That whole Marisa turning out to be a literal pedophile was trending for a bit on the farms.
Also, DSC's been posting about Marisa (#homophobia CHOMO RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS) on the fundie board, so we're getting a wee bit of traffic from that quarter as well. Choosing that particular hill to die on is exactly on brand for the semi-articulate brain tumour that writes most of his posts for him, so hurrah I guess.
[Context: someone named Marisa with a profile pic from the japanese franchise Touhou talked shit about Doomer Boards, and one of the members got salty about it.]
I feel so sorry for the Japanese guy who made Touhou; you make a hard as nails bullet hell shooter on a shoestring budget with a VERY decent soundtrack while drunk that has a universe filled with SOUL that's thematically steeped in Japanese folklore. You add a diverse stylish cast of characters who have charming and eccentric personalities that are mostly morally grey and some are really badass (I mean there's a loyal house maid who doubles up as a bodyguard for a vampire mansion that can literally freeze time then throw hundreds of knives at you before unfreezing time.. but can just as easily serve you tea).
The niche game spiralling into success is really heartwarming for me, Japanese musicians (<3 Shibayan) make amazing rearrangements of your songs with female singers who have amazing vocal ranges like 3L, hundreds of fangames get made across different genres and an anime and tons of manga get adapted from it.
Meanwhile in the West it's just taint and despair everywhere.. pedophiles, sex pests, groomers, stalkers, predators and ideologically driven creeps try become your characters so they can use your characters' faces to appropriate and pass off their unacceptable chaotic evil personalities and fetishes as "morally grey".. alongside the usual "social democrats" invading what excuse there is in the Western fandom to try assert ideological control over it really just adds up to Touhou being lowkey the biggest disconnect between the East and West I've seen, ever... you can't even blame anyone for hating it the moment they find out it exists when that's the only reaction you can trust.
I tried really hard not to write this post, but wow, fuck you "Marrisa", thank you for further vilifying a franchise that really didn't need further vilification. Kudos.
The advent of dating apps. Every single girl has been programmed from birth to believe they deserve a Prince Charming so women will all only swipe on the top 5-10% of men. Women just have too many options now, not just guys from class or work or friend groups, but the entire world, so why not try and get with a handsome millionaire? Because these men have all of the options, they'll never commit to a woman, just hump n dump, so women are left feeling used and unsatisfied, yet they don't change their behavior. The other 90% of men are also left unsatisfied as we get very few matches and the ones we do get will generally ghost us.
I don't literally think the government should assign mates to citizens, but modern romance is dead and broken. Men and women have never been more antagonistic towards one another in history, thanks most likely to fourth wave feminism, which has resulted in the "all men are oppressors/trash/rapists" type of discourse. The average millennial man has not been laid in the last year according to a semi-recent study. So men are lonely, spend more time online, and gradually develop mysogynistic attitudes.
#MeToo has also led women to not trust men (harassment, rape) and men to not trust women (false accusations). People are scared to interact. I don't even try to flirt with anyone anymore lest it be construed as sexual harassment. People are so broken they can't connect IRL and are forced to try and keep using dating apps. An example of this zeitgeist was a mainstream horror film coming out a year or two ago about a couple meeting in a grocery store instead of an app and the dude turns out to be a serial killer (fucking thanks, Hollywood).
I post EPICly FOR THE LULZ!!
I had no problem with Mayhemic Destructor when people were losing their shit over him. He was spamming rather much though fortunately was reigned in somewhat after a while. I really hope he's doing alright these days. I tried to help him and talk some sense into him at times and he was very reasonable to talk to. I had no problem with his autism because he was not weaponized for the FORCES OF EVIL who are trying to starve and deprive us all including even their own useful idiots doing their bidding thinking they'll be rewarded with a communist utopia. I already mentioned how Musk and Carmack rose above shit.
I'm against discrimination. The most qualified person should get a position, job, promotion, or be trusted to handle something. Denying such a suitable candidate for something truly IS DISCRIMINATION just because they don't have some aspect to meet a bullshit quota.
Also the increasing rates of autism are a sure sign that it's being inflicted on people, whether purposely or accidentally. I've seen some stuff that a major cause may be mercury (which is a serious freaking neurotoxin) or its derivatives PLUS parasites, and that many poorly trained doctors under the medical cartel refuse to test for parasites. There's also recent class action law suit commercials over some apparent findings of pregnant women having taken various common pain killers having autistic kids. For a control group, how about the Amish? They live in vast regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio in the US. They are not quarantined away from normies and yet autism is virtually nonexistent among them. Probably same deal with food allergies and auto immune disorders.
[About the recent censorship of old books, like the James Bond ones and Roald Dahl’s work.]
You're offended by 60+ year old literature? Here's an awesome idea - fuck off. Just do the entire world a favour and fuck right off.
The only thing to even raise a smile in Ant Man 3 was Hank Pym unironically equating socialism to hordes of mindless worker ants toiling away with no hope of ever becoming anything better.
[Context: they are talking about the case of Haley Anderson, who was murdered by a man after she told him she didn’t want to commit to a relationship with him.]
Haley put herself in that situation. I don't think she didn't realize that Orlando is a odd human being. But she continued to satisfy her lust with him and that caused her end
he killed her. But why did she go to his house in the first place ? To have physical relationship with him. The issue is not that. The issue is she did that despite knowing he is very odd human being. Like who does that ? An addict does that. She had Zero self control. The moment her family realised that she has started going out with Orlando despite his odd behaviour, they should have strongly insisted her to go on therapy for her sex addiction.
—— MODERATOR’S NOTE: apparently, this quote is fake. ——
[Context:This is the creator of Dragon Ball defending himself after being criticized for the lack of black characters in the series.]
This is a Japanese franchise. Made by Japanese people, for Japanese people. It's not your show. It's ours.
The things people complain about continue to change over time, but Japan's racial demographics do not. They (black people) do not live here.
[Context: Gundam is replying to the following newsline- Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Fires Back At Haters Criticizing Lack Of Black Characters In The Series].
Change nothing for westerners, king.
[Context: Drinker is once again replying to someone on Twitter who posted an image of a man in a woman’s clothing asking “Men, what’s stopping you dressing like this?]
I see no men in this picture.
[Context: the Drinker posted this in response to a tweet of a man wearing a skirt and asking “Men of Twitter, what's stopping you dressing like this?”]
Self respect.
What you read about Stalin in western textbooks comes from Nazi propaganda recycled by CIA and MI6. More realistic picture is presented in Ludo Marten’s book Books - The Revolutionary Communist Progressive Labor Party
Imperialist powers hate Lenin and Stalin because they saved Russia from division and colonization by western powers that had already enslaved entire planet. In February 1917 a coup sponsored by England and France overthrew Russian czar and installed a puppet “government” that led Russia to catastrophe. Western puppets destroyed Russian army at the peak of WWI. Corruption and separatism were rampant.
Lenin and Stalin suppressed the liberal coup, restored manageability of country, recreated Russian army, fought and defeated colonial armies sent by England, France, Romania, Japan, the US, Poland, Finland and their local mercenaries that tried to rip Russia into colonies. Lenin and Stalin restored independence and territorial integrity of Russia.
There is plenty of propaganda nonsense in other answers, like Soviet industrialization was carried out by “slave labor”. This is a myth of Nazi propaganda. The point of propagandists is that the 5 fold increase of industrial output was achieved by the labor of prisoners. In the reality the number of prisoners in the USSR ranged from 250 thousands to two millions during the 30s. It is 0.125% - 1% of population. Even at the highest level in 1937–1938 the number of prisoners was comparable to that in modern US.
In Stalin’s time 75% illiteracy turned into 100% literacy. Life expectancy grew from 27 to 65 years. Millions got jobs in science, technology and engineering.
Stalin is co hated by western colonial powers because the USSR serves as an example of independent industrialization. The USSR showed that non-western nation can not only defend itself against western colonial war, but also defeat the imperialist west in a war. The USSR had shown that science, engineering, universal health care and education is possible without colonial slavery. Of course the imperialists from Churchill and Hitler to Truman and Reagan spread slanderous lies about the USSR and Stalin who dealt a deadly blow to the myth of invincibility western imperialism and gave hope to humanity.
I think what most liberals are missing is that this isn't about right and wrong, it's about winning and losing. I've attached my entire worldview to this man and I am going down with the ship. Not one of you is going to convince me otherwise.
[Context: they are replying to someone who is criticizing J.K. Rowling and pointing out that supporting her is transphobic].
[confetti_shrapnel]
"You are supporting her, which means you are not a supporter of trans rights. It's incredibly simple."
Not even trying to be an asshole but I feel bad for you. That moral absolutism and rigidity will not be of service to you in the real world. Long life ahead of you, person.
[epheisey]
It’s convenient for them and it makes them feel superior. They’ve probably spent money on a dozen other things in the past few weeks that support more cruel and impactful people, but this one is a minimal effort win for them.
[Elivey]
Ding ding ding!
But all the people that their purchases have affected are thousands of miles away, they don't hear their outcry and see their faces so they can just ignore them. It's like you said, it was an easy decision for them to make to feel morally superior.
BTW my trans sister and her trans wife are excited to play this game lol they're not gonna buy it but they're gonna play it!
Now that is rich!
This weak, pathetic fool, probably sits at home (or their parent's home) collecting welfare or unemployment, and probably would be incompetent at whatever of the multitude of jobs available anyway, such as cashiers that are mystified at basic math of what change to give.
Instead of finding something creative or productive to do, even having been on Doom editing forums, makes off site archives of the discussions of evil boogey men possibly with hopes to hold against us in a future communist regime, and comments at a safe distance (though that's not working out too well). Has an autistic need to categorize people which just doesn't work. What a retarded loser.
Oh and never mind the utter denial of things contrary to the brainwashed narratives. It's all far right wing misinformation, even official DoD docs released by Freedom of Information Act requests or Libs of TikTok directly relaying footage of pedo teachers grooming kids on a massive scale.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
[Context: this is the quote from 40oz that lead to him getting banned from Doomworld, which was the biggest catalyst that eventually lead to the creation of Doomer Boards. A true blast from the past.]
racism is in the eye of the beholder.
Slurs are up on twitter they say, I haven't noticed, but then again. I don't spend my life on this app searching all day for shit to be upset about. But that's just me
Are you suffering from Musk Derangement Syndrome (MDS)? Symptoms include:
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Difficulty separating fantasy and reality
Weight gain
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[Gokuma]
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what I'm a fundamentalist of. I'm not Christian, but I think American Jesus armed to the teeth is quite hilariously awesome and infinitely better than disingenuous grooming commie pedocrats.
Damn, this is the only mention I get and DSC goes through the trouble of explaining why he included it while saying I'm not particularly bigoted.
fstdt.com/DHZ.G55QBRM58
Also that was no rant. I was quite relaxed and maybe just chuckling mildly
I need to step up my game.
DSC is the biggest pussy in existence. In fact, DSC is such an unfathomedly enormous, gigantic pussy, that when their mom gave birth, it almost cataclysmally unmade reality, breaking the laws of physics, time, and space, as a larger pussy somehow emerged from a smaller pussy.
[40oz]
I just kinda glanced at some of the comments and it looks like DSC is not very well respected over there.
[ketmar]
they aren't even fun there. and of course, not scary in a slightest. who needs clowns which neither fun nor scary?
p.s.: at least somebody there got my note about proper links.
Every black person who says that they're a leader needs to pen blazing questions about HIV
And get an answer to the question "How could it be in a book published in 1969?"
Under chemical and biological warfare
Tell 'em
[Verse: Chuck D + Flavor Flav]
Man to man, I don't know if they can
From what I know, the parts don't fit (Ah shit)
How he's sharin' a needle with a drug addict
He don't believe he has it (Either)
But now he does, he doesn't know
'Cause he goes straight to a ho
Tell you what who was next on the butt
Wild thingin' on a germ runnin' wild
Yo stop! But the bag popped
Damn!
[Flavor Flav]
Yo, Terminator man, yo meet the G that killed me
[darknation came all the way over from Doomer Boards to the comments section of FSTDT to try and defend himself. This is what he had to say.]
@pyro #148960
I actually agree, the “archival” function of sites like this is important. Just as important as, say, the archival function of the kiwifarms is, especially when you’ve got sex predators scraping google clean to hide the fucking evidence.
And we really don’t delete posts… why the hell would I? To save the precious feelings of the userbase? Fuck that, arguement and debate is darwinian, that’s how opinions and intelligences *evolve*; a healthy dose of cringe in a user’s history ought to help stop repeated third-degree retardation offences.
@Anon-e-moose #148929
This, however, somewhat undermines your website’s noble archival endeavor: difficult to say “we’re archiving websites to preserve content for the future!” when your users are actively advocating for the deletion of said websites. I’d question the biases of archeologists who openly advocate for mass extinction events. I’d also call them “intellectual cowards with shit debating skills”, “cretinous societal vandals” and, quite possibly, invite them to “eat my shit, you invertebrate pussy”.
<@KeithInc.> #148908
“Meaning if you don’t get the point i was trying to make, it’s your failing, not mine.”
Yes. Lurk more. Read more books. Don’t come at me screaming “I’m too fucking stupid to read subtext, and don’t have time to read context, but my opinion is just as valid as yours”. I’ve been featured three times on this shitfeast of a website, and not once has anyone stopped to think “Hmmm, how much of this is rhetoric over-exaggeration, how much of this is for comic effect, how come he hold free speech opinions that are actually left wing, how is babby formed what is sarcasm…” Fuck off.
[Context: said after the public outcry over Musk banning some journalists on Twitter]
Yet another warm welcome to all the newest converts to the great American cause of free speech!
America founding fathers gave America the Constitution/Free Speech and the rest of the world follow America.
[Context: below and in quotations is an article of the Washington Post talking about the working conditions at Blizzard Entertainment. Dasho is reacting to it.]
“Previously, it’s ruined relationships I’ve been in where no one wants to date someone who barely has time for them for months at a time, at least once a year, if not more,” said a current Blizzard Albany employee, who described often working 12-hour days. “It’s affected my health, it’s affected my relationships, both familiar and romantic. It affects my ability to just enjoy things.”
[dasho]
If that article was supposed to generate a modicum of sympathy from me, it's pretty piss-poor.
Unless she has a 7-day work week, all I'm reading is she had a lot of weeks where she worked more than 40, but less than 60 hours. I was able to have friends, meet a woman, marry her, and start raising a family while working more and certainly earning far less at the time than she does.
The rest of this "journalism" piece seems to be comprised of opinions of people who just don't like their job in general or the now-oft-used "sources familiar with x", aka "complete heresay."
hey, they can't even get a proper link to the post they're quoting, linking to the whole page instead. i'm not expecting them to be able to write in English even at my almost-zero level.
[dn]
It's interesting, if nothing else. Fucking soy bugmen *want* to post on 4chan or the farms, but can't because it's superbad heresy: the solution, make their own shitty off-brand GMO version.
I can't say I disapprove, cuz laughing at fucktards on the internet has been a hobby of mine for 20+ years now. But it did get me thinking about how web 2.0 has ruined even these simple pleasures in subtle ways. They've removed the context from the comedy, they are no longer part of the spheres they are laughing at. They are sitting in the parking lot that reddit paved over their own fucking community with, looking down at the savages that refused to be conglomerated into these depersonalized industrial supersites, and they are deeply puzzled over the behavior they are witnessing there.
Does anyone even know who anyone else is these days? Or is it just a chain of indistinguishable, interchangeable userhandles marching past your screen in a never-ending parade? There's no investment, swipe left for retardation, turn up tomorrow for more and different retardation, repeat ad infinitum ad nauseum.
There's also a fucking deep and worrisome lack of comprehension skills on display over there. Bitches, listen: if you're going to troll, try to read and comprehend the entire fucking sentence before emptying your septic brainpan all-over a clean sheet of internet. Thanks for your subscription, but the darknation technical support line does not issue refunds.
Enjoy your RAPE PILLOWS
Another thing - we don't censor, there is literally no need for external archives so you can go give your true opinion on a post (that's the reason why the farms exist: you can't call dew out on his bullshit on DW, you are forced to go elsewhere to state your opinion). So what's this two degrees of separation in aid of? You can fucking call me a cunt here and no one will bat an eye, you can state your insipid political opinions right here on this very forum and - this is the important bit - you can defend, stipulate, articulate to your hearts content about how the original post was wrong.
Of course, they won't do that, because they are moral and intellectual cowards with shit debating skills.
[Xeep-Eep]
Some tr@nny idiot is reposting based comments from Coomer boards to his shitty libtard kiwi farms copycat with six active users, skipping his dilation schedule again. Oh no!
Hey "DSC" since I know you're reading this, go post some more of my comments. I have some based ones too and I see they're shamefully underrepresented on your shitty website. The one where I show girls at the club my medical record was funny as fuck until 40oz made me edit it to please the proboards jannies. Or the numerous quality threads I made about my cock and anus.
[ketmar]
i'm glad to see myself there. maybe i should produce more quality content for their shitty site, so they'll have at least some decent posts.
[deathvokation]
These people have yet to prove they're actually against harassment, btw.
Not sure why they hate Kiwi Farms so much since their site is literally Kiwifarms' unattractive bugman cousin.
[Context: those comments were posted after Germany lost to Japan in the World Cup. Germany in the beginning of the match held a moment of silence for the victims of the human rights abuse in Quatar]
(God of small things)
When Germany forgets to play football and concentrate on protesting,the Japanese team play real football and win
When Germany plays politics
Japan plays real football in the end football win
(Luke Murray)
End the agenda!!
(Moha 18)
Busy with the covering their mouth forget to cover the goal well done japan
The USSR quite literally stopped, what many believed at the time, an unstoppable Nazi army, which was very open about its genocidal goals. How how how is Stalin "the bad guy" in this instance? The efforts of the USSR saved millions upon millions of lives, but Liberals, blinded by fantastical propaganda, still cling to outdated fascist propaganda.
Yeah Nazis were big conservatives. It's not like they tried to burn the fucking planet down and rebuild it with shocking new ideas. They were all about conserving what was already there and maintaining the status quo.
[Context: he is defending TheCriticalDrinker after he made fun of a journalist on Twitter for receiving death and rape threats.]
All he said was "cry harder" on twitter. That's not extremism, misogyny, bigotry, or radicalism. Come on dude you make it out like this guy is the new hitler or something. I don't understand why this would elicit such emotions in you.
I don't know how much you know about that journalist, but she isn't exactly an innocent little angel either. She's a grown woman who made intentional choices in her career to boost her own popularity that ended up attracting a lot of negative attention. It's not a big deal all in all. I would even argue that if you're not pissing some people off, your journalism career isn't doing something right.
Receiving threats is basically part of the job description for well-known public figures such as politicians and journalists. You're going to find a million bajillion people on the internet making every single sort of threat imaginable. Really not worth your time
[Context: he was replying to a woman who got double the death and rape threats she received after Musk bought Twitter. It was only two words, but they are more than enough to show what kind of person he is.]
Cry harder.
[Context: they are talking about the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk]
Outstanding, I don't use Twitter at all but this pisses off the kind of people that I get amused by seeing pissed off. I also posted that in the first thread, but it's even more true now that it's come to fruition.
So 60s? The hell are you on about, having a disabled member of the family is already a chore. You can't blame people not wanting a disabled live partner. Some people already have it rough by themselves, it's just common sense, it a disgusting truth but you can't judge someone for something like that
[Context: Arturo is posting on Twitter a quote originally from Rob Riemen. Translated from original spanish into english.]
"Adjectives like pleasant and fun replace the knowledge of good and evil. Everything must be immediate, new, fast. Since no one has a monopoly on knowledge, everyone is right. And since we are all the same, the difficult part is undemocratic."
What a weird world we live in that Jordan Peterson who shows empathy to those who are left behind is considered evil, and those people who call unfortunate human beings incels and wish them ill are considered the good ones.
[Context: they are talking about the KiwiFarms affair and lamenting that the site was shut down.]
Yeah.
As with all these things, the boo-hooing about harassment is just a convenient excuse for the powers that be to censor dissenting voices. The supposed leader of the movement is just an insane freak without any redeeming qualities (as can be seen if one looks "it" up). The real force behind the push to shut the site down are those who seek to change laws etc. to smother anything that isn't in line with the current global propaganda monopoly. They always use the "hey these people are mean so it's all right for us to do whatever to them" angle since it's efficient. A stupid site where people laugh at dumb fucks is brought down today so that all of us can be slaves without rights tomorrow.
That tomorrow is nigh, by the way, and not some far off fantasy.
There is probably more to the whole cloudflare dropping the farms that just another troon discord gayop: turns out Janke's father knows the fucking owner of the company.
Actual IRL glowies, man. Really makes you think. Regardless, I think whole situation really marks the end of the internet 2.0, we're now in an era where free speech is done: corporate & government interests can and will shit all over net neutrality and the retards on twitter are clapping like seals to the sounds of their own destruction.
tl;dr: I am now forced into using the fucking darknet to call people faggots on the internet. What a fucking time to be alive.
[Context: the following is an excerpt from the description of a video by Professor Dave Explains, where he tries to debunk Matt Walsh’s nonsense]
Since the moment I published this video, it has been targeted by the most disgusting and malicious mob of trolls I have ever seen, far beyond what I ever conceived possible. These are trolls who comment from dozens of sock accounts at once, calling me "groomer", "pedophile", "soy boy", telling me that they bet I watch my wife fuck other guys and then clean up afterwards, the most subhuman things imaginable. They then harvest any reaction they get to call me "triggered", pasting these responses in new comments without context to slander me, and then follow up with abject lies about things I've said or other people have said. The rest of the trolls employ a strategy of outright denying everything in the video and claiming victory, or spamming nonsensical rebuttals in an attempt to change the narrative. There is something heinous behind this concerted attack on reason, simply for exposing Matt Walsh for precisely what he is. It has become an enormous stress, and for this reason comments will be turned off on this video until this otherworldly wave of toxicity has found another target. My outlook on the state of this country has been permanently affected.
Slaves were given meaning to their pathetic existence. They were given food, shelter, water. They were kept in cool climates. They were treated better than by tribes or muslims. Slaves were also more orderly, since they were not free to throw their shit at each other, like the monkeys that they are. Colonialism in general brought law and order to the subhuman monkeys, who were originally muslims (of course).
[Note: translated from the original page in portuguese to english]
Its a culture of ease. We fear traumatizing the kids with the Iliad, or with History… The main objective now is to eliminate school failure by dumbing everything down. The education systems of the western world, today, are made to normalize and despise the most intelligent. They don’t valorize the elites, the idea itself of the elite is very poorly seen and given a lot of bad press. See the mediocrity of spanish, international and portuguese politics. Where is Churchill, Adenauer, Kennedy? School doesn’t care about a singular, brilliant individual anymore. They become an outcast, and its made to be believed that everyone is equal. But we aren’t all equal!
[Tainted Slav]
Forum's still active. They have been going through worse than some trannie pedophile's army of simps.
Besides, they have some comfy telegram chat. Glorious place, but sometimes is uncomprehensible and highlty retarded, aye.
[deathevokation]
I dunno... I guess it's only ok when it's Twitter creeps harassing you, doxing you, going after your family members, boasting about destroying your primary source of income when they get your Patreon taken down and get you banned from twitch for not even expressing a hot take.. Kiwifarms isn't even half as evil as some of these little shits that get away with murder in broad daylight because they think they're on the right side of history on a multi billion dollar social media platform that spent millions on "combating extremists" but willfully ignores these insane people. When people on the other side do 1/10th of what you're guilty of then it's harassment.
[Tainted Slav]
Oh and also don't forget that there's an archive that stores whole archive of keffals doings that were documented by farmers, which is the main reason why keffals have ever organized this whole "crusade".
Also, there was no swatting, police of London have politely come, asked to follow with them and confiscated his hard drives, probably because they might have somy thoughts that this character might've had something not legal on his drives aside of dyi hrt bath brewed shit that he have sent to\instructed how to make the groomed minors (mainly boys).
most "twitter trans" are disgusting. and not because they're trans, it has nothing to do with that. but that "trannie-shittalk" is directed to them, because that's what get most butthurt from 'em.
also, threads usually devolve into this when there's nothing more fun to talk about. it's a way to ping the cow, to make it start producing some fun again.
p.s.: fun thing: there are quite… a lot trans-members on The Farms actually. and please don't ask me how i know that. ;-)
You have to dehumanize your enemies for effective propaganda. If you were to believe everything you see in US media, Putin is sitting in Moscow twirling a comically large mustache and tying women to train tracks. It has to be hyperbolic in nature to work as intended.
[Kotaku]
TwitchCon gives zero shits that the pandemic is still happening.
[TheCriticalDrinker]
I know, right? Imagine not expecting people to be constantly terrified of everything.
Offended by an old movie/TV show? Don't fucking watch it.
Offended by the opinions of some dumb celeb? Don't fucking listen to them.
Offended by a book? Don't fucking read it.
Your choice. But don't take away the rights of others to make that same choice.
#FuckCancelCulture
I find it interesting that so many here are so quick to decry and dismiss any validity in the concept of a monarchy when I've never been convinced that democracy or whatever other governmental power structure one supports is any better. While the idea of a monarch being appointed and gaining authority via God or some other religious institution does not resonate with me, I do not see the very idea of someone being raised from birth to rule as inherently heinous in and of itself. In my opinion, those who seek power are rarely those who deserve it and those who are deserving will rarely seek it. All I need to do is take a cursory glance at any given selection of democratically elected leaders to confirm this position for myself. Will a lot of bad people end up on the throne? Absolutely, but not every person that wears a crown will abuse their power and intentionally bring suffering to their subjects. If my assertion on those who seek power is correct, then it honestly seems less likely to me that genuinely good-hearted leaders will be sworn in under democratic practices, but as democracies tend to have rather short terms the statistical probability that a few will get in from time to time does shoot up.
As for colonialism and imperialism, yeah, those are indefensible from a moral standpoint but I don't see how they're intrinsically tied to monarchies either. It will be hard to convince me that colonialism doesn't happen within modern democratic systems, especially when most modern democratic powers were built on colonial foundations. Individual wars under traditional monarchies may have been much more common but I feel that is simply due to technological advances allowing fewer seats of power to control much larger regions in the modern day, which reduces the total number of world leaders and thus statistically decreases the chances for conflict. However, thanks to that same technological advance the conflicts that do happen are on a much larger scale and have much higher stakes.
[Context: he’s criticizing Keffals efforts to shut KiwiFarms down.]
This looks like some insane personal crusade. Someone with a platform should have a degree of responsibility into the type of stuff they post.
[Context for those who don’t know: Andrew Tate is an internet personality known for his extreme misogyny, along with allegations of rape and human trafficking.]
Banning Andrew Tate is dumb. Ideas should be challenged and if he spreads misinformation it should be countered in the public sphere.