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The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again

Started by Batjon, December 28, 2020, 03:18:59 PM

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Wildstar

#540
April 13, 2021, 06:24:43 PM
Quote from: Pat on April 13, 2021, 06:17:27 PM
That's true for all the comments on old reviews, it's not specific to any one user. It's a relic of a forum/review upgrade.
Yeah, I dug more and noticed - hence the comment I found a really old post.

Reckall

#541
April 13, 2021, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.
In all fairness the treatment of Uyghurs is a shameful matter. But since no oil in the region is involved and a lot of $$$s are overall involved in the commerce with China, I don't think that we will hear "Let's free the good guys and punish the baddies!! Rah!! Rah!!-Iraq 2003 cover" any soon.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

Ghostmaker

#542
April 13, 2021, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Reckall on April 13, 2021, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.
In all fairness the treatment of Uyghurs is a shameful matter. But since no oil in the region is involved and a lot of $$$s are overall involved in the commerce with China, I don't think that we will hear "Let's free the good guys and punish the baddies!! Rah!! Rah!!-Iraq 2003 cover" any soon.
Probably not, but there are options aside from 'level Beijing with tactical nukes and then invade'. Yanking China's most favored nation trading status might be a good start.

wmarshal

#543
April 13, 2021, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Reckall on April 13, 2021, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.
In all fairness the treatment of Uyghurs is a shameful matter. But since no oil in the region is involved and a lot of $$$s are overall involved in the commerce with China, I don't think that we will hear "Let's free the good guys and punish the baddies!! Rah!! Rah!!-Iraq 2003 cover" any soon.
Probably not, but there are options aside from 'level Beijing with tactical nukes and then invade'. Yanking China's most favored nation trading status might be a good start.
MFN was something we shouldn't have given them to begin with. The idea that opening up the market economies to China would result in democratization is some kind of perversted Marxist thinking.

Reckall

#544
April 14, 2021, 06:46:15 AM
Quote from: wmarshal on April 13, 2021, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Reckall on April 13, 2021, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.
In all fairness the treatment of Uyghurs is a shameful matter. But since no oil in the region is involved and a lot of $$$s are overall involved in the commerce with China, I don't think that we will hear "Let's free the good guys and punish the baddies!! Rah!! Rah!!-Iraq 2003 cover" any soon.
Probably not, but there are options aside from 'level Beijing with tactical nukes and then invade'. Yanking China's most favored nation trading status might be a good start.
MFN was something we shouldn't have given them to begin with. The idea that opening up the market economies to China would result in democratization is some kind of perversted Marxist thinking.
There is simply too money to be made. Just look at Hollywood: once China became the second most important market for movies they are twisting scripts into surrealism just to insert a heroic token chinese character/institution in any plot.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

horsesoldier

#545
April 14, 2021, 09:08:31 AM
Quote from: wmarshal on April 13, 2021, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Reckall on April 13, 2021, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.
In all fairness the treatment of Uyghurs is a shameful matter. But since no oil in the region is involved and a lot of $$$s are overall involved in the commerce with China, I don't think that we will hear "Let's free the good guys and punish the baddies!! Rah!! Rah!!-Iraq 2003 cover" any soon.
Probably not, but there are options aside from 'level Beijing with tactical nukes and then invade'. Yanking China's most favored nation trading status might be a good start.
MFN was something we shouldn't have given them to begin with. The idea that opening up the market economies to China would result in democratization is some kind of perversted Marxist thinking.

Straight up underpant gnomes level of thinking.

Step 1 -- allow the Chinese to steal our IP
Step 2 -- ??????
Step 3 -- Profit!

RandyB

#546
April 14, 2021, 09:35:12 AM
Quote from: horsesoldier on April 14, 2021, 09:08:31 AM
Quote from: wmarshal on April 13, 2021, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Reckall on April 13, 2021, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.
In all fairness the treatment of Uyghurs is a shameful matter. But since no oil in the region is involved and a lot of $$$s are overall involved in the commerce with China, I don't think that we will hear "Let's free the good guys and punish the baddies!! Rah!! Rah!!-Iraq 2003 cover" any soon.
Probably not, but there are options aside from 'level Beijing with tactical nukes and then invade'. Yanking China's most favored nation trading status might be a good start.
MFN was something we shouldn't have given them to begin with. The idea that opening up the market economies to China would result in democratization is some kind of perversted Marxist thinking.

Straight up underpant gnomes level of thinking.

Step 1 -- allow the Chinese to steal our IP
Step 2 -- ??????
Step 3 -- Profit!

Those who allowed the IP theft profited by allowing it, at least. Largely because they weren't the IP holders, so the graft they received was pure profit.

shuddemell

#547
April 14, 2021, 10:06:11 AM
Quote from: ScytheSong on April 13, 2021, 03:38:03 PM
Quote from: Brad on April 13, 2021, 02:58:54 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
I was going back through the 'do not post in support of Trump' thread.

Holy shit, the delusions. They were all absolutely convinced Trump was going to send troops to start dragging everyone who wasn't white and heterosexual off to the death camps.

Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.

Are these the same people who don't want you to be able to do anything until you get a vaccine and are also giving free money to everyone unless you're white? Hmmm...

Even you have to  admit that they  gave free money to everyone who isn't rich regardless of whether or not they're white.

No, actually they didn't. Unless you consider making over 80K rich.
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GeekyBugle

#548
April 14, 2021, 10:55:06 AM
Quote from: wmarshal on April 13, 2021, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: Reckall on April 13, 2021, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 13, 2021, 02:24:10 PM
Wonder if they're talking about China's treatment of Uyghurs or the current border crisis in Tangency now.
In all fairness the treatment of Uyghurs is a shameful matter. But since no oil in the region is involved and a lot of $$$s are overall involved in the commerce with China, I don't think that we will hear "Let's free the good guys and punish the baddies!! Rah!! Rah!!-Iraq 2003 cover" any soon.
Probably not, but there are options aside from 'level Beijing with tactical nukes and then invade'. Yanking China's most favored nation trading status might be a good start.
MFN was something we shouldn't have given them to begin with. The idea that opening up the market economies to China would result in democratization is some kind of perversted Marxist thinking.

It's actually a libertarian thinking. Applauded by the commies and the establishment that wanted to make money by selling your country to the CCP.
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

Ghostmaker

#549
April 14, 2021, 11:27:17 AM
Back on track here. Alban cops a thirty-day ban.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/alban-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-dont-pm-a-mod-about-redtext.880033/

This is under what I like to call the 'no backtalk!' rule TBP has. You're not allowed to plead or argue your case directly, instead appealing by sending an email to an account that may get read eventually (the mods say it gets checked in a timely fashion, but considering their behavior and actions I'm unconvinced).

A thirty day for someone who's been there since 2002, and has no infractions listed (at least as far back as February 2012, which is as far back as the current Infractions board goes). Wow. The mandarins really don't like it when the proles argue with them. And people pay money for this site?

Brad

#550
April 14, 2021, 12:08:50 PM
Quote from: shuddemell on April 14, 2021, 10:06:11 AMNo, actually they didn't. Unless you consider making over 80K rich.

$80k won't even get you a middle-class lifestyle in the rural south, much less on the coasts...but for some reason people who think working fries at McDonalds is a "career" also think anyone making six figures is driving a Bentley to their helipad.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Brad

#551
April 14, 2021, 12:11:08 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 14, 2021, 11:27:17 AM
Back on track here. Alban cops a thirty-day ban.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/alban-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-dont-pm-a-mod-about-redtext.880033/

This is under what I like to call the 'no backtalk!' rule TBP has. You're not allowed to plead or argue your case directly, instead appealing by sending an email to an account that may get read eventually (the mods say it gets checked in a timely fashion, but considering their behavior and actions I'm unconvinced).

A thirty day for someone who's been there since 2002, and has no infractions listed (at least as far back as February 2012, which is as far back as the current Infractions board goes). Wow. The mandarins really don't like it when the proles argue with them. And people pay money for this site?

So...he is banned for a month because he sent a PM to a mod? Wtf is wrong with these clowns?
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Ghostmaker

#552
April 14, 2021, 01:20:47 PM
Quote from: Brad on April 14, 2021, 12:11:08 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 14, 2021, 11:27:17 AM
Back on track here. Alban cops a thirty-day ban.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/alban-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-dont-pm-a-mod-about-redtext.880033/

This is under what I like to call the 'no backtalk!' rule TBP has. You're not allowed to plead or argue your case directly, instead appealing by sending an email to an account that may get read eventually (the mods say it gets checked in a timely fashion, but considering their behavior and actions I'm unconvinced).

A thirty day for someone who's been there since 2002, and has no infractions listed (at least as far back as February 2012, which is as far back as the current Infractions board goes). Wow. The mandarins really don't like it when the proles argue with them. And people pay money for this site?

So...he is banned for a month because he sent a PM to a mod? Wtf is wrong with these clowns?
Again, this is the 'no backtalk' rule.

In theory I can see why. Nobody wants to deal with several PMs from Joe Dipshit arguing about how he wasn't being creepy, stupid, or rude. But the mods come off as perpetually arrogant and contemptuous -- hence repeated complaints about snark and casual 'from the hip' bans.

They do not like when someone questions them. And they have an inflated idea of their own importance in the world.

Godfather Punk

#553
April 14, 2021, 01:28:08 PM
Their Backstage Anthem goes something like this:

Quote...
Tell me your sins, I'll be your friend
I won't do you in
All I need's a little more Power
Power, power, power, power, power ...

Ghostmaker

#554
April 14, 2021, 01:49:22 PM
Quote from: ScytheSong on April 07, 2021, 02:29:38 PM

Yep. The context is that I had gotten a previous ban for "Reconquista Apologia" because I pointed out that Christians didn't (and don't) exactly have the best time under Islamic rule in a thread that started about St. Nicholas and Black Piet. Considering one of my seminary classmates (an Anglican priest) no longer lives in Pakistan because he was afraid for his wife and daughters, I have reasons to be salty on the topic.

Of course, if I wanted to indulge in actual Reconquista Apologia, I'd talk about how badly English-language historiography on the reemergence of Spain has been warped by anti-Catholic prejudice stemming from the Tudors and the Stuarts.
Scythe, got a question. I was fiddling around, and meant to ask you: your account name got renamed to 'Redacted Account'. What was that about? I know the mods have pushed back against GDPR enforcement (with people trying to have their accounts removed from the website).
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