There's some censorship going on in the newly popular feminist subs and it needs to be openly addressed.

rdh2121 · 2020-06-30T17:34:54+00:00

whatever happened to "if you don't like something don't look at it"?

It's still alive and well. If you don't like a comment someone made on /s/GenderCritical, hide it and move on. If the sub is on /s/all, the sub is not a safe space, and exists for all users on Saidit. If that's not what the users of /s/GenderCritical want, all you have to do is remove yourselves from /s/all, and you can be as exclusive as you like.

Saidit was created to combat exclusion and censorship. You came here for that very acceptance of diverse viewpoints, so that's what you're getting. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-14T16:01:15+00:00

Subs are allowed to limit open discussion as long as they remove themselves from /s/all, which GC has done. I think this is a reasonable trade-off, since any post you find on the frontpage will be open to all points of view.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-12T18:22:57+00:00

In a vacuum, I'd say you're right, but the way Reddit and other private platforms have been treating unpopular speech for the past decade or so is representative of a troubling cultural shift in the mainstream that is definitely worth talking about just as much as joblessness and the general economic downturn.

Full disclosure, I'm not a superstraighter, but I am enjoying the shit they're stirring up.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T16:41:45+00:00

For me it was deleting my comments with Automoderator and not notifying me about it. I kept having to open my own comments in private windows just to make sure they weren't being deleted.

Then, when they are deleted, you have to spend a half hour playing whack-a-mole with the Automod trying to figure out what about your comment was triggering it.

That and powermods banning any comments contributing to discussion that happen to go against the mods' narrative, leaving the majority of subs as nothing more than huge circlejerking echo chambers.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T20:46:18+00:00

Saidit is whatever we make it. I've been through /new/ whenever I have free time to try to counter some of the crazy propaganda coming through, especially the bigger, more important subs like /s/politics and /s/Coronavirus, but I can only do so much.

If you want Saidit to be a balanced place with free discussion from all directions, please post yourselves, and comment on extremist posts pointing out their flaws so that newcomers to Saidit know that we want open dialogue and don't brook propaganda.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T18:36:30+00:00

Since d3rr is one of the founders of the site, I think they'd know...

rdh2121 · 2020-07-15T04:51:51+00:00

You were too good for this shit, Dr Fauci. You went above and beyond the call of duty and did literally everything you could. Go enjoy your retirement and rest easy knowing that we have huge respect for you and the fantastic work you've done.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T21:46:37+00:00

Posts like "FUCK MEN FUCK MEN FUCK MEN YALL EAT A DICK" should absolutely be allowed, especially on a sub like /s/pinkpillfeminism, but if the comments removed are in good faith and are high on the PoD, then the admins should definitely look into the mod's behavior.

Admins, is there any way for users to see what the content of the removed comments was? Do you think all of the removed comments constitute comments that should have been removed?

Edit: And no sooner have I defended them here than I've been banned from there as well. /u/d3rr, /u/magnora7, are you looking into these bans? My comment probably deserved to be deleted, but I don't think I deserve to be censored from that community permanently without warning. Any thoughts on what's happening, and whether my ban can be overturned, would be appreciated.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-14T16:40:07+00:00

Be the change you want to see. You can't be silenced here for your disagreement, so please post the type of content you'd like to see, especially on places like /s/politics! I've been trying to go through all of the blatantly biased posts there and countering the misinformation whenever I have the time, but more people need to make an effort to bring some nuance to Saidit.

The worst posts usually only come from a handful of posters, so it would be pretty easy to counter with actual good content with a bit of effort.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T17:26:59+00:00

Thanks for the response! I definitely think it should be changed, but I'm only one person, and you guys have a better idea of what you want from the platform than I do.

It does suck to be on New and see a ton of posts that I'd likely be banned for participating in - feels like it goes against what Saidit is going for, but again, y'all know that better than I do.

rdh2121 · 2020-06-30T18:31:49+00:00

Remember that whenever a headline asks a question, the answer is always "no".

That being said, God I hope so.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T18:46:09+00:00

Sounds like Sen. Tammy Duckworth might be a little racist.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-15T03:00:43+00:00

Yeah, /s/pinkpillfeminism still hasn't done that even though I've reported them multiple times. :/

rdh2121 · 2020-07-04T16:21:48+00:00

Wearing a mask is terrible for your health.

Source?

As someone who has to wear full protective gear for eight hours a day I’ll attest that rebreathing what should be exhaust is breaking me down.

Nice anecdote. Still waiting on a source.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T19:34:33+00:00

Who said this?

...the admins did. It's in the rules for moderators. Rules 4a and 4b.

Do you realize how many subs you could ban out of the feed by that logic? All subs that have a set of rules could technically be construed as banning free speech.

Practically none, as long as they allow disagreement, which they almost universally do? You're clearly on the wrong site here. I recommend Reddit for all your censorship needs.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T19:18:00+00:00

Absolutely, trolling is a problem on subs like GC, but moderators are allowed to remove comments low on the pyramid, and that's not a violation of Saidit's rules.

The problem is that GC also doesn't allow good faith disagreement or debate, which directly goes against the rules of Saidit, and therefore can't be allowed on the public /s/all page, and I think that should hold for New as well.

rdh2121 · 2020-06-30T17:13:52+00:00

That's an interesting idea. I think the insightful/funny breakdown is a great idea, and should be kept, but it would be nice to create a way to express/quantify dissent/disagreement on posts, even if it had no effect on the visibility of the post for algorithm purposes.

Edit: UI clutter is a concern though, so I'm not really sure how to implement this cleanly, even if it would be a useful feature to have.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-14T04:11:12+00:00

This is misleading - you have to click through like twice to get the actual context for the quote. Also, she never said they were "white supremacist" concepts - she said that employees having to be seen as "reliable" and "loyal" by fickle, disloyal employers that would fire you at the drop of a hat is troubling, which is completely accurate.

Please provide better context for your posts next time, and try to find headlines with less editorializing.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-03T04:27:24+00:00

Excellent questions. Also, could the admins say if they're looking into the bans going on at /s/pinkpillfeminism? Not 4 hours after defending the sub on /s/saidit, I found myself banned as well under dubious circumstances, and would like an update, if possible.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T19:23:22+00:00

It's not "being changed". Saidit's rules specifically disallow it. I'm arguing that the rules already in place should hold for /s/all New as well.

They're not allowed because their censorship is antithetical to the anti-censorship community we're trying to build here. The trade-off is that you can have your echo chamber, but you're not allowed to advertise it on /s/all.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T17:46:42+00:00

This is a great idea. It could be kinda like quityourbullshit.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T17:42:07+00:00

That makes sense. I guess the question is whether we want to promote subs that censor content on a platform designed to be anti-censorship.

Also, it seems like word about those subs can still spread by word-of-mouth, and also through other associated "front-facing" subs like a hypothetical /s/debateGenderCritical that would conform to platform guidelines.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T14:42:59+00:00

It's kinda hilarious that the article you cite is only pointing out correlation, not causation, yet you go off on another user because their cause-and-effect hypothesis doesn't agree with your cause-and-effect hypothesis.

How about you show me your proof that this is due to the unit disbanding first.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T14:22:28+00:00

So... I'm still getting used to Saidit. Do I still click the little laughing face if a post is batshit retarded but funny because of that?

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T11:56:05+00:00

Seems like the right call in this case, given the wording of the statute.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-10T23:14:33+00:00

Can confirm that neither button changes at all for me when I vote. I've started using whether or not the number changes as my indicator for whether a vote went through.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-17T03:19:33+00:00

How about this? If you see a comment you don't like, just ignore it, and then you won't be advocating for censorship like you're currently doing.

You can't just leave us alone to say what we want within our private space.

Because it's not a private space. It's a public space, by the design of this website that you've agreed to use of your own free will, and you will follow its rules, including the rule that if you're a useless circlejerk of censorship, you have to publicly state it.

Your beliefs are not PRO free speech, your beliefs are ANTI free speech. You don't like what's being said, so you want to shut it down. Instead of ignoring comments you don't like, you advocate for literal censorship, and then act like that's somehow exercising your right to free speech? Jesus, the mental gymnastics.

Luckily, the creators of this site don't share your delusions, and actual free speech advocates will always be here to report your censorship and lack of respect for the rules of this website.

In fact, I've just reported your pro-censorship sub again, just for the hell of it. I'm sure the admins will get around to forcing you to explicitly state your anti-free speech position on your sidebar soon enough.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-04T17:22:24+00:00

Still waiting.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-04T16:23:26+00:00

Here's the post from two days ago.

Obviously the mod shouldn't be banned, but the unreasonable bans handed out so far need to be reversed, and I haven't heard any word from the admins on the situation yet.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-04T00:53:10+00:00

And what about the rest of the world? Are they in on it with the Democrats?

rdh2121 · 2020-07-03T06:00:47+00:00

This thread pointed out some suspicious banning behavior on the part of the /s/pinkpillfeminism mods. Some people were saying that posts on that sub should lead to the sub being banned, but I argued that it should be allowed to stay. Not four hours later, I myself had been banned from /s/pinkpillfeminism for unsatisfactory reasons, after just having defended them hours before.

Still waiting on an update for whether or not any of these unwarranted bans will be overturned, and whether the admins will step in and deal with the misbehaving mods over there.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T19:55:56+00:00

Can you quote one of those posts for me, with full context? I absolutely support moderation of comments that aren't in good faith and are low on the Pyramid of Debate.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T15:32:18+00:00

1) who cares if users get mad and mass block you. Your freedom to speak hasn't been in any way undermined.

2) even if they were begging the mods to ban you, it doesn't look like you were banned, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

3) why are you coming to Saidit complaining about being asked to provide a source for your claims (which are demonstrably wrong, which is probably why you couldn't find a source)?

4) I don't know enough about Discord T&C to comment on this situation.

It doesn't seem like you've been censored or unfairly treated at all, and I've got a sneaking suspicion you were posting to get a reaction in the first place.

Ruqqus has seemed pretty chill to me so far, when it's actually up.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T14:27:59+00:00

Ruqqus looks like absolute trash, what are you on? I like the site, but it's so freaking cluttered, with so much useless deadspace.

Saidit's clean interface is so much better.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-24T14:42:18+00:00

I agree with you in that I think SaidIt should stay English only for now, but I think the main issue is one of moderation and avoiding spam. Eventually I think it would be great for SaidIt to become a multilingual online forum, but that will only work once the infrastructure to support it is in place.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-12T18:15:21+00:00

Why is this on /s/WikiLeaks?

rdh2121 · 2020-07-25T02:47:39+00:00

The more people refuse to wear masks, don't follow proper social distancing procedures, and go out in public when not necessary, the more cases you'll find as well. ;)

rdh2121 · 2020-07-16T13:26:05+00:00

Nope, I'm reporting them because they're breaking the rules that ensure free and open discussion on Saidit.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-14T04:51:02+00:00

While I don't disagree with you, the difference here is that you can respond to their vitriol and hate and not be silenced for it, which automatically makes this space superior to the other platforms. I've been trying to call out bullshit here whenever I see it, and actively participating in the community is how we're going to make sure nuanced and non-dogmatic opinions are heard, since, at least currently, they can't be silenced here.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-04T17:32:26+00:00

It also has to be real socialism, but nobody knows what it looks like, since it apparently hasn't existed so far.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-04T16:20:52+00:00

Now this is a conspiracy theory I can get behind!

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T22:26:42+00:00

It looks like some of those communities might have been banned for advocating violence, which is against the ToS. /u/d3rr, do you know if that was the case?

If so, it seems that those bans were for pretty different reasons than a post simply saying "FUCK MEN" a bunch of times. Something like "Let's murder men right now" would be something I'd see as a bannable offense.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T19:21:21+00:00

Saidit is a free speech platform. To participate in /s/all, subs must allow free speech. Subs that advocate for censorship should not be allowed to promote themselves to the public here, as they're antithetical to the community we're trying to build. Allowing their censorship on the frontpage is tacit endorsement of their censorship.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T18:49:44+00:00

The editorializing at the end of your title is entirely unnecessary, and inappropriate for the /s/news sub. /u/Chipit, so far your posts here have reeked of disingenuousness, and are the opposite of the kind of content we want to promote in this community. Be better.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T18:39:15+00:00

Cool story bro.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T16:50:01+00:00

This kind of sensationalist title formatting needs to stop.

Anyhow, this only constitutes a 6% reduction in advertising revenue on Facebook. It's not hurting Facebook in the slightest, and ad companies are only doing this because they want to reduce advertising expense during the current economic downturn.

Once the Coronavirus starts easing off and the economy picks back up, those companies will absolutely come crawling back, boycotters or no boycotters.

rdh2121 · 2020-06-29T22:00:41+00:00

A good friend of mine lives in NYC and her entire family got it. Luckily they all made it, but she was out of commission for basically an entire month.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T13:26:45+00:00

Good to see blatant misinformation finally having consequences. We need more cases like this for the rest of the MSM.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T11:54:15+00:00

That's weird - I haven't seen him anywhere near a golf course.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T21:09:48+00:00

The irony of you railing against "MSM propaganda" and then citing them instead of citing the actual science is absolutely hilarious, and incredibly telling. Then again, presciently, I did note that we both already know the science doesn't actually matter to you.

Even so, here you go - I've done your homework for you:
An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19. "The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces transmissibility per contact"

The physiological effects of face masks during exercise. "Heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and time to exhaustion did not differ significantly."

Effectiveness of Government Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak. "Using daily data for 32 countries and relying on the stringency of the conducted policies, we find that the greater the strength of government interventions at an early stage, the more effective these are in slowing down or reversing the growth rate of deaths."

Also, from here, showing how many more lives could have been saved in Sweden, tellingly, "Yet the size of the lockdown effect suggests that there is a non-trivial infection externality – people fail to internalise the costs they impose on others as they become infectious and, hence, voluntary social restraint fails to deliver the same extent of social distancing that we observe for the lockdown scenario."

They're talking about you, by the way. You're the reason lockdowns have to be mandatory, and are are less effective than they should be. "Selfish and ignorant indeed."

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T13:52:46+00:00

If you want a non-iPhone (and you should), Linux phones are literally your only choice.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T01:26:21+00:00

Good for her. Hopefully your selfishness and willful ignorance doesn't get anyone elderly or immunocompromised killed.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-12T23:57:46+00:00

Triple Triad from Final Fantasy VIII. A few years ago I looked for some scans of the cards online to make my own deck, but could never find any good enough.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-24T21:17:29+00:00

I mean, you still haven't put together an actual argument yet, so...

rdh2121 · 2020-07-14T16:17:59+00:00

While I definitely agree that moderation on low-pyramid comments is not as strict as it could be, I'm torn on how much stricter to get, since it's better to err on the side of allowing low-pyramid comments to stay than removing comments higher on the pyramid.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-04T16:34:04+00:00

30-35 here.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T22:15:00+00:00

Fair enough, the admins probably have a clearer idea of what they want out of the site than I do. Also, I have a couple of comments/questions:

Posts like that are definitely not the majority of posts on /s/pinkpillfeminism, so it likely isn't analogous to the subs you're talking about.
It seems to me that as long as subs that do act like that allow dissenting voices in the comments, they should be allowed to stay anyway. Were the subs you're talking about removed for not allowing dissent?

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T20:42:45+00:00

Are they idiots for attending the party? Absolutely.

Is this still a violation of their rights? Absolutely.

I hope they challenge this in court.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T19:34:24+00:00

Your personal interpretation of saidit's rule disallow it.

No... the admins disallow it, which is why GC isn't on /s/all.

In fact your encouraging saidit to pick and choose who shows up in a feed which is a form of censorship. You're the one being censorious.

All you gotta do to be on /s/all is not censor your sub. That's literally it. You're clearly on the wrong site here. I recommend Reddit for all your censorship needs.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T18:44:12+00:00

Here are the rules in question.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T17:15:34+00:00

Because he's a well-known conspiracy theorist, that's why. Can we also please stop with the sensationalist titles? This is the OPPOSITE of what we should want on the NEWS sub. Jeezus.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T17:08:40+00:00

Ruqqus is nice, when it's working. Haven't tried notabug.io yet, but it's supposedly pretty good too.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T16:26:22+00:00

This kind of sensationalist, misleading propaganda is the OPPOSITE of what we should be promoting on the history sub, or on Saidit in general. Acting like groups of people don't change over the course of 150 YEARS is disingenuous.

We're on Saidit because we want to be better than this crap. Be better, OP.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T16:10:06+00:00

I think Sparknotes is fine, for the most part, and you just had a terrible teacher.

The problem with Sparknotes is that it's myopic by design, and intended to only convey the mainstream interpretations of a given text. Teachers should be aware of what Sparknotes has to say, but teaching from Sparknotes does a disservice to students.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T15:44:20+00:00

The mask charade is a PsyOp to frighten people.

Nope, it's not. It's a good faith effort to reduce transmission, and hasn't yet been disproved by studies. It's a perfectly reasonable step.

Masks can prevent bacterial transmission, but viruses are many orders of magnitude smaller in size.

It's still a more than reasonable precaution, and again, Coronavirus hasn't been shown to spread through masks.

It's part of the scamdemic hoax.

Lol.

rdh2121 · 2020-07-02T15:06:19+00:00

So... no evidence whatsoever. Why am I not surprised?

Let's see what makes more sense:
1. criminals are spending all of their time closely following the status of random government agencies so that they can all get together and agree to start shooting people after one small agency is disbanded
OR
2. There have been high-profile, high-tension protests going on for weeks, so violence has been higher recently.

I wonder what would happen if we compare the shootings this week with the shooting numbers earlier this month, instead of with shooting numbers from last year. Source

How about that! 40 shootings per week for the first three weeks of this month.

How does it feel to be proven completely wrong, and caught in your fearmongering, pro-cop propaganda?

rdh2121 · 2020-06-30T13:51:00+00:00

It's telling that FWR survived when all of the subs made to criticize it were banned, especially given Reddit's racist new rules.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T20:29:01+00:00

I'm not calling you a liar; I'm saying that even if you're telling the truth, in absence of evidence of significant voter fraud, what happened to you in no way justifies this legislation. Also, I'm still waiting on that scholarly source.

Campaigning at the polls and vote buying are already illegal - the only reason to prevent handing out water is to further disincentivize people from standing in line for hours after you've already ensured that a) there's only one place to vote in huge urban Atlanta districts with hundreds of thousands of people b) there are no ballot drop-off boxes to alleviate the ridiculous volume, c) there are no absentee ballots to alleviate the volume, and d) there's no Sunday voting to alleviate the volume.

None of these are warranted, of course, and in comparison, giving out water hardly warrants fearmongering about voter intimidation, unless, y'know, that's not really why you're fearmongering about "voter intimidation". I've never found water to be that scary, myself.

It has nothing to do with being physically or mentally fit, and everything to do with systematically reducing access to voting in the most populous Georgia districts, which are all overwhelmingly black.

And, this is all beside the point anyway, since, once again, all available evidence unanimously points towards the fact that US elections are already among the most secure in the world. These measures will have zero effect on voter fraud (since, again, it's already effectively nonexistent), which makes me wonder why all of the Republican states would suddenly be so intent on forcing these bills through their legislatures after enormous losses in the presidency and Congress.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T19:07:44+00:00

Anecdotes aren't data. If you have a reputable scholarly source that shows that voter fraud is a significant enough problem to be worth denying water to people waiting in line to vote (not to mention the whole "disenfranchising millions of voters" thing), I'd like to see it.

Everything in this law is designed to make voting orders of magnitude harder for minorities that overwhelmingly vote Democrat, and to act otherwise is transparently disingenuous, especially when all available evidence unanimously points towards the fact that US elections are already among the most secure in the world.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T18:35:21+00:00

Since actual cases of voter fraud are practically nonexistent, there's really no other conclusion than voter suppression.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T18:07:12+00:00

Regulation at the state level is always preferable to federal mandate, but it's clear that the nationwide violations of voters' rights have gone too far at this point, and I'm looking forward to the impending federal regulations making this sort of blatant voter suppression illegal once and for all.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T15:50:31+00:00

It's better than writing up a list of sourceless conspiracy Youtube video-approved talking points.

it doesn't change the fact that four years ago you were probably frothing at the mouth about "Russian Collusion"

I was trying not to laugh at the Shillary voters I was watching the election with who were literally crying, which goes to show how little you know about me. I had faith in our elections then, and I still do now, especially since in neither case was there any evidence of fraud.

It is telling that you are so eager to believe the fraud in one case, but not the other though. Might wanna think on that for a bit.

It is precisely this kind of vacillation that has fostered peoples' skepticism.

And the fact that it's all baseless and being hyped solely for ragebait clicks is what makes it so sad on both sides.

People are ditching "authoritative" sources by the 10's of millions. You can't stop it. All you can do is repeat your approved talking points ad nauseum.

He says as he repeats his own approved talking points ad nauseam, only without any authoritative sources or scientific support.

You can hide in your house with your mask on while real men and women are making the changes they wish to see.

The only "change" you'll be making is the change in the quality of life your loved ones as you stubbornly and ignorantly kill them with easily preventable diseases.

It's not going away.

Your elderly and immunocompromised loved ones will though.

There is no point in arguing with you if you are just going to repeat oligarch-funded propaganda.

And there's no point in arguing with you if you're just going to repeat Youtube conspiracy nut-funded propanganda with absolutely zero basis in reality.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T13:25:54+00:00

As opposed to your critical thinking skills of apparently not even reading the article at all? The entire point of the article is that yes, 1000 people died after taking the vaccine, but that there is no evidence tying those deaths to the vaccine.

The original "source" even included a post-vaccine car accident in their numbers for deaths due to COVID, so we see how much they care about good faith with their reporting numbers.

Face it - unanimous scientific consensus is that vaccines are perfectly safe, and that you have literally zero reason not to get one other than selfishness and willful ignorance.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-26T12:46:53+00:00

That article literally says that "it is false to say that COVID vaccines have caused 966 deaths", and concludes that there is no reason to doubt the safety of the vaccine.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T21:46:50+00:00

Yes! Yes it is! "We should make more mental health resources available for helping people stay psychologically healthy in lockdown" is a completely separate issue from "we should do nothing and just let all of our grandparents die an easily avoidable death."

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T14:09:29+00:00

Wow, nearly 10% of the population - it's a good thing vaccine rollout has been as quick as it has.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T13:42:31+00:00

I can't stand Chuck, but he's not wrong this time, unfortunately. States are infringing on the right to vote just like the courts are infringing on the right to bear arms.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T13:25:35+00:00

People that think for themselves

Got news for ya, champ: watching nothing but poorly sourced and even more poorly produced Youtube videos on the frontpage of /s/conspiracy does not constitute "thinking for yourself".

They should be wearing that muzzle 24/7(proper breathing is overrated)

Study after study has shown that masks in no way impair gas exchange or proper lung function, even with high levels of athletic activity, and that they demonstrably reduce COVID transmission, but we both already know that the science doesn't matter to you. Once again, your conspiracy Youtubers aren't "free thinkers" - they're just exacerbating the culture of willful ignorance and misinformation that's so ubiquitous on places like SaidIt these days, and unfortunately you're not enough of a free thinker to do your own (actual) research.

a vaccine that isn't really a vaccine

Is it a preparation that causes your body to produce antibodies against future infection? It's a vaccine. A vaccine based on tech that also seems likely to provide further benefits against cancer in the near future, so the more research seen in that area, the better.

a virus with a 99.6% recovery rate

Thanks to lockdowns demonstrably slowing the rate of infection, increased availability of specialized medical equipment despite the best efforts of the prior administration to kill as many people as it could, and the countless hours of work in hazard conditions by the medical professionals that you're disgracing with your antivaxxer bullshit.

Selfish and ignorant indeed.

You've done an excellent job demonstrating that you belong in this category as well. Try being an actual free thinker, for once. Oh, and don't forget to wear a mask and get vaccinated - it saves lives.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-25T13:09:15+00:00

Looks like somebody failed high school biology.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-16T20:51:12+00:00

Note that this report only claims that foreign governments tried to interfere with election results more than ever before, not that the results of the election were in any way in question or that there was any voter fraud.

In fact, they specifically went out of their way to deny these concerns:

We—the Department of Justice, including the FBI, and Department of Homeland Security, including CISA—have no evidence that any foreign government-affiliated actor prevented voting, changed votes, or disrupted the ability to tally votes or to transmit election results in a timely manner; altered any technical aspect of the voting process; or otherwise compromised the integrity of voter registration information of any ballots cast during 2020 federal elections.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-13T12:15:46+00:00

But I thought republicans liked spending money on fences?

rdh2121 · 2021-03-13T00:03:46+00:00

I tried, but it doesn't seem like any files are available that I could find.

The game had a super limited run in Japan and now the cards go for hundreds of dollars online, and it's practically impossible to assemble a complete set.

I even tried to get scans from the video game itself, but the assets were so low quality that I finally decided it wasn't worth the effort.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-12T23:46:25+00:00

Hi, just a reminder that if you're not going to allow debate (or men, for that matter), per Saidit rules you have to enable the option to remove your sub from the frontpage.

I saw this post from New, so you may have already done so, but I wanted to send a quick reminder just in case.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-12T18:17:50+00:00

I mean, it's pretty par for the course at this point. The Republicans have been the party of "socialism for Congress and billionaires, feudalism for everyone else" for at least three decades now.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-12T18:14:23+00:00

Oh, he definitely hasn't personally, but that seems kinda beside the point. Health-related nonprofits lobbying for government funds to replace unexpected additional costs due to a pandemic in a bill specifically for pandemic relief seems pretty reasonable.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-11T21:04:38+00:00

Not personally, but six of his businesses did. What did he have to say as a result? "I do play with the bankruptcy laws—they're very good for me."

Who's the shill again?

rdh2121 · 2021-03-11T20:58:29+00:00

None of what you said has anything to do with the article or my response to it, which is about Covid relief money going to care organizations negatively affected by the pandemic. I'm not sure what you're smoking, but I definitely want to try some.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-11T20:38:24+00:00

"To mitigate the impact on such programs from the coronavirus."

That's why. It's literally in the same paragraph in the bill. The "article" even has a screencap of where it says it! This is never even mentioned by the "article", of course, which then proceeds to baselessly fearmonger for ten paragraphs before calling it a day.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-11T19:19:28+00:00

I just happened to see this post scrolling through New and have no idea what this sub is about, but that makes a lot of sense to me.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-11T12:30:40+00:00

More like:

LibLeft: Clearly doesn't believe in the sanctity of marriage

LibRight: Just declares bankruptcy over and over again to never have to pay his bills

AuthLeft: literally a gun grabber

AuthRight: resorted to a coup when an election didn't go his way

rdh2121 · 2021-03-11T02:09:08+00:00

Adam Smith wrote "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776, laying the groundwork for the modern understanding of capitalism. He's effectively the inventor of the free market economy as we understand it today, and is probably the biggest name in the history of economics.

rdh2121 · 2021-03-10T14:41:18+00:00

Pretty sure that if he held church services online, he wouldn't have been jailed. Which means, of course, that he wasn't jailed for church services.

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