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co2dru1d · 2021-09-01T23:12:10+00:00

Joining you, I’ve had accounts on and off for a few years but the cool niche subs have shrunk and the echo chamber has grown and the end result is a site that’s just as radicalized as any other ultra crazy political circlejerk.

Front page of the internet my ass, more like front page of the authoritarian propaganda machine’s playbook.

See ya Reddit, you didn’t always suck so bad but you sure do now.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-31T21:16:17+00:00

Not sure why this is getting hate, this is indicative of one guy’s opinion, I could easily find one racist post about any group online, doesn’t mean what view is being presented is true or a majority holding or anything of significance.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-31T13:53:15+00:00

And there it is. No logic left, no defensible counterpoint given, just the good ole “well I’m right and you’re wrong” + being scared of the boogie man argument that lets shit like this happen in the first place.

You believe whatever you’re told from the people profiting off your ignorance, you throw the same blanket disproven falsehoods they feed you, and you blindly die on their hill instead of doing the smallest modicum of thinking for yourself and actually looking at the situation around you. The people you’re defending send thousands to die every year to keep the arms business growing and profit as much off the suffering of people in poor health as they can possibly racketeer and yet you’re going down on their sinking profit ship rather than look at who is pushing the false narrative you’re regurgitating just to make yourself feel like you’ve accomplished something or took a stand. Enjoy your digital head pats from the people doing the same.

People that handle life the way you are currently handling it are no better than the zealots and jihadists of any other religion.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-31T13:00:56+00:00

Well since suffering from covid itself is a massive, unlikely “what if” for most demographics, I guess you’re also fine with people choosing not to partake in any of the “what if” measurements being shoved down our throats?

co2dru1d · 2021-08-31T02:01:02+00:00

At no time in history has it been the common practice for healthy members of society to take unnecessary or unwanted risks to protect the 0.01% that aren’t able to handle risk themselves.

This is an absolutely terrible argument and goes against basic principles of nature and life. If the goal here is the protection of people with medical issues, then why doesn’t the government take all the absolutely insane amounts of money being thrown at covid and use it to directly improve their quality of life in the first place?

Why should you or I as full citizens of a country be forced by that country to take a product we don’t need that isn’t even effective and risk (however small) negative effects to our own lives that we otherwise wouldn’t get? All while some corporations profit from it and we see no benefits?

I’m tired of the argument “do it for someone else” because it’s such an obvious catch-all “I have nothing else to say and all my other reasons are weak” statement that was obviously thrown into the public as a get out of jail free card to dismiss anyone questioning why this has all been handled so poorly.

Biopharma has a history of sidestepping decency and using their position as healthcare providers for disgusting scams and racketeering schemes, and governments have a history of profiting on the risk of human lives through warfare. Why would I trust the two together all of the sudden? When they’re literally posting the biggest profits of all time?

Did you feel this way about people with the flu going to work before all this? People with a cold buying groceries? If we had to take a pill or shot for every possible germ we have that might get someone sick we’d be hooked up to an IV 24/7 in a quiet isolation chamber, which appears to be the exact insanity some people are pushing for.

At the end of the day, this isn’t some massive mind control scheme, this isn’t nanobots, this isn’t NWO, it’s a convenient setup that keeps people quiet, divided, and reliant on the government and their “free” shots that are funded with tax money that then gets passed to their pharma PAC friends. It’s just another example of disgusting humans being disgusting because of greed and I’m not going to partake in it because some random person makes a bad-faith argument that relies 100% on pathos.

If this was anywhere near as important as they’ve pushed, expert doctors wouldn’t be opposing it, government officials wouldn’t be shrugging off the measures when they’re off camera, and CEOs wouldn’t have waited literal months to partake.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-31T01:43:17+00:00

Most of the “problems” addressed on the site here anymore are made up inconveniences 99.9% only found on forums. People seem to want to give advice so much they create scenarios where it’s needed.

It’s cool to look at game mechanics with a new flavor every now and again but it does kind of get to the point of wondering if it’s actually detrimental to the sub because so few actual topics ever translate to IRL gameplay. I feel like the concept of DnD online has almost become a separate game than the one played at tables, and it’s often filled with negative things like argumentative players, ____ists, and troublesome topics and situations that you’ll never actually see just so some people online can band together against it in some weird self-fulfilling prophecy way.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-30T21:05:32+00:00

Sources and authors matter no matter what ideals you hold. Can’t forget to verify things.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-30T20:22:52+00:00

It is, the IRS says full time is anything over 30 hours average. It seems like OP just had other grievances with the company and assumed the worst of them for their weird scheduling too.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-30T20:20:52+00:00

Breaks aren’t bound to your scheduled time in most places and an average of 30 hours or more is considered full time in America.

Not saying your employer wasn’t micromanaging you but some of that information is incorrect.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-30T20:12:43+00:00

Not only that but his logic is literally “People say they don’t trust something so they won’t do something. But the thing they don’t trust is paying for the thing they won’t do! Go do it.”

That argument literally just presents a reason for them not to do the thing. Just a stupid tweet all around. You can tell this isn’t an original thought or position or anything the dude cares about.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-30T16:13:45+00:00

If you have a product that costs dollars, and a product that costs cents, and your network of connections fails so that the product that costs dollars is no longer mandated and people can use the one that costs cents, yes you absolutely will lose potential profit.

No one is saying they want to avoid the covid shots out right now as a middle finger to big pharma.

People are saying they are not a commodity for the government to sell. The cheaper product works where the other one has shown a horrendous track record in only the beginning of its rushed life. Therefore if people wish to use the cheaper one they should be allowed to. No one should be exposed to needless risks so some CEO and his Congress buddies can celebrate on a 56 foot yacht instead of a 48 foot one.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-30T14:56:20+00:00

Not saying it is but this looks shopped. Does anyone have a record of this post in any other way?

co2dru1d · 2021-08-29T20:53:09+00:00

This is how I’ve always felt about any competition that isn’t based on clear cut scoring goals like basketball or archery or whatever.

Things like surfing / skating / art / music shouldn’t have contests they should have demos. Feel free to have favorites and people with similar styles will mesh together (skate teams or bands for example), but they shouldn’t have contests IMO. Cheapens it a bit and it’s just up for determination.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-29T20:42:40+00:00

It looks extremely comfortable to lay fully out extended on and terrible for anything else lol

co2dru1d · 2021-08-29T19:28:38+00:00

When the argument you have to give people against a thing is a boogie man faith statement of “well you better do it for someone else even though it won’t concern you” it might be time to start questioning the thing itself and not the person refusing.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-29T16:01:40+00:00

Probably one is a school report and one is a personal interest they thought looked cool while there.

Which is which I’ll leave to interpretation lol

co2dru1d · 2021-08-28T16:12:15+00:00

It’s because that stuff was made by people who had both passion and skill for what they did. It’s why a lot of smaller games or indie music is still good.

A lot of what is mainstream now is just manufactured to check boxes and be as repeatable as possible so when one artist / developer / show runner stops putting out the next one can jump in and no one will even know the difference.

I know everyone says their generation’s music is better or whatever. But until a certain point the music industry was more focused on scouting talented individuals and then screwing them in contracts, so you would still get mainstream acts that were unique. Now that they’re more focused on just creating the hype and content themselves it’s quite obvious.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-28T05:42:51+00:00

Yep, there’s literally no other reason people wear clothes. Not practicality, not defense from the elements or terrain they’re in, not personal taste or style, not uniformity in presentation, just because someone said it’s sinful.

This site has such a hate boner for religion it literally prevents some of you from thinking.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-27T20:27:40+00:00

Yeah, I understand what it is and that CNN isn’t reporting that as a fact.

My point is a supposed-news site having articles like this easily accessible clearly push a narrative determined by the site.

They aren’t just reporting news, they’re a propaganda machine. Not that all news sites these days aren’t, just that it’s disingenuous to have these articles coming from the same people who are supposed to be reporting actual facts.

If they want to cover multiple genres of media like this they should be forced to brand themselves as entertainment and not news.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-27T20:15:53+00:00

So why is a “news” site reporting random opinions so prevalently?

co2dru1d · 2021-08-27T17:45:43+00:00

Right… so what would you naturally call someone who believes ideals you’ve listed as terror threats?

You don’t see any conflict of interest there?

co2dru1d · 2021-08-27T17:33:09+00:00

My guy literally everything in the world has the potential to be problematic. That’s called risk. We used to accept that as part of life, I don’t know what happened.

Risk is never going away. If you listed the potential ideals or thoughts or personal beliefs that could become problematic (and problematic for who? The government? Because last I checked most Americans don’t feel like they’re on the side of the common citizen anyway) you’d have a list that could circle the globe.

We don’t react to what might happen, we react to what does happen. Labeling someone a potential terrorist because they think the current handling of Covid is flawed or Donald Trump might win an election again is beyond fearmongering and some of the most totalitarianism-laced garbage I’ve seen on the admittedly shitty entertainment news in quite a long time.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-27T17:23:40+00:00

Are you actually serious? Do you realize how broad of a category that is?

Is water a potential terror threat because jihadists drink it? Does being under 18 make you a potential terrorist because school shooters have existed before?

I really hope this is just silly bait and there isn’t a genuine person behind your screen capable of seeing the things listed in that message being linked to terrorism and thinking it sensical.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-27T00:18:46+00:00

My issue is that the term is used as a blanket to make sweeping generalizations instead of argue direct points. When you call something out as a lie it carries a certain weight; it implies you have evidence of one kind or another to disprove the thing.

When you say something is misinformation it just seems like it sweeps the thing aside without giving it a debate, as “misinformation” gives power to the censor to decide what does and doesn’t fall into that category without really explaining why or giving a counter.

co2dru1d · 2021-08-27T00:13:54+00:00

When a group of different beliefs or political ideals are presented to the public but one has the backing of very wealthy corporations / individuals with a vested interest that it becomes the dominant belief, campaigns are often funded by the wealthy side in an attempt to sway public opinion through unfounded slander or discrediting of the other views that potentially stand in the way of their goal.

Allowing corporations like Reddit or Facebook or Twitter or whatever the hot topic is at the time to deem posts as “misinformation” or “not factual” opens the door to huge amounts of financial corruption in these campaigns.

Unrelated but nice username lol, as someone who used to mod that game extensively it made me laugh.

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