"I Can't Keep It Up" | Last free speech site going down Christmas day

Crystalmenthol · 2020-12-22T16:47:25+00:00

Because they can't take responsibility for their own failings, and "dajoos" are psychologically easy to scapegoat because there is such a long history of bigotry towards them that weak minds can rationalize that "there must be something there."

Crystalmenthol · 2020-12-18T15:09:19+00:00

The vaccine generates the same protein as the virus, so by your logic getting an immune reaction due to "natural" infection is just as bad as getting the vaccine. I trust other people reading this can see the flaw in your logic, can you?

Crystalmenthol · 2020-12-18T14:58:47+00:00

Even if true, it's still less dangerous than the disease itself. Deny yourself life-saving treatment all you want, just makes it easier for me to get mine.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-12-03T16:19:58+00:00

OK, and that's not a bit of a problem?

Crystalmenthol · 2020-12-03T15:54:11+00:00

Even if you're a holocaust denier, can you at least admit that Germany's leader predicting the annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe is a bit of a problem?

Crystalmenthol · 2020-11-18T15:43:53+00:00

Yeah. Jacob Blake was a justified shooting of a wanted felon trying to flee in a car with children inside, but that scumbag gets bedside apologies from presidential candidates and cities burned down in his honor. While the Torrence Jacksons and Daniel Shavers of the world largely get ignored.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-11-18T15:40:09+00:00

Are there not surveillance cameras in the jail? I'm not believing anything without video proof these days, at least in places there should be cameras on all the time.

Regardless of what he said, invasive procedures should never be done without consent if there is no threat to other people. They could put him in a room with a bucket if they wanted it that badly. If he had a baggie inside and it ruptured, he was the only one at risk. And charging somebody for a procedure they did not consent to should be illegal.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-11-16T14:41:31+00:00

If the food is so bad people are faking religious conversions to get better quality, maybe there's a problem with the food? I don't know if Scottish prisons are as bad as US prisons, but the prison system should not be dehumanizing, it should be a place where people are encouraged to correct their path, which works better if you treat them with respect and not merely as a budgetary burden.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-11-13T15:04:19+00:00

Is this some sort of secret code conspiracy theorists use? I'm out of the loop apparently.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-10-22T14:44:26+00:00

Genocide, what could go wrong? "Dajoos" didn't end monarchy, democracy ended monarchy, with good reason.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-09-08T17:55:15+00:00

Something to watch, to be sure. But it looks like the order just covers the state making "non-congregate" isolation areas available to be used, for example by requisitioning unused dorms from campuses that are already shut down, etc.

As long as they aren't dragging unwilling people to these quarantine facilities by force, and they are just making the option available to people who can't safely isolate at home, this isn't anything to panic about.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-07-02T15:34:42+00:00

Or maybe human nature is just crap in general, and we've been proving that for centuries. Any cabal that secretly runs the world while still allowing its own people to be systematically oppressed and genocided is a pretty lousy cabal, I wouldn't want to be part of that.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-07-02T15:29:54+00:00

Everybody understands what "anti-semitic" means, it means an attack on Jews or the Jewish faith. Changing the topic to etymology when the word has clearly moved beyond its roots is a transparent attempt to confuse the subject, not a good faith debate tactic.

Is there room to criticize Israel the country? Absolutely. Is there room to openly discuss ancient traditions from all religions, for example which oppress women and exclude outsiders? Sure.

Where it starts to get hairy is when someone asserts that an ancient cabal has been running the world from the shadows for millenia, even though the members of that "cabal" have been systematically oppressed throughout all recorded human history, and were subject to genocide in the past century. Not a very effective shadow-government, if it ever was one.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-07-02T00:34:05+00:00

The mine page does let me get there, it’s just extra clicks. Do you have an example of a taller page? Is it a setting somewhere?

Thanks for helping!

Crystalmenthol · 2020-07-01T23:51:37+00:00

Just because an idiot is right once in a while doesn’t mean you’re net-negative if you block them totally. Even if you have keyword filtering, they’ll start using new code phrases and keep popping up with the same stupid arguments said differently.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-07-01T15:24:32+00:00

Men are 50% of the population and make up 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs. Is this also concerning?

Crystalmenthol · 2020-07-01T14:43:59+00:00

It reminds me when students protest at campuses for "triggering material" to be removed because it has the ability to hurt others

I think I'm in agreement with you on that part. The university classroom should not be a safe space for fragile egos, regardless of any legitimate trauma that person may have lived through. You shouldn't impede the learning of a whole body of students because a few can't deal with some ugly truths. The only reasonable accommodation I think I can make here is that it's fair to not expect to discuss subjects like rape in a math class.

But honestly, I'm coming around on the idea of "safe spaces" in general. To be clear, I'm not comfortable with "No Whites Allowed" discussions, but I can actually see some value in the idea of designated times/places where certain topics are just off limits, because the people there either just want to have a good time without dealing with the weighty shit, or because they're legitimately dealing with heavy shit and simply need some time to organize with like-minded people.

For example, did you ever have a conversation with a friend who disagrees with you on one particularly large topic, say Donald Trump, and both of you were just getting angry with each other, until eventually you just said "let's just have a beer and talk about Cheeto-man later?" You just set up a temporary safe space.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-06-30T21:23:29+00:00

Echo chambers are unavoidable on the internet, and especially on a website like Saidit, Reddit, Ruqqus, etc. that explicitly allow themed groups. To me, the bigger problem is not the existence of echo chambers (in this case, one man's "echo chamber" is one woman's "safe space"), it's when a particularly, shall we say, loud, echo chamber decides that those filthy others shouldn't be allowed to have their echo chamber anywhere near our echo chamber. /r/weekendgunnit was my safe space, but /r/againsthatesubreddits couldn't tolerate our existence, even though we never bothered them except when they were actively hunting us.

I think the rule 4b is an interesting compromise. Yes it is a compromise, because the sub that wants to be a safe space doesn't have a wide reach, and the wider community has to accept that there are corners where fully free and open debate can't happen. But you know what, maybe I just want to shitpost my AK pictures with like minded folk once in a while without being told I'm a dangerous redneck, and people that actually are systematically oppressed can probably use that even more than I can.

Crystalmenthol · 2020-06-30T01:38:08+00:00

If we’re talking real SHTF and we’re forming up, AR because of parts availability and it’s easier to replace components, e.g. just slap a new upper on.

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