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The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020


I especially like that someone paid holodomor denialist jeffery of yospos tenbux to get me what I'm pretty sure is remember the holodomor av.

oh hey, when I replace this thing can I ditch the ghost of kiev tag but keep the china state poster tag?

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The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

cspam needs more hornyness. not just hornyness for stalin, though there can be more of that too

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Hey, so about that main character rule.

combine two posting trends into one: main characters but only posting syq

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

the upvote/downvote thing on reddit should, in principle, remove the need for moderation. bullshit and spam should get immediately downvoted into oblivion. it should be a fully democratic enlightened posting experience. yet reddit is a cesspool

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

bring back voice validation like what people used to do for wwiv boards. also warez

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

Azathoth posted:

gonna be real happy when the lightning storm over your lab moves off

imagine getting a call at like 3am and it's smythe mispronouncing your name at you. if you look deep down in your heart, you know you want that. we all do

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

some plague rats posted:

Bring back the genocide megathread. It never even had a chance to cause a single insane meltdown

I could go post about materialism in the historical materialism thread if half a dozen mild meltdowns would do

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

some plague rats posted:

That would absolutely soothe my troubled mind

can it wait a day or two? kinda busy with work and crafting a legitimate, true post that will make animeistrash mad enough to call me the mod slur isn't something that can really be forced

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

NeatHeteroDude posted:

this isn't meant to be rude or anything but people take the ability to post under one specific profile on the forums insanely loving seriously. hate-reading and hate-posting takes so much effort and mental bandwidth that i'm always very surprised when people do it super consistently about the same poo poo all the time every day. I truly don't understand what has to happen to my mentality about SA before i genuinely care about a poster getting permaed forever ago for behavior in a different subforum. it seems very extreme to care this much about this kind of stuff.

i'm not claiming my life is so interesting and cool that I wouldn't be annoyed if I were banned for some bullshit reason, but c'mon. I also can't imagine explaining this kind of thing to someone in person and expecting them to grasp why it's even remotely worth getting pissed about

e: and this isn't even about being banned. it's about someone else being banned for something that happened somewhere else, being addressed to someone who has no control at all over what happens there

I think it's more a chilling effect thing and a slippery slope thing. when someone gets banned for pointing out something that's true, that tends to stifle other things that should be posted from being posted. also sa is such a tiny ecosystem, loosing even one decent poster can be noticeable. giving a gently caress about leftist politics, or foreign affairs is a pretty niche thing in the anglosphere, so the posting pool is even smaller. without the petty arguments and white noise posts, the forums are empty and silent, those are the grist of good posts, the idle chatter that sustains a conversation until someone thinks of something actually worth saying. the attrition that silences the piss and the trmpf limits the rare quality post just as much

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

AnimeIsTrash posted:

excited for you to produce some of the least funny most retarded stuff yet

don't let me down, champ

I'll do my best. keep filtering the twittersphere for me so I don't have to

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

500 good dogs posted:

btw in all seriousness the cspam mods seem pretty good nowadays. SA as a whole would be much better if the admins were more like the cspam mods

looking at any part of the forums other than cspam regarding russia or china or human rights I'm p' sure that nothing is capable of making sa as a whole better. maybe closing gbs and making byob the main forum

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

lol at making dustcat so performatively mad they made a "have you tried google?" post on the gardening thread. the rage has trickled down and now all of the forum is a barbara boxering gym

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

what was the gist pf the chipmunk porn kerfuffle? I think I missed out on that one by virtue of not giving a gently caress

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020


lol, the forums split between people who think grant morrison's invisibles was fiction and those who think it's nonfiction

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

close d'n'd

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

make the terfs post on our turf

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

new cspam background should be a bunch of animated gifs of this mirroring and rotating and dancing around tiled all over like a 2022 hamster dance

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

CYBEReris posted:

to be sincere imo there is a line between ribbing and bullying, I believe this line is drawn where the intent is to be inclusive by treating someone as a pal you can joke around with, or to be exclusive by mocking and degrading something somebody cares about to the point where they will no longer feel comfortable sharing it. i think bullying is sometimes warranted but it can make things feel unpleasant and cruel when it's overused.

the line's not really all that clear because often people ridicule those around them not as a joke but because they want them not to believe obvious bullshit or do stupid poo poo. it's still well intentioned, but it's not just for the sake of joking around

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

there's a utilitarian gain for disallowing mysticism. forcing everyone to deal with material reality is the only way forward. how polite you should be about it is debatable, but the aim is not

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

Azathoth posted:

I've always found this perspective amusing, as it uses dialectical materialism to reject the material benefits of spirituality.

I think you're mistaking the benefits of having community and hope as being benefits of spirituality. in so far as spirituality and religion overlap, any benefits, even falsely attributed, don't come close to matching the harm done on the world by religion. it's not worth it. it's sociological meth. sure you might get your house cleaned, but you're gonna end up loosing all your teeth and annihilating indigenous people

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

and then you get the stuff about this world not mattering and the totally non existent after life being the big deal. so even if you condemn the abuses of wealth you're incentivized to turn the other cheek when you're being robbed and murdered. it kinda cancels out, or is contradictory, as religious texts tend to be

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The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

Cpt_Obvious posted:

I think religion may serve a different function based on the material something something dialectic.

it's never been used for anything other than empowering a small group of parasitic elites at the expense of the working majority

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