Rand Paul says Trump impeachment case is 'DEAD ON ARRIVAL' after 45 senators support his motion to declare trial unconstitutional

fred_red_beans · 2019-04-16T19:32:02+00:00

Conservatives are nazis?

I don't think this is a fair characterization of conservatism and just feeds the into the right vs left paradigm of divide and conquer.

fred_red_beans · 2021-03-28T03:32:42+00:00

I think the majority of users here agree we don't want hitler memes spread across the front page every day.

With the site as it is, it is being dealt with by removal of the user and their content.

Someone spams porn or whatever, we don't want to leave it up to make sure it was justified. I understand your idea for making it a NSFW type thing, but I don't think that works when you're dealing with actions that are intended to undermine the site.

The way I see it is that Saidit is like a house that magnora and d3rr built. We here that use the site are their guests. It has been them that have taken responsibility for the site and it's maintenance including making the site resistant to technological attacks and the removal of crap content and users. Without the creation and maintenance of this site, this community would not exist.

I keep coming back here because it's not a clusterfuck like big social media sites and there are people here (including yourself), that have open minds and post content that I find intriguing and might not see somewhere else.

I don't agree with every decision magnora has made over the last few years, but I believe it was his decision to make. I think this site has not devolved into a reddit or a voat thanks to his efforts. I have stated some of my reservations to him, and I think you've made yours. Ultimately, just because you feel passionate about an issue, doesn't make it right or wrong, nor does it mean magnora has to take action on it.

I agree with Node that maybe taking a step back would be a good thing for you both.

:)

fred_red_beans · 2021-05-14T06:04:41+00:00

The choice is mine, and I will do neither.

fred_red_beans · 2020-11-01T17:15:26+00:00

and if you still don't understand that the Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin who ultimately serve the same interests then you're just as much of a fool as the "other side" which you criticize.

fred_red_beans · 2019-08-01T13:28:54+00:00

The user made 16 posts only about Kamala Harris is the course of about 14 hours: https://saidit.net/user/lara

Here's the saidit post: https://saidit.net/s/AskSaidIt/comments/vf5/is_there_anything_kamala_harris_could_be_doing/

I think it's reasonable to not let individuals or groups take over the saidit space by flooding it with posts. Certainly when they are using alts to upvote themselves.

fred_red_beans · 2021-03-12T17:05:24+00:00

This is how you know when they say "follow the science" they mean "follow the mob".

fred_red_beans · 2020-08-23T04:36:44+00:00

You'd think if magnora7 sold out, he'd at least make some money.... lol

fred_red_beans · 2019-07-05T04:32:15+00:00

I like it as a news aggregator. Sometimes I just want to share and see other information submitted by people who aren't paid or looking to gain anything. I don't feel the need to discuss every post.

fred_red_beans · 2019-04-19T01:50:51+00:00

I think for Saidit to not end up where Reddit and Voat have, some boundaries have to be drawn. In addition to the debate pyramid, pornography is one of those boundaries set by the developers (who have not been profit driven) to help set the tone of discourse.

I support not having porn on Saidit.

fred_red_beans · 2020-06-11T05:02:03+00:00

III. No life-threatening injuries identified

So this makes it sound like he died from his own medical problems, likely exacerbated by having someone sitting on him.

Report also here:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/05/read-george-floyd-autopsy-report-with-cause-of-death-and-other-factors/

fred_red_beans · 2021-04-10T20:48:33+00:00

Wow - There's an exploding volcano and they're concerned about people getting a sickness in which 99% of the people survive!?!

Oh your house is burning down, well we won't do anything for you or save your children from dying unless you take the vaccine. F'd up.

fred_red_beans · 2018-10-13T18:15:07+00:00

yep, between censorship and groups like TMOR, shareblue, and correcttherecord, stick a fork in it, it's done

fred_red_beans · 2021-03-26T07:54:28+00:00

They have a sub. It's not on s/all. So what?

They don't like it, go to some other site, or they can make their own. This site's code is open source and freely available.

edit: This 88 user keeps making alt accounts and replying.

Keep in mind these are the people that keep voting spam to the top of the page and keep trying to cause drama and division on saidit. That in of itself is good enough reason to ban them and ask that they leave saidit.

fred_red_beans · 2021-02-18T23:46:12+00:00

No. Bad idea.

Who's going to be the arbitor of that "disinformation"? You? Fact checkers?

fred_red_beans · 2020-06-11T04:49:24+00:00

If they just got one penny for each...

fred_red_beans · 2021-05-08T05:42:19+00:00

You sound like a bot

fred_red_beans · 2018-11-11T04:15:06+00:00

Seems like funny could be meant by some as ridicule on posts that would be hard to construe as such. Perhaps it really doesn't matter.

fred_red_beans · 2020-08-17T00:35:40+00:00

Not sorry to see that sub go.

IMO, IP2 was contrary to the Pyramid of Debate as the main emphasis of IP2 was to degrade and demean others. Outside of the debate structure itself, what is the Pyramid of Debate for other than to help the individual to question and to learn? To help enlighten the individual, not beat them down. There's a difference between conveying information saying some people treat others like shit and saying you the fellow saiditor are shit. It's not an act in good faith. To me, acting in good faith is being able to accept another's point of view whether you agree or not. But if your point of view is fuck everybody, or fuck this group or that group, I don't think it's conducive to the enlightenment of others. It only lends itself to ill will. Now, I think it's fair to say I see this group as doing such and such and I disagree with it, but to say fuck that group just because is just prejudice and akin to Name Calling.

As I see it, if your main point is just to degrade or demean others, you really have no point at all.

fred_red_beans · 2020-07-24T01:13:40+00:00

Full article:

https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/07/13/many-medical-experts-were-against-lockdowns-the-media-just-didnt-want-us-know/

S. E Cupp, Pete Buttigieg, and all the others who defend Fauci by chanting “follow the science” don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. Nothing could be less scientific than blindly following the word of some alleged authority and trying to bully everyone else into doing so by mindlessly regurgitating some idiotic catchphrase. Science is about believing things for a reason, not because some media-anointed expert insists on them.

New England Journal of Medicine in an article authored by Dr. Fauci himself:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejme2002387

If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.

fred_red_beans · 2020-06-14T21:27:07+00:00

And in 2014 Israel killed over 2,250 Palestinians, 500 of whom were children, and 11,000 were wounded, and nobody at the time batted an eyelash about it:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180708-remembering-the-2014-israeli-offensive-against-gaza/

fred_red_beans · 2020-05-14T19:31:33+00:00

Well, let's hope the "conspiracy theorists" do win.

People like the author, Jeffery Goldberg, who say nothing but "everything I disagree with is a conspiracy theory" have little to offer to society.

fred_red_beans · 2021-05-28T18:13:26+00:00

Hmm

doxxing and real-world harassment

fred_red_beans · 2021-05-24T02:50:44+00:00

The spam et al that was coming to saidit followed us to reddit.

fred_red_beans · 2021-03-26T05:40:13+00:00

Categorizing everything I don't like as 'iron left'? What are you talking about, are you serious?

I'm referring to the daily 'posts to the front' and the vote manipulation by the iron left morons.

fred_red_beans · 2021-03-17T16:27:48+00:00

Well, now when someone dumps a load in the middle of the living room, at least I can go clean it up instead of just looking at at it, or even worse - poking at it!

fred_red_beans · 2020-10-24T17:58:29+00:00

and the youtube-dl site directly:

http://yt-dl.org/

fred_red_beans · 2020-10-06T20:40:57+00:00

As Sheila Jeffreys, the feminist academic, has warned, “...the transgendering of children now is simply a form of eugenics,” which shares similarities with the forced sterilisation of homosexuals, criminals, the disabled, and people with mental health problems in the early 20th century.

Author of the article is a transgender woman who wore a T-shirt proclaiming that she's still biologically a man and was accused of 'hate speech'

fred_red_beans · 2019-04-16T21:14:55+00:00

But eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind

Agreed. This is why I believe it's better to debate specific ideas or topics rather than argue broad generalizations. People are always going to have differences in opinion, knowledge, and perception. I think by listening to another's point of view and attempting to understand, one can at least accept and perhaps find some commonalities. By making broad generalizations and characterizations it makes it harder to learn from and communicate with each other.

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