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posted by martyb on Sunday August 21 2016, @12:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the oxford-comma-—-use-it! dept.

In a rather well-timed yet coincidental counterpoint to Why we're Losing the Internet to the Culture of Hate, Milo Yiannopoulos over at Breitbart brings us this:

A warped currency today governs popular culture. Instead of creativity, talent and boldness, those who succeed are often those who can best demonstrate outrage, grievance and victimhood.

Even conservatives are buying into it. Witness, in the days since Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon was announced as Donald Trump's campaign manager, how establishment stooges have bought into the worst smear-tactics of the left. As with the left, nothing is evaluated on its quality, or whether it's factually accurate, thought-provoking or even amusing: only whether it can be deemed sexist, racist or homophobic.

Campuses are where the illness takes its most severe form. Students running for safe spaces at the slightest hint of a challenge to their coddled worldview. Faculties and administrations desperately trying to sabotage visits from conservative speakers (often me!) to avoid the inevitable complaints from tearful lefty students.

In this maelstrom of grievance, there is one group boldly swimming against the tide: trolls.

Trolling has become a byword for everything the left disagrees with, particularly if it's boisterous, mischievous and provocative. Even straightforward political disagreement, not intended to provoke, is sometimes described as "trolling" by leftists who can't tell the difference between someone who doesn't believe as they do and an "abuser" or "harasser."

Yeah, you knew I wouldn't let that kinda SJW nonsense slide without comment.


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  • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:21PM

    by mojo chan (266) on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:21PM (#391129)

    He would claim that being banned from Twitter was good for him. It's not, it cuts down his public profile outside of Breibart and other shitpost sites where few people bother going.

    He thinks that because people he dislikes are "professional victims" and it worked out well for them, he should do it to. Thing is, they aren't doing well because they are victims, they are doing well because they produce high quality content that people want.

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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:24PM

    they are doing well because they produce high quality content that people want.

    Sarkessian ever finish up those six videos she accepted tons of kickstarter money for or is she still at three like she was a year after taking the money?

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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @07:59AM

      by mojo chan (266) on Monday August 22 2016, @07:59AM (#391500)

      Why yes, she actually made way, way more than six videos and the series is still on-going. The latest was posted last month. She has more than delivered on the Kickstarter promise, and in fact has turned it into a viable charity.

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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:31PM

        Interesting. Last I saw she had plans to release little bitty videos under an entirely different kickstarter and no word on finishing out the original, paid for series.

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        • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @03:19PM

          by mojo chan (266) on Monday August 22 2016, @03:19PM (#391673)

          She finished the original Kickstarter offering about a year ago, this is just "season 2" bonus material now. She, or rather now the charity she set up, did another Kickstarter for some different videos that are in production now. Since the charity has a number of employees, and Anita isn't the only one doing videos for it, and this new series seems to have a lot of guest speakers, and she is doing it full time now, it doesn't seem like a stretch.

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          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @06:48PM

            Interesting. Six full videos not just little five minute vids? Cause she was seriously dragging ass and it was starting to look about as truthful as the time she said she was run out of her house by death threats, which she filmed while inside her house.

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            • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @10:43PM

              by mojo chan (266) on Monday August 22 2016, @10:43PM (#391907)

              Yep, all full videos delivered, shorter ones (5-15 minutes) still on-going. Also, the allegations about the video turned out to be false, just the usual reddit crap.

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              • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @10:48PM

                Going to need a link to that because I saw quite a thorough examination that proved pretty conclusively that she never left her home.

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                • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:27AM

                  by mojo chan (266) on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:27AM (#392033)

                  If you provide a link to this examination I can refuse it. I can't prove a negative, and most people don't bother to careful document being threatened out of their home just in case random people on Reddit question it.

                  These claims are usually easy to dismantle because they rarely do a very good job of faking the evidence. Tweets frequently exceed the 140 character limit, they forget to remove Photoshop metadata tags from the images etc.

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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday August 22 2016, @04:08AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday August 22 2016, @04:08AM (#391448) Homepage Journal

    Except that mass exodus of conservatives from Twitter is already happening. Good or bad, Milo's article has 977 comments and he is not on twitter. You may not like it but he is not a small fish anymore, at least. He was banned for exactly this reason, btw, because he is not a small fish anymore.

    • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @08:03AM

      by mojo chan (266) on Monday August 22 2016, @08:03AM (#391503)

      Try setting up your own Free Speech social media platform for conservatives. The Amazing Atheist tried and failed, because he found that no hosting provider was willing to ignore the law and that advertisers wouldn't touch a site like that, but maybe you could Kickstarter it or something?!

      Seriously, good luck with that. It would be a comedy gold mine, better than the MGTOW and Red Pill on Reddit.

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      • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday August 22 2016, @03:11PM

        by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday August 22 2016, @03:11PM (#391665) Homepage Journal

        It is the work of liberals and it is what's going to become their undoing. Men's rights is a valid problem but liberals have sold it to women vote-bank. There are plenty of poor white people who have valid concerns but liberals would rather pander to black racists than non-racists white. Owing to your two-party system, multiple people have now been cornered to stand with conservatives. And that involves standing-up with white supremacists and fascists so be it.

        And what has that bought you? Silicon valley is a business world and it will pander to whoever is in power. Currently liberals are in power. Let's see... Trump is bigger than tea-party... hmm... Hillary is already saying that men's rights are a valid concern... feminists are already saying "we need to listen to men's concern"... NOW is saying father's are getting a short-end of the justice system... Conservatives in London are supporting Men's Rights Movement.

        All that in lieu of twitter. I say it is a win-win situation. So much win, actually. And all because of liberals couldn't care less about men committing suicide in unprecedented numbers and used them for laughter.

        • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @03:30PM

          by mojo chan (266) on Monday August 22 2016, @03:30PM (#391683)

          Well, I keep being accused of being a liberal, and I support men's rights. I just don't support MRAs, because they are idiots who are trying to make the situation worse and blaming the only thing that can help them.

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          • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday August 22 2016, @04:12PM

            by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday August 22 2016, @04:12PM (#391702) Homepage Journal

            I support men's rights.

            What have you done to stop its state sponsored violation?

            idiots who are trying to make the situation worse

            By doing what?

            blaming the only thing that can help them

            What that is, exactly?

            • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @04:58PM

              by mojo chan (266) on Monday August 22 2016, @04:58PM (#391723)

              Campaigned against MGM, feminism and feminism.

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