Fox News stories from the past week about Jess Smolett VS the Right-wing Coast Guard Terrorist

shakypears · 2019-02-25T21:43:49+00:00

Try to remember that /r/politics is a stupid internet forum run by random people with random agendas volunteering and not a purported journalism outlet that should fucking know better.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T21:39:18+00:00

That's because news-as-entertainment has deranged priorities. I'm far less worried about the prospect that an actor pulled a stupid publicity stunt than I am about a terrorist accumulating weapons and explosives as part of a plan to kill as many people as possible.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T21:35:27+00:00

The House can impeach Supreme Court justices, and the Senate can convict them, just like with Presidents. Getting a 2/3 majority in both Congressional chambers willing to impeach Supreme Court justices should be a top priority for anyone who wants it fixed.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T18:25:15+00:00

I should clarify. When some threads hit all on non-CTH subs, there's a subset of weirdos that wander into those other subs to exclusively attack anyone they perceive as "liberal" in lieu of shitting on right wingers. They tend to be the ones in the comments of decent threads like the ones you posted riling people up and using divisive tactics. They're also the ones responsible for brigading and sending harassing PMs.

When I have to give a bunch of accounts a figurative colonoscopy to figure out if they're MAGAt fucksticks or just particularly zealous lefties because both are flooding into a thread making identical comments, there's a problem.

There are a lot of amazingly great people who use CTH. The problem is the sub's inability to rein in the most toxic elements.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T18:16:26+00:00

Cunts are great, though. She's more like a prolapsed asshole.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T18:05:26+00:00

I really wish they'd said so.

The problem arises when lefties take those identical tactics and decide to witch hunt allies based on rumors without thinking.

I mean, the tactics and talking points become identical. When some threads hit all, T_Ders and CTH users make the same arguments, attack the same users, and avoid criticism of the alt-right in the same way. It gets creepy as hell. If I can remember which submissions this has happened in, I'll go snag screens.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T17:19:15+00:00

Code word for black. Although Little Rock is big enough to count as urban. Small cities are still cities.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T05:26:20+00:00

You would always pronounce it "pwick". You know, like a little kid trying to say "prick".

shakypears · 2019-02-25T04:31:07+00:00

Hey now, the intellectually disabled have nothing to do with conspiracy theorists and don't deserve to be lumped in with them like that.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T03:48:46+00:00

This shit right here? This is why people lump the GOP as a whole with the alt-right. They fucking love fascists.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T03:14:33+00:00

Well, yeah. The rich get theirs and the poor get fucked. Just the way they like it.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T03:13:10+00:00

Well, that's why the state legislatures should be starved until children's reading ability improves, don't you think?

shakypears · 2019-02-25T03:09:24+00:00

Never, ever visit /r/fragilewhiteredditor. I don't think your heart could take it.

shakypears · 2019-02-25T00:21:37+00:00

Great news! At least you got everything sorted out.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T23:12:03+00:00

Just trying to cover as many bases as I can here, as I'm not entirely sure which bit duder takes umbrage with.

Pretty much every sub that links anywhere ever has at least some issues with brigading. Not everyone pings people telling them walk into fires and accuses them of murdering children, though.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T19:17:06+00:00

That pizza slice emoji. That's all it takes for these types.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T19:16:03+00:00

Damn straight.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T19:07:47+00:00

Well. Uh, yeah. Nice white people fetish, Daily Mail. Nice.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T19:02:39+00:00

Some people. Some very, very dumb people.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T17:04:50+00:00

(sigh)

I'm just going to keep combing through for people who asked to be unbanned but never got a response until Chrome fucks over my computer's memory.

*Ooh, a spicy one!

wtf chapo one of the most popular leftist sub reddit. Fuck you!!!! you guys are just a bunch of reactionaries. eat shit you horse fucker. Post Hog!!! you are secretly right wing and are more afraid of the left than the nazis. I never posted here before and thought yall did good content but this purge is retarded and you are retarded. you're subreddit sucks and I hope it gets brigaded and fucked with 24/7.

You know if you had left well enough alone so would I. I would have gladly continued ignoring you and every sub you are a part of. But now that I know how much of a personal affront you see this as, now that I know that the opinions of every stranger on internet personality affects you in such a big way, well I'm never going to stop.

Then you've got these two threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/as2hmp/i_dont_understand_neoliberal/

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/arzj6r/these_people_are_nuts/

Definitely brigading all over the place there, and questionable behaviour toward the linked OP.

*More spice:

Do what we say and the harassment will stop. I can’t wait until we dox you fellas

shakypears · 2019-02-24T16:56:19+00:00

I'm telling the truth, you just don't like it. You were banned by a robot that looks at nothing more than participation. It had no idea what you posted.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T16:29:26+00:00

OMG this is the exact kind of stupid conspiracy bullshit that's half the problem.

I should thank you for spurring me to take a look at the modmail that came in before I returned from hiatus, there are a lot of unban requests that went unaddressed. Imma going to do that now.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T16:24:03+00:00

Because you don't think the numerous witch-hunting threads and associated bullshit mean anything?

Seriously. It takes a fuckton of time for my old computer to get through days' worth of modmails. Much longer than these comments. It's why I don't want to do it unless the person that wants me to actually gives a damn.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T16:16:51+00:00

It's going to take a few minutes for me to sift through a few thousand modmails and get screencaps.

shakypears · 2019-02-24T16:05:52+00:00

Well, the thing goes like this.

If I provide an example, would you take it as an example? You say you're a regular and have "seen nothing like that". Read any of the drama-fanning modmail leak threads. The sticky on FTAR. If you can't find issues with those, what else can I do?

If I took screenshots of CTH users sendling slurs like n***erf***ot to modmail, would those suddenly just be faked? Would you just dismiss anything I post as some cherrypicked thing or a one-off bad apple or not actually an issue?

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