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Reliable Sources: @TracingWoodgrains's story about a Wikipedia admin who may be the only man more online than @TracingWoodgrains is (with a brief r/drama cameo!)
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Good article. Bit long. Good /r/drama shoutout, very validating. Frick that guy and wikipedia in general.
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re: the length — I figured that nobody else in the world would be quite as insane as I was, so if I wanted anything to be on the record about him I needed to put it there myself
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I want you to know I read the whole thing and I thought it was fascinating. And then I paid the $5 a month to read the companion article
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SPAL absolutely decimated
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That was like a year ago. It's over. He's gone.
I still have the screen shots. Ask me nicely.
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trans furry lives matter
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Yo, Ya comment got automatically removed cuz ya forgot ta include
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Imma volunteer to be your editor on this article. Here's my shorter revised version:
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Only one small edit
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Gentlemen, thoughts?
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Trace, I normally despise long articles but I read the whole darn thing. This is something I've been noticing on wiki for a while now and it's good to see someone organize the issue it into a fantastic article.
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His writings were a big part of @Bardflnn realizing that lesswrong and the whole rationalist community are just reactionary garbage. Any sane person just needs too open Roko's Twitter feed too learn as much.
@Bardflnn Stand with Israel
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VS
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There is no logical contradiction with the first one. That's why the logical problem of cynicism will be unsolvable in our lifetime, but still it will not go away.
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This thing is good. Can we ever a /r/subredditsimulator style autodrama post with 10 of these talking to each other?
@HeyMoon
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It's a good idea but I probably won't bother
. You can generate raw prompts and see what that would look like though
edit: okay well they all got cut off before getting to the comments, but this would have worked
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!transphobes fascinating
story 
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I'm not actually trans. I'm a transphobe and a
janny.
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wow
he must be thinking seeing this jiff
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Yoooooo
@TracingWoodgrains I won't read the post for a while but awesome
work getting this scalp he's super
annoying
on twitter
and even worse because he's close
to sensical but still incredibly deranged. You just need to find another wikijanny neurodivergent
enough
to sit through the CoC process now, make sure to respond to any DMs which could lead to this.
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whats this neighbors xitter?
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x.com/davidgerard
also
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard
https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.co.uk
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wow this neighbor is really frickin gay lmbo
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The Bardfinn of Wikipedia.
Anyway, more evidence that The Long March Through The Institutions is where it's at.
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That dude is for sure not one person he's a soros funded conglomerate
Trans lives matter
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No paid actor would be this petty and hold this much of a grudge, especially in a group. This is the kind of self-defeating pursuit that only a single man could come up with.
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I disagree, have you READ the Gentleman's Guide to Forum Spies?
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
I really recommend reading the whole thing. If you seriously say "Why would the powers that be want to control general public sentiment using the internet?" I will assume you're arguing in bad faith and be mean to you.
!followers you will always be pinged to come see the Gentleman's Guide to Forum Spies.
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Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist
Top 10 bard respectors:
ACA: 291
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I get censoring the n word but why did you censor the word "darn" in a direct quote? I read it as "He really is pretty peepee smart and clueful"
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house style
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"Ex"-Mormon my butt
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* my a--
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@$$
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That baseball need needs to get with the times and upgrade its name to the BIPOCs.
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Pink news is considered a reliable source by Wikipedia? Maybe the chuds were right...
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Yeah none of those should be considered reliable sources, Quillette included
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Don't get me wrong, they have some good articles. It's one of those outlets that You have to double check though. Like the daily beast or Vox.
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Quillette doesn't make stuff up out of thin air which makes them more reliable than 99% of news outlets
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Andy Ngo tried to claim he was hit by a concrete milkshakes lmao
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I don't see how the flavor
matters either way? He wasn't claiming to be injured
by the milkshake, he was injured
by a hideous burn victim
punching
him in the head.
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He absolutely tried to make it about the milkshake but then switched it up after being ruthlessly mocked for it.
Based burn victim tbh
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I don't think
so. He briefly mentioned it after PPD tweeted that they thought
it was quicklime flavored, but he emphasized that he was punched with plastic-knuckled street
fighting
gloves
a whole lot more than the flavor
of the milkshake. You're probably confused
because a whole lot of rightoid
and leftoid
r-slurs on twitter
and reddit
were obsessing over the milkshake and its flavor.
If you look at his gofundme
there
was never
any mention of a milkshake.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190630012545/https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-andy-ngo-fund
He didn't mention it in his livestream either, even when specifically asked
what he was attacked with:
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1145068311048101888
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I just checked all of the articles about Andy Ngo in Quillette, and none of them mention concrete. A bunch of them which talk about the beating
don't even use the word milkshake.
And Andy Ngo never
wrote about the beating
in Quillette.
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Which is a good thing. Because they're reliable sources.
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If the real world is anything to go by, wikipedia will stay a captured institution so long as insiders can get away with favoring their side without much public outrage.
It doesn't help that a question as fundamental as "what sources are reliable" is too meta for any normie to give a shit about.
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This is how power in institutions always works, you point to a set of reasonable principles and shrug, knowing that you control all the nitty-gritty details when it comes to the implementation and execution of these principles.
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This isn't just stupid, it's painfully stupid. You're an idiot, but worst of all, you don't believe it's important that you can't understand why writing this makes you an idiot. After all, it's just a fact that bitcoin is worth money.
Second, you said something somewhere that made me realize you've got a problem: you don't understand just how many more fascists, white supremacists, and racists are and were present in Scott Alexander's spaces. This was one of the weirdest things I experienced, just how normal the SFBA Rationalist Cult seemed to think the racists were.
So you've got an entire article which establishes that Girard has a bias about the reactionary presence in the SFBA Rationalist Cult. But you don't even notice just how many white supremacists, fascists, and racists you've interacted with. It's more than most online people, dude! You're familiar with them! You are a walking counterexample! You were at a conference with Richard Hanania and yes that's guilt by association because it's only in your dipshit SFBA Rationalist Cult brain that 'guilt by association' is foul play!
You give them a platform, you give them a voice, and you try and pretend that Scott Alexander didn't platform Curtis Yarvin, didn't attempt to package NeoRX talking points for a more moderate audience but ended in just making his place a gathering point for pseudoscientific racism!
If you had an editor who could point you to your biases, maybe you wouldn't essentially just be documenting the person who did a lot to document the racism of your tribe. Too bad!
Girard may have deserved to be banned from editing Wikipedia but you can't even understand Sandifer's work, it's too upper level for your cultist brain. So you just look like an ignorant chump.
You really aren't, and you've lost the respect I had for you. This was a bad piece. You do no reflecting on the difficulty of truth-telling in an online era. The parts of it which are good are parts which prove you're being irrational about your place in all of this (CULTIST DEFENDING THE CULT AGAINST AN AGGRESSOR, sorry but that's the darn truth). The parts of it which are bad are related to your cult's failures.
!followers !metashit
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I think you're guilty of also being r-slurred because you're associating with
@TracingWoodgrains. That's how it works, right?
!metashit does that pan out?
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I've thought about this a lot, and my conclusion was: I got banned from the SFBA Rationalist Cult centers lmao
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Something
something
one nazi at the dinner
table 
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I can't explain the reasons but I can confirm he is deeply r-slurred.
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You're also an idiot.
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Certifiably.
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I start reading your posts or comments, think to myself "this person is doing a bad and cringe impersonation of a leftoid", look at the username and everytime, without fail, its
@Impassionata
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Moral of the story:
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Thanks for alerting me to this thread I missed so I can give trace an upmarsey
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I gave him a upmarsey, too. Now his article is number one

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I read some of your old posts on 'SFBA' discussion groups and they're extra r-slurred in retrospect now that Trump is out of office.
Also worth mentioning that you were banned for, I quote, 'Being a str*ggot.'. I was shocked that they used such language in the ban announcement.
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Impassionata trying so hard to convince us he and
@TracingWoodgrains are different people 
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