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Gar For Archer said:
There you go trying to argue with a Redditor. Seriously, ask yourself, what do you have to gain from this? What is the best-case outcome? You’re not going to change xyr’s mind, so what’s the point?

Don’t fucking bother. It’s not worth your time.
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I figured light amusement.

JimmyNugget said:
Okay nice bait. Mr. “no masks on kids, send them into crowded schools”
DeSantis isn’t for the vaccine and you are a retard if you think otherwise.
Also I’m sure trump getting booed at a rally for saying the vaccine is good means his base must surely agree with him? Please.
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The normal state of things is you can be on the same side and still disagree on things. That is a healthy standard you should aspire to. Enforcing lockstep group think just leads to the narrowmindedness that has caused the left to degenerate into its current state.

Fields Of Rye said:
Will both of you please take the autistic bitching elsewhere. No one cares and we are here to laugh at redditords.
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So post some reddit stuff then.
 
Reddit can get fucked. You're allowed to have creepy shit about gay teenage boys and gore photos, but if you political wrongthink you're going to get banned faster than lightning. That entire website is nothing but cancer.
 
UncleFuckAss said:
Reddit can get fucked. You're allowed to have creepy shit about gay teenage boys and gore photos, but if you political wrongthink you're going to get banned faster than lightning. That entire website is nothing but cancer.
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While we're here I'd like to take a moment to say rest in peace Aaron Swartz. You are one of few based Jews and I know if you saw the internet as it exists today, you would've killed yourself for a second time.
 
(not sure why I can't quote this post but i'll just paste it)
Today's top post on reddit is a post about Candace Owens being denied a covid test because the facility refuses to test someone who "actively works against them".

Comments are to be expected. Gleefully cheering this on, and wishing that all hospitals would do the same for anyone who refuses to get vaccinated.

This post demonstrates just how insane covid discourse has become.

1. If your goal is to stop the spread of covid, then isn't denying her service not just potentially screwing her over, but also anyone else she comes in contact with? Now instead of quarantining, she's out looking around for a facility that will test her, potentially infecting more people.

2. Doctors denying care due to political beliefs is just pure insanity. Medical care is supposed to be given regardless of belief, imagine how fucked our already strained system would be if doctors decided to only treat those who agree with them?

3. If these people's goals are to get more people to support getting the jab, then denying Candace care is one of the worst things they could have done. Maybe she would have been tested and changed her stance. Even if she didn't, doctors could have pointed out how they will still treat her and others despite their beliefs, giving them the "moral high ground" in this instance. Instead, they've given her more ammo to use against them. Worse, now even more people will distrust their doctors and will likely not seek treatment due to fear/assumption that they will be denied.

4. Some commenters are claiming this is a private company so they can deny anyone they please; where were these people when the whole gay cake lawsuit was happening?
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This is exactly why people don't trust these "experts" at all, and why they don't want the vaccine. They claim to just want to "help" people but they always end up using it as a cudgel to beat people who don't agree with their retarded views. If they truly wanted to help people not infect grandma they would test whoever wanted it, not deny people arbitrarily because they said the no-no words. I see we're now past the "make your own website" and have arrived at "make your own medical facilities", how long until it's "make your own government"? Time to tedpost.
Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power. Moreover, much leftist behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the people whom the leftists claim to be trying to help. For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them. But leftist activists do not take such an approach because it would not satisfY their emotional needs. Helping black people is not their real goaL Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power. In doing so they actually harm black people, because the activists' hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensifY race hatred.
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Bad Take Crucifier said:
Maybe this was all a high I.Q. 4D chess-play by Texas to get Californians to fuck off. That actually makes sense since thousands of people are fleeing blue states every day, ever since lockdowns became a quasi-forever deal.
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Maybe, but unfortunately, Austin is becoming a tech hub.

IBM and Facebook constantly put up recruitment ads for jobs in Austin. Even though college kids are poor, some of them do uproot their life and go off thinking they will be "the difference" at one of these big companies. There is a lot of money in tech. Texas might not want to give up that money because it makes them look more independent from the rest of the US. Independence is their whole schtick and they are proud of that. The problem, though, starts when fresh out of college techie kids look down upon the common folk from their ethical sainthood. It doesn't help that a lot of degrees will require you complete a humanities or philosophy course. Way too often, these classes just devolve into white guilt and why white people are bad stop literally killing black people by drinking water you racist. Combine this with chronic Internetholism and you get a recipe for ethical zealots. These people expect everyone to be Atlas for all of the world's problems, but it isn't realistic. These classes completely miss that point entirely and it reinforces the clown world that is going on in places like Reddit and Twitter.

Thinking progressively in moderation is good because people might feel more welcome to join fields they were previously not welcome in. Personally, I welcome more women kicking ass in tech. Unfortunately, we're a tad drowned out by the "I'm totally a lesbian" dude bros wearing programmer socks and trying to relate to the rest of us True and Honest women by talking about boob problems. It is as if their shitty chemically made moobs can even compare to real boobs.


On the ethics class thing, I'm actually taking one this semester and it's a lot more based than I thought it would be. The first thing we talked about was Covid and how the discussion is an ethics ouroboros and discourse on the topic will help us answer other questions later. The instructor asked people for their opinions and we eventually debated about how ethical sainthood is an extreme side that cannot be realistic for life. Exorcising all harm from others isn't realistic because it would lead to a life of permanent isolation, not even using Internet, and somehow figuring out how to grow your own food and recycle all of your water. It is impossible to be morally perfect, but you can be morally reasonable, which means accepting that your actions might have harm elsewhere, yet doing your best to not intentionally harm. This was the most refreshing take I've ever heard on Covid (from outside KW obviously) all year. It helped me realize that the crazy folks wanting people to do nothing but forever isolate are in the minority.

Meanwhile, in complete contrast, I took a class covered under "humanities." It was a thinly veiled "white people bad" class that did nothing but tell white people that they should be ethical saints and colored people can just do whatever because white people owe it to them. I had the hardest time taking the class seriously because of how funny it was listening to this from a pasty white instructor. All of those memes of white people wearing shackles n' chains, holding up signs about their white guilt, I thought they were all jokes. Nah. This instructor was totally a living, breathing example of that. The water example I brought up in the non-spoilered commentary was a real thing I had to write a paper on. The entire lesson was virtue signaling about how horrible Nestle was and you should totally avoid any of their products. You have a "moral obligation" to refuse even free Nestle water because even accepting the free water from someone is supporting Nestle, thus supporting killing random brown people. I wish I could be making this shit up, but there will be people who leave this class and enter the real world not doing critical thought outside of classes like this.
 
Gar For Archer said:
There you go trying to argue with a Redditor. Seriously, ask yourself, what do you have to gain from this? What is the best-case outcome? You’re not going to change xyr’s mind, so what’s the point?

Don’t fucking bother. It’s not worth your time.
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What's funny about Reddit is that they think 4chan supports them, not my screenshot but still.

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So, one of the arguments I saw against the existence of NoNewNormal used most often was that people are encouraging one another to take a drug that might wind up killing them.

Fair enough.

So why do all of these subs exist?

r/cocaine
r/heroin
r/meth
r/crack
r/fentanyl
r/drugs
r/stims
r/cripplingalcoholism
r/gluesniffing

I'm sure there's a ton more, but that's as much as I give a shit. None of those subs are focused on addiction recovery, they're all people bragging about what they just got from their dealers with the occaisonal glimmer of self-awareness.
 
LurkTrawl said:
Caught up on the thread. I think this firmly places Reddit, perhaps not on the same tracks, but towards the same destination as SomethingAwful. Can't wait to see u/Spez having to explain that he beat his wife because muh sweaty feet or some shit.

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...more like he'll have to explain his wife beating him because she's more of a man than he is.
 
Enjoy_the_Soylence said:
I thought you guys were pro-eugenics. Right wing beliefs on abortion make no sense. Why do you want sloppy, penniless degenerates to have more children? Waaaaaah but the baby! A fetus can't suffer. It has no sense of self or memories or sentience. Unlike a 5 year old they let old men fondle for crack money, or whatever the fuck. I'm literally pro-abortion. It's the ethical way to prevent more suffering. Unwanted babies bring more poverty, more crime, more child abuse, more welfare--out of your tax dollars. It's unethical to force any of this, but encouragement? Hell yeah. You guys are working against your own goals.
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This is why it's best to take a nuanced position on abortion: I don't want my people aborting their own, but alien filth should have their abortions subsidized. That's tax dollars I'll happily pay if it means a future with fewer nogs in it.
 
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