• @sc_griffith
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    2 days ago

    giving any reason other than “the community needs to be more racist” is way exceeding my expectations. well on them

    • David GerardOPMA
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      2 days ago

      thankfully gives that one too, i.e.

      Now I see a community whose commendable openness to unbiased discussion of any idea is being misused by questionable actors to platform their views.

      seems to have been the last straw

      (even as you or i might say “my good bitch have you met rationalists”)

      • @Soyweiser
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        112 days ago

        “my good bitch have you met rationalists”

        It can be pretty hard to admit you have been conned, so I figure this is their defense mechanism, pretending that this all is new and not that it has been there from the start. (The hbomberguy skull guy was one of the early LW people for example (9 years, has it been 9 years already?))

        • flere-imsaho
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          82 days ago

          jfc. i remembered that the aurini motherfucker was very liberal with hard-r, but listening to that clip in 2024 is something else altogether.

          • David GerardOPMA
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            82 days ago

            so much nothing of value was lost when his youtube was finally shut down