My Thoughts on What's Wrong with Saidit

DrStrangelove · 2020-10-25T04:57:08+00:00

I'm mostly lurker too, and I've been here since the early days when there were only like 7 active users. Endlesssunflowers has been providing almost daily content for this site for 2+ years, out of the goodness of their heart, for free. If you want more engaging content I suggest you provide it instead of concern trolling saidit to take a swipe at someone you dislike. I'm not a fan of the ethno-nationalist bullshit that pops up here (I appreciate that it can, just rather it didn't) which certainly has more potential to turn off new users than a sentimental meme, but I've never felt the need to call anyone out by name for failing to meet my specific content quality and engagement needs, or tell M7 & D3rr how to curate their own project. This post is honestly the first time in my entire saidit experience I wish there was a downvote button. Bravo.

p.s. there is a "block" function

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-24T06:46:10+00:00

"In a cult there’s a guy at the top who knows it’s all bullshit. In a religion that guy has been dead a long time." – George Carlin

DrStrangelove · 2020-08-07T02:29:54+00:00

Hey Jesus, I'm mostly a lurker around here but I read a lot and have found significant value and insight in your thoughts these last couple years. Looking forward to your return.

DrStrangelove · 2020-09-21T06:34:06+00:00

You used to be cool Australia. It's been really discouraging reading so many comments online from Australians supporting these measures and defending the plague narrative. Then again, I wonder how many have been scared into silence. Criminalizing dissent is a pretty effective way to manufacture public consensus.

DrStrangelove · 2021-03-07T06:44:12+00:00

Excellent collection of resources, thank you

DrStrangelove · 2020-08-17T15:03:22+00:00

I ordered the postmarketOS version back in July, will post a review when I get it

DrStrangelove · 2020-08-18T19:46:20+00:00

Partly, also the Portland DA has essentially promised to drop all charges against protestors.

DrStrangelove · 2020-07-03T23:45:18+00:00

Agree, but it's not just democrats. It's virtually every government, multinational corporation, academic institution, NGO, and foundation on the planet. The real disease threatening all of humanity right now isn't covid, it's Stockholm Syndrome.

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-09T18:57:16+00:00

So this is how society will split, like H.G. Wells Eloi and Morlock from The Time Machine. The normies will live secure, sheltered, regimented lives inside walled technocratic city states, while off in the distance a free-range juggalo sips his Faygo rock n' rye. Tastes like freedom.

DrStrangelove · 2018-09-12T23:10:42+00:00

WTF? So this is a "grassroots" pro-censorship movement? I was a little ashamed it took me till 2018 to nuke my reddit account, but now I feel ahead of the curve.

DrStrangelove · 2022-08-25T15:10:20+00:00

Masks have nothing to do with public health, their purpose is entirely psychological. For those who understand this, being forced to wear one is a humiliation ritual.

For the true believers it's a placebo and security blanket. For the un-critical, indifferent majority it's a mild anoyance but "when in Rome..." For the insecure & self-conscious, it's a way to hide in public. For petty tyrants and insufffurable moral busyboddies, it's the perfect opportunuty to exert illigitimate authority, self rightous condemnation, and discriminatory segregation upon thier fellow man.

Masks are a wearable flag, a pledge of allegiance to the narrative, an in-group/out-group signifier, and a holy religious garment. They are a means of de-personalization, a symbol of submission, a subtle, subconscious AND literally in-your-face visual cue to remain afraid, and most of all a marketting gimmick for a diablical global genetic engineering experiment.

DrStrangelove · 2020-12-10T21:29:03+00:00

Most of my life I assumed as "common sense" that overpopulation was an inevitable threat to mankind. This old James Corbett report changed my mind: https://www.corbettreport.com/the-last-word-on-overpopulation/

Overpopulation is a myth created to further a global eugenics agenda. Even if it were a legitimate threat, the solution is expanding the frontiers of human habitation; seasteading and spacefaring, not culling and sterilization.

DrStrangelove · 2020-07-28T01:38:08+00:00

I've supported the idea of malpractice insurance for police since at least Occupy in 2011. Made a sign and everything! It's a market based approach that should garner support from the fiscally responsible right, the ACAB left, and the insurance industry lobby, but any time I bring it up peoples eyes just glaze over. I guess insurance is just that boring.

DrStrangelove · 2019-12-03T01:26:18+00:00

Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the religion of peace that you're used to.

These guys just need a little TLC

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-21T07:01:12+00:00

Liberal, but I'm not sure that word means what I think it does anymore. Maybe it never did.
I believe in the maximization of freedom and the minimization of tyranny. I dislike hierarchy, abhor bureaucracy, and the only authority I grant any legitimacy is my own over my self. Voluntaryist, Anti-Authoritarian, or Classical Liberal with deep anarchist sympathies might be more accurate.

FWIW: Every few years since it came out in 2001, I retake the politicalcompass.org test to loosely gauge if and by how much my politics have changed with age/experience/wisdom/brain-damage. I consistently score in the far bottom-left quadrant (left-libertarian).

DrStrangelove · 2020-06-03T02:22:16+00:00

Smothered in his hospital bed according to this:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot-to-kill-martin-luther-king-survived-shooting-was-murdered-in-hospital-an-interview-with-william-pepper/5544005

DrStrangelove · 2019-12-16T20:19:59+00:00

And the self driving BMW will sacrifice pedestrians to save blinker fluid.

I see a market opportunity; VIP Override the app that tells your wouldbe murder vehicle to hit something, anything, other than you. Available on ios & android, $10K/mo subscription.

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-22T05:46:31+00:00

I really like the inverted crown! Makes me imagine the queen losing her shit and throwing it across the room.

DrStrangelove · 2020-12-21T08:57:24+00:00

https://freedomcells.org/

DrStrangelove · 2020-08-12T04:09:52+00:00

The antidote is the poison.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-05T20:19:20+00:00

I like your style, dude. Could call each other COEN brothers.

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-17T06:42:47+00:00

Welcome aboard! Here's a concise introduction from a while back:

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/37r/welcome_to_saiditnet/

Many of the users here, myself included, are refugees of the censorship, groupthink, data-mining, social engineering, and general corporate fuckery that has taken over the majority of online platforms. The first rule of fightclub is...
The Pyramid of Debate

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-23T01:11:25+00:00

The very ACLU that once defended the free speech rights of Nazis in Skokie. Canary, meet Coalmine.

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-14T19:25:37+00:00

"Fuller used a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension to arrive at the term Dymaxion."

The Dymaxion car and Dymaxion house.

The car had 3 wheels, a top speed of 128mph, and 36mpg fuel efficiency. Plus, it looked like an art-deco rocket ship. The house was a modular, pre-fab, energy efficient tensile structure designed for mass production based on war effort aircraft manufacturing.

Fuller was way ahead of his time and a hero of 20th century innovation in service of humanity. Buckminster is also a great middle name.

DrStrangelove · 2020-10-03T07:27:52+00:00

A ray of light

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-16T06:59:32+00:00

Ha, never heard that one in Sunday school. Interesting and useful blog, thanks for the link.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-02T16:06:20+00:00

For the curious: Mega List of Confirmed Conspiracies

DrStrangelove · 2019-06-05T15:15:39+00:00

Just want to shoutout some appreciation for u/EndlessSunflowers always bringing positive vibes, and u/Tom_Bombadil for being hilarious

DrStrangelove · 2018-09-23T17:31:02+00:00

FYI, this works like a charm: Nuke Reddit History Addon for Firefox.

Also, the title of that video is hilarious!

DrStrangelove · 2022-04-19T00:33:15+00:00

Maybe this is just what happens when a totalitarian police-state bureaucracy with no brakes or accountability or mechanism to correct course gets cookin' with zero tolerance social policies. Like a speeding freight train careening off the tracks or a cargo ship with a blind-drunk captain, maybe the ultimate problem is just momentum. Wetiko and communism had a baby, and they called it covid.

DrStrangelove · 2020-10-08T08:11:32+00:00

There were a number of hospitalizations and a few deaths in the late summer/fall of 2019 across the US attributed to e-cig vaping cartridges. The symptoms appeared a lot like covid; shortness of breath, scarred lungs, pneumonia. A medium sized media scare campaign lead to an FDA emergency ban on flavored vape juices. The culprit allegedly turned out to be Vitamin E acetate added to some black market THC marijuana cartridges, but the timing and similarity to covid is pretty eerie in hindsight.

DrStrangelove · 2020-06-21T22:38:16+00:00

Regular old HTML still works right?

DrStrangelove · 2020-03-20T06:36:55+00:00

First Yang sells out, now this. According to a facebook post by her brother, she tried to endorse Bernie but he or his campaign refused the endorsement. WTF. And Bernie will most likely endorse Biden eventually. If any of this is true, I don't think I will ever vote again. On a brighter note, there's a doomsday size asteroid headed our way, scheduled for a near miss on April 29th.

DrStrangelove · 2020-03-10T16:30:41+00:00

Ha, I like the veg helmet idea! Like a Russian fur cap covered in chia sprouts, or maybe just a hollowed out watermelon (with eye holes).

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-01T07:28:15+00:00

My Dinner with Andre. Fantastic film.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-26T02:06:45+00:00

Happy Little Trees did 9/11

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-12T20:43:22+00:00

From r/kotakuinaction:

KotakuInAction is the main hub for GamerGate on Reddit and welcomes discussion of community, industry and media issues in gaming and broader nerd culture including science fiction and comics.

DrStrangelove · 2018-11-22T01:41:25+00:00

Great post! Utopia or Rocko's Basilsk? Or, some combination of both with competing government/corporate AI(s)?

DrStrangelove · 2018-09-24T04:02:16+00:00

Here we go: https://archive.fo/BsYjk

DrStrangelove · 2018-09-19T00:36:18+00:00

I'm typing this on an old macbook pro running linux. I'm not aware of face id being required for anything yet, but that is definitely the direction apple (and everyone else) is going. If you are familiar with macOS I would recommend trying out Ubuntu.

It's pretty easy to create a live dvd or make a bootable USB drive and give linux a test drive without making any permanent changes to your computer.

If you decide you really like linux you can install it fully from the live dvd or usb drive.

No need to swap hard drives, but that's pretty easy too. All you need is a phillips head screwdriver (and maybe a torx driver). ifixit.com has tons of crowd sourced instructions and how-to videos.

DrStrangelove · 2018-09-03T00:50:48+00:00

Holy shit, this made my day.

DrStrangelove · 2018-09-03T00:42:57+00:00

Whoa, I had never read that article before. Excellent breakdown. Thanks for sharing!

DrStrangelove · 2023-03-05T00:53:32+00:00

Really great documentary on the history of reddit & r/conspiracy.

DrStrangelove · 2020-08-13T20:04:11+00:00

This is fucking horrifying

DrStrangelove · 2020-05-20T17:13:33+00:00

IANAL but the IBT is a US publication, does ComputingForever have any legal recourse? Libel/Defamation? I hope he Streisands the shit out of this.

DrStrangelove · 2020-04-07T22:29:31+00:00

"YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks. The Google-owned service will now delete videos violating the policy. It had previously limited itself to reducing the frequency it recommended them in its Up Next section. The move follows a live-streamed interview with conspiracy theorist David Icke on Monday, in which he had linked the technology to the pandemic. YouTube said the video would be wiped."

-Leo Kelion - Technology desk editor BBC • April 7, 2020

DrStrangelove · 2020-04-06T01:25:50+00:00

Totally agree. Very good production quality, and she definitely knows/researchers the subjects she covers. Her videos are kinda like sugarcoated red-pills; palatable to the uninitiated without being overwhelmed, but a great primer for those just poking their heads down the rabbit hole.

DrStrangelove · 2020-03-08T18:08:12+00:00

At first I thought the 5G connection was straight tinfoil. Now I'm thinking about stocking up on tinfoil. Wuhan was a pilot city for 5G rollout, and the Diamond Princess uses SES satellite internet services (60ghz range, 5g equivalent). Millimeter wave tech was originally developed by the US Military as a non-lethal weapon system (at 95ghz):

The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. Informally, the weapon is also called the heat ray since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human subjects.

DrStrangelove · 2020-03-02T05:54:32+00:00

This one caught my eye regarding Epstein:

Do you really want to get to the bottom of this? I mean do you really, truly want to find out? Bruce King. Bill Richardson. Albuquerque Studios. Sunspot Observatory. Little St. James Island is a red herring; look into Zorro Ranch just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Short version: just a few months after the observatory got locked down tighter than Mike Pence’s asshole for a week by federal law enforcement, Jeffy’s secrets were headline news in Florida. The observatory is almost directly south of Zorro Ranch. What would be needed for a modern political/Hollywood blackmail op? A thick pipe: lots of bandwidth and storage. The kind of bandwidth and storage that’s needed for flawless observations of heavenly bodies. I’m saying the observatory, where one janitor was arrested for “using the computers for child porn,” was Epstein’s deadman switch, which is why no vast flood of blackmail info on celebs and pols hit the media when Epstein didn’t kill himself.

DrStrangelove · 2020-02-25T08:05:28+00:00

Five Days Earlier: "USA-280 was a classified United States government satellite that was launched by SpaceX on 8 January 2018. The specific agency in charge of the Zuma project has not been disclosed, nor its purpose. Unnamed sources have stated that the satellite was lost during deployment and re-entered the atmosphere, and independent investigations concluded that the spacecraft likely failed to separate from its payload adaptor." -Wikipedia

Not saying they're connected, curious timing though.

DrStrangelove · 2020-01-09T09:12:24+00:00

Check out Lugg.com. It's an app based service like uber/lyft but for hauling stuff instead of people. I work for a big box store (rhymes with bosco) and our customers use them regularly to haul enormous, impulsive, credit card purchases. Also, Cheers on the van man! Cars are for plebs, trucks are for insecure plebs, but vans... vans are the chariots of gods.

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-15T16:51:10+00:00

Be the change you wish to see in the world (or above it)

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-13T06:00:56+00:00

If I were an alien life form imprisoned at Area 51, I might consider starting an online movement to raid the place. Just sayin.

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-08T15:51:39+00:00

Just discovered this sub and came here to post this, beat me to it Jason, nice! Also, “beat me to it” could be a Dewey Cox song.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-06T06:07:08+00:00

As far as doom-porn goes, this guys stuff usually has pretty decent production value. At the very least, this video made me realize I haven't been paying enough attention to the current state of affairs in Venezuela. Also, dude might be Batman.

DrStrangelove · 2018-12-02T02:09:00+00:00

Oh man, someone should develop a K.I.T.T Tesla upgrade. A red LED strip for the front bumper and a software patch with William Daniels voice for navigation and snarky quips. Aaaaaand nevermind, someone did it 10 years ago.

On to my next million dollar idea: an 80's style PSA to play on the dashboard infotainment center while you're auto-driven off to the precinct.

"So, you're being arrested!"

These are your Miranda Rights, followed by paid advertisements for local attorneys. Your arrest is being recorded & livestreamed in accordance with your automakers' TOS

DrStrangelove · 2020-11-20T04:28:47+00:00

This is the most encouraging thing I've seen all year

DrStrangelove · 2020-07-03T04:09:24+00:00

Nauru also has a fascinating history as a hub for shady international banking.

Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan and far from anywhere: Yet at the center of several of the decade's biggest global events. Contributing editor Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci called Leonardo, A Portrait of Love. (30 minutes)

Here's a great piece about Nauru from This American Life (NPR)

DrStrangelove · 2020-05-29T06:29:51+00:00

After a quick read, that's basically what the EO does. Sites that editorialize/censor/ban user generated content will no longer be afforded the liability protection offered under section 230 of the communications decency act, and can be sued for libel/defamation. To retain immunity, sites may not censor protected speech.

DrStrangelove · 2020-05-21T00:36:42+00:00

IMHO: Advocating forced vaccinations should be considered a call to violence and a violation of YT TOS. Deplatform Dershowitz.

DrStrangelove · 2020-05-20T16:54:13+00:00

DOW Chemical is headquartered in Midland, lead contamination might be the least of Michigander worries soon, and the extended economic lockdown is going to hamstring any emergency response.

DrStrangelove · 2020-04-25T23:34:51+00:00

Whoa, the comment section on yahoo news is actually giving me hope for the future of humanity. Vast majority calling bullshit.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-02T16:23:38+00:00

Dr. Kings own family didn't believe the official assassination story: A History of the King Family's Attempt to Clear the Name of James Earl Ray

DrStrangelove · 2019-05-14T19:20:10+00:00

Good breakdown, thank you. I was 100% onboard the global warming hysteria train since middle school (mid 90's) until it magically became the only socially acceptable opinion sometime in the last decade or so. I recently made the faux pas of hinting at my growing skepticism to my arm-chair liberal friends/family and might as well have clubbed a baby seal with a plutonium swastika... yet I'm the only one of the bunch who commutes to work on a bicycle.

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-29T22:29:35+00:00

Ubuntu Budgie (Ubuntu with the Solus desktop environment) https://ubuntubudgie.org

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-16T15:10:20+00:00

The Orville is absolutely the spiritual successor of Star Trek, and it’s fantastic.

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-08T19:44:30+00:00

Someone should record a song solely via HDD, and maybe autotune

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-21T04:18:03+00:00

Legit, it's even in his wikipedia:

In 1951, along with many other Ivy League alumni, Buckley was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); he served for two years, including one year in Mexico City working on political action for E. Howard Hunt;[23] who was later jailed for his part in the Watergate affair. The two officers remained lifelong friends.[24] In a November 1, 2005, column for National Review, Buckley recounted that while he worked for the CIA, the only employee of the organization that he knew was Hunt, his immediate boss.

But as they say, once a company man...

*edit: He might have been a stooge within the CIA, as in rich kids playing spy

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-21T01:34:57+00:00

What a time to be alive.

side note: William F Buckley was CIA... and so is 4chan (probably)

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-20T05:15:56+00:00

Has she ever taken a position on 1A, freedom of speech, and internet censorship? I've searched but have found nothing relevant. That singular issue is my personal litmus test. I want to like her, but I'm suspicious of my own inclinations. In interviews she comes off as naive but passionate, which isn't the end of the world, maybe even the perfect way to start a political career. My worst fear is that her current rising star is a media charade, designed to capture and steer the Bernie wing back to the corporate democrats.

DrStrangelove · 2018-12-10T04:45:35+00:00

Yikes, I had no idea Saidit utilized patreon until I saw your comment. To be honest my immediate, admittedly paranoid reaction was to delete the post out of concern for the site. Then, I didn't. That my first thought was to self-censor out of fear of reprisal precisely exemplifies the chilling effect that online censorship and deplatforming is having on public discourse. I love Saidit. What you and D3rr have created is awesome. It is, in my humble opinion, a bright shining beacon of hope for what the internet was supposed to be. Bitcoins are on the way.

Also FWIW, may I suggest looking into subscribestar? I know nothing about them other than a number of alt. media content creators have moved to them recently as an alternative fundraising platform.

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