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Friday Fun Thread for September 09, 2022

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I have fun reading /r/sneerclub

It's too humorless for my taste. There's enough fun threads dunking on mottezens on rdrama for me.

I am subscribed for the occasional interesting insight or amusing find, but ultimately the vast majority of posters there are just a bit dim. It's like sifting through shit to find a nugget of gold. I think, as with SSC itself, it has suffered from growth because you used to find much better arguments a few years ago

I feel bad for them.

They are not the sharpest tools in the shed. A lot of their arguments reminds me of the shit written by freshmen in college, really sophomoric.

Its like they build up a massive takedown of the rationalist argument and then you read it and its 101 level stuff a high schooler could have come up with but gets discussed like its some galaxy brain shit, lol.

/r/sneerclub

Looking at the post titles, I don't see any of the pointing out our new forum?

They used to stalk us but banned linking us because it exacerbated their collective inferiority complex was too cliche and easy.

Can't give us the Oxygen of Amplification!

Meh, it's like reading a creationist forum where they pat themselves on their backs for owning people with "if we evolved from monkeys then why monkeys are still around" and naturally anyone objecting to that is getting banned and their objections removed.

When I want to enjoy watching stupid people being stupid I prefer the stuff rdrama links to, where they also get their just deserts, or at least we make fun of them there. Watching idiots idiot with no consequence is more annoying than fun.

They aren't exactly stupid over there. Take /u/shitgenstein, for example. It's more like a forum for devout members of the faith that dares not name itself.

Yeah, it's not stupid, it's more like a self-inflicted lobotomy or something.

They have a community where there's a specific rule saying that it's not a debate community so when you see someone saying false stuff you can be banned if their stuff is not wrong, you know? I got a couple of accounts banned for that.

Unsurprisingly having such a rule results in a community full of people who believe in false things and reinforce each others' beliefs.

Why would anyone design a community based on such a principle? It rounds back again to: they are fucking stupid lol. Is it basic retardation or some advanced form of idiocy that affects high IQ people is kinda irrelevant.

Why would anyone design a community based on such a principle? It rounds back again to: they are fucking stupid lol. Is it basic retardation or some advanced form of idiocy that affects high IQ people is kinda irrelevant.

Why do people believe false things ?

Maybe it's related to social desirability. Sneerclub beliefs are laudable in polite society, hanging around with like-minded people and inventing dunks on the chuds is something that might help.

It's basic. The whole place reeks of "medium fish in a small pond" syndrome. People who concluded they were brilliant because they could dunk on Uncle Jim on Facebook. Banning debate makes it easier to keep up the pretense and protect the ego.

Agreed, we're made from the same mold, they just picked a different team.