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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Saturday December 26 2020, @12:38AM (14 children)
that's because you define degradation as "lack of niceness in my safe space" and you define trolling as "not being nice to me." why don't you fuck off to hacker news instead. this ain't your safe space, and I've been here since fuck beta and the dice bs, eventually creating an account and paying. you on the other hand - well it's nice that a random retard tells me to leave from a place that's not his. i'm kicking you out of your parents' house - you're not welcome there. fucking clown.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @01:29AM (1 child)
You'd definitely fit in better on 4chan or 8kun. But I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of you here now, and probably a lot more spam/impersonation, now that Voat is shutting down.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by fakefuck39 on Saturday December 26 2020, @03:43AM
ah yes, clearly i'm a republican trump supporter. it's nice you think about where i fit in, without having read anything i've commented except this thread.
i did actually have an account on voat when i stopped reading reddit. then the trumptards came and i left.
I've been here about 5 years, although at the beginning i spent most of my time on pipedot. you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @01:59AM (6 children)
So because you've been here so long, therefore you own it and it's your place to do as you please?
How about, you've been here stinking up the place long enough- time for you to leave.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Saturday December 26 2020, @03:46AM (5 children)
no retard. i do what i please here because it's an open website where random strangers from the internet can do as they please. that's the whole point. you want a nice safespace for yourself? then you start one. here, you don't get to define shit, nor do i. what you think should happen - talk to a wall, it'll be more productive. i swear it's like in the last year some kids from reddit came over here. how the fuck did you even find this place? if you're not old and grumpy, if you weren't writing c before java was created, you're not among your own on soylent buddy. which is perfectly fine, just expect to get shit on. shithead.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:05AM (4 children)
Ouch, stop, uncle, you're so strong and mean. Fuck you asshole. You contradict yourself. Ever read what you write? So it's okay for you to complain and order people around, but it's not okay for me or others? Fuck you. You don't like it here, leave. You're a steaming pile, left behind by that mangy dog, feeding your own horseradish root.
(Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:13AM (3 children)
damn, feeding your own horseradish root. when a guy with velcro shoes and a bib tries to insult you. no retard, i don't read what i write. i write what i write. how did you know my uncle raped me? that was a private encounter between man and smaller man. the question is, why you enjoy watching a boy get fucked by a man. you should get some help with that urge.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:16AM
Oh, I thought it was fake, like your entire existence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:22AM (1 child)
> how did you know my uncle raped me?
Latent syphilis caused the brain rot you exhibit. Child could have diagnosed it.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Sunday December 27 2020, @03:43AM
first you're feeding horseradish root, now this "child could have diagnosed it." methinks if we were on a different site, you be chinaman with engrish not so good. since we're here, i'm gonna venture a guess: redneck with a truck who finished middle school and hasn't seen his balls in 20 years, with a fat bitchy wife who looks like a shaved bear. that about right there, vernacular-boy? the syphillis thing - well, no, your wife didn't cause my brain rot. that was avid amounts of cocaine and alcohol in my early 20s. getting raped by your uncle was unfortunate though. but hey, at least my uncle is not my dad.
(Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 26 2020, @02:33AM (3 children)
Leave? Please don't! You're the life of the party.. ever since rDT and KT left (or did they really?) it was getting a bit dull.
Why don't you buy the place, and put in your own crew?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday December 26 2020, @03:40AM (2 children)
the crew here is perfectly fine. very ethical people, with very dull lives, who run a great site. the issue is the editing, which has gone downhill. the problem lately, I thought I explained pretty clearly - the "editing."
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:50AM (1 child)
The editing is done by the crew. And knows? Maybe they'll let you edit something
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:52AM
And who knows?...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 26 2020, @06:45AM
You spend so much time denigrating this site. If you took a turn as editor or, heck, contributed worthy stories to the queue, then it would take a fraction of the time that you already do spend.
Washington DC delenda est.