Me: feels mostly alright for one day
Me: I can’t believe all my mental illness is a fake and my entire existence is a sham, I am the mayor of fraudville welcome to my town of lies.
i dont get the hate with greentexting outside of 4chan
it can take a statement like
“wow its really pathetic that you dont own an avocado tree” and simplifies it to
this too
greentext is a good syntax
I don’t even use 4chan
the terror organization known as the so-called united states
U.S. actually the heel all along
good guys actually obscure village of farmers in remote province of China
First Libertarians and now crazy Leftists? am I the only one who likes roads?
This is an okay argument for white nationalism honestly
Legitimately, one of the arguments by White Nationalists these days is that only white men (on average, and maybe Asians?) want roads and other infrastructure of prosperity, so it’s probably best not to disparage essential infrastructure like roads as being the domain of white men.
only tangentially related but I really wish there was a code equivalent of like… deviantART.
people sometimes talk shit about the way programmers can’t give advice without insulting people who ask questions and it’s kinda true? But with only a few exceptions most of them still kinda have their heart in the right place just wanting to help people write better code.
but like… the #1 thing that makes people better at stuff isn’t critique, it’s practice. being guided helps but it’s mostly about raw output at first, and then seeking guidance when you get stuck or hit a plateau and are looking for a way up.
what I want from the world of programming even more than a kinder place to get beginner’s advice (because those are thankfully popping up already) is a place where people can just… output absolute MOUNTAINS of shit garbage and socialize without even necessarily worrying about feedback at all.[this post partially made because i hope i’m wrong and code dA does exist and i want someone to point me there so i may join IMMEDIATELY]
deviant code, except that sounds too much like debian code
It’s called github and everyone is already using it. In fact I’m gonna start referring to github as code deviant art from now on.
Okay, but it isn’t really devianArt if it doesn’t have the equivalent of furry inflation porn.
can’t have viciously genocidal warfare between the tribes if you’ve already eradicated all the other tribes, tapping head meme etc.
Dude,
Do you realize what the optimal strategy strategy is under the Collective Intergenerational Justice certain political factions love so much?
Total extermination. There is no giving all the land back if there is no one left to give it back to.
There is another optimal strategy: total interbreeding. There are no reparations if everyone is the descendant of natives, slaves, immigrants, oppressors,
Distribute the social justice by blood purity!
…wait
can’t have viciously genocidal warfare between the tribes if you’ve already eradicated all the other tribes, tapping head meme etc.
Dude,
Do you realize what the optimal strategy strategy is under the Collective Intergenerational Justice certain political factions love so much?
Total extermination. There is no giving all the land back if there is no one left to give it back to.
Self reblogging to add a thing I found:
http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-208/feature-malcolm-harris/
The account @Anti_Racism_Dog didn’t last long. Twitter suspended it quickly, a fate reserved only for the most aggressive, abusive and hateful users. What could a dog – an anti-racist one, at that – do to deserve it? @Anti_Racism_Dog had one real function: to bark at racist speech on Twitter. The account responded to tweets it deemed racist with the simple response ‘bark bark bark!’ Sometimes it would send wags to supporters but that was pretty much it.
For the short time it lasted, it was amazing to watch how people reacted to @Anti_Racism_Dog. The account would respond mostly to what the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva would call ‘colour-blind racism’, that is, racisms that are generally right-libertarian in orientation and justified through appeals to supposedly objective discourses like science and statistics. It’s a notoriously insidious white-supremacist ideology, a virulent strain evolved specifically to resist anti-racist language. Colour-blind racism defends itself by appeals to neutrality and meritocracy, accusing its adversaries of being ‘the real racists’. Although its moves are predictable, they’re hard to combat rhetorically since they’re able to ingest the conventional opposition scripts. Colour-blind racists feed on good-faith debate, and engaging with them, especially online, is almost always futile. But when they’re barked at by a dog, one whose only quality is anti-racism, they flip the fuck out. They demand to be engaged in debate (‘Tell me how what I said was racist!’) or appeal to objective definitions (‘The dictionary says racist means X, therefore nothing I said was racist’), but @Anti_Racism_Dog just barks.
@Anti_Racism_Dog inverted the usual balance of energy in online dialogs about race. Precisely because the dominant global discourse is white-supremacist, it is rhetorically easier to make a racist argument than an anti-racist one. Look at almost any comment thread or discussion board about race and you can see anti-racists working laboriously to be convincing and to play on their opponents’ ‘logical’ turf, and racists repeating the same simple lines they were taught (‘I didn’t own slaves’, ‘I’m just stating the facts’, ‘The Irish were persecuted too’, etc.) ‘Trolling’ as a certain kind of internet harassment is tied to time: the successful troll expends much less time and energy on the interaction than their targets do. It’s the most micro of micro-politics, an interpersonal tug of war for the only thing that matters. But have you ever played tug of war with a dog?
A true troll doesn’t have a position to protect because to establish one would leave it vulnerable to attack, and playing defence takes time. @Anti_Racism_Dog, by fully assuming the persona of an animal, was invulnerable to counter-attack. You can’t explain yourself to a dog and you look like an idiot trying. The only way to win is not to play but this is the colour-blind racist’s Achilles Heel: they’re compelled to defend themselves against accusations of racism. It’s the anti-racist argument that gives them content; theirs is an ideology that’s in large part a list of counter-arguments. After all, white-supremacists are already winning – their task now is to keep the same racist structures in place while making plausibly colour-blind arguments against dismantling them. @Anti_Racism_Dog was empty of anything other than accusation and so left its targets sputtering.
The account served a second purpose: as a sort of anti-racist hunting dog. @Anti_Racism_Dog quickly attracted a lot of like-minded followers who understood the dynamics at play. Whenever it would start barking at another user, this was a cue to the dog’s followers to troll the offender as well. There’s only so much one dog can do alone. Colour-blind racism is particularly dangerous because it isn’t immediately visible as such. It provokes good-faith discussion from liberals about what counts as racism, muddying the water. But @Anti_Racism_Dog’s strategy draws new lines about what constitutes acceptable discourse on race, placing colour-blind racists on the other side by speaking to them like an animal. What would be taken as totally insane in flesh space can be infuriatingly clever online.
THIS ARTICLE HAS TEETH
I WANT ANTI RACISM DOG BACK
fuck twitter Im going to go delete mine
useless piece of shit it is
Ngl, this makes me feel a lot better about the ridiculous amount of time I spend tryin to counter racist bullshit in comments sections.
Bark at racists online 2k17
This is amazing. I want something like this, but it barks completely at random, and when you reply to it, somebody else automatically berates you for not listening to it and believing properly.
Maybe this has already happened.
The obvious exploit here is to accuse anti-racism-dog of classism/sexism/antisemitism/ageism/ableism or literally anything else. Anti-semitism-dog cannot defend itself.
Maybe do it in a friendly-reminder-callout-uwu way and let people know that the guy behing anti-racism-dog is 41 years old, has poor grooming, jerks off to anime titties, ships two underage characters, or draws problematic fanart.
If anti-racism-dog works, it will make the discourse worse, give its enemies ammunition, and eventually eat itself.
If it does not work, all it does is signal boost and shametweet people on twitter, use its follower base to incite harassment against its targets, embroils its follower base in exactly the kind of argument they want to avoid, and make their enemies look sane in comparison.
Dear OP,
My assessment of the validity of online racism accusations has just decreased. Again. If it keeps getting worse because of people like OP and that twitter account, it may eventually flip negative.
That is a bad thing, OP. Literal Richard Spencer himself said that he can openly call himself a Nazi because so many people throw around the term willy-nilly that no one thinks it means real Nazis anymore. Abusing terms destroys them. Some of those terms actually have value.
One antibiotic resistant super-bacteria has already been created. And by that, I mean that an Orange Internet Meme has been elected President.
These actions have consequences.
Sincerely,
Mitigated Chaos
Prop 98. Like it or not, California has a school funding law put in place years ago by Proposition 98. It’s insanely complicated, but basically requires that 40 percent of the state budget go to K-12 schools. Using round numbers, if the state budget is $100 billion, school spending has to be at least $40 billion. If state spending goes up to $300 billion, school spending has to be at least $120 billion. Aside from being ridiculous, it also leaves only $120 billion for the health care bill. Oops.
#how has California survived this long
It’s a fertile coastline of the most powerful nation on Earth, with amazing weather. (At least, that was my conclusion to this same question.) It would have to try hard to fail.
Which it apparently is.
I think I’ll stick to the Midwest and the East Coast.
Me: Hey if you want me to follow your blog and get to you know you, you gotta reblog way fewer random things, you’re cloggin up my feed!
Also me: Reblogs infinite things
Getting other people to follow me by not reblogging so many random things was actually my nefarious plan all along.
Like 95% of the time, anyway.
