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Author Topic: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again  (Read 118820 times)

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #630 on: April 22, 2021, 02:25:30 PM »
Jesus Christ.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/bookwrack-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-ninety-day-ban.880395/

Bookwrack is probably gone, at least from TBP.  Not really surprised that Tanka was the one who pulled the trigger though.

What if she identified as an 18 year old? Would that make any difference?
It's always a tragedy when things like this occur, but it says a lot to me that Bookwrack's point is dismissed as 'devil's advocate' (having worn the devil's advocate hat myself more than a few times). And it pisses me the fuck off.

During the latter days of WW2, German manpower was so depleted that they were pressing old men and teenagers -- practically children -- into combat roles and positions. Some of them had to be killed by Allied soldiers. A lethal weapon is still a lethal weapon whether the wielder is 15 or 51.

But the narrative is 'cop kills harmless teenager', not 'cop guns down lunatic trying to murder other people'.

Yep. The cops didn't have time to politely ask for her age. This girl came running out of the house and went for the stab. They had a split second, and shot her before she could stick the other girl with a knife.
Horrible situation, but as I've been saying on social media (for all the good that does) for the past day or so. "Don't stab people."
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #631 on: April 22, 2021, 07:46:16 PM »
It's always a tragedy when things like this occur, but it says a lot to me that Bookwrack's point is dismissed as 'devil's advocate' (having worn the devil's advocate hat myself more than a few times). And it pisses me the fuck off.

Presenting actual information that is verifiable by simply watching a 20 second video = devils advocacy

In other words, LALALALALAAL WE DON'T BELIEVE IT ALALALLAALALALLALAALALALLALAALALLALA

This whole thing is tragic, yeah, but magically 15 is now an innocent child, even when they weigh more than a grown man and are about to shank someone in the gut.
And now they shut that thread down too. Some of the users started referring to the actual footage that showed the shooting was justified. From the mod:

“This thread is devolving into a discussion on the justification of the most recent police shooting so, I'm locking this thread for a few days. The mods need to time to figure out how to manage discussion on this in way that's sustainable for our sanity while allowing people to discuss a very important issue.”

To the SJWs the potential of conceiving that the police could be justified in shooting a black person is taboo, a sin. Even if the black person shot was armed with a knife and in the act of swinging the blade to stab another black person who seemed to be just holding their dog. The Big Purple shows yet again they are a cult. The mods can’t allow their members hold discussions that may violate dogma.

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« Reply #632 on: April 22, 2021, 08:24:02 PM »
Taking it back to the topic, they just gave Phil Masters a week ban for daring to suggest there's nothing wrong with the disadvantage "Slave Mentality."
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #633 on: April 22, 2021, 08:36:44 PM »
Bad call on the cops part they had no legal obligation to intervene and not like they woulda made any money out of it.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #634 on: April 22, 2021, 10:32:10 PM »
Bad call on the cops part they had no legal obligation to intervene and not like they woulda made any money out of it.

Yep. I don't blame any white cops if they want to wait until a situation is over and then just show up to take a report.
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« Reply #635 on: April 22, 2021, 11:03:18 PM »
Bad call on the cops part they had no legal obligation to intervene and not like they woulda made any money out of it.

Yep. I don't blame any white cops if they want to wait until a situation is over and then just show up to take a report.
That could be a part of the reason why the numbers of homicides are up by roughly 3,000. The number of police involved homicides is down by about 300.

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« Reply #636 on: April 22, 2021, 11:10:15 PM »
Bad call on the cops part they had no legal obligation to intervene and not like they woulda made any money out of it.

Yep. I don't blame any white cops if they want to wait until a situation is over and then just show up to take a report.

white black whatever, if there's no dogs to shoot and assets to seize then what's the point. maybe OT I guess
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« Reply #637 on: April 22, 2021, 11:10:34 PM »
Bad call on the cops part they had no legal obligation to intervene and not like they woulda made any money out of it.

Yep. I don't blame any white cops if they want to wait until a situation is over and then just show up to take a report.
That could be a part of the reason why the numbers of homicides are up by roughly 3,000. The number of police involved homicides is down by about 300.

Not every one of those 300 fewer police caused homicides would have been bad shoots either. I’d call losing 3,000 more people to murder so that we have a few hundred less politically fraught homicides a net loss. I agree there are some police are bad, and there can be improvements (there’s always the potential to improve since nothing on Earth is perfect), but turning the police as a whole into villains is a detriment to society. That is if one was worried about overall society. If you’re a Marxist/Anarchist revolutionary then those excess murders are just some broken eggs needed to bring about that utopian “omelette” that’s always promised yet never delivered.

what utopia, it just maximizes more harm. This is fine
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #638 on: April 23, 2021, 01:09:22 AM »
Taking it back to the topic, they just gave Phil Masters a week ban for daring to suggest there's nothing wrong with the disadvantage "Slave Mentality."

I saw that and I was like, "Phil Masters?! Phil Masters?! Oh, RPG.net, what hast thou become?"

Though strictly speaking, it wasn't that Phil claimed there was nothing wrong with the disadvantage -- indeed, he explained at least twice that it was meant exclusively as an NPC construction element and wasn't suitable for PCs -- it was that he dared to suggest, even if only implicitly, that the feelings of those who found the name of the disadvantage upsetting were neither acute enough nor common enough to take seriously.

Daring to imply that someone else's feelings aren't your problem is verboten over there now.
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« Reply #639 on: April 23, 2021, 05:45:32 AM »
Jesus Christ.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/bookwrack-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-ninety-day-ban.880395/

Bookwrack is probably gone, at least from TBP.  Not really surprised that Tanka was the one who pulled the trigger though.

What if she identified as an 18 year old? Would that make any difference?
It's always a tragedy when things like this occur, but it says a lot to me that Bookwrack's point is dismissed as 'devil's advocate' (having worn the devil's advocate hat myself more than a few times). And it pisses me the fuck off.

During the latter days of WW2, German manpower was so depleted that they were pressing old men and teenagers -- practically children -- into combat roles and positions. Some of them had to be killed by Allied soldiers. A lethal weapon is still a lethal weapon whether the wielder is 15 or 51.

But the narrative is 'cop kills harmless teenager', not 'cop guns down lunatic trying to murder other people'.

Yep. The cops didn't have time to politely ask for her age. This girl came running out of the house and went for the stab. They had a split second, and shot her before she could stick the other girl with a knife.
Horrible situation, but as I've been saying on social media (for all the good that does) for the past day or so. "Don't stab people."
And that's should end it.

This case got much notoriety due to the fact that Derek Chauvin's verdict was about to be read. But about this occurrence even leftist media point out that it underlines how each case must be treated separately. Even an extreme like a policeman killing an underage black girl can be justified if the situation warrants it.

I watched the video and it clearly shows someone trying to stab someone else with a knife, all in full daylight. The case is a straightforward as it gets.

I wonder how RPG.net's mods would react to a post where one defends the right for someone to stab someone else because the first person is an underage black girl...  ::)
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #640 on: April 23, 2021, 07:23:12 AM »
Taking it back to the topic, they just gave Phil Masters a week ban for daring to suggest there's nothing wrong with the disadvantage "Slave Mentality."

I saw that and I was like, "Phil Masters?! Phil Masters?! Oh, RPG.net, what hast thou become?"
If someone was still denying that RPG.net is in full nervous breakdown mode, I think that this is the last nail on the coffin.

Masters simply points out how "Slave Mentality" is a disadvantage for "zombies, golems, robots, and the like." He even says that this disadvantage is "specifically flagged as inappropriate for PCs".

Next on TBP: Cancel Culture against Isaac Asimov.  ::)
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« Reply #641 on: April 23, 2021, 08:16:31 AM »
Lest we forget, prior to this two other users received seven-day bans for abstractly discussing slavery in a fictional setting.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/rupert-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-abstract-academic-cost-benefit-analysis-of-the-magical-benefits-of-chattel-slavery.878509/

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/ramidel-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-abstract-academic-cost-benefit-analysis-of-the-magical-benefits-of-chattel-slavery.878508/

They weren't condoning it, or promoting it. But to the mods of TBP, slavery is verboten even to discuss.

I admit I'm not as familiar with Mr. Masters's work, but checking his CV is pretty neat. OG Fiend Folio, enough GURPS supplements to beat a man to death with... not bad, not bad at all :)

Swinging back to the Bryant case, TBP staff is probably now trying to figure out how to not look like utter tards considering everyone's running the clip of Bryant trying to shank the hell out of that girl. The weirdo wokeists saying 'oh knife fights are just a teenage thing' aren't helping.

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« Reply #642 on: April 23, 2021, 09:05:08 AM »
Swinging back to the Bryant case, TBP staff is probably now trying to figure out how to not look like utter tards considering everyone's running the clip of Bryant trying to shank the hell out of that girl. The weirdo wokeists saying 'oh knife fights are just a teenage thing' aren't helping.

Depends on how one views “helping”. If one means we’ll have a rational discussion of the event, then no, it is not helping. If one means that will help create an echo chamber in which one can ignore the concept that the police might have had justification to shoot, then yes, it’s helping nicely.

The mods were seeing to users just pointing out the video. Kurt McMahon was clever to not make any statements himself about the events, but instead just point to the evidence. If he had said anything explicit along the lines that the cops made a clean shoot the mods would have eagerly seized upon that as a pretext for a ban. McMahon seems to have deliberately avoided making any such statements, which left the mods with a conundrum, thus the thread gets locked down. They are probably looking through his history trying to find any justification they can to inflict a ban on him.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #643 on: April 23, 2021, 09:16:02 AM »
Swinging back to the Bryant case, TBP staff is probably now trying to figure out how to not look like utter tards considering everyone's running the clip of Bryant trying to shank the hell out of that girl.
The media that are trying to build a "case" here uniformly cut away from the stabbing moment (which, BTW, shows how big the knife was - it was not a small Swiss Army Knife...)

Of course the internet is now full of "armchair policemen" who say how "they should have used tasers" or "fired at the legs"... Once again, just looking at the video shows how a person was, literally, half-a-second away from being stabbed. A taser is slower than a bullet. Taking aim needs time. The other person was, BTW, in the line of fire. Aiming at the body of the attacker avoided the danger of a stray bullet hitting the attacked.

This policeman did the right thing in a split-second, and he has a video that proves it. No wonders that some people are knotted in conniptions.
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Literally the day before, a 13 years black girl stabbed to death another 13 years black girl in Cincinnati. No one cared. Apparently, wokes are just fine if blacks of any age stab and kill other blacks. Amazing.

https://www.fox19.com/2021/04/21/they-took-my-baby-parents-say-bullying-led-year-olds-stabbing-death/
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #644 on: April 23, 2021, 11:24:31 AM »
Black lives only matter to wokeists if they die at the hands of police, regardless of circumstance.

In the Bryant case, one of the neighbors, Donavon Brinson, turned his video footage over to the police and stated full support for the policeman's actions. Bryant is heard shrieking 'I'm gonna stab the fuck out of you, bitch!' during it.

It'll be interesting if the pot gets to full boil or if they try to sweep this one into the memory hole.