Allah Snackbar

[aeonist]

Actually that Lizza guy probably isn’t a reliable source..

[aeonist]

It is cliché, not plagiarism, that is the problem with our stilted, room-temperature political discourse. It used to be that thinking people would say, with at least a shred of pride, that their own convictions would not shrink to fit on a label or on a bumper sticker. But now it seems that the more vapid and vacuous the logo, the more charm (or should that be "charisma"?) it exerts. Take "Yes We Can," for example. It's the sort of thing parents might chant encouragingly to a child slow on the potty-training uptake. Pretty soon, we should be able to get electoral politics down to a basic newspeak that contains perhaps 10 keywords: Dream, Fear, Hope, New, People, We, Change, America, Future, Together. Fishing exclusively from this tiny and stagnant pool of stock expressions, it ought to be possible to drive all thinking people away from the arena and leave matters in the gnarled but capable hands of the professional wordsmiths and manipulators.

[aeonist]

YES WE CAN

[aeonist]

It’s always the ‘family values’ types ain’t it.. Interestingly there’s several members of parliament who used their official MP government email addresses - most unwise

[aeonist]

[theoszczepanski]

Visit Original Link

[aeonist]

>y-you too!

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[aeonist]

I presume this is a consequence of Github's recent adoption of the ‘Open Code of Conduct’, devised by ‘Geek Feminism’, et al.

The innocuous title does not befit the content of it, which makes a scroll through necessary. I read through it before when Github made the announcement, and this part in their FAQ section rustled my jimmies in particular:

>Doesn't this impact the right to free speech? Why are you stomping on my rights? See this XKCD for our feelings on this matter: https://xkcd.com/1357/

To see what a piece of casuistry that comic is, all one has do to imagine a pure example of what it advocates. Imagine a 'Free Speech Room’, which they take people into who want to say something, and allow them to speak to their heart’s content, with the only condition being that they say all they have to say within the room, which is an empty padded cell which no else can witness (see or hear).

Free speech is stripped of its benefit when others are unwilling, or unable, to listen.

[smashasomebox]

Why is it so hard for white ppl to understand that they don’t get to decide what is racist or not? If Adam Goodes is coming out and saying he’s experiencing racism, he probably is. He’s probably experienced enough racism in his life to know what it looks like.

It’s just another form of racism when white ppl claim “it’s nothing to do with race”, when they have never experienced systematic oppression due to their race. Stop erasing the lived experiences of POC

[aeonist]

>Picks on a 13-year-old girl >Makes spear-throwing gestures towards the crowd and tries to pass it off as ‘culture’ >Tries to fuck up Eddie for making an ineffectual joke

I don’t follow AFL, but he sounds like a bit of a cunt. I say good on them for taking him down a notch in a way that is both effective and non-violent. I mean what are they going to do, arrest or ban members of the crowd for booing?

[aeonist]

[aeonist]

>This is what theists actually believe

[aeonist]

[aeonist]

“What kinda society u want?”

[aeonist]

Coldest line

[aeonist]

>ledditcucks The bit that stands out most to me: “What all the white-power racist-sexist neckbeards don’t understand is that with her at the head of the company, the company would be immune to accusations of promoting sexism and racism: she is literally Silicon Valley’s #1 Feminist Hero, so any “SJWs” would have a hard time attacking the company for intentionally creating a bastion (heh) of sexist/racist content.” It doesn’t get any more unscrupulous than that folks

[npr]

Pao has been at the center of a controversy following the still-unexplained dismissal of a popular figure in the site's r/IAmA section. She is being replaced by Steve Huffman, the site's original CEO.

[hashbrownsandhashtables-deactiv]

this makes me so angry, everything she did (and the stuff redditors complained about was almost all decided by the previous ceo and not her fault) wouldn’t have warranted comment if she were a male ceo

[aeonist]

A large part of the userbase hated her, but that’s not who or what forced her out. Consider that despite the backlash over the new ‘Promote ideas, protect people’ policy, she stood firm - and that was a whole month ago.

No, it’s not the 'mob’ that has forced her out, but the members of the board who are seeing users jump ship to alternatives like Voat, which has them worried. This is what she means by ‘the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver’. Pao’s big mistake wasn’t molding the place into her own vision and taking a dump on the userbase, since all they can do is petition and write comments. Petitions don’t do anything, more comments only mean more page views, and most of them will settle down after a day or two anyway. Her big mistake was attempting to fuck around with the employees/moderators - the ones who are actually able to do something drastic, like shut down important sections of the site. The only regrettable outcome of this is that Reddit’s existence will now be prolonged, and they will continue to enact the same kind of policies Pao has - except for taking on their own goons.