This jumped off the page and really loudly appeared in my head as if a chunky Reddit kid had said it and followed it up with "Nyohoho".
:neckbeard: Your midWITtery is CHILDish, nyohoho~
> Since we can always trust face value.
The thing about disingenuous arguments is that it takes someone clever to pull them off.
The more I argued with Gablins, the better I came to know their dialectic. First they counted on the stupidity of their adversary, and then, when there was no other way out, they themselves simply played stupid. If all this didn't help, they pretended not to understand, or, if challenged, they changed the subject in a hurry, quoted platitudes which, if you accepted them, they immediately related to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, gave ground and pretended not to know exactly what you were talking about. Whenever you tried to attack one of these boomers, your hand closed on a jelly-like slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next moment collected again. But if you really struck one of these fellows so telling a blow that, observed by the audience, he couldn't help but agree, and if you believed that this had taken you at least one step forward, your amazement was great the next day. The Gablin had not the slightest recollection of the day before, he rattled off his same old nonsense as though nothing at all had happened, and, if indignantly challenged, affected amazement; he couldn't remember a thing, except that he had proved the correctness of his assertions the previous day.
> "my competitors suck and i want the state to kill them for me"
Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, 1982: "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Well, yeah, in the sense that it involves reconciling a course of action between people with conflicting views, but when saying that the process is political, this is, I think, to say that broader politics affect the internal actions. It's the difference between having to manage waste versus operating a waste management company: FSE exists in part due to beliefs I hold (I'd say philosophical rather than political, your mileage may vary), and actions I undertake are intended to be in line with those beliefs. This is different from FSE being subject to political ambitions or being used as a means to a political end, which I think it's safe to say is the purpose of, e.g., Spinster or Nice Crew Dot Digital. I don't mean to speak for Moon but I think it's reasonable to say that FSE and SPC are more similar in that sense than either is like Spinster (which is why the creator of that site has declared that FSE hasn't achieved anything). So some sites are subject to political whims, there's a broader goal; FSE's goal is the continued operation of FSE.
@lanodan@thendrix@anonymous@coolboymew In this case, it was a journalist, famous for doxing people, having someone *else's* dox removed, from a site she did not own.
I got the impression from Archive.org's response that they mainly didn't want to be in the middle of a fight.
BOFH of freespeechextremist.com, and former admin. The usual alt if FSE is down: @p@shitposter.club, and others. I am no longer the admin. FSE has no admins now. Welcome to the FSE Autonomous Zone.I'm not angry with you, I'm just disappointed.I am physically in Los Angeles but I exist in a permanent state of 3 a.m.I have dropped a bytebeat album, feel free to DM me for a download code or a link to a tarball: https://finitecell.bandcamp.com/album/villain . There is a chiptunes album there, too.Revolver is coming: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/revolver-kickoff.html