you're too afraid to even say who you're talking about so I don't know what you want from me.
nobody helps us. nobody famous has ever actually helped us. when we raise $150k, it's from users who work jobs, not saudi millionaires, not celebrities. when we get a network architect that finds us VPSs to keep the site up, he's a just a stoner who happens to be into bossmanjack. when we get a lawyer, it's not from the EFF, it's some guy from Kentucky who thinks our situation is funny. when I'm up at 4am working on our failing ddos mitigation, the guy suggesting to put shit into a fucking ramdisk to make it actually work is just some dude who posts about crypto on the kf.
Did Destiny bankroll the Kiwi Farms? No. Did Turkey Tom support us with the hundreds of thousands of dollars he made off our threads? No.
The best we get are kind words. A VTuber says 'dear feeder' or mentions DropKiwiFarms. Mutahar talks about how gross Keffals is. Hambly is against deplatforming. But that's not what keeps the forum up. It's been the users, who are just random fucking people.
And quite frankly, anyone who decides we should be censored because I made fun of their coffee business (light roast, mind you - all I said is that it was a saturated market and a bad decision!), then that's on them. They wouldn't have been an ally anyways, because guess what happens? If I'm not the one showing cold indifference, it's the rest of the forum, which continuously attacks any e-celeb that tries to warm up to us.
I wasn't talking about anyone in particular. It's more that this happens consistently every time anyone shows the tiniest morsel of affection for you. The second they get into a controversy, you will briefly skim the forum post and people's reactions to it and from there form your opinion, often times not getting the whole story and and then being excessively rude on top of it. And yes, I am aware that the forum is supported solely by its users, much to its own credit, and the rogue's gallery of people you've accumulated by happenstance or coincidence that help you continue to exist. My point isn't that you need to shill, it's that kindness and compassion go a long way. Yes, you are dealing with evil scum that wishes to destroy you, rape and mutilate our children and they think its funny, but is the answer to be even more brutal and more cruel? To your enemies, fine. LFJ is a known unstable quantity, the British and EU governments are completely captured, there isn't a reason to pull punches when discussing them or their actions, but that doesn't mean that for every person that has a fuckup or posts something embarrassing you, Josh, the owner of the forum, head of USIPS, and spearhead of this movement, need to sink to the lowest common denominator forum poster's opinion. If you want to be a leader, lead.
To your point on Quarterings business, I said that I appreciated your nuanced opinion on it, and I hope you treat others in the future with similar decorum. Your biggest problem is that you talk about others the way a forum shitposter does and, to your credit, it has a certain charm, it's honest and I think it's partly why a lot of people enjoy hearing you talk about things. However, I think it is also incredibly detrimental to your ability to find people that would want to work with you. I think most people, especially in this age, understand there is a difference between a 'creative' and their audience. For the sake of the argument, you are the 'creative'. The problem comes, is that you end up either reiterating a lot of what your audience is saying, or more times than not, you end up completely spewing something completely ignorant or mixing up people and events in your mind. Which, in fairness, is a human thing to do, but you do this incredibly often, effectively every week about one story or multiple, and now on top of being the incredibly inflammatory shitposter that you are, you are also wrong. Which pisses off whoever the story is about while also pissing off the fans of the original person and people who are watching you who know the full story.
For example, a couple weeks ago you discussed a story about the mouse vtuber getting dunked on twitter and you got your shots in, and later, while discussing with my friends about it, I was informed that you never mentioned a huge key issue; one of the biggest problems this poor girl is facing, is that her exboyfriend is posting her nudes from when she was a minor all over social media, and now others are constantly reposting it on her different social medias. Now, this is an extreme example, but you totally pilloried this innocent girl just because she's a vtuber and you don't like anime so fuck her and fuck nuance, she deserves to be slapped down. I share your antipathy towards anime and vtubers, I also find things like lolicon and shotacon fucking disgusting and revolting, but to so consistently unfairly smear hundreds of millions of people as potential pedophiles, insinuating that they all must secretly or openly love what you call effectively CP, like what the fuck are you doing dude. This is your version of the tate-followers saying that the 19th amendment was a mistake and you need to repeal. Now, are the anime lovers as big a demographic as women, obviously not, but to sneer at them all while casting yourself as a moral exemplar because you don't watch fucking cartoons is ridiculous and doesn't win you anything but scorn and people dismissing you out of hand. These people are people who more than likely share your opinions on the Internet, because a ton of people from yester-decade grew up on the Internet watching and discussing anime on 4chan and other places. They remember that era of the Internet and your message resounds within them too, but then you irresponsibly label them as a pedophile because they have fond memories of a television show they watched when they were younger. And this is just the biggest example, you do this time after time with so many different people, you constantly just write off whole groups of people because of their hobbies or interests. Why? You go after and criticize these people saying things like "How does caring if Star Wars is blacked help protect the Internet and free speech online and stop debanking?" and that's a fair question, but what does it serve you to so antagonize people like that? Do you really think diehard fans of these franchises will see your message and suddenly go "oh man! I just didn't think about it like that!" You're just alienating people needlessly, how does telling 40k and Star Wars fans that actually you should just let your hobbies be ruined and destroyed because we need to reprioritize to what you think is most important actually help you or your movement. Personally, I think your critique is right, the cultural war is most a screen for the actual important issues like debanking. But to most people, their hobbies and interests are important to them and you telling them that they mean nothing and their retarded for caring is stupid. Richard Spencer tried this back in 2017 by telling people that football was effectively another opiate of the masses and that in order to achieve their movement, they need to stop watching it. Was his critique correct, I think so. I think most sports and media are more or less a part of the bread and circuses mantra, but the point is that you can't take away or try to demean people's circus and expect them to listen to you or want to follow you.
All I am asking for is that you either read up a bit more closely on stories before you talk about them, especially ones concerning people that might actually maybe want to help you, but I would also say that it might do you good to try to offer the alternate perspective and try to give a reason as to why someone might do x or y and overall just be nicer, kinder, and more compassionate towards other people. Now, of course these ideas are not capable of being done for every situation, nor should they be. Destiny's dick sucking videos getting posted around does not need some sort of nuanced opinion and a rationale on why Destiny recording people without their consent could actually be good or something equally retarded. I would however say, that you have become incredibly jaded over the last five years and its bleeding into everything that you discuss. You don't even try to give the benefit of the doubt anymore or try to offer some sort of explanation or when the main character of a story tries to offer an explanation you either don't care or haven't read it and won't.
Lastly, I would say it's not a binary of cold indifference or radical beatdown. If you believe that cold indifference is better for maintaining relationships with people, I would disagree. I would say having a genuinely nuanced opinion where you do your best to explain both sides of the story is a lot better. Specifically because it distinguishes your take from that of the forum and it allows you to make distance between your audience and your actual opinion. For anyone else, a recommendation would be to just say something to your audience that at least allows you to claim you're not supporting their actions, but this is KF and you saying something even remotely to that effect would be more detrimental than if you had just featured it.
