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Postby Karevka » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:50 am

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Napkizemlja wrote:If we allow a prominent right-winger to be banned, can we ban a prominent left-wing one? A one for one trade, we can slap a fair trade sticker on it.

I vote for Contra Points. All RW's who agree post "Aye".

Aye.


HBomber guy gets my vote. He's more often dishonest and more of an irritating little shit.


How is HBomber guy "dishonest"? He cites his sources and provides evidence. You also can't vote to ban someone because their "irritating" which sounds extremely petty.

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Postby Ostroeuropa » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:51 am

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HBomber guy gets my vote. He's more often dishonest and more of an irritating little shit.


How is HBomber guy "dishonest"? He cites his sources and provides evidence. You also can't vote to ban someone because their "irritating" which sounds extremely petty.


He misrepresents the people he is criticizing.
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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:51 am

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Excellent, Ostro's finally ousted himself as a right-winger. (see bolded)


Depends on the context really. Broadly I identify as left wing.


Look inside yourself Ostro and you will see that you too are third position.

Valrifell wrote:Are we differentiating between "banned" and "deleting YouTube channels"? Those are different things but I assume it's the latter because I don't think YouTube has kicked very many people off their platform forever.


I actually don't know the answer to this one tbh, I'm just using the language as I saw it. Channels were deleted for sure, and I know Varg (ThuleanPerspective, a very meme worthy character btw) came back to YouTube with a new channel but it got deleted within the day, so I'm assuming ban is an accurate term here.

Valrifell wrote:Algorithms are a necessary evil for large social media sites, and YouTube doesn't seem to have a very efficient corporate bureaucracy.


Understatement of the year lol
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Postby Karevka » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:56 am

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Karevka wrote:
How is HBomber guy "dishonest"? He cites his sources and provides evidence. You also can't vote to ban someone because their "irritating" which sounds extremely petty.


He misrepresents the people he is criticizing.


Really? Because the people he's criticizing are extremely hard to "misrepresent" because they say things and do things that clearly say otherwise.

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Postby The Xenopolis Confederation » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:59 am

Karevka wrote:
Ostroeuropa wrote:
He misrepresents the people he is criticizing.


Really? Because the people he's criticizing are extremely hard to "misrepresent" because they say things and do things that clearly say otherwise.

Are you saying it's for Hbomberguy to successfully misrepresent his targets because he has the targets playing in his videos? If so, you's be correct, he doesn't successfully misrepresent them, it's transparenrly obvious.
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Postby Cekoviu » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:01 am

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Cekoviu wrote:Bellingham, WA?


Yeah, I used to live there. I moved to be closer to work because the commute times were awful.

My aunt lives there, though I haven't been (because she's kind of a dick). Have been to other parts, though, and it seems like commute times in western Washington are just awful in general. :P
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Postby Karevka » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:03 am

The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:
Karevka wrote:
Really? Because the people he's criticizing are extremely hard to "misrepresent" because they say things and do things that clearly say otherwise.

Are you saying it's for Hbomberguy to successfully misrepresent his targets because he has the targets playing in his videos? If so, you's be correct, he doesn't successfully misrepresent them, it's transparenrly obvious.


I'm not trying to be a asshole but could clarify a bit more? I don't no what your asking.

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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:04 am

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First American Empire wrote:
Yeah, I used to live there. I moved to be closer to work because the commute times were awful.

My aunt lives there, though I haven't been (because she's kind of a dick). Have been to other parts, though, and it seems like commute times in western Washington are just awful in general. :P


I5 is pretty much hell on earth tbh. The best part about living out in the woods nowadays is not having to get on it regularly.
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:06 am

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Liriena wrote:Where in this argument did I advocate for assault?


Alright, in which case we're back to it normalizing tyranny as it's a practice that always favors those with power to exclude and censor.

What tyranny?

Also, you've literally for "purging" feminists from academia and public institutions, so I'd figure "normalizing tyranny" would be fine by you... unless you're very target-specific about it.
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:10 am

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Liriena wrote:You think radicalization is a binary rather than a gradient? Just going straight from peaceful moderate to murderous extremist, with no in-between?

I'm saying you can't blame people for violence that they have specifically condemned.

The issue isn't blame. It's identifying and understanding the chain of causation that leads to terrorism, not for the purposes of personally blaming the people at the bottom of the stochastic terrorism pyramid, but for the purposes of having a better idea of how to know where radicalization starts and reflect on how to best manage ourselves to avoid it.

Scomagia wrote:Boy, I'm glad you aren't the one writing up speech laws. No one would be able to say anything for fear of being held liable for "radicalizing".

Did you miss the part where I explicitly rejected the idea of "outlawing" stuff?
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Postby Napkizemlja » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:11 am

Proctopeo wrote:
Napkizemlja wrote:If we allow a prominent right-winger to be banned, can we ban a prominent left-wing one? A one for one trade, we can slap a fair trade sticker on it.

I vote for Contra Points. All RW's who agree post "Aye".

Aye.

Aye, she's emblematic of having terrible taste in everything.

Accurate, her fashion sensibilities are trash.
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Postby Cekoviu » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:11 am

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Cekoviu wrote:My aunt lives there, though I haven't been (because she's kind of a dick). Have been to other parts, though, and it seems like commute times in western Washington are just awful in general. :P


I5 is pretty much hell on earth tbh. The best part about living out in the woods nowadays is not having to get on it regularly.

And according to my relatives who live in/around Seattle, the public transport there isn't any better than the roads. Although I love Seattle and WA, it is definitely nice to not have that issue in Mormonland.
Liriena wrote:
Ostroeuropa wrote:
Alright, in which case we're back to it normalizing tyranny as it's a practice that always favors those with power to exclude and censor.

What tyranny?

Also, you've literally for "purging" feminists from academia and public institutions, so I'd figure "normalizing tyranny" would be fine by you... unless you're very target-specific about it.

I think you know the answer to that, though. It's Ostro, after all.
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:11 am

Napkizemlja wrote:If we allow a prominent right-winger to be banned, can we ban a prominent left-wing one? A one for one trade, we can slap a fair trade sticker on it.

I vote for Contra Points. All RW's who agree post "Aye".

Aye.

Your cancerous post has convinced me that we need to oppress gamers.
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Postby Napkizemlja » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:12 am

Liriena wrote:
Napkizemlja wrote:If we allow a prominent right-winger to be banned, can we ban a prominent left-wing one? A one for one trade, we can slap a fair trade sticker on it.

I vote for Contra Points. All RW's who agree post "Aye".

Aye.

Your cancerous post has convinced me that we need to oppress gamers.

I'm not really a gamer.
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:12 am

Valrifell wrote:
Ostroeuropa wrote:
HBomber guy gets my vote. He's more often dishonest and more of an irritating little shit.


Excellent, Ostro's finally ousted himself as a right-winger. (see bolded)

Another happy landing.
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:13 am

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
I don't stalk this thread.


Well I'll post it again for convenience.

Banned:

YouKipper
The Great Order
ThuleanPerspective
CulturedThug
Xurious
Mr Allsop History
Patrick Slattery
FascistBallIV

Demonetized:

Martin Sellner
James Allsup
Steven Crowder
Red Ice TV
SinatraSays
Jesse Lee Peterson
Iconoclast
Tailed Feature
Ford Fischer
Dan Dicks
Revenge Of The Cis
Sandman
The Red Elephants
Know More News
Andy Warski
Deep Fat Fried Podcast

A whole bunch more reported random videos being deleted, and this was only people who self reported these things on places like Twitter or other social media so a whole bunch of smaller creators and channels could have gotten the axe without nobody knowing.

tl;dr is the algorithm was kicked into overdrive and as usual YouTube just made the situation so much worse.

The fact that history channels got deleted but James Allsup just got demonetized says everything.
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:14 am

Napkizemlja wrote:
Liriena wrote:Your cancerous post has convinced me that we need to oppress gamers.

I'm not really a gamer.

Everyone I disagree with is a gamer. Specially gamers.
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Postby Proctopeo » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:15 am

Liriena wrote:
Scomagia wrote:I'm saying you can't blame people for violence that they have specifically condemned.

The issue isn't blame. It's identifying and understanding the chain of causation that leads to terrorism, not for the purposes of personally blaming the people at the bottom of the stochastic terrorism pyramid, but for the purposes of having a better idea of how to know where radicalization starts and reflect on how to best manage ourselves to avoid it.

"Stochastic terrorism" is a fucking stupid term all things considered tbh
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Postby Cekoviu » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:16 am

Liriena wrote:
Napkizemlja wrote:I'm not really a gamer.

Everyone I disagree with is a gamer. Specially gamers.

What about gamers that you agree with?
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:17 am

Cekoviu wrote:
Liriena wrote:Everyone I disagree with is a gamer. Specially gamers.

What about gamers that you agree with?

They have 48 hours to become tabletop nerds.
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Postby Cekoviu » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:18 am

Proctopeo wrote:
Liriena wrote:The issue isn't blame. It's identifying and understanding the chain of causation that leads to terrorism, not for the purposes of personally blaming the people at the bottom of the stochastic terrorism pyramid, but for the purposes of having a better idea of how to know where radicalization starts and reflect on how to best manage ourselves to avoid it.

"Stochastic terrorism" is a fucking stupid term all things considered tbh

Any actual feedback on his post or are you just going to blithely browse through this thread looking for snarky semantic criticisms to make?
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Postby Napkizemlja » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:18 am

I mean I play tabletop RPG's so.

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Postby First American Empire » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:19 am

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:My aunt lives there, though I haven't been (because she's kind of a dick). Have been to other parts, though, and it seems like commute times in western Washington are just awful in general. :P


I5 is pretty much hell on earth tbh. The best part about living out in the woods nowadays is not having to get on it regularly.


If you think it's hell already, try commuting through the Canadian border checkpoint. Commute times used to take me an hour. At best. It was usually even worse.

Where do you live, by the way?
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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:20 am

First American Empire wrote:
Washington Resistance Army wrote:
I5 is pretty much hell on earth tbh. The best part about living out in the woods nowadays is not having to get on it regularly.


If you think it's hell already, try commuting through the Canadian border checkpoint. Commute times used to take me an hour. At best. It was usually even worse.

Where do you live, by the way?


About 20-30 minutes outside Lacey nowadays. Rural Thurston county is great.
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Postby Liriena » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:26 am

Proctopeo wrote:
Liriena wrote:The issue isn't blame. It's identifying and understanding the chain of causation that leads to terrorism, not for the purposes of personally blaming the people at the bottom of the stochastic terrorism pyramid, but for the purposes of having a better idea of how to know where radicalization starts and reflect on how to best manage ourselves to avoid it.

"Stochastic terrorism" is a fucking stupid term all things considered tbh

Be that as it may, it's nevertheless true that speech that might seem harmless and consequence-free on its own can often be the first in a long chain towards extremism. The issue is not whether that original speech is literally Hitler and must be gulaged.

The "alt-right" has at times bragged about using "classical liberals" and "centrists" as gateways into their movement. And while there is always a certain degree of manipulative dishonesty in all far right discourse, they're not entirely wrong there. A lot of "classical liberal" figures online have the problem of not being particularly good at thinking critically and challenging the arguments of radical right-wingers who happen to share their anti-progressivism.
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