Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 24, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

Teachers like this need to be executed in the town square. Calling a false welfare check (aka swatting) has the potential to be equivalent to murder

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 24, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

I posted one useful, polite, constructive comment, and somehow they knew, and gave me a week long site wide ban for "ban evasion". Apparently the ban I got over a year ago was permanent

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 24, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

Interestingly, Reddit now seems to have fully automated badword detection, and if you try to post a comment that names our overlords, your account gets automatically locked.

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 24, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

I ate a 7 day sitewide ban from reddit because themotte is full of fucking faggots.

I guess I live here now

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

Something something diagonalization

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

They could always just renounce their citizenship and call themselves refugees, and they'll throw the red carpet out for them

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

He could clearly quarantine citizens suspected of having coronavirus

He literally can't. We already tried that, and it went.... "well"

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

You're not going to believe this, but, the average of those two numbers is 1,420

So happy to find a place that isn't afraid to reveal the truth about black people by [deleted] in Introductions

[–]simonp 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's generally safe to assume when on a US based website with a US based userbase hosted by a US based company, that references to society have an implicit "US" attached to them

So happy to find a place that isn't afraid to reveal the truth about black people by [deleted] in Introductions

[–]simonp 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

While your comments are more or less consistent with my experience, the way you're posting them makes you sound like a troll coming here to post a caricature so we can later be pointed at as horrible racists. Just something to keep in mind.

I don't think that black people are any better or worse than other people. I think that society, for whatever reason, has just decided that black people get a pass on bad behaviour. And any group will start behaving badly when they know they can get away with it

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

These people said Hitler was bad. They also said Kindergarten Cop was bad.

How could the guy who brought us the Jetta be evil?

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

[–]simonp 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I have no understanding of what led up to this. I assume the standard playbook of brigadeers posting threats and then reporting their own threats

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

Reddit banned all of the anti-mask subreddits. For "violence": reddit.com/r/maskskepticism

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

[–]simonp 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Cost of COVID equipment violates my civil rights, so can we end the mask mandate?

Didn't think so

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

If learning history makes people racist, then maybe that says something about racism

"Like Nothing We’ve Ever Seen": Imminent Eviction Wave Is Coming To These States by Optimus85 in Coronavirus

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

There's nothing particularly natural about house prices always going up. I mean, you would expect property values to go up in high-demand locations, but the main driver of housing costs isn't that. There's two main drivers of housing costs:

1) Mortgages, which allow people to 'afford' more, which means that market prices rise to take that money from them; and

2) The fact that basically every municipal policy in basically every city in this country is dedicated to (this is a direct quote from a city I used to live in) "maintaining and increasing property values". "Property values" is the literal exact same thing as "housing costs". People who own houses vote for policies that make houses more expensive so that their paper wealth goes up. It doesn't have to be like this, it just is like this.

44% Of Young People Say It's Okay To Fire People Who Support Trump by Chipit in news

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

I've been blue in the face for years, bro.

Sam Hyde was right.. Except for the part about winning

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

[–]simonp 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The full bodycam footage of Saint Floyd got released.

Part 1

Part 2

Dailymail article

This piece of shit 100% overdosed on drugs. The guy who wrote the medium piece is right.

Peak Woke: Another Reddit Refugee by ArthnoldManacatsaman in Introductions

[–]simonp 17 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

People unaffiliated with the protests are using them as cover for their nefarious, petty vandalism?

I am more than willing to believe that this is true. But, if true, then the 'legitimate' protestors have a moral obligation to police those people. But they're not. It is abundantly clear from video footage that when the 'unaffiliated' people engage in criminal acts, the 'peaceful protestors' cheer them on, as well as hiding them and defending them from law enforcement.

As far as I'm concerned, that's affiliation

44% Of Young People Say It's Okay To Fire People Who Support Trump by Chipit in news

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

Not going to lie recent events have made me significantly more sympathetic to Chinese cops in Hong Kong.

44% Of Young People Say It's Okay To Fire People Who Support Trump by Chipit in news

[–]simonp 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just accuse them of supporting trump and then demand their firing. When they protest, accuse them of lying to cover their asses.

What so many people seem so invested in refusing to understand is that the problem with "fire people for being bad" is not that firing people for being bad is necessarily wrong, it's that the definition of 'bad' is arbitrary and capricious, changes all the time, and is cynically used to get rid of people who aren't actually bad

I said this four years ago and it's just as relevant now as then: "I'm against punching Nazis. Not because I think Nazis don't deserve to be punched (they most certainly do), but rather because I do not at all trust the people in our society to accurately identify Nazis"

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

This fucking retard thinks that the people under Joe Biden will be the people who bring people together?

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 27, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

If only we knew someone who works at Google in the censorship department, who could step up and sabotage these things.

That would be really cool, if only

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

I was just suspended from Reddit, because Hlynka is both a нигер and a фагот. That is all

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

Concern trolling is usually extremely obvious. You can tell it a mile away from how passive-aggressive it comes off

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

This does not matter in the slightest, as there is nothing stopping twitter from egregiously biased moderation

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

He's going in the direction of "private, curated, invite-only" so so far that seems out of scope of the design parameters

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

Request for productive input.

A friend of mine is starting on a passion project (or possibly a startup? I'm unclear) on the subject of "creating productive, pro-social discussion spaces in order to encourage a return to reasonableness, moderation, and peaceful disagreement". He's been asking around for peoples input regarding different design decisions and such that could be made that would encourage such things. Does anybody have any strong thoughts on this subject?

I'll share what he's come up with so far, but I want to hear all of your input first because I don't want to bias the brainstorming

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

They'll just hire more Brahmin Indians

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

If you're having to decide between accusing an expert of being stupid or of being evil, I don't think evil is the less charitable accusation. Most people are evil, at least some of the time. But it takes an extra special, egregiously bad type of stupid to be stupid while being a world expert in something.

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

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

If I had any people to talk to in person I would have already done that. What am I, just going to drive to some random small town in rural America, get out in the middle of the street, and accost strangers while demanding conversation? As if they don't hate city people enough already.

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

[–]simonp 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I listen to a comedy podcast. For a while, this podcast had as a regular guest this hilarious comedian woman who was also pretty conventionally attractive.

At one point, she takes an extended break from the podcast to go on a vacation to Japan. After she comes back, she's on the show talking about her trip to Japan. One of the first things she said was that Japan felt like hell to her, because nobody would ever talk to her in public and it felt terrible being shunned and ignored like that.

The podcast host spent about ten minutes ripping into her for being an entitled woman, who apparently didn't realize that her experience in Japan is just the normal experience for men.

Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for the Week of July 20, 2020 by rwkasten in CultureWarRoundup

[–]simonp 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The literal entire point of America is that you're allowed to say bad things about the government.

AOC needs to be flogged in public.