cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
28d ago
If it is just one user repeatedly posting about the same topic, ya. And we do warn people when they approach the level of 'this is getting annoying' and our warnings usually come a post or two after people start reporting it for things like "cant x user just shut up about this topic already". By the time we are handing out bans for topic exhaustion plenty of users are beyond mildly annoyed. Mod team is definitely in agreement on the need for a ban, if not necessarily on the length.
We have only used this on two users that I can remember. One for jew posting, and one for the age of consent law stuff. If you were the one that got in trouble for constantly talking about age of consent law stuff, then I'm not really feeling sorry for you. This discussion is reminding me of exactly how annoying it is.
Jokes can definitely be culture war waging. They just aren't culture war debate or discussion. So yeah admittedly jokes and works of satire related to the culture war don't end up getting allowed anywhere on themotte. This is not limited to the topic of age of consent. If someone wanted to share jokes about how Biden/Trump is a buffoon then we really don't have a space for that. That seems fine to me, we never claimed to be a space for everything. Its possible that /r/drama makes a good companion website in that sense, since they are for jokes about anything but don't really seek to allow for serious discussion of anything.
cjet79
28d ago
USAID was spending most of its money in Africa, so I'd expect that to be where things change.
There is maybe a story to be told that USAID was a method for coordination among the left. They go out and verify that a charitable cause in another country or region will advance the goals they care about, and private money simply follows their recommendation. This is somewhat explicitly what they were doing. Its just that they didn't say something like "advancing leftist ideology is our goal". Usually the goal of USAID was stated to be a kind of soft power projection by the US. Show the world we are the good guys by giving money to good causes.
I do think USAID was doing something. Simply because throwing billions of dollars around in poor nations is bound to have some effect. From some numbers I looked up on wikipedia we were giving about 1 billion to ethiopia, ethiopia's government expenditure is about 25 billion. Therefore we were contributing about 4% of ethiopias government budget. Its play money for the US, but that is a big amount for other countries. Certainly enough to sway elections.
cjet79
28d ago
Ok but
Ok but this is the friday fun thread. Not the main culture war thread.
I apologize for my mistake above in addressing anything related to the object level concerns. My main complaint is meta that it is culture war and thus doesn't belong here.
cjet79
28d ago
You are wrong in thinking only one user had a problem with this post.
We have members I'd like to keep more than toakraka that have reported this stuff.
There is also an Internet phenomenon where people with extreme viewpoints are accustomed to arguing for and defending their view points. While the average person is very unaccustomed to debating them. Young earth creationists, 9/11 truthers, neo Nazis, NAMBLA members, etc all tend to have accumulated debate experience. They do tend to destroy the arguments of their average debate partner.
If you see them stick around long enough you will at some point witness the ultimate smackdown. Someone smart will have heard, read, and processed the arguments. They eventually get sick of hearing it all repeated.
You'll then see something like a ten - twenty page argument back and forth. Where the extreme idea holder gets eviscerated on nearly every point because finally someone came at them prepared.
Which is why I am happy to see any and all ideas discussed in the main culture war thread. We don't do topic bans there, unless it specifically endangers the website.
But this is the Friday Fun Thread and the point of this thread is just not the same as the other.
cjet79
29d ago
Removing this for your own good. Please only share that with a psychiatrist.
cjet79
29d ago
Guidelines on the right hand sidebar on desktop. On mobile in the hamburger menu under "rules"
This post will remain hidden. Lurk a little for a sense of the rules. Read through the quality contributions posts for what is considered an ideal to aspire.
One major thing that has come up lately but might not be written down anywhere, is that your writing should be your own, no one here really wants to debate with AIs through proxy.
Any red marked posts like this one are mod messages. If we aren't marking ourselves with the mod hat we are just regular users.
cjet79
29d ago
Was surprisingly good visuals. Watched all the way through, would maybe watch similar style movies.
I've lately been watching movie recaps. Which are basically narrated 20-30 minute summaries of movies. It kinda felt like that at times. I might just be more interested in 30 minute stories lately. Hollywood settled on 90-120 minutes for a movie, i don't know if that was correct for all situations/stories.
cjet79
29d ago
spoiler
I was wondering if one asian government was standing in for another one that the author couldn't talk about or criticize in any way without tripping censors.
Yes, to be clear when I said USAID money was definitely doing something I don't mean to imply that "something" is good. My default assumption with untracked aid money is the "something" is being used by the government in charge to hand out bribes to their friends.
I'd expect that removing the spigot of money results in more political upheaval since the group in charge has less of an ability to bribe people into being allies. And they either have to make that up through increased extraction from their enemies, or reduce their bribing amount. Both of which make their position weaker.
I just ultimately don't think it should be the responsibility of the US taxpayer to worry about these things. So I'm happy to see the program ended.
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