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24 Nov 2020, 5:00 pm
24 Nov 2020, 10:11 pm
Fnord wrote:
Fnord's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Socialists or Hillary approaches 1.
As a side note, why even use the word "Fascist" when words like "Cruel", "Ignorant", "Narcissistic", "Profane", "Racist", "Sadistic", "Sexist", and "Violent" will suffice?
As a side note, why even use the word "Fascist" when words like "Cruel", "Ignorant", "Narcissistic", "Profane", "Racist", "Sadistic", "Sexist", and "Violent" will suffice?
I wouldn't say there's really an alternative, these people are manipulating mods into giving their antagonistic ways a free pass. I'm willing to bet this thread will get locked if one of our resident "critical thinkers" starts a nasty flame war, mods do not understand the point of denouncing violence in American politics.
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25 Nov 2020, 12:33 am
25 Nov 2020, 12:56 am
Tempus Fugit wrote:
I've read words to the effect of "manipulating mods into giving their antagonistic ways a free pass" before, but about certain posters rather than the ones you're talking about.
I suspect both sides think that of each other.
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25 Nov 2020, 1:12 pm
25 Nov 2020, 1:17 pm
I don't even know who's manipulating mods and what side they're on haha.
Probably a good thing, I hate social media drama at the best of times. 
And like is often said on Reddit, yes [Wrong Planet] is social media.
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25 Nov 2020, 1:24 pm
25 Nov 2020, 3:34 pm
KT67 wrote:
I don't even know who's manipulating mods and what side they're on haha.
Probably a good thing, I hate social media drama at the best of times. And like is often said on Reddit, yes [Wrong Planet] is social media.
Probably a good thing, I hate social media drama at the best of times.
And like is often said on Reddit, yes [Wrong Planet] is social media.Well these days it's the alt-right insisting that anyone who judges their statements & actions must be one of the evil communist sheeple plotting to steal their guns & censor their BS. They believe tolerance is an all or nothing proposition which should include neonazis as far as I can tell. They're throwing around slurs regarding anyone with any liberal inclination & doing so without getting banned strictly because political morality is indeed dead in America.
There's a guy here who tried to have me banned just by putting words in my mouth. Their game of devil's advocate is a matter of bending the rhetoric so far out of shape as to encourage holocaust denial. If nazi is nothing more than a dirty word we should be ashamed of using in historical context, IMO that's a mockery of a genocide.
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25 Nov 2020, 3:38 pm
Tempus Fugit wrote:
I've read words to the effect of "manipulating mods into giving their antagonistic ways a free pass" before, but about certain posters rather than the ones you're talking about.
That's because you're demonstrably incapable of respecting this place.
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25 Nov 2020, 3:41 pm
KT67 wrote:
I don't even know who's manipulating mods and what side they're on haha.
Probably a good thing, I hate social media drama at the best of times. And like is often said on Reddit, yes [Wrong Planet] is social media.
Probably a good thing, I hate social media drama at the best of times.
And like is often said on Reddit, yes [Wrong Planet] is social media.If a moderator seem to keep reading into my posts that were not there, I would think they were being manipulated by whoever is reporting me to them as a way to harass me to get me off this platform. (This has not actually happened yet)
But if a moderator is blindly believing the user, then they are a bad mod anyway. And there are places online that will just ban anyone whenever just because they can. This seems pretty common on Reddit. It won't happen here. If you say you don't support rioting, bam you are banned. I remember on Twitter it was, if you don't support rioting, you are racist and endorsing it and blocked.
Also how do we know it's not the moderator itself abusing their mod privileges to go after you because they don't like you? No one may not even be reporting you. It's just some mod moderating everything you do on there.
And of course if someone is truly making racist and genocide comments and democide comments, etc. they will feel this way too and I say just let them feel that way. Their problem, not ours.
25 Nov 2020, 3:43 pm
Maybe that's because it's disrespectful to not even try to understand why people might riot over racial discrimination.
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25 Nov 2020, 3:44 pm
We have riots now because we backtracked & allowed KKK influence in the GOP.
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25 Nov 2020, 3:48 pm
Fnord wrote:
cberg wrote:
They don't like us saying much of anything. It's almost like these people are all about censorship as the latest form of free speech.
They seem to do this while simultaneously complaining about the Left imposing Politically Correct Speech upon them.Sad.
They think politically correct means that the political majority must impose their will on their subjects. I plan to honor that commitment & not eat s**t + die as they might prefer.
People voting with scruples are the majority in America now & we have been for two years probably.
The alternative is to pretend that white supremacists & mass shooters are just part of a mixed bag we have no hands in.
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25 Nov 2020, 3:50 pm
There's a mod here I used to hang out with. Now he just muzzles my viewpoint whenever I say much of anything about people.
As a matter of fact, WP has been swapping responsible dialog for user numbers by coddling the alt-right as if they're not suggesting anything nasty.
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25 Nov 2020, 3:56 pm
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
I would call it the Red fever law.
It's worse than that here because we swapped nationalism for fascism.
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25 Nov 2020, 4:11 pm
