Daily Bard Digest 2024-09-22

At 09/22/24 11:08:09 in transvoice with a score of 4 points:

Yeah, No.

This is a framework that invites gatekeeping and transmedicalism and transphobia.

Growing up, I was repeatedly told: "You have no musical talent".

And talent, I was instructed, was handed out based on luck.

Because, it seems, I was supposed to be a doctor, lawyer, academic, Christian culture warrior - something that has prestige and pays the bills, not something that is "twee".

I couldn't whistle; Couldn't sing.

In university, I decided I darn well was going to learn music.

Hence the username.

I taught myself to play a specific Irish drum, by throwing myself at it over and over and over and over and over. I learned to play tin whistle by applying myself. I have a fiddle now, and a polysonic FM synth, etc. Yesterday I spent an hour exploring the soundtrack of The Matrix (which is built around two chords and their resolution).

Society also told me I couldn't transition.

Guess what my attitude towards that is.

I also couldn't do any number of things until I decided I was going to find a way to do them.

It isn't luck based. It isn't skill based. It isn't hard or easy based on wealth or surgeries or genetics.

10,000 hours.

After everything else is taken away, Hope is the one thing that can't be. And I refuse to have it stripped.

At 09/19/24 07:43:18 in help with a score of 2 points:

It's a throwaway account to prevent people from connecting this complaint to an account that is allegedly doxxed

At 09/19/24 15:38:06 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 0 points:

Dinesh is Catholic, he barely knows or embodies anything about the caste system. Gabbard & Ranaswamy, however — big time Hindutva energy.

At 09/19/24 17:43:01 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 2 points:

Eh. It happens

At 09/19/24 20:17:45 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 1 point:

Yes. I know.

At 09/20/24 08:10:01 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 7 points:

Ok so, you need to be set straight

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/

President Trump defended the white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville on Tuesday, saying they included "some very fine people," while expressing sympathy for their demonstration against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Speaking in the lobby of Trump Tower at what had been billed as a statement on infrastructure, a combative Trump defended his slowness to condemn white nationalists and neo-Nazis after the melee in central Virginia, which ended in the death of one woman and injuries to dozens of others, and compared the tearing down of Confederate monuments to the hypothetical removal of monuments to the Founding Fathers. He also said that counterprotesters deserve an equal amount of blame for the violence.

What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, at the alt-right?" Trump said. "Do they have any semblance of guilt?"

"I've condemned neo-Nazis. I've condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me," he said.

"You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists," Trump said. "The press has treated them absolutely unfairly."

So, he did actually say that. And yes, in fact, all of the people who stuck around Unite The Right once people started showing up with Swastika-emblazoned shields, Nazi battle standards, Algiz rune flags, and marched chanting "JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US"

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/08/12/flags-and-other-symbols-used-far-right-groups-charlottesville

those people were all 100% ok with being seen to be Nazis

It was a Nazi march and a Nazi violent riot organised by Nazis and promoted on Reddit and elsewhere by Nazis.

Don't waste people's time. Don't "well TECHNICALLY it was just sparkling white supremacist hatred" people.

At 09/20/24 08:21:57 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 6 points:

I do not think you were trolling. I think you're aiding & abetting the recuperation of the reputations of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists who were in a conspiracy to assault and murder

People don't show up to a rally filled with people flying Nazi flags and then stick around unless they, too, are Nazis.

Cease & desist

At 09/21/24 08:24:59 in ContraPoints with a score of 5 points:

In this video, he's describing a kind of person that absolutely exists and of whom you do not want to become the attention focus.

Anyone who has a large audience (who isn't part of the ecosystem these trolls belong to, who is seen as the ideological or existential enemy of the ecosystem these trolls belong to) gets dogpiled with these types, as an opening salvo

They're the footmen of g*mergate style harassment, deploying something which is facially salonfahige, to get past the filters & moderators, to get a response.

I remember this tactic being used on USENET message threads, aimed by Scientologists at critics, aimed by anthropogenic climate change deniers at climate scientists. That was early-mid 1990's.

I already knew / used much of what was presented in this video, but have never before seen it all collected in one place.

At 09/21/24 14:34:49 in garland with a score of 0 points:

No, that would be me

Treat others here with respect, or you will be shown the door.

At 09/21/24 14:36:21 in garland with a score of 1 point:

As mentioned in my other comment:

Treat others here with respect, or you will be shown the door.

At 09/22/24 08:28:43 in TheRightCantMeme with a score of 3 points:

HPV is an STD, & when this abomination was made (years ago), 80-90% of sexually active adults could be expected to acquire HPV. Now there's a vaccine.

At 09/22/24 08:41:27 in antivaccine with a score of 1 point:

https://reddit.com/r/antivaccine/about/rules/

At 09/22/24 14:53:56 in transvoice with a score of 1 point:

Nope. My voice doesn't pass. I want it to - voice dysphoria is one of my biggest dysphoria aspects. I have it so badly I won't even speak because I can't bear to hear my voice not-passing.

I still know I have to push through that and try, if I really want it. And I will never be "narrates novels" levels of voice, but I will accomplish something.

And it will not be because of luck.

To put it a different way:

The satirical newspaper The Onion, which generated so many cultural touchstones and has driven so much cultural discussion and critique, was bought by private equity. Private equity began to saddle it with corporate death, wringing it of pennies, destroying it.

It has a new owner, now. That owner saw two groups discussing the problem.

One group said, That's Just The Way Of The World, Some Things Will Never Change

And the other said, "Son, don't you believe that".

One group wanted to endlessly critique; the other said "here's how this can change".

To put it another, another way:

9 years ago, a subreddit was created to tackle the rising tide of hate speech on Reddit. That subreddit collected a great deal of people who wished to complain anout this state of affairs, to slapfight with the transphobes and nazis, to wrestle (as they say) with the pig. For, as the common wisdom of the time held, "surely Reddit will never kick the Nazis off, despite our demands they should". Four years of complaints, with nothing to show for it.

5 years ago, I had a different idea, which was to hypothesise that maybe some people working at Reddit wanted to work at a general purpose internet social media corporation instead of the Breitbart comments section, and found a way - not by luck, gift, talent, intelligence, natural inclination, wealth, privilege, etc - only by hard work of research and dedication to a prospect of hope, did I map out a plan from "Reddit frontpages (sockpuppeted) terrorist hate speech every day" to "Reddit is home to genuine community and conversation".

Ask graphic artists, musicians, authors (not the wizard author), researchers, scientists, they will tell you the same thing.

No one ever achieved anything worthwhile by only trying once.

At 09/22/24 15:10:45 in transvoice with a score of 3 points:

Four years, 150,000 people, none of them struck on The Thing That Works, stuck in a cycle.

One anger-driven witch who refused to accept it. Nine months and a lot of effort. To break the cycle.

The point being: try something different.

At 09/22/24 18:24:37 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 29 points:

Do not under any circumstances aid, abet, command, counsel, induce, or procure the fraudulent manipulation of votes on Reddit; Reddit will suspend accounts that engage in fraud, including vote manipulation.

At 09/22/24 18:26:22 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 1 point:

Sorry about the automod, we have it set to default removal of username pings

At 09/22/24 18:27:10 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 2 points:

Nope

At 09/22/24 18:28:19 in conservativeterrorism with a score of 6 points:

They all still believe that /r/the_donald won the election for Trump in 2016

At 09/22/24 20:45:25 in transgender_support with a score of 1 point:

Hey there.

So, uh, we're going to ban your account, because

1: You appear to not be transgender;

2: you appear to not be supportive nor supporting;

3: your ontology of gender dysphoria is technically transmedicalism;

4: unless you're someone's medical doctor, you don't get to say that person has a mental illness;

5: bigots use that phrase, overwhelmingly.

I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.

Snapshots:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/b3mkgo/man_wearing_maga_hat_kicked_out_of_vigil_for/ej0rrmq/?context=8:

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