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These are the people calling you a neo nazi for thinking it was right for Kyle Rittenhouse to walk free.

These are the people who tell you to go outside, themselves addicted to the hugbox same-think cycle of online interaction.
These are the people who tell you to stop killing the planet, themselves mindless consumers of plastic trinkets filling the scrapheap when they get bored of their toys.
These are the people who tell you to have sex, themselves being so insulated from any kind of human affection that they demand policy change to force people to take their mutilated genitals seriously.
These are the people who tell you to call you a bigot, themselves hating your race, faith, nationality, and sexual orientation if it does not align with their preferences or preconceived notions.
These are the people who demand peace and dread violence, themselves wishing death on you and your loved ones every day.
These are the people who want you to trust the experts, themselves ignoring the science of biology.
These are the people who adore a free society, themselves abhorring differences of opinion or open debate.
These are the people who label you copers, themselves constantly defending transsexual child molesters claiming they were one of the bad ones and not a real transsexual.
These are the people who just want to be left alone in the privacy of their homes, all the while demanding taxpayer money goes to teach children about their lifestyle.
These are the people who say anyone with differing opinions must be a misanthropist shut-in, themselves being socially isolated misfits who parents tell their children not to stare at.

These are the people of Knockout.
 
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Teen beaten to death in street by insane person. More at 11. Constitution bad.

Remember, this is what KO did to people. The CD thread is a cesspit.
Its interesting how that thread has survived so many schisms. Always split right down the middle over anime being problematic, cross-dressing being the equivalent of trans blackface, general inceldom, etc.
 
So is Knockout just diet Era? Sure seems like it.
ResetEra feels more dogmatic and chapo-esque to me. It's more of a political ideology motivating their actions and words, which one can argue has correlation with mental illness, but not to the same degree as knockout. Furthermore, you notice a greater amount of trans-propaganda on ResetEra, which makes it immediately apparent what its mission statement is. ResetEra is OBVIOUSLY a trans-forum, which honestly makes it less insidious imo.

Watching the decline of FP you notice that over time, more and more successful people are either banned, or are whittled away due to boredom or no longer have time to even look at/care about FP. Over time, the terminally online types, trannies being one of the greatest examples of this, became the majority of users. There was ALWAYS a contingent of trannies on FP, but it grew over time.

Like the transition from Neogaf to ResetEra, the transition (no pun intended) concentrated the terminally online and extremist types. However, Neogaf still exists, providing refuge for those that didn't wish to move. No such thing exists for FP, outside of maybe this single thread. As such, the trannies in charge of KO have complete control over the userbase. It's far more insidious in this way, if I didn't know the history of Knockout, I wouldn't be able to immediately identify it for what it is, unlike with ResetEra. Knockout also has no ability to recruit, the forum bans anyone that disagrees with the hivemind, banning the only modders and model-makers, so the forum has lost sights on its original mission statement, being a Gmod forum that has a great community. Now it's just... a forum.

In short: ResetEra feels like a politically motivated forum that is enhanced by mental illness. Knockout feels like a mentally ill forum enhanced by politics. I don't know if that makes any sense.
 
In short: ResetEra feels like a politically motivated forum that is enhanced by mental illness. Knockout feels like a mentally ill forum enhanced by politics. I don't know if that makes any sense.
Stalinist Russia VS Republican/Anarchist Spain

One has a vanguard of moderators that try to be thought leaders with nothing keeping them in check and an audience who conforms, while the other has moderators eternally paranoid about keeping the favor of a mob made up of various factions and cliques. With Resetera you could replace the mods with normal people and end up with a decent reddit-tier forum that has a few crazies. The KO mods are interchangeable because the moderators follow the community.
 
Imma be honest with yous, this shit was inevitable. It was always a rather "closed" society, a kind of micro-reddit. Terminally online degenerates always ran the show. It was just more acceptable to be "edgy" before if you're the right dude.

In retrospect, despite the famous "ain't that the same as transnigger" moment, it was inevitable it would have become like this simply due to the way how forums and internet moderation works, or that good old "any organization that isn't explicitly right wing becomes left wing over time" except a little modified. They always catered to degenerates, but didn't have any sort of red line. So the goalpost kept moving until they got tranny'd.
 
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"Yes I'm trans btw, just so you all know. Just thought everyone might want to know I was trans in case they were wondering. I like to take time out of my day in random threads to tell everyone I'm trans just so they know that I'm trans and think I'm a woman. I know no one asked but still I thought it best to let everyone know that I'm trans so they don't get the wrong idea that I'm not trans"
 
After year of hard work reading javascript for kids, knockout devs are adding banned user subforum. Perhaps they realized that people leave website if they get banned for bullshit reason and can't appeal without joining their troon infested discord.

 
After year of hard work reading javascript for kids, knockout devs are adding banned user subforum. Perhaps they realized that people leave website if they get banned for bullshit reason and can't appeal without joining their troon infested discord.

This implies they'll actually take appeals into consideration
 
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