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Journal by The Mighty Buzzard
So we all know that HUD has declared that you can't evict anyone for the foreseeable future on account of the whole coronaids thing, yeah? Given that, here's the pitch: The Odd Couple 2. Trump invokes that to stay in the White House and calls in film crews to the residential bits, which he can do as a resident. Be honest with yourself, you'd watch it.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @12:10AM (5 children)
Cowardly stupid buzzard tries to distract with trolling, too proud to delete your prosurrection journal?
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 17 2021, @12:34AM (4 children)
Nope, feel free to continue being wrong on that entry as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @06:40AM (3 children)
I must admit, when I saw this new journal entry of yours pop up , I too thought "well, he's desperate to have everyone forget his last journal entry as soon as possible". Personally, I think it's too late. Everyone has already seen what a reprehensible person you are (as if we didn't know already).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @03:34PM (2 children)
You maroon. Old journal entries don't disappear when a new is made. Just click the author's name, to go to his page, and view all the journal entries he has made since he started making journal entries. What a maroon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @04:47PM (1 child)
I'm well aware that all his old journal entries remain ready to be viewed any time, thanks. It's just that they disappear off the front page of the SN website. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 17 2021, @04:53PM
If you're that interested in my every journal entry, friend me and you'll get notifications. Or leave the browser tab open. I'm not going to hold off saying something unrelated just because you aren't finished saying dumb shit on another entry.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday January 17 2021, @12:13AM
The Kardashians in da house wid Mr. Rogers?
Nope: didn't watch either show, so no....just. no.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday January 17 2021, @12:38AM (8 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 17 2021, @06:44PM (7 children)
Wouldn't watch either. But, there would probably be outrageous episodes now and then that people would talk about, that we couldn't avoid. When all your coworkers are tuned in and chattering away, you have to take a look now and then.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:36PM (6 children)
I've never watched the shitfest known as the Kardashians either, or Mr Rogers. Or Trump's fake reality TV shows, except for part of one when I was visiting a friend. The one where some once-upon-a-time famous guy (Arsenio Hall) completely abased himself.
I WOULD watch Home Alone 2 with Trump replaced by Biden - or better yet, Kamala Harris. With a follow up segment showing MAGAts losing their shit.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 18 2021, @02:29AM (4 children)
That's because you're a mean-spirited bitch with no sense of humor.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 22 2021, @06:44AM (3 children)
Aww, so much whining about people being mean recently. You used to puff up all manly like, now you're just as pathetic as Ted Cruz fellating Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 22 2021, @10:05AM (2 children)
Ted Cruz 48th President :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 22 2021, @10:58AM (1 child)
Who is 47th?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 22 2021, @11:39AM
President Kamala Devi Harris.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 18 2021, @04:02PM
How about "HangMan" where the insurrectionists vote on who among them gets hanged next?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @12:46AM (23 children)
ICFI/Socialist Equality Party: Justice Department proposes internal investigation to cover up state involvement in January 6 coup attempt [wsws.org]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @01:53AM (22 children)
ICFI/Socialist Equality Party: What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? [wsws.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @02:52AM (21 children)
Help! Help! I'm being deplatformed! See the violence inherent in the system!
International Communist Tendency: Storming of the Capitol: The Working Class Has its Own Battles to Fight [libcom.org]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by aristarchus on Sunday January 17 2021, @03:44AM (20 children)
This is a lot of copypasta from the Socialist news, but it is not repeated, so by definition not Spam. I expect these mods by a deranged insurrectionary fascist to be removed, and the guilty party dealt with suitably. Seriously. Of is it TMB loosing his temper again?
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:20AM (19 children)
So it's copied and pasted, but it's not repeated. How many times does it take to copy and paste something before it can be considered repeated? Do tell.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0x663EB663D1E7F223
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday January 17 2021, @09:06AM (6 children)
By definition, twice? At least? Pasting three different blocks of text once each does not meet that criteria.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Sunday January 17 2021, @04:05PM (3 children)
There's no magical "has to be repeated" property in the definition of spam.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @06:51PM
Fascist lügenpresse freeze peach whargarbl is spam. Imagine socialists demanding that the government force FailTwitBook to publish their analysis! Have some more Trotskyism and a pinch of big L Libertarianism:
ISA/Socialist Alternative (USA): We Need Mass Demonstrations Against the Far Right [internationalsocialist.net]
FI/Socialist Action (USA): Trump fanatics invade Capitol as his presidency disintegrates [socialistaction.org]
IMT/Socialist Appeal (UK): Electoral chaos and the crisis of American bourgeois democracy [socialist.net] - Trump's “insurrection” and the chaos of US bourgeois democracy [socialist.net]
Libertarian Party: Statement on Jan. 6th Capitol Violence [lp.org] - Spike Cohen and Kennedy Discuss Fallout of Capitol Riots [lp.org]
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:03PM (1 child)
Ah, I see! Socialism is spam, but allegations of massive voting fraud with no evidence is not? Got it. Now I see why aristarchus had to be silenced! Buzzard is an alt-right sleeper cell!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 22 2021, @09:56PM
It is our duty, on the morally superior right, to silence leftist fools. It is rude to silence you fools, but it is cruel to permit you to go on speaking.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:42PM (1 child)
I disagree (I know, I would). Copy-pasta for the sole purpose of driving traffic to another site (run by the copy-pasta poster) is most definitely spam. Doesn't have to be repeated. Same as an email offering to develop an app for my website (what website?) is spam, even on first occurrence.
Spam - we know it when we read it, no hard and fast rules needed.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Sunday January 17 2021, @09:07PM
Driving traffic? To a socialist website? Please, this is not an avaricious commercial enterprise we are talking out here, it is our own dear g_ewg, and he is just giving us a different view on the insanity that the Buzztard supports. Not spam at all. Know it when you see it? Are you not legally blind? Or, as I would wish for you, getting better?
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 17 2021, @11:07AM (11 children)
I reported that Spam mod in IRC and Bytram reversed it.
*After* Uzzard refused to.
This guy's not fit to have any admin access whatsoever. I've been unsure about that till now but that clinches it. Rules are only rules if they're for everyone and evenhandedly enforced.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @03:25PM (10 children)
conduct unbecoming azuma hazuki - stop flapping your gums in public when you disagree with fellow staff members
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday January 17 2021, @03:56PM (6 children)
Rubaway, you really need to pull your socks up. Azuma's upped her game - up yours.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 17 2021, @06:48PM (5 children)
Conduct unbecoming a hopeful staff member should explain things for you. I dread the day this woman is given admin access to any site. She would be more at home over at stormfront, where hate permeates the site.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:09PM
Hateful Runaway! I dread the day Runaway becomes a poster on this site! Unfortunately this day has passed. And speaking of conduct unbecoming, well Runaway was no officer, but supporting insurrection is still a violation of the semen oath he took.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 18 2021, @01:48AM (2 children)
Movie theaters are still closed due to coronavirus. Put the projector away :)
Besides which, I'm pretty sure Stormfront doesn't want a lesbian New York City native with some knowledge of almost half a dozen foreign languages and a tendency to make fun of white supremacists on the site at all, let alone in charge of anything. Do you ever even think about the shit you post? Because when you mention that people like me should go to $WHITE_SUPEMACIST_SITE it becomes blatantly obvious that you're projecting.
Really, it's a law of physics by now: a violent homophobe is gay, a violent cosplaytriot is a seditious loser who couldn't pass fourth-grade civics, and anyone saying someone he disagrees with should go to Stormfront is already there.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 18 2021, @02:05AM (1 child)
You're confusing your physics with your metatarsals - again.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 18 2021, @12:30PM
Thanks for always being Exhibit A, Runaway :) When it comes to disappointment, you never disappoint. Er, fail to disappoint. Ye ken what I mean, lad.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday January 18 2021, @08:13PM
I actually ended up on Stormfront a few years ago after a websearch (redheads, what can I say?) before I knew it existed.
After a few minutes of perusing the photos (it was a redhead appreciation thread) I started paying attention to the word content of it. Yeesh.
Then I noticed 95% of the content was linking to the Chive site, so I ended up there instead.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 18 2021, @01:50AM (2 children)
I'm not a staff member yet. I haven't had any time to do the damn editor training and at this point am wondering if it's even going to be worth it. At the rate things are going, Runaway is going to pitch a terminal bitchfit, post an outright terrorist threat, and get this entire site seized by the feds.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 22 2021, @06:51AM (1 child)
The alt-right is firmly entrenched here. Election nonsense woke up a few users, but I expect that to fade away rather quickly. I think Runaway's more crazy urges were quelled when he saw what happens when some assholes try out his mytho-macho bullshit. Like the rest of the Qdiots he was drooling over the krakenstorm, spouting off like he was watching sportsball. Now he is all about reconciliation and the terrible terrible democrats and how it was all their fault the whole time! JMH might have hit on something, pretty sure this site is either a honeypot or radicalization platform.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday January 23 2021, @04:33AM
No, Runaway isn't. Look at the shit he's submitting into the Subs queue. And if you're in the IRC channel it's nothing but bitter, venomous trolling. He's lashing out at everyone and everything he thinks wronged him, and trying his hardest to crapflood #soylent with disinformation and alt-right propaganda.
This site's admins are spineless. The most they'll do is refuse to publish the outright lies he keeps submitting, but no one's interested in smacking him down for it. This is why I'm keeping an eye on him and waiting for him to make an actual terrorist threat so it can be reported, and if it takes SN down entirely I will not shed a single tear.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Funny) by jasassin on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:28AM (45 children)
TMB has viewpoints some people disagree with. That's fine. I agree with most of what he says, but I don't act like a douche when I disagree with his opinion.
Grow a pair, you special snowflakes.
Now, to be on-topic, it's a funny concept using the law to not be evicted from the White House. There are so many ways you could spin that.
1. Biden always trying to sneak in.
2. Biden and Trump living together.
3. ... PROFIT
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0x663EB663D1E7F223
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @11:48AM (40 children)
He is a piece of shit power abusing asshole. He has driven off a number of high quality content posting users, he creates division, and is an authoritarian d-bag.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @02:00PM
I don't like Joe Biden either.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 17 2021, @04:24PM (38 children)
[Citation Needed]
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @07:06PM
If you don't need to provide evidence of election fraud then none is needed for your misdeeds.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:12PM (36 children)
https://soylentnews.org/~AthanasiusKircher/ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 18 2021, @02:31AM (35 children)
Going to need to do better than that. Paranoid, nonsensical ravings ain't gonna make the grade.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday January 18 2021, @02:40AM (34 children)
Unless, of course, it is not the only case, nor the first time. Serious problem, Buzzie!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 18 2021, @09:59PM (33 children)
Nope, no amount of nonsensical ravings will ever even amount to a solid accusation, much less a solid example.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Monday January 18 2021, @10:23PM (32 children)
The appearance of a conflict of interest? Chilling effects? Everyone knows, Buzzard. You are the toxic repellent that keeps SN from growing. You and Runaway the Coward/Traitor. You really need to recuse yourself.
And it is about time that someone rescinded the spam mod on the socialism. Politically motivated. Incorrect. Violation of the "don't be a capitalist" Rule of SoylentNews.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @04:51AM (31 children)
TMB is okay with censorship when it suits his purposes. That's the bottom line.
I've emailed SN twice about the lameness filter censoring political comments. Here's a thread containing the text of the comments that was censored [soylentnews.org], split across two comments to avoid tripping the lameness filter. I've emailed SN twice, once over two months ago, the other time in late December. I just checked and the issue still hasn't been fixed.
The bottom line is that willfully ignoring a false positive when TMB is more than capable of fixing it, really is censorship.
I tried posting the censored text tonight. Here's what happened:
I'm sorry, the douchebaggery quotient of the SN staff exceeds the maximum tolerance. I subscribed twice to SN in the past 12 months. Please be less of a douche if you ever want me to subscribe again. Otherwise, I'll be happy to give my money to a site where the admins don't act like right wing entitled snowflake jackasses.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 22 2021, @06:56AM (30 children)
Nope, missed the mark again. You were an flaming asshole about it the first time I heard a word of it from you, so I just wasn't motivated to spend my five minutes of ass sitting that day on fixing shit for you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Friday January 22 2021, @07:58AM (29 children)
Ah, yes, the "flaming asshole" accusation, which is nothing more than alt-right talk for someone speaking the truth at you? Admit it Buzztard, you are seriously right-wing deranged, for a tribal member, in ways no one can explain or account for. Maybe you should admit that when I painted you with the broad brush as an alt-right sympathizing right-wing nut-job, that that that is what you were, and still are? Lack of education is no reason to be insane, bro!!
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 22 2021, @03:08PM (28 children)
Nope, it's just someone being a malicious, insulting dickwad without ever bothering to say "Hey, did you know that filter's catching false positives on comments like $blah?".
And I don't lack education, ari. Education is simply another word for "learning things". No formalities are required, especially when most of human knowledge is now freely, instantly available on demand. I know more things about a more subjects than you will if you live another thousand years. What I lack is indoctrination.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Saturday January 23 2021, @06:06AM (13 children)
It is very cute that you think you could judge the level of your own education! Your posts here, especially on the "stolen votes", suggests your education is lacking, and you are prone to believing things that are not remotely verified by evidence. You are are a Giuliani follower, Buzzie? That reflects badly on your "education".
I have had many students like you, throughout the millennia, my dear Buzztard, who all knew more than their professors. But in academia, the proof is in the peer review. The test of a Doctor, a Teacher, is when we hand the podium over to you, and if you cannot handle the questions of your peers, or even of the undergraduates in attendance, then your ignorance is revealed. And you will have to fall back on the "liberal bias" of higher education to explain your failure. But it is not liberal bias, it is only a bias against right-wing bullshit, and this is why you never managed to actually graduate from an institution of higher learning, not even a community college, It is the communal recognition of knowledge that we scholars assemble for. You place yourself outside that, and while that does not mean you are an ignoramous like Runaway, it does strongly suggest the possibility. Man up, Buzzard! Trolling is not knowledge. It is the Path to Awe. Only the beginning.
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 23 2021, @10:59PM (12 children)
See, your problem is you can't let truth into your brain even for the duration of consideration if it conflicts with anything you've been programmed to believe by your masters. That and you for some reason think a bunch of people with the exact same views patting each other on the back for being so darned swell means anything useful at all.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Sunday January 24 2021, @12:18AM (11 children)
The truth of thousands of votes, flipped by Dominion machines? Or the ballots found in the ditch? Or the van loaded with pre-filled ballots, snuck in the vote tabulation site in Pittsburgh? The antifa false flag guys storming the Capitol building? Or Q, with his super-dooper security clearance? So you have your own precious "alternative" truths, Buzzard? You know that just because a near majority agrees on something, that does not make it true.
Your mistake, and not unusual for one without proper education, is mistaking the "consensus" part of "scientific consensus" for the pertinent bit. It is not the agreement, it is the "science" part, from the Latin verb "scio" ="to know". I was never programmed, and the masters I have had were mentors, not tyrants. I am sorry that you are so insulted being looked down upon for your ignorance. I would suggest one of two solutions: either remedy it be getting some education, or do not display your ignorance so proudly in public arenas.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @01:15AM (10 children)
I was thinking more along the lines of observers having end runs done around them so they could not observe and straight up video of people putting stacks of ballots back through the reader multiple times back to back.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 26 2021, @01:27AM (3 children)
Keep thinking of them, Bussturd, and perchance, you may sleep, or dream? As the Bard wrote:
So, you see, in the end, you will realize that all those things you saw were arranged as part of a deliberate campaign of disinformation, and you mindlessly repeated them. So be sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, Buteo, And lose your name of action, when the currents turn awry. It gets better.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @03:58AM (2 children)
Interesting the lengths you'll go to to keep from having to acknowledge you're full of shit. I believing your masters over your own eyes? That's commitment!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 26 2021, @04:13AM (1 child)
Buzzie, and I say this in all earnestness, one of the first signs of a stroke is cognitive dysfunction. "I believing your masters"? No one has made any such demand upon you. We only ask you to acknowledge the truth. There is no evidence for what you repeat from deranged Trump supporters. You are off in crazy land. Come back to the land of the living, the reasonable, the reality-based. We will all try to overlook your indiscretion. And, you may want to consult your health care professional. Be well, Buzz.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @05:05AM
I linked evidence to the comment right below yours. Try again?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @02:25AM (5 children)
Please provide a link to said video.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @03:56AM (4 children)
Ask and you shall receive [youtube.com].
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @04:19AM (3 children)
Cool YouTube, bro!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @05:06AM (2 children)
Yeah, I know, your own eyes will lie to you. Listen and Believe!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 26 2021, @05:39AM (1 child)
What one sees on YouTube is not remotely connected to reality. You should know this, already. And this before the era of deep fakes? Online video evidence is no evidence at all. Unless you have a rip of teh Pee-pee tapes? With English subtitles?
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 27 2021, @03:39PM
You mean you're not really a moldy old Greek but some millennial basement dweller with staggering student loan debt and a degree in Critical REEEEE Theory? I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 25 2021, @03:59AM (13 children)
Apparently I'm such a "malicious, insulting dickwad" that I donated money to SN multiple times last year in the form of gift subscriptions. Apparently I'm a "flaming asshole" because I didn't particularly take kindly to being called a douche by your lameness filter message.
Let's post the actual text of the supposedly awful email:
Yeah, I was frustrated that I typed out a civil comment, only to be called a douche by a lameness filter you implemented. Did I express my frustration? Absolutely. Still, what I said was far less uncivil or rude than either of your two messages I quoted above.
Also, here's the second email I sent.
The bottom line that you've directed nasty insults toward others, but you vastly overreacted when far less is directed toward you. Yes, I called the lameness filter message "highly unprofessional" but I did so because I was called a douche for attempting to post a very calm and civil comment. Yes, I said I might not contribute again because I didn't particularly like being called a douche when I thought it was highly unwarranted.
If you're offended by my email, I'm sorry. Yes, I probably should have wrote a calmer email, but it's hardly as bad as anything you've written here. For that matter, I'm sorry for my comment earlier in this thread, which quite was far worse than anything I wrote in either email. Yeah, I shouldn't have posted it. I'm sorry for posting it. I wish I hadn't.
As for subscribing again, I'm under no obligation to give this site money. I donate as a gesture of appreciation. Frankly speaking, it's a lot easier for me to bring myself to make such a gesture when there isn't a middle finger being waved in my face, figuratively speaking. I do believe this site is worth supporting, but there are many other causes worth supporting as well. Let's just say I hope I'll feel the desire to purchase more gift subscriptions. We'll see.
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @01:21AM (3 children)
Unless you were the one spamming, the filter was obviously not directed at you. It catching your comment was a bug not a personal attack. Your rage and insults were most assuredly personal attacks though and if I wanted to get money in exchange for someone being a shithead towards me, I'd be working tech support. You want to be treated like a reasonable human being, act like one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @01:58AM (2 children)
The lameness filter catching my comment was a bug. The message was not. You wrote it intentionally. It could have as easily have been "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted." That's the default message.
It doesn't matter that I wasn't the intended target. It's irrelevant. I was on the receiving end of your message for posting a comment that most certainly wasn't spam. Here's the message again: "Filter error: We're sorry, the douchebaggery quotient of your comment exceeds the site maximum. Please be less of a douche."
If I fire a gun toward someone committing a violent crime but miss and kill someone who wasn't the intended target, it doesn't change the fact that I killed an innocent person. Yes, that's an extreme example, but the same principle applies here.
I apologized for the things I said and posted. I admitted that I shouldn't have said those things. However, a "reasonable human being" would have apologized for the lameness filter message by now, let alone insults like "malicious, insulting dickwad" and "flaming asshole" that are far worse than anything I said to you.
Like I said, I apologize for the snark in my original message and for comments I posted that crossed the line and insulted you.
I sincerely hope that nobody treats you the way you have been treating others. Instead, I wish you the very best.
Because it seems unlikely that you will apologize, I believe we're done here. Good day.
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @04:12AM (1 child)
I'm not apologizing for the filter message. The guy it was targeted specifically at is absolutely a douche of impressive porportions. Mea culpa on not making it specific enough to him but nobody's code is perfect.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @04:17AM
Much appreciated, sir. I'm pretty sure I know exactly who it's targeted at. And yes, he deserves far harsher things than what's in the message.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @01:25AM (8 children)
Just FYI, I don't check my email every few minutes. I'm usually not even around a computer for most of the day. The first I heard from you on this was you losing your shit and attacking me in the comments.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @02:10AM (7 children)
I didn't see this comment before replying. I'd like to provide some facts.
My original email was sent the morning November 4. The only comment I posted about it at the time was this one [soylentnews.org]. I didn't hear anything about it but was curious if the bug had been fixed. It wasn't until weeks later that I said anything more about it. In fact, here's the next time I commented about it [soylentnews.org], not until December 25.
Was the November 4 email snarky? Sure. I apologized for that. It's hardly as vile as your words would suggest. My second comment wasn't for weeks after that.
I didn't demand an immediate response. I waited six weeks. If you say you didn't get the November 4 email, I choose in good faith to believe you. But if emails to SN addresses aren't getting through, it might be something to address.
Because it seems like there may be a misunderstanding involved, I'm willing assume good faith, bury the hatchet, and move on here if you are. Your call.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @04:07AM (6 children)
Ahh, I remember that one. I thought you were talking about something recent. I also remember fixing the filter when I received the email. Took about ten seconds. I just didn't have time to respond and promptly forgot about it. You've been pissed off over a circumstance that's long fixed.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @04:15AM (3 children)
Are you sure it's fixed? Just now, I tried previewing the same text I emailed you about, and I received the same lameness filter message. I believe you that it fixed it then and there. However, something happened since then and the text is tripping the filter again. Because it's tripped the lameness filter again, I'd assumed that my report hadn't been addressed. I'd be happy to email the text to you again if it would be helpful in tracking down the issue. Let me know if I should send you an email.
As I said, this seems like a misunderstanding. And I do apologize for being snarky.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @05:10AM (2 children)
I checked it too just a little bit ago and got no filter message. And, yeah, admins are subject to lameness filter messages same as everyone else.
Go for it. I copy-pasta'd the text from your November email but it came up clean.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @05:23AM (1 child)
Sent. It seems like if I submit it with the HTML formatted option selected, I don't get the error. But if I select plain old text and use the same text, then the error appears. That might explain the weirdness I noted in my email.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 27 2021, @03:35PM
Problem found and fixed. Yesterday actually but I had more pressing things to do than talk just then.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26 2021, @04:24AM (1 child)
Also, can you please confirm that my gift subscription went through?
You know the deal about confirmation emails for gift subscriptions. Please consider fixing that.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 26 2021, @05:21AM
Yeah, I got an email about it earlier. I was trying to remember why we don't send them to those who make the subscription then I remembered we didn't do it on purpose. We don't require anyone be logged in to make a gift subscription (or even that logged in folks didn't use thisisnotarealemailaddress@foo.bar as their email address) and the email field on the payment processors isn't required to be valid for folks who value their privacy. Guess we could look into putting a checkbox saying you want a receipt and a receipt to field for them that want it.
For future reference though, if the payment went through and you got a message with a transaction id, all should be good. If it isn't we get alerted by the payment processor that something's wonky and check into it as soon as we have the chance.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @05:08PM (3 children)
4. Biden keeps disappearing and everybody has to search for him. Usually he's found waiting at the bus stop in his slippers and robe.
5. Trump keeps chasing after Biden's nurses, while Biden keeps chasing Trump's kids.
6. Running gag; every time Kamala visits Biden thinks she part of the staff and orders a drink.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 17 2021, @06:12PM (2 children)
Trump keeps trying to fire Biden staffers. And Biden. And Harris. And the coffee maker. And a potted plant. And Melania who reminds him she gets half his shit if he fires her.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:46PM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 18 2021, @05:50AM
Oh, God, yes! Judging from the early released books (e.g., Wooodward, etc.) the tell-all books that will come out after this dumpster fire of an administration is over are going to be especially salacious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @11:56AM (15 children)
We know Trump likes rightwing violence, will that be a special feature of the show?
https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-329-since-1994-antifa-killed-none-2020-7 [businessinsider.com]
I can already hear buzzard's brain chugging away at a rebuttal, I'm guessing his first reply would be "Durr give it thyme, den dey will keel ninety gillion!"
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 17 2021, @03:31PM (9 children)
Left wing extremists kill more than that every year in Chicago alone. You left wingers are claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist among other things. when He was merely exercising his right to self defense when a bunch of left wing extremists attacked him with lethal force. Of course, you don't want to own your own extremists, do you?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @09:10PM
Shut up, Runaway! You right-wing nut-job white racist idiot! Go soak your head in the cattle trough! Fall through the out-house hole, why doncha? Rittenhouse is gonna fry for multiple murder one convictions.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday January 18 2021, @08:02PM (7 children)
Gonna need some citations here. Please note: run-of-the-mill gangbangers are not "leftist".
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 18 2021, @10:00PM (6 children)
Yes they are. Convicted criminals overwhelmingly vote Dem.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday January 19 2021, @04:54PM (5 children)
Gonna need citation other than your say-so.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Tuesday January 19 2021, @05:41PM (4 children)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jail-survey-7-in-10-felons-register-as-democrats [washingtonexaminer.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday January 19 2021, @07:31PM (3 children)
Thank you. It gives some evidence, though I'm not impressed that the study is behind a paywall. Can't tell if that "7 in 10" statement is taken out of context or not.
This at least answers the second assertion that Buzzy made, but not the first ("Left wing extremists kill more than that every year in Chicago alone").
"Left wing extremist" implies that Chicago murders are politically motivated, which doesn't pass the sniff test.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday January 19 2021, @07:34PM
Correction: the first statement was made by Runaway, not Buzzy. Apologies!
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 20 2021, @04:23PM (1 child)
I wouldn't argue that the murders in Chicago are politically motivated.
Assuming that the convicted criminals and otherwise violent criminals are inclined to vote democrat. Also assuming, that they make a significant enough portion of the populace that's getting Democrats voted into office. That doesn't reflect well on the Democrat party in general and makes you seriously question their motives. One could hand wave that all away, but it's at least interesting to notice. Yet, I'm reminded of this quote I saw at some point. (Not that people murdering other people is funny, but the fact that a large majority of convicted felons support Democrat candidates.)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/ [quoteinvestigator.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday January 20 2021, @05:25PM
Well, one reason could be that the GOP tends to want to disenfranchise ex-felons who have served their time. Also bear in mind that not all felons are murderers.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 17 2021, @04:27PM (4 children)
Sure, why not. I think it'd be funnier if he just played Oscar Madison though. If you go with standard sitcom tropes and slapstick, you know instead of malicious partisan shitwadery masquerading as humor, you'll get a bigger audience and make people happy instead of angry.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:01PM (3 children)
Masqurade? I take some comfort in how stupid you and runaway are.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday January 17 2021, @08:50PM (2 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 18 2021, @01:41AM (1 child)
They don't seem anything alike to me. Uzzard is a flippant sociopath with no ability to feel anything other than the shallowest possible connections to other humans, whereas Runaway is what the TF2 Sniper is referring to when he says "y'know who has a lo' o' 'feelings?' Blokes whut bludgeon their woives t'death with a golf trophy;" not a sociopath in the sense that his mirror neurons appear to work, but a Fox News jihadi who became the kind of monster due to right-wing propaganda his generation feared mine would become due to Mortal Kombat.
Uzzard, notably, is too weak-willed and lazy (up to this point...) to do anything more than bitch and moan and post inflammatory shit that stays on just this line of the Brandenburg v. Ohio decision. Runaway has come perilously close to breaching it, outright admitted none of his firearms are registered, and one day very soon is going to post an outright terroristic threat which we'll all have the duty to report.
They're not the same person, though they're arriving at the same kind of evil by two different routes. Uzzard also broke cover a bit earlier and revealed he's every bit as insane as Runaway, just lazier.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 18 2021, @02:35AM
Untrue. I can feel boobs quite skillfully. And there's no law in most of the nation requiring firearm registration, just FYI.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.