So am I right in just assuming the "moderators" are just regular posters who get to ban anyone they disagree with? Doesn't seem like there are any actual rules broken beyond, "You're saying things I don't like."

Quote from: Brad on March 08, 2021, 01:54:30 PM
So am I right in just assuming the "moderators" are just regular posters who get to ban anyone they disagree with? Doesn't seem like there are any actual rules broken beyond, "You're saying things I don't like."

Orwell is appropriate.
' "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."'

Though I prefer John 18:38's laconic Pilate.
"Pilate asked him, "What is truth?".

Quote from: Brad on March 08, 2021, 01:54:30 PM
So am I right in just assuming the "moderators" are just regular posters who get to ban anyone they disagree with? Doesn't seem like there are any actual rules broken beyond, "You're saying things I don't like."

The Rules haven't mattered for at least 15 years.  Even when they did they were pretty pathetic.

They were like the teacher who misses the kid throwing things at his classmates behind the teacher's back all day and then suddenly responds to the kid who finally loses patience and throws something back.

And when that didn't earn them any respect they just turned to flat out bullying.

Quote from: Visitor Q on March 08, 2021, 01:45:49 PM
The moderator says do not treat racism as an intellectual exercise.

Antonyms:
anti-intellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, physical, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

Uhm....ok?

Dogma?

Definition of Dogma by Merriam-Webster
dogma: [noun] a code of such tenets. a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds.

Quote from: Brad on March 08, 2021, 01:54:30 PM
So am I right in just assuming the "moderators" are just regular posters who get to ban anyone they disagree with? Doesn't seem like there are any actual rules broken beyond, "You're saying things I don't like."

I think the fear in not knowing what the actual rules are is one of the woke's objectives. Many eventually find themselves cowering only willing to restate or repeat approved messages and viewpoints. Once the woke feel secure in their position, then the infighting between factions begins in earnest.

What makes me a little sick is that if and when wokeism ends, many will try to justify their behavior by claiming to mean well, and had their hearts on the right place. The woke do not mean well, and their hearts are not in the right place. They have the moral and ethics of hyenas that eat their own pack members when the opportunity occurs. A lot of what motivates them is very similar to what motivated the moral majority types in the 70s, 80s and 90s. They want the ability to proclaim their own virtue and cast stones.

QuoteArgent said:
Hopefully he does not, since he saw it good to launch into transphobic screds on Twitter.

Oh man, Argent is still going at it? He's been doing his feminist thing on there for well over a decade now.

Quote from: zircher on March 08, 2021, 03:22:05 PM

Quote from: Visitor Q on March 08, 2021, 01:45:49 PM
The moderator says do not treat racism as an intellectual exercise.

Antonyms:
anti-intellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, physical, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

Uhm....ok?

Dogma?

Definition of Dogma by Merriam-Webster
dogma: [noun] a code of such tenets. a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds.

Lol. Maybe!

Though I think the consistency of the truly dogmatic flatters them a bit.

There is a new gender identity now: Super Straight

I wonder how they are going to deal with that?

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 04:24:25 PM
There is a new gender identity now: Super Straight

I wonder how they are going to deal with that?

The acronym is SS and the logo looks like two balls with an arrow thru them. I'd say it's deliberate bait.

Quote from: TJS on March 08, 2021, 03:06:19 PM
The Rules haven't mattered for at least 15 years.  Even when they did they were pretty pathetic.

They were like the teacher who misses the kid throwing things at his classmates behind the teacher's back all day and then suddenly responds to the kid who finally loses patience and throws something back.

Interestingly, that is the exact scenario which led to where they are today.

A bunch of furries created a Trouble Tickets petition demanding an Emotionally Safe Environment. What'd happened was that occasionally someone would post something racist or sexist, something genuinely offensive, and everyone would assume everyone else had hit the report button, so sometimes it might take as much as half an hour before the guy got banned. In the meantime everyone was calling him a cunt - but then the people calling him a cunt got banned for personal attacks, too.

The furry petitioners demanded that they be allowed to call people cunts, if they were obviously going to be banned for some other horrific offence anyway. Which is to say, they wanted the personal attack rule waived for them.

Whereas the mods at the time were more like to the teacher who finds kids fighting and suspends them all.

This petition was widely-mocked at the time, but gradually its thinking seeped into that of the members and eventually the moderators. Get enough reports saying the same thing in your inbox and eventually you get persuaded to create an Emotionally Safe Environment.

And this is also how you find that a man born into a royal family who inherited $30 million from his mother, and his wife who when she last worked was on $450,000 a year, who have just signed a $100 million Netflix deal, and who say they want their privacy then appear on Oprah, can say with a straight face that they are victims of systemic oppression, in fact the woman is like Ariel in Little Mermaid.

Likewise, people who are well off enough to own electronics and an internet connection, and who have leisure time to game and write about games, living in the most prosperous and free parts of the world, in the most prosperous and free time in human history, can claim systemic oppression. And so they need an Emotionally Safe Environment.

Quote from: Pat on March 08, 2021, 06:01:31 PM

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 04:24:25 PM
There is a new gender identity now: Super Straight

I wonder how they are going to deal with that?

The acronym is SS and the logo looks like two balls with an arrow thru them. I'd say it's deliberate bait.

That sounds like you are being Super phobic.

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 06:30:10 PM

Quote from: Pat on March 08, 2021, 06:01:31 PM

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 04:24:25 PM
There is a new gender identity now: Super Straight

I wonder how they are going to deal with that?

The acronym is SS and the logo looks like two balls with an arrow thru them. I'd say it's deliberate bait.

That sounds like you are being Super phobic.

Wait is Super Phobic a gender identity or a type of prejudice or both?  I can't keep up with the lingo. 

Quote from: Visitor Q on March 08, 2021, 06:32:53 PM

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 06:30:10 PM

Quote from: Pat on March 08, 2021, 06:01:31 PM

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 04:24:25 PM
There is a new gender identity now: Super Straight

I wonder how they are going to deal with that?

The acronym is SS and the logo looks like two balls with an arrow thru them. I'd say it's deliberate bait.

That sounds like you are being Super phobic.

Wait is Super Phobic a gender identity or a type of prejudice or both?  I can't keep up with the lingo.

Super Straight is a gender identity

People that are prejudiced against Super Straight people are Super phobic.

It is pretty straight forward.

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 06:30:10 PM

Quote from: Pat on March 08, 2021, 06:01:31 PM

Quote from: Shasarak on March 08, 2021, 04:24:25 PM
There is a new gender identity now: Super Straight

I wonder how they are going to deal with that?

The acronym is SS and the logo looks like two balls with an arrow thru them. I'd say it's deliberate bait.

That sounds like you are being Super phobic.

I was radicalized by Watchmen. Alan Moore is the Evil Santa of anti-meta hate.

Pat, don't joke about that. Twitter told me today that Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture.

This is serious business.