Radish posted:

What the gently caress subredit is THAT nightmare on??

CommieGIR posted:

And according to SPLC, a significant portion of the Civil War monuments in Georgia are Confederate.

Forgall posted:

They internet detectived the wrong guy after Boston Marathon bombing and hounded him to the point he killed himself.

Prism posted:

Actually I think you'll find that he said he wants to rape anyone that isn't a child.

Anyone who self-describes as an 'incel' cannot be a good person, I'm convinced of it.

Red Baron posted:

Jesus Christ I've seen those freaks advocate for some disgusting positions but that's actually saying he wants to be able to rape children. What the everloving gently caress.

Just... Goddamn.

GreyjoyBastard posted:

evilweasel posted:

no i mean when we are discussing it, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof has never been a legal standard

a 90% confidence result is not good enough when you're running a bunch of tests to explain something odd, it's just not meaningful in that context

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

By Lee's birthplace, in Alexandria, VA, there's this memorial:



This is the closest thing to an "acceptable" confederate memorial there could be, in the same style as other war memorials raised in the immediate aftermath of the war by a city to memorialize the names of its residents killed in the war

This one can stay in a museum. The confederate generals can be melted down for scrap.

BlueBlazer posted:

I'm not saying doxxing, I'm saying shout it down. In the spaces where they remain anonymous.

You will be flamed, you will derided, the most awful poo poo on the net will be thrown back and you fight back , just without being a racist nazi. It's exhausting and it feels futile but its not. You are not going to win but for every comment that goes unchallenged and every troll that's ignored allows other to follow.

I got to thinking that as some protest movements have started those with net literacy found that we were needed in the streets helping with causes. But in doing so abandoned our posts on the out-skirts telling assholes, misogynists, and racists to STFU. It's those outskirts where this poo poo has festered, its where the pepe bullshit has come from. Fight noise with noise. It's a battlefront that really has not been acknowledged because its so god drat ridiculous. The fact that it even matters and to consider it serious is ludicrous.

It's probably all our fault anyway. 15 min a day do your part.

TulliusCicero posted:

That reddit post... just

Blitz7x posted:

Reddit can't be saved




Tear the entire site down and kick it repeatedly

Red Baron posted:

Jesus Christ I've seen those freaks advocate for some disgusting positions but that's actually saying he wants to be able to rape children. What the everloving gently caress.

Just... Goddamn.

evilweasel posted:

https://twitter.com/theshrillest/status/897468958994870273

boner confessor posted:

i didn't know it was racist to discriminate between historical markers and monuments but this is uspol, land of the extremely bad poster, so i guess it's just my cosmic turn to get screamed at for no reason today

saying a dude who served the us government for thirty years and the confederacy for five "served with distinction" is not exactly the sort of lost causerism folks are sweating over but if that's the best effort you can muster here i suppose i'll just accept that you hate me for confusing and vague reasons. that's ok

fact is the original tweet was incorrect and misrepresented the data to make a point so it's not really a surprise there's some people itt who would cherish that kind of ignorance so long as it's politically convenient

Bicyclops posted:

One of them advocated for lobotomizing all women and replacing their brains with dog brains.

Arglebargle III posted:

I like how he includes details that make it clear even ugly women won't gently caress him. Wonder why???

I used to think the incel community was just lazy losers who aren't even self reflective enough to realize you have to try to meet people in order to have sex, but now I see there's a whole different breed.

Red Baron posted:

I wonder what, if any, overlap there is between hardcore white supremacy people and these people is, especially among all those younger, white males.

Krispy Kareem posted:

Markers about the Civil War put in place by politicians in states that rebelled say nice things about the state's citizens whose ancestors fought in the war is bad I guess? I suppose they could all just say SHAAAAAAAME!!! but that probably wouldn't have gotten funding.

I mean, the markers are often on the sides of roads in inconvenient locations to actually stop and read and the print is too small to see otherwise. But racism.

But this is also the thread that loves Sherman and wants more statues of him so maybe not racism?

pumpinglemma posted:

To elaborate further on this, here's a really cool article that should be required reading for anyone who works with statistics. Basically, that whole "dark chocolate is good for the heart" thing you might have heard about a couple of years ago? Was an intentionally garbage (yet not technically fraudulent) study done by a journalist explicitly to call attention to the same issue evilweasel is talking about here. And that study used 95% confidence, not 90%.

Red Baron posted:

I wonder what, if any, overlap there is between hardcore white supremacy people and these people is, especially among all those younger, white males.

boner confessor posted:

no we definitely need to tear down all the markers because they are racist

boner confessor posted:

no we definitely need to tear down all the markers because they are racist

Chilichimp posted:

Did you... read the sign? That's actually good historical information.

Krispy Kareem posted:

Markers about the Civil War put in place by politicians in states that rebelled say nice things about the state's citizens whose ancestors fought in the war is bad I guess? I suppose they could all just say SHAAAAAAAME!!! but that probably wouldn't have gotten funding.

quote:

But two distinct periods saw a significant rise in the dedication of monuments and other symbols.

The first began around 1900, amid the period in which states were enacting Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise the newly freed African Americans and re-segregate society. This spike lasted well into the 1920s, a period that saw a dramatic resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, which had been born in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.

The second spike began in the early 1950s and lasted through the 1960s, as the civil rights movement led to a backlash among segregationists. These two periods also coincided with the 50th and 100th anniversaries of the Civil War.

boner confessor posted:

yes i know i am making fun of posters itt who think there are thousands and thousands of confederate memorials across the south because they can't read a simple article

boner confessor posted:

yes i know i am making fun of posters itt who think there are thousands and thousands of confederate memorials across the south because they can't read a simple article

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/897417100226154496

evilweasel posted:

pollsters are finally doing the needful, polling trump's actual floor. it's 25%

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/897506567557394432

rkajdi posted:

I've said it before on the YouTube thread. Any able-bodied cis man who can't get laid in the US has something seriously wrong with them. You almost have to judge someone for being unable to fit into society on that basic a level. Even fat, ugly, whatever people have sex. To drive everyone off you have to be the kind of awful person that comes up with crazy poo poo like this idiot did.

DreamShipWrecked posted:

I'm glad that my great grandad is forever memorialized for fighting in The War by a statue of a a general.

boner confessor posted:

yes i know i am making fun of posters itt who think there are thousands and thousands of confederate memorials across the south because they can't read a simple article

one guy who made this claim even posted another article he didn't read that said there were less than two hundred confederate memorials in georgia and hilariously he did not spot the contradiction

VV he did it again lol. there's a difference between a memorial and a marker, friend, but at this point i'm just repeating myself and if you didn't understand me the first couple times there's no reason to believe you'll suddenly understand me

rkajdi posted:

I've said it before on the YouTube thread. Any able-bodied cis man who can't get laid in the US has something seriously wrong with them. You almost have to judge someone for being unable to fit into society on that basic a level. Even fat, ugly, whatever people have sex. To drive everyone off you have to be the kind of awful person that comes up with crazy poo poo like this idiot did.

boner confessor posted:

a good number of the confederate memorials in smaller towns are statues of the common soldier

not that this excuses them nor is it a reason they should be preserved for public display but still

Red Baron posted:

I wonder what, if any, overlap there is between hardcore white supremacy people and these people is, especially among all those younger, white males.

Chilichimp posted:

Did you... read the sign? That's actually good historical information, or is this ironic?