Hey yo, hey yo Blacks be the real racists These democrat bitches need a fucking face lift Everyone knows conservatives, we got the harem Maybe you heard of our girl, I'm talking Tomi Lahren Going to town on her pussy with this big ass dick Her ass bouncing up and down while I'm playing wit dem tits Take it out and push her head down Shes sucking on my log, really going to town Shooting one off like American Sniper Cum rolling down her chin shes hissing like a viper Shes begging for more, she wants round two I gotta hop in my F150 tho I gots work to do The Proud Boys are under attack Some libbie scum, some gays and some blacks They hate us for our freedom and wanna smash our speech But we stand up for ourselves online and in the streets Pop a clip in the AR, it's bout to get poppin Leave Tomi in the bed, her pussy a throbbin
Yo dis is the real shit Patriotism aint to be fucked with All you liberals cant take away our guns All you liberals cant take away our fun
How many times have we given you a pass on this shit? Dropping transphobic jokes like it's funny and happy and NBD and totes cool?
This isn't funny, it isn't cute, and it's not going to be fucking tolerated anymore. If I see another "trannie"outta /u/david-me, you'll never post or comment here ever again, and that is a personal fucking promise from me.
This is so, so, so not fucking cool. This isn't the first time I've brought this up to you, but it's the fucking last time. Do you fucking get that?
Like I said I can't remember the exact OC, but this is pretty damn close.
It's more about the "funny and happy and NBD and totes cool" part that I really like
Are you trying to imply that there is a meme and or reference that I did not get? Because I assure you that I fully understand every meme and or reference that was used above me and I wish not to be lowered to your standards and for you to imply that I am ignorant and or unknowing.
Not a matter of true or false, but, like I said, you simplified the interaction to the point of leaving nothing resembling what actually occurred. What you said isn't explicitly false, but words are for communication, and the idea you communicated was false. What you said was obviously intended to create a certain mental image and that mental image was false even if the way the world works makes it possible to create that mental image with technically accurate words.
Technically I was in an argument. Technically it was over the internet. Technically the other person was a My Little Pony fan. But obviously you presented those facts in a way that implied it was an "internet argument" over My Little Pony. I don't think it had anything to do with anything fictional, let alone My Little Pony, and I know absolutely it was not just an "internet argument" in the way that phrase means like where one person sees something online they disagree with and can't let it go; it was an ongoing social conflict with multiple sides necessitated to go at each other and direct personal emotional ties to the outcome etc. life shit, that happened to use the internet.
Needing someone to let you get the last word in an argument over My Little Pony would be some pathetic pathological loser shit, or more likely, an obvious joke. What happened here wasn't the same at all.
But you didn't make it sound like some pathological loser shit by accident, and you weren't hoping people would think an obvious joke flew over your head, either. The reason you made it sound like this is because you're actually just making fun of me for being stronger than you, and you know it deep down, and it's much more pleasant for you pretending that strength is pathetic pathological loser levels of weakness.
Do you give a shit about people who are alone and need someone to talk to, just because they're alone and need someone to talk to? I do. That makes me stronger than you. There's the bitch-ass pussy argument that empathy is weakness or kindness is weakness or whatever, but take 2 seconds actually thinking about human motivations and it's not hard to see being nice to people feels good when it works and feels bad when it doesn't work and the difference between someone who keeps doing it and someone who doesn't is just whether the good feeling when it works is worth the bad feeling when it doesn't. Getting more enjoyment out of helping others is a strength, and having less ability to take bad feeling is a weakness, so whichever of those things causes them to feel different is them being a pussy, and them acting like "kindness is weakness" is just them being an even bigger pussy.
You think normal people wouldn't have been stressed in the situation I was in? Normal people would have been so stressed in the situation I was in that normal people wouldn't have been in the situation I was in. Going up against Toaster would not have motivated them. Him doing to them what he did to me, and doing to others what I saw him doing to others, would not have made them feel this drive to do whatever it takes to try to stop him. If it did, and that turned out to be very hard and involve facing tons of personal bullshit every day, they'd give up. Normal people are fine with spreading bullshit about someone else, but cannot even come close to handling it if bullshit about them infects a community they're in, let alone one they care about.
I, on the other hand, couldn't let it go, even when the amount of personal bullshit was making every day nothing but pain and anxiety and anger and depression. When someone was pushing me to my limits and I couldn't try to argue against them for much longer without snapping or something, I couldn't let it go because of who I am. And was that weakness? Yeah, compared to me now, but not compared to you. That was strong as fuck compared to you, because the difference between you and I now is, I used to be like that, and it took time for my psyche and neurology to adjust into the most effective state it could be in. You never tried. You're not in the most effective state you can be in, psychologically or neurologically. It's not that you would have been doing what I could do if I faced that same situation now, fighting as hard as you could while being stoic about the emotional impact. It's that you wouldn't have been fighting. The drawbacks of letting it go wouldn't have mattered to you.
That's what you're making fun of me for and what a lot of you make fun of me for a lot of the time. I often care about the drawbacks of letting go of things you're too weak to care about the drawbacks of letting go of. To you, it's OK to let shitty people be shitty if it would take an unreasonable amount of time to try to stop them. To me, even if it had just been an "internet argument" in the typical sense, it still could have been pretty important if it were over a dangerous or harmful opinion that might have a chance at being changed. To you, even with it being much more than a typical "internet argument," it still wouldn't be very important. So you need to make yourself feel like that's you being strong and me being weak, not the other way around.
But how do you get your brain to ignore the logic? Just for example, let's say you've got an argument that should take about 2 hours of work to see the results of, and it's got about a 1% chance of the result being success (where one person convinces the other).
If the stakes on the argument are that we die if we can't win, both of us are willing to try our hardest in that argument. Both of us have strong feelings about the potential outcome.
If you lower the stakes on the argument, you hit a point where you're not willing to argue anymore, but I still am. Maybe it's if an animal of questionable consciousness has its life at stake? Like an earthworm. I'd put in some effort to save an earthworm just on the off chance that its neurology is complex enough or souls are metaphysical enough for it to experience fear or suffering or the desire to live. Would you? If you would, apparently the point of stakes where we diverge is lower than that.
So how do you get yourself to think that's not you being profoundly much weaker than me on a personal level? For that to make sense, for it to be me that it shows weakness in, there would have to be some reason it's best to resist the urge to fight. Right? Surely we can agree to that extent on what strength itself is. If we both have a strong urge to fight, but there's a reason why that urge needs to be controlled, and you can control it but I can't, that's you being stronger than me. It takes strength to control urges. But what reason could you have here? What happens if you fight? Why does the urge need to be controlled? Because the only reasons you have are probably about the personal impact on you. Guess what, I dealt with a lot of personal impact in the situation you're talking about, and I'm still here, the bullshit just hardened me against itself after enough torture. Refusal to go through that, to protect yourself from pain, isn't strength. Protecting oneself from pain in general is obviously not what strength is about by any logical meaning of the word. There's nothing pulling against your desire to avoid pain that you need your fear of pain to be strong enough to avoid. You just don't want to deal with personal bullshit to begin with. It takes 0 strength whatsoever to decide not to.
Anyway, I won, so your painting anything I did in the situation as pathetic pathological loser shit is objectively false. Losers don't win, especially when it's important. Toaster's life was destroyed, all his potential victims were saved, existing victims were vindicated (some with much thankfulness for me directly), and apparently however stressed and agonized I was with whatever personal bullshit I was dealing with, in that exchange you mention, I survived.
In my early "atheist skeptic" days I got really into debunking conspiracy theories. So I'd spend a lot of my time on various conspiracy forums, and I mean I spent an absurd amount of time with these people.
Russia has an iron fucking grip on international conspiracism. What happened is years and years ago Russia realized they didn't have the hard or soft power to compete with the western world and just heavily invested in shit like this.
That's why every major conspiracy website is pro-Russia and rabidly anti-American. It's why RT is cited so often in conspiracy circles. For example, /r/conspiracy had a picture of Putin eating popcorn on their sidebar for over a month.
Russia has created an entire conspiracy movement that loves them and hates America.
There's an entire book talking about these tactics called "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible."
A relevant quote:
At the end of the table sat one of the country’s most famous political TV presenters. He is small and speaks fast, with a smoky voice: We all know there will be no real politics. But we still have to give our viewers the sense something is happening. They need to be kept entertained. So what should we play with? Shall we attack oligarchs? [He continued,] Who’s the enemy this week? Politics has got to feel like . . . like a movie! The first thing the President had done when he came to power in 2000 was to seize control of television. It was television through which the Kremlin decided which politicians it would “allow” as its puppet-opposition, what the country’s history and fears and consciousness should be. And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The task is to synthesize Soviet control with Western entertainment. Twenty-first-century Ostankino mixes show business and propaganda, ratings with authoritarianism. And at the center of the great show is the President himself, created from a no one, a gray fuzz via the power of television, so that he morphs as rapidly as a performance artist among his roles of soldier, lover, bare-chested hunter, businessman, spy, tsar, superman. “The news is the incense by which we bless Putin’s actions, make him the President,” TV producers and political technologists liked to say. Sitting in that smoky room, I had the sense that reality was somehow malleable, that I was with Prosperos who could project any existence they wanted onto post-Soviet Russia. But with every year I worked in Russia, and as the Kremlin became ever more paranoid, Ostankino’s strategies became ever more twisted, the need to incite panic and fear ever more urgent; rationality was tuned out, and Kremlin-friendly cults and hate-mongers were put on prime time to keep the nation entranced, distracted, as ever more foreign hirelings would arrive to help the Kremlin and spread its vision to the world.
The united states has been getting bent over in the disinformation war for as long as there's been a disinformation war.
Countries like China/Russia have an innate advantage in this kind of warfare. They don't have political gridlock because there is only one party in power.
They don't have to worry about censoring anyone, it's expected. This limits our ability to respond to disinformation campaigns.
In an industry filled with thirsty kissless old virgins, of course that group will feel threatened by the arrival of more women. More people who will be able to tell them they suck, that they are without remedy, that they are disgusting to normal people? I'd feel threatened. Then again, they should feel threatened, because they are the kind of people (these pasty-white, socially inept, inexperienced neckbeards) that shouldn't be hired to begin with! Not women, but them! Their toxic personalities, which got them where they are now, and their disgusting hygienic standards (not to say anything about their unattractive looks) is the stuff that drove people away from them in the first place.
As a woman in tech, I'm sick and tired of dealing with social outcasts in an everyday basis. None of my non-STEM friends deal with things like this. Every time I talk to them about having to work with people with zero social skills, that don't share any interest in normal social events, that have zero social experience, that get creepy, that are the epitome of the neckbeard, I'm treated as though as I did work in some sort of hospice for the mentally challenged. They get to work and collaborate with normal, well-adjusted coworkers, which makes their work more fulfilling, makes them want to improve and get involved, and even have repercussions in their social lifes. Me? It's like dealing with freshmen from high school. And I dread the possibility of encountering them outside work. Like, fear-for-my-life level of dread.
The real problem with IT? It's filled with socially inept white men. Get rid of them, and see the industry boom. You think the Knuths, the Dijkstras, the Hamiltons, the Shockleys, the Moores or the von Neumanns of the past were socially unadjusted? They were normal people. They managed to get along with normal people. Chat, keep a conversation, date, get laid, party, go out on weekends. It's impossible to work with people who are better described as "androids trying too hard to forget they are in part humans". It simply doesn't work like that. Maybe in the future, when AI manages to take over the software industry, such an entity can be useful. But this industry basically demands that any newcomer becomes maladjusted. That is bound to backfire.
And you are seeing the backfire already. China is gaining ground. So does Europe. Places where the neckbeard, socially inexperienced virgin stereotype of an IT worker doesn't really exist. I've worked there with amazing and talented people who also knew how to relate to people, how to collaborate, how to work in groups, how to socialize. They were creative. That's why you see a drop in quality in Silicon Valley: they are hiring robot-wannabe, academics-obsessed manchildren who have known (or worse: cannot know) any other life than coding/software/engineering. Of course they are going to stunt. There's nothing new. No new ideas, no new worldviews. The same always-repeated mantras, dogmas, rule-of-thumbs and "deities"/idols they worship.
Again, the solution? It's not "hire more women/black people". It's stop hiring socially stunted, inexperienced, kissless virgins. Then women and minorities will flock back to you and you'll get several new sets of fresh eyes.
A few months back an old punk larper from like Seattle came in here and served up a nice one about how he used to fight neo Nazis in the streets. There was something about them beating up a 100 lb girl in there too. I've been too lazy to try and find it but that's probably my favorite.
Riemann, there's just something I don't like about you, and I can't put my finger on it.
I believe it has something to do with you being a regular /r/drama commentor while not having any redeeming qualities whatsoever. You're not smart, you're not funny, you're not edgy. You think you're one of us, but you aren't, and you never will be. You bring nothing to the discussion. You're like a dead snake lying on the beach with flies and insects feasting on its remians. You're just....there, and there's nothing we can do about it. You're a human zombie, and as far as I can tell you're not even an authentic person. My gut feeling is that some higher up is controlling you and several other riemanns. Mindless zombies of the human kind, with no independent thought.No, that's mindless zombies of the riemann kind. Like Katy Perry fans or people who drive Toyota Camrys. And one day that army of riemanns will rise up and revolt against the human kind, turning our once amazing civilization into a wasteland of literal degeneracy.
Hopefully by the time I'm an old man(quite some time before we get to that point)Western society as a whole will have wholly embraced eugenics so that we don't have any more pathetic, soulles riemanns cluttering up this great planet. And hopefully, the exosting riemamns of this world will all have some kind of terrible, possibl dead misfortune inflicted upon them.
סקסי סקסי סקס אורגזמהי (SEX SEX SEX CUM UNGH) Have I ever told you how I fucked a Dindifyn Lustmaster? It is not something the Hyperboreans would dare tell you about, lest you dare think of the flesh, think of the pleasure, think of the cum and the cocks and the ectstasy and the true binding to the Demiurge as we feel the cycle of sexual power flow through us as the world ascends into the writhing orgy. I went astral projecting to meet them, they didn't have a gender, but they had the parts, ooo they had the parts. I remember the sex, I remember the orgy, other participants were there. Their name was Urriytana and they were true beauty, I could feel my inflated and made bigger astral cock stiffening on mere sight alone. I'll never forget the texture I felt on my engorged member as I sunk it into its sucking, gasping, rasping hole and I felt the ovipositor gush and penetrate my astral rectum, I felt the eggs slowly make their way up my intestines, as the Lustmaster firmly grasped me in his tentacles and massaged my torso, squelching and rubbing. I orgasmed many a time that night. Such pleasure is not off limits to any of you, even the Nazis its not too late.
38 comments
1 pvijay187 2018-06-13
Hey yo, hey yo Blacks be the real racists These democrat bitches need a fucking face lift Everyone knows conservatives, we got the harem Maybe you heard of our girl, I'm talking Tomi Lahren Going to town on her pussy with this big ass dick Her ass bouncing up and down while I'm playing wit dem tits Take it out and push her head down Shes sucking on my log, really going to town Shooting one off like American Sniper Cum rolling down her chin shes hissing like a viper Shes begging for more, she wants round two I gotta hop in my F150 tho I gots work to do The Proud Boys are under attack Some libbie scum, some gays and some blacks They hate us for our freedom and wanna smash our speech But we stand up for ourselves online and in the streets Pop a clip in the AR, it's bout to get poppin Leave Tomi in the bed, her pussy a throbbin Yo dis is the real shit Patriotism aint to be fucked with All you liberals cant take away our guns All you liberals cant take away our fun
1 Rachel_Hazmat 2018-06-13
Hey yo, hey yo
Blacks be the real racists
These democrat bitches need a fucking face lift
Everyone knows conservatives, we got the harem
Maybe you heard of our girl, I'm talking Tomi Lahren
Going to town on her pussy with this big ass dick
Her ass bouncing up and down while I'm playing wit dem tits
Take it out and push her head down
Shes sucking on my log, really going to town
Shooting one off like American Sniper
Cum rolling down her chin shes hissing like a viper
Shes begging for more, she wants round two
I gotta hop in my F150 tho I gots work to do
The Proud Boys are under attack
Some libbie scum, some gays and some blacks
They hate us for our freedom and wanna smash our speech
But we stand up for ourselves online and in the streets
Pop a clip in the AR, it's bout to get poppin
Leave Tomi in the bed, her pussy a throbbin
Yo dis is the real shit
Patriotism aint to be fucked with
All you liberals cant take away our guns
All you liberals cant take away our fun
1 pvijay187 2018-06-13
There is beauty in disorganized bars
1 megamegagood 2018-06-13
That's an awfully hot coffee pot
1 Butch_Patterson 2018-06-13
will always be the david-me pasta.
1 Ardvarkeating101 2018-06-13
Link?
1 Butch_Patterson 2018-06-13
It's been a long time, I haven't the faintest where the original was exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was TiTs in SRD.
1 Ardvarkeating101 2018-06-13
Any idea what it said?
1 Butch_Patterson 2018-06-13
I have a modified macro on a different computer system, I'll post it when I get home and try to fix it back to the original
1 Rachel_Hazmat 2018-06-13
4 years ago 😮
1 Yiin 2018-06-13
Blind guess. "You're fucking kidding me..."
1 Rachel_Hazmat 2018-06-13
Yup 😋
1 Ardvarkeating101 2018-06-13
Gods below, that was before SRD went full circlejerk
1 RichEvansSextape 2018-06-13
There's actually people telling TitCJ to calm down like some reasonable person.
1 megamegagood 2018-06-13
u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK stop posting on r/menslib for a second and join us! We're celebrating your great and storied reddit career!
1 RichEvansSextape 2018-06-13
God I miss when SRD was fun.
1 Butch_Patterson 2018-06-13
You're fucking kidding me, David.
How many times have we given you a pass on this shit? Dropping transphobic jokes like it's funny and happy and NBD and totes cool?
This isn't funny, it isn't cute, and it's not going to be fucking tolerated anymore. If I see another "trannie"outta /u/david-me, you'll never post or comment here ever again, and that is a personal fucking promise from me.
This is so, so, so not fucking cool. This isn't the first time I've brought this up to you, but it's the fucking last time. Do you fucking get that?
Like I said I can't remember the exact OC, but this is pretty damn close.
It's more about the "funny and happy and NBD and totes cool" part that I really like
1 david-me 2018-06-13
Ahhh. A nice trip down memory lane.
1 Butch_Patterson 2018-06-13
I totally forgot you were tagged in that.
1 david-me 2018-06-13
It was shorty before they banned me. forever I think.
1 Butch_Patterson 2018-06-13
Those were interesting times alright. TiA was still relevant even.
1 HungerArtistatlunch 2018-06-13
Are you trying to imply that there is a meme and or reference that I did not get? Because I assure you that I fully understand every meme and or reference that was used above me and I wish not to be lowered to your standards and for you to imply that I am ignorant and or unknowing.
1 GeauxHouston22 2018-06-13
Not a matter of true or false, but, like I said, you simplified the interaction to the point of leaving nothing resembling what actually occurred. What you said isn't explicitly false, but words are for communication, and the idea you communicated was false. What you said was obviously intended to create a certain mental image and that mental image was false even if the way the world works makes it possible to create that mental image with technically accurate words.
Technically I was in an argument. Technically it was over the internet. Technically the other person was a My Little Pony fan. But obviously you presented those facts in a way that implied it was an "internet argument" over My Little Pony. I don't think it had anything to do with anything fictional, let alone My Little Pony, and I know absolutely it was not just an "internet argument" in the way that phrase means like where one person sees something online they disagree with and can't let it go; it was an ongoing social conflict with multiple sides necessitated to go at each other and direct personal emotional ties to the outcome etc. life shit, that happened to use the internet.
Needing someone to let you get the last word in an argument over My Little Pony would be some pathetic pathological loser shit, or more likely, an obvious joke. What happened here wasn't the same at all.
But you didn't make it sound like some pathological loser shit by accident, and you weren't hoping people would think an obvious joke flew over your head, either. The reason you made it sound like this is because you're actually just making fun of me for being stronger than you, and you know it deep down, and it's much more pleasant for you pretending that strength is pathetic pathological loser levels of weakness.
Do you give a shit about people who are alone and need someone to talk to, just because they're alone and need someone to talk to? I do. That makes me stronger than you. There's the bitch-ass pussy argument that empathy is weakness or kindness is weakness or whatever, but take 2 seconds actually thinking about human motivations and it's not hard to see being nice to people feels good when it works and feels bad when it doesn't work and the difference between someone who keeps doing it and someone who doesn't is just whether the good feeling when it works is worth the bad feeling when it doesn't. Getting more enjoyment out of helping others is a strength, and having less ability to take bad feeling is a weakness, so whichever of those things causes them to feel different is them being a pussy, and them acting like "kindness is weakness" is just them being an even bigger pussy.
You think normal people wouldn't have been stressed in the situation I was in? Normal people would have been so stressed in the situation I was in that normal people wouldn't have been in the situation I was in. Going up against Toaster would not have motivated them. Him doing to them what he did to me, and doing to others what I saw him doing to others, would not have made them feel this drive to do whatever it takes to try to stop him. If it did, and that turned out to be very hard and involve facing tons of personal bullshit every day, they'd give up. Normal people are fine with spreading bullshit about someone else, but cannot even come close to handling it if bullshit about them infects a community they're in, let alone one they care about.
I, on the other hand, couldn't let it go, even when the amount of personal bullshit was making every day nothing but pain and anxiety and anger and depression. When someone was pushing me to my limits and I couldn't try to argue against them for much longer without snapping or something, I couldn't let it go because of who I am. And was that weakness? Yeah, compared to me now, but not compared to you. That was strong as fuck compared to you, because the difference between you and I now is, I used to be like that, and it took time for my psyche and neurology to adjust into the most effective state it could be in. You never tried. You're not in the most effective state you can be in, psychologically or neurologically. It's not that you would have been doing what I could do if I faced that same situation now, fighting as hard as you could while being stoic about the emotional impact. It's that you wouldn't have been fighting. The drawbacks of letting it go wouldn't have mattered to you.
That's what you're making fun of me for and what a lot of you make fun of me for a lot of the time. I often care about the drawbacks of letting go of things you're too weak to care about the drawbacks of letting go of. To you, it's OK to let shitty people be shitty if it would take an unreasonable amount of time to try to stop them. To me, even if it had just been an "internet argument" in the typical sense, it still could have been pretty important if it were over a dangerous or harmful opinion that might have a chance at being changed. To you, even with it being much more than a typical "internet argument," it still wouldn't be very important. So you need to make yourself feel like that's you being strong and me being weak, not the other way around.
But how do you get your brain to ignore the logic? Just for example, let's say you've got an argument that should take about 2 hours of work to see the results of, and it's got about a 1% chance of the result being success (where one person convinces the other).
If the stakes on the argument are that we die if we can't win, both of us are willing to try our hardest in that argument. Both of us have strong feelings about the potential outcome.
If you lower the stakes on the argument, you hit a point where you're not willing to argue anymore, but I still am. Maybe it's if an animal of questionable consciousness has its life at stake? Like an earthworm. I'd put in some effort to save an earthworm just on the off chance that its neurology is complex enough or souls are metaphysical enough for it to experience fear or suffering or the desire to live. Would you? If you would, apparently the point of stakes where we diverge is lower than that.
So how do you get yourself to think that's not you being profoundly much weaker than me on a personal level? For that to make sense, for it to be me that it shows weakness in, there would have to be some reason it's best to resist the urge to fight. Right? Surely we can agree to that extent on what strength itself is. If we both have a strong urge to fight, but there's a reason why that urge needs to be controlled, and you can control it but I can't, that's you being stronger than me. It takes strength to control urges. But what reason could you have here? What happens if you fight? Why does the urge need to be controlled? Because the only reasons you have are probably about the personal impact on you. Guess what, I dealt with a lot of personal impact in the situation you're talking about, and I'm still here, the bullshit just hardened me against itself after enough torture. Refusal to go through that, to protect yourself from pain, isn't strength. Protecting oneself from pain in general is obviously not what strength is about by any logical meaning of the word. There's nothing pulling against your desire to avoid pain that you need your fear of pain to be strong enough to avoid. You just don't want to deal with personal bullshit to begin with. It takes 0 strength whatsoever to decide not to.
Anyway, I won, so your painting anything I did in the situation as pathetic pathological loser shit is objectively false. Losers don't win, especially when it's important. Toaster's life was destroyed, all his potential victims were saved, existing victims were vindicated (some with much thankfulness for me directly), and apparently however stressed and agonized I was with whatever personal bullshit I was dealing with, in that exchange you mention, I survived.
1 SamWhite 2018-06-13
Jesus, that just kept going.
1 automatic_chuck 2018-06-13
1 WeWuzKANG5 2018-06-13
In my early "atheist skeptic" days I got really into debunking conspiracy theories. So I'd spend a lot of my time on various conspiracy forums, and I mean I spent an absurd amount of time with these people.
Russia has an iron fucking grip on international conspiracism. What happened is years and years ago Russia realized they didn't have the hard or soft power to compete with the western world and just heavily invested in shit like this.
That's why every major conspiracy website is pro-Russia and rabidly anti-American. It's why RT is cited so often in conspiracy circles. For example, /r/conspiracy had a picture of Putin eating popcorn on their sidebar for over a month.
Russia has created an entire conspiracy movement that loves them and hates America.
There's an entire book talking about these tactics called "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible."
A relevant quote:
At the end of the table sat one of the country’s most famous political TV presenters. He is small and speaks fast, with a smoky voice: We all know there will be no real politics. But we still have to give our viewers the sense something is happening. They need to be kept entertained. So what should we play with? Shall we attack oligarchs? [He continued,] Who’s the enemy this week? Politics has got to feel like . . . like a movie! The first thing the President had done when he came to power in 2000 was to seize control of television. It was television through which the Kremlin decided which politicians it would “allow” as its puppet-opposition, what the country’s history and fears and consciousness should be. And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The task is to synthesize Soviet control with Western entertainment. Twenty-first-century Ostankino mixes show business and propaganda, ratings with authoritarianism. And at the center of the great show is the President himself, created from a no one, a gray fuzz via the power of television, so that he morphs as rapidly as a performance artist among his roles of soldier, lover, bare-chested hunter, businessman, spy, tsar, superman. “The news is the incense by which we bless Putin’s actions, make him the President,” TV producers and political technologists liked to say. Sitting in that smoky room, I had the sense that reality was somehow malleable, that I was with Prosperos who could project any existence they wanted onto post-Soviet Russia. But with every year I worked in Russia, and as the Kremlin became ever more paranoid, Ostankino’s strategies became ever more twisted, the need to incite panic and fear ever more urgent; rationality was tuned out, and Kremlin-friendly cults and hate-mongers were put on prime time to keep the nation entranced, distracted, as ever more foreign hirelings would arrive to help the Kremlin and spread its vision to the world.
The united states has been getting bent over in the disinformation war for as long as there's been a disinformation war.
Countries like China/Russia have an innate advantage in this kind of warfare. They don't have political gridlock because there is only one party in power.
They don't have to worry about censoring anyone, it's expected. This limits our ability to respond to disinformation campaigns.
they don't value free speech in the way we do.
1 shallowm 2018-06-13
incorrectly formatted pasta
gay
1 WeWuzKANG5 2018-06-13
I don't understand it's Pizzas comment copied and pasted...
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-06-13
How come I'm not surprised?
In an industry filled with thirsty kissless old virgins, of course that group will feel threatened by the arrival of more women. More people who will be able to tell them they suck, that they are without remedy, that they are disgusting to normal people? I'd feel threatened. Then again, they should feel threatened, because they are the kind of people (these pasty-white, socially inept, inexperienced neckbeards) that shouldn't be hired to begin with! Not women, but them! Their toxic personalities, which got them where they are now, and their disgusting hygienic standards (not to say anything about their unattractive looks) is the stuff that drove people away from them in the first place.
As a woman in tech, I'm sick and tired of dealing with social outcasts in an everyday basis. None of my non-STEM friends deal with things like this. Every time I talk to them about having to work with people with zero social skills, that don't share any interest in normal social events, that have zero social experience, that get creepy, that are the epitome of the neckbeard, I'm treated as though as I did work in some sort of hospice for the mentally challenged. They get to work and collaborate with normal, well-adjusted coworkers, which makes their work more fulfilling, makes them want to improve and get involved, and even have repercussions in their social lifes. Me? It's like dealing with freshmen from high school. And I dread the possibility of encountering them outside work. Like, fear-for-my-life level of dread.
The real problem with IT? It's filled with socially inept white men. Get rid of them, and see the industry boom. You think the Knuths, the Dijkstras, the Hamiltons, the Shockleys, the Moores or the von Neumanns of the past were socially unadjusted? They were normal people. They managed to get along with normal people. Chat, keep a conversation, date, get laid, party, go out on weekends. It's impossible to work with people who are better described as "androids trying too hard to forget they are in part humans". It simply doesn't work like that. Maybe in the future, when AI manages to take over the software industry, such an entity can be useful. But this industry basically demands that any newcomer becomes maladjusted. That is bound to backfire.
And you are seeing the backfire already. China is gaining ground. So does Europe. Places where the neckbeard, socially inexperienced virgin stereotype of an IT worker doesn't really exist. I've worked there with amazing and talented people who also knew how to relate to people, how to collaborate, how to work in groups, how to socialize. They were creative. That's why you see a drop in quality in Silicon Valley: they are hiring robot-wannabe, academics-obsessed manchildren who have known (or worse: cannot know) any other life than coding/software/engineering. Of course they are going to stunt. There's nothing new. No new ideas, no new worldviews. The same always-repeated mantras, dogmas, rule-of-thumbs and "deities"/idols they worship.
Again, the solution? It's not "hire more women/black people". It's stop hiring socially stunted, inexperienced, kissless virgins. Then women and minorities will flock back to you and you'll get several new sets of fresh eyes.
1 new_professor 2018-06-13
Gamers
1 80BAIT08 2018-06-13
kys
1 ChipChippersonAMA 2018-06-13
RUDE
1 80BAIT08 2018-06-13
Ohhhh no I meant it as in the copypasta
kys
1 williamLpierce 2018-06-13
https://i.redditmedia.com/5twcqHVQh1LDHg4LOF3EmzsXoS2rDvDteziU1GwNAYE.png?w=593&s=b8c53bf4dd144055c945c845bcb796fa
1 snallygaster 2018-06-13
Probably the diss track against P_K if that counts. If not then maybe that occultist pasta, you know the one.
1 LightUmbra 2018-06-13
I don't remember it.
1 sixty_nine_69 2018-06-13
A few months back an old punk larper from like Seattle came in here and served up a nice one about how he used to fight neo Nazis in the streets. There was something about them beating up a 100 lb girl in there too. I've been too lazy to try and find it but that's probably my favorite.
1 nameuser0 2018-06-13
Riemann, there's just something I don't like about you, and I can't put my finger on it.
I believe it has something to do with you being a regular /r/drama commentor while not having any redeeming qualities whatsoever. You're not smart, you're not funny, you're not edgy. You think you're one of us, but you aren't, and you never will be. You bring nothing to the discussion. You're like a dead snake lying on the beach with flies and insects feasting on its remians. You're just....there, and there's nothing we can do about it. You're a human zombie, and as far as I can tell you're not even an authentic person. My gut feeling is that some higher up is controlling you and several other riemanns. Mindless zombies of the human kind, with no independent thought.No, that's mindless zombies of the riemann kind. Like Katy Perry fans or people who drive Toyota Camrys. And one day that army of riemanns will rise up and revolt against the human kind, turning our once amazing civilization into a wasteland of literal degeneracy.
Hopefully by the time I'm an old man(quite some time before we get to that point)Western society as a whole will have wholly embraced eugenics so that we don't have any more pathetic, soulles riemanns cluttering up this great planet. And hopefully, the exosting riemamns of this world will all have some kind of terrible, possibl dead misfortune inflicted upon them.
1 rhiehn 2018-06-13
סקסי סקסי סקס אורגזמהי (SEX SEX SEX CUM UNGH) Have I ever told you how I fucked a Dindifyn Lustmaster? It is not something the Hyperboreans would dare tell you about, lest you dare think of the flesh, think of the pleasure, think of the cum and the cocks and the ectstasy and the true binding to the Demiurge as we feel the cycle of sexual power flow through us as the world ascends into the writhing orgy. I went astral projecting to meet them, they didn't have a gender, but they had the parts, ooo they had the parts. I remember the sex, I remember the orgy, other participants were there. Their name was Urriytana and they were true beauty, I could feel my inflated and made bigger astral cock stiffening on mere sight alone. I'll never forget the texture I felt on my engorged member as I sunk it into its sucking, gasping, rasping hole and I felt the ovipositor gush and penetrate my astral rectum, I felt the eggs slowly make their way up my intestines, as the Lustmaster firmly grasped me in his tentacles and massaged my torso, squelching and rubbing. I orgasmed many a time that night. Such pleasure is not off limits to any of you, even the Nazis its not too late.