They said WHAT on Dakka?

[mdgv2]

I’m not even sure he knew. He did mention earlier in the thread a religious slang to his views, and I respect him for not going into that due to Dakka’s rules.

But the rest was proper Matt Powell type drivel.

Hey, he might even be an undercover Matt Powell, the baby faced hate preacher who most certainly doesn’t toss all night thinking about what male gay couples get up to.

[Haighus]

Who is Matt Powell?

[mdgv2]

Shitty little Christian Apolgist, who advocates for the state extermination of homosexuals. For Jeebus.

Briefly lived with convicted wife beater and tax dodger “Dr” Kent Hovind.

Both are young earth creationists and massive fucking liars.

[easye]

The guy seemed like he was on the edge of going full-blown Conspiracy Theorist. Whenever I see the term, "Scientism" used with a straight-face I know I am in for a normal, logic-based, and rational conversation.

[bobtheinquisitor]

That’s why I wanted him to give a clear, direct statement about Bigfoot being a paradigm shift, not an organism as science knows it, and what that has to do with all the comments about scientism hiding the truth and intelligence agencies causing UFO sightings, etc.. There are a lot of different rabbit holes he could be posting from.

He would never come right out and say it, but he made sure to be condescending and dismissive towards every other opinion posted. It wouldn’t have been so bad except that his word salad megaposts kept derailing the thread from the much more interesting conversations happening without him.

[mdgv2]

I kind of got the feeling he’s fresh from an echo chamber, and perhaps doesn’t actually know what context the terms he uses are used in, within said echo chambers.

Like all he’s known are apologetics and so is singularly ill equipped to discuss stuff with people that have a different opinion.

[Haighus]

The sauerkraut thread went to weird places very suddenly.

[bobtheinquisitor]

I didn’t understand the acronyms the last guy was using. Would anyone care to explain?

[bobtheinquisitor]

Also, it wasn’t that weird for a thread 80% “slurs are funny unless you’re a woke sjw triggered on someone else’s totally-cool-with-slurs behalf”.

The reason I posted what I did is because it seemed like it was becoming a circle jerk of “can’t make Blazing Saddles today” style culture war bullshit.

[Haighus]

Apr 5, 2024 13:06:19 GMT -5 bobtheinquisitor said:

Also, it wasn’t that weird for a thread 80% “slurs are funny unless you’re a woke sjw triggered on someone else’s totally-cool-with-slurs behalf”.

The reason I posted what I did is because it seemed like it was becoming a circle jerk of “can’t make Blazing Saddles today” style culture war bullshit.

Oh, I agree it was already going to bad places in a normal way. By weird I mean all the stuff about personal sovereignty etc. That post was quite the word salad.

Also kind of funny when you consider that sovereign states willingly give up some sovereignty in return for beneficial arrangements with other states (treaties). The "personal sovereignty" equivalent would be *checks notes* a society where we conform to various norms for the benefits of a society.

[mdgv2]

I was wondering what caused the closure!

[punishedmcbogus]

Given how the mods have let the "racism is heaps funny" crowd very much have their say, and deleted nothing, only closing the thread when someone actually makes an articulate point about trying to treat others with dignity, which, it's pretty clear that it's because they see the latter as troublemakers, and the former as just good old boys trying to have fun. I think the fact that somehow people in the gun thread are CONSTANTLY talking about lethality, "joking" about ways conceal to the government how many firearms you own, complaining about gun laws etc. shows what kind of conversation the mods are comfortable with being regular on dakka, when any kind of social justice thread will quickly just get locked down for being "more trouble than it's worth".

I doubt there was ever a play to begin with. But it's a nice signpost for minorities looking at dakka, probably like the kind some of the posters in that thread wish were still on certain water fountains.

[A Town Called Malus]

Yeah, I'm not offended on behalf of others if some bigot uses a slur in front of me. I'm offended they think I'm the kind of scum that would find them using a slur acceptable, or even welcome.

[sirwinston41]

Apr 6, 2024 2:51:19 GMT -5 punishedmcbogus said:

Given how the mods have let the "racism is heaps funny" crowd very much have their say, and deleted nothing, only closing the thread when someone actually makes an articulate point about trying to treat others with dignity, which, it's pretty clear that it's because they see the latter as troublemakers, and the former as just good old boys trying to have fun. I think the fact that somehow people in the gun thread are CONSTANTLY talking about lethality, "joking" about ways conceal to the government how many firearms you own, complaining about gun laws etc. shows what kind of conversation the mods are comfortable with being regular on dakka, when any kind of social justice thread will quickly just get locked down for being "more trouble than it's worth".

I doubt there was ever a play to begin with. But it's a nice signpost for minorities looking at dakka, probably like the kind some of the posters in that thread wish were still on certain water fountains.

So you missed the blatantly racist trolling posts that got the thread locked then (including by Kid Kyoto)? Not sure why that thread existed in the first place TBH, surely google could have answered that question easily enough. 

[bobtheinquisitor]

I don’t see any posts there by Kid Kyoto at all. What got deleted?