I appreciate what you’ve done and it’s been nice working with you. I hope you keep posting a lot.
Imo mods should rotate, so I think a change would be good.
I nominate @TheDuker
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You Streisanded that thread imo.
zz knew what he was doing.
Every time you posit that, I think of the Greeks of antiquity.
I have no idea what this means. Streisanded?
I nominate @DodgerIrish if @TheDuker doesn’t want to do it or after he resigns and disgust if he does.
So you waited for me to decide to resign rather than taking a moderation action that I felt did not have the support of the community on to then attack my record as a moderator when there was no longer any constructive reason to do so?
Cool.
And of all the BS things you accused me of I think using implied threats of action to dominate discussions is the most baseless and absurd.
Lastly if opposing calls for throwing molotov cocktails at cops or whatever that was about (I forget the exact hypothetical) makes me a big baby, then you definitely got me. Huge baby here.
Evidence suggests otherwise.
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Evidence does suggest otherwise, although this is the evidence
That pebble stripe is hideous, and is that “Believe” floating above the cabinets?
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That’s not my house, it’s a job site. There would be far, far more to criticize if I posted a pic of my own kitchen.
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My grandma from my dad’s side always called my girlfriend/now wife “her little Barbara Streisand”. The subtle prejudice was okay because while the wife is Jewish the wife’s family is Polish just like grandma’s. So we both ate fried potatoes just called them different things.
On this topic - I appreciate Cuse’s posts and hope he continues to do so as I think it’s definitely a value add.
That’s not a good reflection on you but okay.
I should hope not, tell them darth smrk is disturbed by their lack of vision
Feng shui for guillotine’rs
I can see why someone who thinks it’s possible they might someday seek political office (which would include cuse IIRC) would not want to be connected to “bad optics” like a reference to guillotines in a clearly non-violent thread. Bad optics - doesn’t matter if it’s not an actual call to violence. But to say that anyone OK with that thread should be ashamed etc etc etc is absurd IMO. Honestly anyone who is legit worried about internet posts coming back to haunt their future political careers should not post on the internet at all.
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But this is bullshit. We have an actual rapist as POTUS. Nobody gives a fuck about internet forums.
Nothing more beta than letting a bunch of whiny culture warriors looking for any excuse to get outraged control your behavior. It’s actually the exact thing we hate establishment Democrats for.
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I think it’s partially an Overton window issue. The “right” has an actual fascist joking about shooting immigrants at the border (while literally caging them irl), while the “left” can’t joke about guillotining people, let alone actually do anything to them at all apparently. As has been observed many times in these forums, the “left” isn’t really left at all.
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The G thread is terrible.
I’m not sure why so many people feel the need to push buttons or espouse violence. Or why it’s somehow boring or weak if that isn’t allowed. To me, that stuff is a sign I don’t want to be involved.
I respect Cuse’s decision. He’s been consistent on his concerns with violence from the start. Given that the forum seems to feel differently, it’s appropriate for him to step down.
There are conversations here I want to continue, people I like, threads I follow, so myself, I’m not going anywhere but it does feel solid to be able to vote with dollars.
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This just makes me sad that we’re a lot farther from the critical mass needed for real guillotines than I thought. Oh well, I guess I’ll be guillotining some friends, it always comes to that anyways.
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I would have thought after the last three plus years the civility and pearl clutching would have been left by the roadside. It is a pretty ominous sign that a decent percentage want to grasp on to those things in a fight that absolutely does not allow for it.
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If you guys think being edgelords on the internet is actually going to lead to real political change, that’s a sad comment on the state of the left.
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