[R] Baiting Uyghur thread

[The Free Joy State]

These two posts seem a little over the line:

bunch of supposedly independent minded liberals will come to repeat phrases at me. It’s like I’m talking to robots.

Yes. I'm sure tankies are free thinkers that don't follow anything that doesn't come from either China, Venezuela, Cuba or Palestine.

P.s: Xi Jinping isn't going to have sex with you

“Everyone I don’t like is a liberal!”

A child's guide to online political discussion

Accusing longstanding players of being bots seems like a variation of trollnaming:

My goodness, he must have an excellent costumier. I must find out who does all his different stage make-ups. /s

And, more seriously, the amount of twisting that it must take to believe every single photographed witness is one man is... I would never have believed it if I hadn't seen it.

Now I will never read that pseudo-site. Not even for giggles.

dude are you an actual bot or something?

Yes. I'm sure tankies are free thinkers that don't follow anything that doesn't come from either China, Venezuela, Cuba or Palestine.

P.s: Xi Jinping isn't going to have sex with you

Why do you insist on responding like a bot and refusing to even consider my arguments?

“Everyone I don’t like is a liberal!”

Yes, or a Trotskyist. But Trotskyists are basically liberals.

And some age-related baiting:

Hmm, idk. It may have to do that it's the same repeated and terrible arguments I've from China simps on Twitter. Also why do you simp for China? Defending an authoritarian government doesn't make you a free thinker, it actually makes you the opposite of that.

>SIMP SIMP SIMP SIMP

why do you respond with infant like insults and not actual arguments? Are you 13 or something?

[Orostan]

aaaaaay I knew I’d I posted enough you’d report me to the forum cops. Credit for reporting the other guy too though.

I don’t see how any of this constitutes any violation of the rules. Calling someone out for infantile insults and another person for being obstinate doesn’t seem actionable to me, if that were the case then you would have to receive a warning or whatever too for engaging with me on that thread in bad faith.

[The Free Joy State]

aaaaaay I knew I’d I posted enough you’d report me to the forum cops. Credit for reporting the other guy too though.

I don’t see how any of this constitutes any violation of the rules. Calling someone out for infantile insults and another person for being obstinate doesn’t seem actionable to me, if that were the case then you would have to receive a warning or whatever too for engaging with me on that thread in bad faith.

Disagreeing with the validity of your sources is not bad faith. If you believe I have done something wrong, you're free to report me here. [/notamod]

[Orostan]

aaaaaay I knew I’d I posted enough you’d report me to the forum cops. Credit for reporting the other guy too though.

I don’t see how any of this constitutes any violation of the rules. Calling someone out for infantile insults and another person for being obstinate doesn’t seem actionable to me, if that were the case then you would have to receive a warning or whatever too for engaging with me on that thread in bad faith.

Disagreeing with the validity of your sources is not bad faith. If you believe I have done something wrong, you're free to report me here.

No, you haven’t even taken a look at the article! How can you pretend to be interested in the truth when you won’t even look into this?

Those “first hand witnesses” are incredibly unreliable, and you are just repeating claims you made before again after that. There is no evidence of cultural genocide or anything like that and claims of mass sterilization or rape are completely unfounded. They’re manufactured by a propaganda machine for the most part.

I'm very interested in the truth. That's why I won't read worthless Chinese propaganda.

And you're in no position to talk about repeating claims.

Here is you refusing to consider the opposing argument and dismissing it without any counter argument. You continue to do this later in the thread. It’a not constructive and if what I did is actionable in any way this should be too.

[The Free Joy State]

Disagreeing with the validity of your sources is not bad faith. If you believe I have done something wrong, you're free to report me here.

I'm very interested in the truth. That's why I won't read worthless Chinese propaganda.

And you're in no position to talk about repeating claims.

Here is you refusing to consider the opposing argument and dismissing it without any counter argument. You continue to do this later in the thread. It’a not constructive and if what I did is actionable in any way this should be too.

F.A.O Moderation: I was dismissing Orostan's source, provided here and here, rather than him as an individual. The second remark was in reference to the fact that his previous post to me had repeated the same claims.

[Orostan]

Here is you refusing to consider the opposing argument and dismissing it without any counter argument. You continue to do this later in the thread. It’a not constructive and if what I did is actionable in any way this should be too.

F.A.O Moderation: I was dismissing Orostan's source, provided here and here, rather than him as an individual. The second remark was in reference to the fact that his previous post to me had repeated the same claims.

You dismissed my source without any statement other than that it was “propaganda”, where my arguments against your sources have always been based on specific reasons why I believe they are wrong and why they may be propaganda.

[Reploid Productions]

Dismissing someone's sources isn't against the site rules. It can be dickish for sure, but attacking sources for being biased, inaccurate, unreliable, or propaganda (which usually already falls under "biased, inaccurate, and unreliable" but...) is perfectly fair game. It's generally a good idea to have varied sources so that if one gets debunked or dismissed you have others you can fall back on.

In any case, I've trawled the entire thread and handed down smitings accordingly.

[The Free Joy State]

Appreciate the trawl, Reppy. Thanks!