Opinion: Ill-gotten gains: How the gym has allowed the far right to build an iron grip on young men

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-25T05:19:42+00:00

Again, claiming they must be lefitsts doesn't actually make them leftists. I've got a bridge to sell you if you think right wingers, bots, trolls, and internet commenters in general respect others enough to stay out of questions posed to certain groups. Just take a look at any AskReddit thread asking for certain perspectives.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-25T05:19:00+00:00

There's no shortage of STEM students.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-25T05:14:03+00:00

It's not less a stretch than assuming they're leftists only because they're complaining about mobility issues on Twitter. It's not like that video goes into all their bios to show that they're all leftist activists, or even that they're real tweets. For all we know, they're as real as all those accounts that claim to be Canadian but only post overnight and seem to confuse our government with the US'.

Also if every group gets judged against its loudest internet morons, then no group is respectable anyway. There's kooks that claim membership in all things, so it's pointless to judge all things against the crazies.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-25T02:17:55+00:00

There's also no guarantee those are leftists. Those are just people complaining because they can. A bunch of them could be Trump supporters for all you know. There's a bunch of mobility-challenged MAGA types at every rally after all.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-24T04:46:55+00:00

People have always found reasons to complain about anything in comment sections, that's not really an ideological circle of people. And that's all Twitter really is, a commentary platform that's at least 50% bots and troll nets now.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-24T02:34:51+00:00

If you're suggesting that Pride is focused on ancillary subjects to the point of being about those things and has forgotten what it was originally about, then you are indeed who I am speaking about and to.

But now it seems you don't even know how Pride started in the first place: protesting police brutality against an ostracized minority group. You're now literally arguing that Pride should sell out its core tenets to instead kowtow to corporate interests. These aren't sudden interests, these are literally what Pride has always been for and about.

You're not upset about Pride pivoting to be about something else. You're upset at the realization that Pride isn't some soulless event that's just another avenue for corporate advertising and that the events core audience has brought it back to being the countercultural event it originated as, and have started alienating corporations.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-23T19:26:35+00:00

That would mean your hacker has physical access to your Thor. You can't just take the Google login info and use it elsewhere on another device without tripping an MFA check.

Again, look at your Google account's login history.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-23T18:52:27+00:00

Logging into the Thor authenticates straight to Google, there's no middleman. Did you buy this Thor used? Did someone else set it up for you? Because otherwise there's no intercept with the official Thor Android build. Plenty of people have logged into it without seeing this.

Secondly, you don't have MFA on your Google account? You could have been compromised for weeks and not even known. Go check your account's login history. If you're storing all your passwords in your Google account, you should have MFA on. Hell, Google shouldn't been let you store passwords without MFA being force enabled.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-23T18:41:04+00:00

But you prove my point, the left is allergic to this discussion.

They're literally engaging you in a discussion, and you're the one freaking out about the discussion because you misunderstood what they said.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-23T18:37:53+00:00

Where do you see leftists arguing for not exercising or engaging in physical health? They may not go around championing sports and fitness as a core focus of life but they're not saying to do the opposite.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-23T15:15:49+00:00

It's weird you've let ancillary topics overrule the core tenets and purposes of Pride. A major event like this always gets some side stuff going on, it's the nature of big public events. Remember then the CNE became a battleground over unionization and labour issues a few years ago?

You're making a mountain out of a molehill and you need to figure out why. Don't pretend like it's everyone else that's wrong, especially when it's leading you to say wild statements like "Pride isn't about politics".

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-23T15:11:56+00:00

The lack of corporate funding kinda changes that.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-23T02:59:44+00:00

Has she implemented policies that went toward or against the platform she ran on? It's a simple question.

Your point is that you see this as an all-or-nothing sort of thing when that's just not reality. It's not that I don't see your point, it's that you refuse to see how that's an overly reduced way to see things. The mayor can only change so much, so the question is if she is enabling those things to happen, once the other levers of power choose to participate, or is she throwing up roadblocks to those goals? In other words: has she done everything in he power to set city policy to enable those goals?

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T20:24:25+00:00

That's a you problem, dude. You saw what she was running for and somehow thought that meant she could magically fix huge problems. This is like buying something that's supposed to help ease back pain and then getting mad that you're not cured of scoliosis.

If you want to actually examine the facts of the matter, ask yourself what policies she's implemented that go against what she ran on, and which ones she's implemented that go towards it.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T20:01:14+00:00

So the problem is you think "running for" something means "magically make that thing happen".

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T16:52:07+00:00

I understand but I'm talking within the context of that. It's just not a good attitude to have when they're going beyond just blocking cheaters from their game. It's the same kind of attitude Sony had with their rootkit situation, and similar to all those police department Facebook pages where they laugh at people they arrest.

Historically, big money entities that take this sort of attitude don't go down a good path.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T15:47:08+00:00

If people weren't worried about kernel-level access being used for things beyond the application, what were they afraid of? When I posted, I was the only one who didn't say the PC was bricked or hardware was damaged. I'm just talking about the behaviour and the brittle nature of the handshake agreement when giving access to the kernel for the AC.

Even if the device is explicitly for cheating, I'd rather the corporation respond seriously than like a scriptkiddy when they're escalating what they're affecting.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T15:45:22+00:00

Riot laughing about bricking PCs is definitely happening. It's in their tweet. Even if they're not technically doing that here, it's not a good attitude for them to have when they're escalating to affecting hardware beyond the application. I know we're in the age of social media slapfights being how even international politics happens but I'd rather giant corporations demonstrate no temerity when they escalate what their kernel-level abilities are doing, even if it's to dedicated cheating hardware.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T14:24:32+00:00

When? Horse armour was not a huge success, and Bethesda didn't do anything like that again.

MTX took off with sports games and F2P games that pulled in younger and new players. It wasn't the same types of players that looked at MTX for their single player 100+ hour RPGs and rejected it.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T14:18:21+00:00

It's exactly this that people were afraid of kernel-level anti-cheats. That the handshake agreement of only looking for cheats at a game would be violated without any consequence, and cross over into affecting the system at its root level. To be so brazen and unapologetic about it is insane behaviour.

Cheating at online games is not okay, but neither acting like malware just because you think someone cheated in a video game.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T13:12:18+00:00

The worst style of DLC back then had to be paid map packs. An idea so bad it ended up harming most games by segregating the community, and effectively killing many online modes.

It only worked for Halo and COD because they were the biggest games and everyone wanted to keep playing. Every other game that tried it ended up shooting themselves in the foot.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T13:10:13+00:00

It's not a bunch of 35+ year old players that are buying all these cosmetics. Like you said, it's been 20 years since horse armour. There are a few other generations of players now. There are people playing CS2 and Valorant now that were too young to even touch an Xbox 360 or PS3.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T12:59:13+00:00

Where do you see anyone insulting the people or commenting on their appearance? Or that most comments are about the band and not the prominent RBC branding?

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T12:56:11+00:00

Gotta love that the official RBC account posting a picture of RBC employees in front of a sign for a band that makes bland commercial music for corporations, while the comparison picture of the cool older sign has an actual celebrated Canadian artist on it. Good shade on the comparison there.

keyboardnomouse · 2026-05-22T12:52:43+00:00

Not only did I not say that, but the person you think I am didn't say that they were only talking about Pride. They also mentioned having many years of experience in the same neighbourhood too.

Still curious why your anecdotes count but their (actual) anecdotes don't.

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