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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out sheās a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles
https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/
fuck me that is some awful fucking moderation. I canāt imagine being so fucking bad at this that I:
but for so many of these people, somehow thatās what moderation is? fucking wild, how the fuck did we get here
See, youāre assuming the goal of moderation is to maintain a healthy social space online. By definition this excludes fascists. Itās that old story about how to make sure your punk bar doesnāt turn into a nazi punk bar. But what if instead my goal is to keep the peace in my nazi punk bar so that the normies and casuals keep filtering in and out and making me enough money that I can stay in business? Then this strategy makes more sense.
Is Google lacing their free coffee??? How could a woman with at least one college degree believe that the government is even mechanically capable of dissolving into a throne for Eric Schmidt.
Post by Corbet the editor. āWe get it: people wish that we had not highlighted work by this particular author. Had we known more about the person in question, we might have shied away from the topic. But the article is out now, it describes a bit of interesting technology, people have had their say, please letās leave it at that.ā
So you updated the article to reflect this right? padme.jpg
Seems like theyāve actually done this now. Thereās a preface note now.
Which is better than nothing, I guess, but still feels like a cheap cop-out.
Side-note: I can actually believe that they didnāt know about Justine being a fucking nazi when publishing this, because I remember stumbling across some of her projects and actually being impressed by it, and then I found out what an absolute rabbit hole of weird shit this person is. So I kinda get seeing the portable executables project, thinking, wow, this is actually neat, and running with it.
Not that this is an excuse, because when you write articles for a website that should come with a bit of research about the people and topic you choose to cover and you have a bit more responsibility than someone whoās just browsing around, but what do I know.
Well, at least they put down something. More than I expected.
And doing research on people? In this economy?
so is corbet the same kind of fucker thatāll complain āeverything is so political nowadaysā? it seems like they are
https://lwn.net/Articles/998435/ sigh
Centrists Donāt Fucking Be Like This challenge not achieved yet again
https://social.kernel.org/notice/AoGpED4fw3LSGhxTLU
fwiw this link didnāt jump me to a specific reply (if you meant to highlight a particular one)
It didnāt scroll for me either but thereās a reply by this corbet person with a highlighted background which I assume is the one intended to be linked to
Not the only trans NRXer to pull this Iām afraid. I could say things but I really canāt I think.
@dgerard @BlueMonday1984 also, and I know this is way beside the point, update the design of your website, motherfuckers
I donāt run any websites, what are you coming at me for
Man, how do you even find this stuff? :D
tripped over it just reading LWN and went āholy shitā