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[D3RANG3D]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-the-erosion-of-human-rights-not-a-pinned-topic-in-here.583823/

Does pinning a topic actually do anything? Seems like it sort of just makes it as easy (if not easier) for people to ignore/skip.

Yeah this always seems to be the case. Topics just disappear up there.

Honestly, this happens to me. I never think to look there for some reason.

I ignore every topic that gets pinned.

Yeah, at some point it's just getting ignored. Doesn't look like it even helps with activity in those pinned threads.

I never look at the stickied topics

Yeah, stickies mainly make topics less visible because everyone is too used to simply scroll past them.

I mentally just skip the pinned threads.

RustyNails annihilated.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-4#post-86622602

IWhite people are a fucking problem. We have racist pieces of shit like this making treks to kill the rest of us for existing. And then we have so many other white people not doing shit about people like this and still advocating for muh guns. I'm so sick of it. Y'all built this racist ass country on the backs of minorities and got a leg up on everyone to varying degrees. You fucking continue to demonize every minority you see and somehow it's still not enough. You have to come into our daily lives to kill us.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-10#post-86642546

Well that's not racist at all.

Please someone think about the white people's feelings.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-10#post-86643056

User banned (permanent): concern trolling, prior ban related to dismissing bigotry

So you want to fight racism with racism? That'll surely go over swimmingly.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-3#post-86616773

So again, I'll see y'all back here in the future when another one of y'all goes rogue.

[Pissy F Benny]

Whereas on the bire people only read the pinned topics

[benjipwns]

Unlike Black people who are all individuals responsible only for themselves, white people are a giant blob (often literally) which acts collectively only in the pursuit of its own interests which is the exploitation of Black people. Until white people change their ways (they can't, it's the very essence of whiteness) then ya'll need to shut up and listen and act in Black people's interests instead of continuing white supremacy like Jim Ryan does.

[Polident Hive]

Somehow not parody, the shooter is/was a brony and furry.

From the dumbass manifesto summaries, the two groups he had it out for were black people and Jewish people. Such cliche pol babble.

[D3RANG3D]

Whereas on the bire people only read the pinned topics

 

[Uncle]

Somehow not parody, the shooter is/was a brony and furry.

From the dumbass manifesto summaries, the two groups he had it out for were black people and Jewish people. Such cliche pol babble.

my little pony is meant to promote friendship and acceptance

[Boredfrom]

Somehow not parody, the shooter is/was a brony and furry.

From the dumbass manifesto summaries, the two groups he had it out for were black people and Jewish people. Such cliche pol babble.

my little pony is meant to promote friendship and acceptance

I think Transformers fans are more sane than My Little Pony fans (besides David Willis).

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-the-erosion-of-human-rights-not-a-pinned-topic-in-here.583823/

Does pinning a topic actually do anything? Seems like it sort of just makes it as easy (if not easier) for people to ignore/skip.

Yeah this always seems to be the case. Topics just disappear up there.

Honestly, this happens to me. I never think to look there for some reason.

I ignore every topic that gets pinned.

Yeah, at some point it's just getting ignored. Doesn't look like it even helps with activity in those pinned threads.

I never look at the stickied topics

Yeah, stickies mainly make topics less visible because everyone is too used to simply scroll past them.

I mentally just skip the pinned threads.

RustyNails annihilated.

It's true, Rusty had to make another thread for his pinned thread.

[Uncle]

why does everyone blame specific groups the guy's in and not the others

responsible for shooting: white, male, gamer, fox news

not responsible for shooting: reddit, discord, my little pony, being from upstate new york

[Boredfrom]

Hell, I think Sonic fans are more sane overall than my little pony fans, notable exceptions aside like Chris Chan, they at least they can get jobs and can make good video games.

[Nintex]

Brony and furry?

Guess gamergate is fully acquitted from this hoax, thank you!

[benjipwns]

Some ResetERA.com member wrote into Slate again:

Dear Care and Feeding,

Yesterday, my 17-year-old daughter, a junior in high school, told us she was going to her boyfriend’s house. It turns out she lied.

I only found out because today, I casually mentioned Roe v. Wade may be overturned, and she replied, “I can’t wait. So many innocent lives will be spared.” We got into an argument in which she ended up confessing her actual whereabouts—she went to a “pro-life” rally with her boyfriend.

We’ve grounded her and taken away her phone for going behind our backs, but she’s showing no remorse. I just can’t believe it. This is the girl who dressed up as Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Halloween when she was 10. She’s heading to law school in a couple years. I seriously thought she was pro-choice and a feminist. I’ve been taking her to rallies and protests since she was a baby. We’ve been educating her about safe sex and consent. We donate to Planned Parenthood every year for Christmas. I’m fine with her disagreeing with us on other topics, but I had an abortion years ago. We live in a conservative state. I don’t want her right to choose to be taken away.

And I’m furious at her for going behind our backs. I’m suspicious of her boyfriend—I know he’s a conservative-leaning Christian and I don’t want to have raised a daughter who votes for whomever her boyfriend does. How do I convince her being pro-life isn’t helping her in the long run?

— Just Trying to Raise a Feminist

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dear Just Trying,

I suppose I should say that sometimes we raise children who have different politics from our own, and if this proves to be more than a phase, you’ll simply have to respect that. Alas, I don’t feel that way; some politics are to be challenged at every turn, and there are even those that should result in one being cut off (in adulthood, of course). Luckily, she’s still in your house and still subject to both your influence and rules. Inundate her with pro-choice content. Require her to read articles and books that explain why it is important for women to have control of their bodies. Remind her that a person can choose for themselves to never have an abortion—or at least intend not to have one—while respecting the rights of others to choose otherwise.

Hopefully, you’ve already had conversations with your daughter about how your family’s politics differ from those of many of your neighbors. It’s time those discussions got more frequent and pointed. Talk about the importance of maintaining one’s own values in a relationship, remind her (as she may have heard otherwise recently) that it isn’t the job of a woman to follow what her man does without regard to her personal thoughts and needs.

This may be a long and difficult battle. Hopefully, her interest in overturning abortion rights will be short-lived and she’ll move onto another romance. However, young love can be a hell of a drug, and she would hardly be the first girl to acquiesce to some nonsense because of a boy she liked. You need to stay on top of what sort of information she is taking home from this kid and figure out how deep his influence goes.

Don’t allow her to go to with him to any conservative events or any other environment where she’s likely to face some attempts at indoctrination, especially without telling you. You may want to limit the amount of time she spends around his family. Constantly challenge their politics without attacking them as people. Help her to connect the dots between what she (hopefully) feels deep inside and how this boyfriend’s values differ. Resist any urge to just suck it up and allow your daughter to do her own thing politically; you’re fighting for her character, her humanity, and her ability to extend empathy to others. You can’t let this boy win. Good luck to you!

— Jamilah

Nah, that ain't it chief, tell her to FUUUCCCCKKKKK OOOOOOOOOFFFOOOOOOOOOFFFFFF

[close]

[HaughtyFrank]

I suppose I should say that sometimes we raise children who have different politics from our own, and if this proves to be more than a phase, you’ll simply have to respect that.

I'm glad Jim Ryan already found a new job

Edit:oh wait, she goes the other route

Don’t allow her to go to with him to any conservative events or any other environment where she’s likely to face some attempts at indoctrination, especially without telling you. You may want to limit the amount of time she spends around his family.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shootings-took-place-in-a-flea-market-in-houston-and-a-church-in-laguna-woods-california-multiple-casualties-reported.583871/#post-86660651

Read up on the Houston shooting and it was depressing that the police said they tried to get witness interviews, but it was difficult because when they rolled up to the flea market the crowd scattered.

Maybe if you weren't so fucking horrible people would be more willing to talk to you? Maybe if your entire institution wasn't meant to tread upon the marginalized and protect the property of the rich, and instead were built from and based on the community and aim to keep everyone safe and healthy then people wouldn't immediately run for fear of you figuring out a way of arresting or brutalizing them. /rant

OT: I really wish I knew what it would take to get people to understand that guns are not their "problem solvers". My dad came to visit me from out of town last weekend and the first thing he did when he walked into my apartment was pull a handgun out of his handbag (one that he's already shown me numerous times before) and talk about how it will keep him safe if he "runs out of gas and has to stop somewhere in a bad part of town". Then proceeded to remove the mag and show me the gun was empty, and then take practice aim and pull the trigger a few times. His ship has sailed unfortunately.

Of course people are gonna scatter, there was a fucking shooting.

[benjipwns]

Went to anti-abortion rally behind their backs. "Don't allow her to go" says the Slate advice columnist.

[Lonewulfeus]

Hell, I think Sonic fans are more sane overall than my little pony fans, notable exceptions aside like Chris Chan, they at least they can get jobs and can make good video games.

Jesus Christ, this sentence

[HaughtyFrank]

Went to anti-abortion rally behind their backs. "Don't allow her to go" says the Slate advice columnist.

It's interesting to me that they blame it all on the boyfriend. Believe it or not but dressing up as Ruth Bader Ginsberg when 10 years old doesn't say much about ones politics

[Polident Hive]

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/kids-in-the-hall-reboot-documentary-interview-1351236/

ST: Live-action satire. I’m pointing at myself right now, just to make sure you know I’m not a cartoon…I’m real, I promise you. But I do think people are terrified of satire right now, because there’s this kind of belief taking over in culture, which is that to portray something is to agree with it. And people are losing that idea that, No, that’s not the point. I find that a little disturbing.
MM: I don’t think it’s that organized…I think what happens is you have people who wouldn’t crowd into a comedy club, who aren’t fans of the medium, being presented with literal transcripts of satire, and then they react to it. It’s like they’ve never been asked to engage with satire or comedy before, and now they’re being forced to engage with it in this white-hot time, based on a sentence that’s been pulled from a sketch or a stand-up routine. Look, some people have good intentions. And there are other people who are just firestarters and deliberately want to attack something in bad faith. But comedy fans are still very much comedy fans. They just have people with flashlights looking over their shoulders and scrutinizing every single little detail.

DF: That’s based on a misguided notion, I think, that comedy punches anywhere. Comedy doesn’t punch.
ST: Or maybe it punches in every direction? But come on. Who decides whether it’s up or down?
DF: There’s always an element condescension in deciding who’s down…
ST: Exactly. Like you’re the expert?
MM: I like Dave’s quote — I’m going to paraphrase a bit here — “Just because you’re down doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot.” And therefore, completely worthy of satire.

Kids in the Hall might’ve returned, but those kids need to return to the halls… of comedy school!

(PH, Class of ‘08)

[Boredfrom]

Hell, I think Sonic fans are more sane overall than my little pony fans, notable exceptions aside like Chris Chan, they at least they can get jobs and can make good video games.

Jesus Christ, this sentence

Brony?

[Lonewulfeus]

Hell, I think Sonic fans are more sane overall than my little pony fans, notable exceptions aside like Chris Chan, they at least they can get jobs and can make good video games.

Jesus Christ, this sentence

Brony?

No, by those standards I’m a normy

[NegativeCrepe]

i dont want to see another spoiler click to hide in this thread that isnt some hit chick with huge bozongas

every time i click on them they are a disappointment

it didnt use to be this way

[Uncle]

Went to anti-abortion rally behind their backs. "Don't allow her to go" says the Slate advice columnist.

70 years ago:

"my daughter snuck out with her boyfriend and went to a...it's hard to even say it...a rock and roll concert!!"

"normally I would say kids just go through phases and to let her enjoy her music, but as we all know this music is of the devil. tell her in no uncertain terms that she is not to leave the house ever again."

[Potato]

I would have gotten an abortion, no question. I would have gotten one regardless of age. Just got sterilized a month and a half ago and thankfully don't have to worry about that sort of thing anymore.

 

The best Resetera post is the one where they tell you that they will never ever subject the world to their wretched spawn.
 

[Snoopycat_]

The coming civil war will not be fun, we better enjoy these next two years because it's going to get so much worse come November 2024

The far right has been prepping for a civil war for decades. We need to catch the fuck up

You have to wonder if mass shootings and all the other horrors actually excite nutters like these 2. Do they get off on this shit because it feeds into their Mad Max fantasies.

[Uncle]

strange how the two kinds of people calling for violent civil war are terminally online era types, and the boogaloo boys (who actually stock up on military gear)

[Snoopycat_]

If Ree was actually serious about fighting racism the cowards would ban all video game talk and YT.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-city-of-berlin-bans-vigil-in-memory-of-journalist-killed-by-israel-as-part-of-a-wider-ranging-ban-on-numerous-forms-of-pro-palestine-protest.583973/#post-86677721

No one is getting jailed for attending a illegal protest. At worst you'll get detained for a few hours or a fine. Only way to actually get jailed for protesting is if you start attacking the police or other protesters.

Imagine if it was the same for pro Ukrainian protests.

They actually detained people for using ukrainian flags at a protest last week in berlin

Literally is https://www.rbb24.de/politik/thema/...immt-verbot-ukrainischer-flaggen-zurueck.html

And that's fucked up, it's nowhere near to concerted effort pro Palestinian voices have been dealing with for decades. Decades!

[Sideshow Raheem]

The coming civil war will not be fun, we better enjoy these next two years because it's going to get so much worse come November 2024

The far right has been prepping for a civil war for decades. We need to catch the fuck up

You have to wonder if mass shootings and all the other horrors actually excite nutters like these 2. Do they get off on this shit because it feeds into their Mad Max fantasies.

These dim bulbs imagine a paradise where democrats and republicans live separately. They never mention what civil war would do to people, but eagerly hope for its onset.

And, of course, they do not understand what their paradise would entail.

[HaughtyFrank]

"Their official position is that Germany has a special responsibility towards Israel because of the Holocaust," he said.

Saying the quiet part out load. Israel gets away with so much fucked up shit because everyone feels guilty for the Holocaust.

Well Germany is kind of the one nation that has to take responsibility

Of all the nations in the world, don't expect Germany to go after Israel. It's "not a good look" as RE would say

[benjipwns]

The coming civil war will not be fun, we better enjoy these next two years because it's going to get so much worse come November 2024

The far right has been prepping for a civil war for decades. We need to catch the fuck up

You have to wonder if mass shootings and all the other horrors actually excite nutters like these 2. Do they get off on this shit because it feeds into their Mad Max fantasies.

These dim bulbs imagine a paradise where democrats and republicans live separately. They never mention what civil war would do to people, but eagerly hope for its onset.

And, of course, they do not understand what their paradise would entail.

They also haven't looked at a map, there's no neat state by state divide like with the Confederacy and slavery, a partisan based split would be street by street fighting. This is 2020, when they won the presidential election:


They also don't stop and ask the question "are these partisan issues I'm upset about right now (but wasn't until recently) so important that I'm willing to split up the country and kill potentially millions of my fellow Americans?" For them the answer is "obviously, yes, I hate those so-called people" so they assume it's the same for the other 340 million Americans. Their worldview is one where everyone is just itching to slaughter everyone else, where people can't wait to start killing minorities or whoever else and are just hoping for the signal from some nebulous authority to be sent up soon.

Which is why it's imperative that we end capitalism and colonialism immediately so that the peaceful communal living utopia with no conflict of any kind can begin.

[tiesto]

Went to anti-abortion rally behind their backs. "Don't allow her to go" says the Slate advice columnist.

It's interesting to me that they blame it all on the boyfriend. Believe it or not but dressing up as Ruth Bader Ginsberg when 10 years old doesn't say much about ones politics

I've been seeing quite a bit of parents pushing politics on their kids... 10 year olds getting birthday cakes with FJB and an AR-15 on them, taking kids to abortion protests... shit is a bit creepy... when I was 10 I think the only thing I knew about politics was when Bush Sr threw up on the Japanese prime minister. :p

[benjipwns]

Still one of the top five things the Bush family has done though.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-14#post-86697641

I will never forget a post here pleading to a black user to not give up on the system, and said that the violence perpetuated against BIPOC citizens was unfortunate collateral toward incremental change because we're on the front lines.

NepNep chimes in 

I wouldn't be surprised if the Black user in question happened to be me because let me tell you how much whites like telling me "my vote matters" while being unable to explain why Black wealth inequality has increased, why our communities are plagued with unhealthier food and harsher chemicals than they were in the past, why more of us are incarcerated than were enslaved, and just in general by most metrics we are now worse off since we've been given the right to vote.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/insomniac-donates-50k-sent-60-page-doc-to-sony-urging-ryan-to-do-better-sony-will-not-approve-any-statements-from-studios-on-reproductive-rights.584120/

I imagine that Bungie initial statement was the thing that detonated this.

Being sincere, now things are getting interesting.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Black user in question happened to be me because let me tell you how much whites like telling me "my vote matters" while being unable to explain why Black wealth inequality has increased, why our communities are plagued with unhealthier food and harsher chemicals than they were in the past, why more of us are incarcerated than were enslaved, and just in general by most metrics we are now worse off since we've been given the right to vote.

[citation needed]

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Remove the completely outdated "right to bear arms" and a huge step is done. Yes, your first amendment does a similar amount of harm, but the action is literally always gun related Sadly, US politics are based more on religious faith than actual social improvements, so when even the left leaning forces won't touch an outdated document, there's nothing to expect.

[HaughtyFrank]

Remove the completely outdated "right to bear arms" and a huge step is done. Yes, your first amendment does a similar amount of harm, but the action is literally always gun related Sadly, US politics are based more on religious faith than actual social improvements, so when even the left leaning forces won't touch an outdated document, there's nothing to expect.

Make guns disappear: 39,682 less deaths in the US

Make free speech disappear:....

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

No need to write think pieces when skillzilla81 said it best: the country's failings are due to white people not giving a fuck.

That's why even when they identify as Democrats they have no shame in browbeating minorites to "vote or else", because in the end they want someone else to fight their own battles. Dismantling white supremacy is only seen as a cause worth dying for if you're on the "front lines" and already have to navigate the oppression anyway. And when you realize that, you also realize too white people collectively hopped aboard MLK not to end racism but to end the public display of it.

To be honest, I'm so thoroughly disgusted with how little white people actually care about addressing the problem that for the first time in my life I'm considering leaving this country. Y'all don't deserve my citizenship.

 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-14#post-86697641
NepNep chimes in 

I wouldn't be surprised if the Black user in question happened to be me because let me tell you how much whites like telling me "my vote matters" while being unable to explain why Black wealth inequality has increased, why our communities are plagued with unhealthier food and harsher chemicals than they were in the past, why more of us are incarcerated than were enslaved, and just in general by most metrics we are now worse off since we've been given the right to vote.

I know why she believes this is true (brain damage, illiteracy, narcissism, the possibilities are endless) but I can't for the life of me understand why other users would accept things that are blatantly wrong to be true.

[BisMarckie]

I am genuinely curious about the harsher chemicals.

Are these the ones you wash off the chicken?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

That's why even when they identify as Democrats

taking bets on warning of this user!

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-14#post-86697641

I will never forget a post here pleading to a black user to not give up on the system, and said that the violence perpetuated against BIPOC citizens was unfortunate collateral toward incremental change because we're on the front lines.

NepNep chimes in 

I wouldn't be surprised if the Black user in question happened to be me because let me tell you how much whites like telling me "my vote matters" while being unable to explain why Black wealth inequality has increased, why our communities are plagued with unhealthier food and harsher chemicals than they were in the past, why more of us are incarcerated than were enslaved, and just in general by most metrics we are now worse off since we've been given the right to vote.

I'm curious how she would respond if a white user straight up said to her "your vote doesn't matter" 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/james-hetfield-gets-emotional-on-stage-as-he-admits-insecurities.584015/#post-86694245

He should stop shooting bears...

[benjipwns]

No need to write think pieces when skillzilla81 said it best: the country's failings are due to white people not giving a fuck.

That's why even when they identify as Democrats they have no shame in browbeating minorites to "vote or else", because in the end they want someone else to fight their own battles. Dismantling white supremacy is only seen as a cause worth dying for if you're on the "front lines" and already have to navigate the oppression anyway. And when you realize that, you also realize too white people collectively hopped aboard MLK not to end racism but to end the public display of it.

To be honest, I'm so thoroughly disgusted with how little white people actually care about addressing the problem that for the first time in my life I'm considering leaving this country. Y'all don't deserve my citizenship.

I wish this man luck in finding a First World nation hospitable to militant Black Americans without white people that gives citizenship to people with no job skills and an interest in video games.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I am genuinely curious about the harsher chemicals.

Are these the ones you wash off the chicken?

Lead in the soil. She's almost accidentally right on that one.

Edit: She wouldn't of course. She has said before that she was privileged enough to grow up sheltered in a nice area.

[benjipwns]

One of the reasons the cynical side of me thinks the US will free speech itself right into fascism (which will kill any kind of free speech) and I'm hoping to eventually move to a country with actual hate speech laws. That won't fix everything, but the way Fox News and their ilk are allowed to continue their campaign of mass radicalization unabated really disturbs me.

It's always comfortable people telling me (outside of Era) that hate speech should be protected 🙄

I would consider Turkmenistan.

[benjipwns]

Remove the completely outdated "right to bear arms" and a huge step is done. Yes, your first amendment does a similar amount of harm, but the action is literally always gun related Sadly, US politics are based more on religious faith than actual social improvements, so when even the left leaning forces won't touch an outdated document, there's nothing to expect.

Same guy:

I absolutely think this is more and more possible by each day. The upholding of what you guys consider "free speech" and basic human rights seems to go way overboard and it's definitely not leading to the right direction in the last few years. But even the majority of blue Americans don't want to hear any of it.

I warned you about the human rights bro:

"HUMAN RIGHTS" IS A RIGHT-WING, CENTRIST AND LIBERAL DOGWHISTLE

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/10-dead-3-wounded-in-mass-shooting-event-in-buffalo-ny-self-identified-white-supremacist-suspect-in-custody.583592/page-14#post-86697641

I will never forget a post here pleading to a black user to not give up on the system, and said that the violence perpetuated against BIPOC citizens was unfortunate collateral toward incremental change because we're on the front lines.

NepNep chimes in 

I wouldn't be surprised if the Black user in question happened to be me because let me tell you how much whites like telling me "my vote matters" while being unable to explain why Black wealth inequality has increased, why our communities are plagued with unhealthier food and harsher chemicals than they were in the past, why more of us are incarcerated than were enslaved, and just in general by most metrics we are now worse off since we've been given the right to vote.

I'm curious how she would respond if a white user straight up said to her "your vote doesn't matter" 

I think Mercury Fred did that and NepNep went apeshit lol

[BisMarckie]

One of the reasons the cynical side of me thinks the US will free speech itself right into fascism (which will kill any kind of free speech) and I'm hoping to eventually move to a country with actual hate speech laws. That won't fix everything, but the way Fox News and their ilk are allowed to continue their campaign of mass radicalization unabated really disturbs me.

It's always comfortable people telling me (outside of Era) that hate speech should be protected 🙄

I would consider Turkmenistan.

If you gonna suggest a post-soviet banana republic, at least suggest the best one

Tajikistan 🇹🇯

[benjipwns]

With every passing day, it becomes more and more clear that many people are beyond help, and beyond deprogramming/deradicalization. Or at least, the time, effort, and resources required (weighed against the obstacles) would make it physically impossible in practice. And that's just the people who haven't built entire careers around propagating hate.

At this point, I can only see people "fighting back" reactively when things can't possibly get any worse, or if the fascists were to initiate open conflicts first. For those not directly targeted, there's too much of a bystander effect coupled with a numbing apathy, observing in disbelief that nobody will yet again be held accountable, yet feeling powerless to take the first step towards action.

I wouldn’t say fear for their lives, but we went from a point where extreme beliefs like that were ostracized to acceptable social discourse and a valid political view. In 2022 you can be a shitheel and be rewarded for it - I knew someone who I am pretty sure turned into alt-right podcasting as a hustle, Corey from Double Toasted always brings up Alex Jones he knew was a different kind of wacky, and you have Candace Owens who sued her school for racist practices when she was in undergrad. Look at Enes Kantor err “Freedom”’s rebranding. And that’s on the lucrative end; in smaller ways being a Trumper gives you an instant community (gear! forums! non insurrection related meetups and parties!)

I just dont know how to stop this part - it went from am radio stations to one of the biggest media empires being the onboarding ramp along with major footholds in younger people hobbies (Nazi furries for crissakes! Talk about non-political spaces, lol) and social media willing to damn modern society for ad clicks.

Id say civil litigation but a place like Foxnews can just throw lawyers at the problem even if they are destined to lose, for decades. But its the pipeline we need to go after it or make that path an inherently socially painful one as opposed to ‘New nazi friend discord chat’

Take a young mind. Throw a bunch of stats at them that are misleading. Stroke their newfound anger. When they actually do what you've groomed them to do blame antifa or BLM.

What’s obnoxious is that the right is limiting all kinds of speech, all the time. They are wildly censorious when it comes to education as just one example. Real laws with real teeth that cost people their careers.

But the free speech crowd always stays silent on stuff like that.

What's frustrating is there's people all too willing to snatch up any young person who might end up feeling any way miffed about "woke culture" or white privilege.

Not saying those messages need to change, just there people waiting to immediately go "SEE THEY HATE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE IT TOUGH TOO?" and all too ready to radicalize them.

It’s fucking disgusting and shocking the state of the world. There’s some deeply entrenched fucked up things out there that are warping minds to radicalisation, racism, sexism and abuse. Even anti-science, anti-facts etc it’s just all there in the open and no one is doing a thing to stop it.

Your last point that I've bolded & underlined is 100% true and one of the biggest indicators its a political cult with a powerful messaging/propaganda apparatus that spans multiple media formats and age generations.

When I was dealing with a master manipulator/abuser, one of the notes I wrote to myself to constantly refer back to/reiterate to myself so I wouldn't forget amidst the gaslighting manipulation is that the other person couldn't be reasoned with. Those were my exact words verbatim too, and it's true. The same goes for people in a cult that are subservient to the cult leader that's just like the person I dealt with in my personal life; they are basically an extension of the leader.

It is very scary times right now and definitely moving forward. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that all this shit is just the tip of the iceberg. That it's only going to get worse, and likely much worse from here.

Thread is amazing in the complete lack of self-awareness.

[benjipwns]

If you gonna suggest a post-soviet banana republic, at least suggest the best one

Tajikistan 🇹🇯

Does it have a giant book monument of the book written by the God-like leader that opens and recites phrases from it?

(I actually don't know if the new guy took that down or just turned it off.)

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[Nintex]

Fox News had the Reddit anti-work they/them on.

You can accuse them of many things but not of 'limiting free speech'.

[BisMarckie]

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No, but it is illegal to celebrate your birthday. That‘s what I call effective hate speech laws.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/insomniac-donates-50k-sent-60-page-doc-to-sony-urging-ryan-to-do-better-sony-will-not-approve-any-statements-from-studios-on-reproductive-rights.584120/page-2#post-86695130

This thread will be a good metric about who reads the OP and who only the title. The title makes it seem like a good thing, while the OP almost reads like it is hush money with sony silencing any public remarks about this.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/insomniac-donates-50k-sent-60-page-doc-to-sony-urging-ryan-to-do-better-sony-will-not-approve-any-statements-from-studios-on-reproductive-rights.584120/page-2#post-86695130

This thread will be a good metric about who reads the OP and who only the title. The title makes it seem like a good thing, while the OP almost reads like it is hush money with sony silencing any public remarks about this.

"Hush money"?

it's just typical corpo matching donations. Which they of course also hate because they match any donations

https://twitter.com/qorquiq/status/1526245120730800128

[Nintex]

He begins by noting the studio sent a "near-60 page" document to PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst filled with messages from employees urging leadership

If you think Hermen Hulst is going to read any employee complaints you should ask yourself who at Guerilla was paid for overtime ever.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Do better!

*does better quietly*

NOT PERFOMATIVE ENOUGH!

[benjipwns]

I would doubt Sony actually has any staff that investigates charities to see whether or not they're worthy of being matched, they either outsource it to a third-party or just accept (in America) any 501(c)(3).

Trying to start a shit storm to start policing what charities your company matches with is just going to get them to drop all matching rather than get them to police solely in your favor.

People will point to how they don't match for churches or something but while churches are non-profits in the tax code they're not charities. (Many of them do run qualifying charities however.)