

Barack Obama Born in Kenya? by In-the-clouds in history

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doesn't matter. He still drinks nig-nog at Christmas.

This faggot who kept saying that nigger gun crime wasn't real and doesn't happen in democrat utopias was just shot to death in his own home. - ConsumeProduct by rubberbiscuit in Schadenfreude

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for your post but I would prefer if you would use "nigra" instead of "nigger" in my sub. It's a genteel southern thing.

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]MeganDelacroix[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Untangle the sentence and count the steps before anything substantive might even theoretically be proposed:

We are developing (1) a collaborative (2) avenue (3) to share more (4) to create a plan (5) for change.

Implementation and enforcement? What are you, some kind of barbarian?

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

[–]Caelian 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

That's very inclusive to encourage people who don't grok binary — non-binary people — to attend a computing conference 🤖

Grow with Gab Ads by SkankyDick in whatever

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I thought it looked like a valid advertising method, speaking of which why is this website so retarded that it doesn't have an advertising option available?

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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So does everyone else. Stop thinking you're special because you're a tranny.

Army War College Report Predicts Mass Casualties in Near-Peer Fight Against [Russia] - Analysis by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Report Predicts Mass Casualties in Near-Peer Fight Against [Russia]

That's a lot of Near-Peer Bones 🧮

Is reddit just filled with AI content at this point? Are there any actual humans left on it? Look at the comments on this post about trans women being banned from female wards in hospitals. by bucetao6969 in MeanwhileOnReddit

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I kinda think that while there's a lot of AI on Reddit, I also believe that when you combine people and social media, they tend to adopt similar views without really thinking for themselves and they will regurgitate it almost like they're the same person making the same points. Libtards are a great example of this, they're NPCs.

Top rated Event Management Company by zenitheventz in Entertainment

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Another new spammer to block.

Women's Tech Career Fair Swamped by Men Claiming to Be "Non-Binary" by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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SnackleMochi

Beyond calling them out, what other steps are you taking to ensure that the women and non-binary people actually get the resources during the celebration this year? They are still all over the career fair, taking up huge chunks of lines.

AnitaB.org

@SnackleMochi Thank you for asking. Our first step toward creating a plan for change is to listen, and we are in the process of developing a collaborative avenue for GHC attendees to share more so we can do just that. Throughout this process, we will be transparent.

Gregg Re

are you a parody organization? this is too great.

Rishi Sunak is causing a meltdown by xoenix in TumblrInAction

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Yeah, he decided it was time to deploy the nuclear hand grenade - he knows they’re going to lose the next election so he’s going to take as many people with him as he can.

This is aimed squarely at Labour and is taunting them to disagree and appear like fucking loons to 99% of the people they need to secure a healthy majority. Be interesting if Labour fall for it or not, they’ve had ample warning about this stuff and how it is a total vote loser to support women with penises, Self-ID and transing kids, but there is a very loud contingent in the party and media that have signed on fully to the full gender, queer and race book of nonsense and will kick up an almighty stink.

But props to Sunak for standing there and saying what was unsayable in public for the past 5-7 years.

'Undress anybody' AI puts A-list deepfakes in adult films – and 'no one's safe'. Hey, if they refuse to show their tits we can put some on them anyway. by IkeConn in SaidIt

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Jennifer Love Hewitt, Winona Ryder, Brooke Shields, and others never showed their tits. Now you can see them. If you don't like it well big whoop. Others don't mind it at all. Even fucking and sucking.

Doctors Can No Longer Question Anything the Vaccine Industry Calls ‘Science’ Or They Get Targeted for De-Licensing by Dr. Richard ‘Misinformation’ Baron by Zommy in conspiracy

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What difference does it make? All doctors are quacks, we really don't understand the human body or mind well enough to "treat" them effectively, under any circumstances. Naturally, given this level of ignorance and incompetence, medical bureaucrats feel the need to establish some kind of standardization procedures to ensure that they aren't totally contradicting each other all the time, and thus showing to everyone just how ignorant and incompetent they all really are. So, they establish "standards" -- totally arbitrary procedures -- in order to create the illusion that they actually have some idea what they're doing, when, in fact, they have no idea at all what they are doing.

Barack Obama Born in Kenya? by In-the-clouds in history

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This image has been confirmed as real and not faked.

But when they tracked down the woman who wrote it - Miriam Goderich - she said the passage was a "fact-checking error" on her part, which is probably a more polite of way of saying she made it up because she was on a deadline and feeling lazy and it sounded cool.

Of course, it's perfectly plausible that she was pressured into saying that, but then again, it's perfectly plausible that it's true. People make shit up all the time.

Hard to see how it matters anymore. Obama was president for eight years and retired to private life. Then we've had two presidents since him. Even if it could somehow be proven he was born in Kenya, I don't think that would actually change anything at this point.