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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   4725 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 19, 2023

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I find it incredibly amusing that it is actually an open question whether or not someone called "jewdefender", who is currently asking why people don't defend jews enough, is actually trying to promote attacks on jews.

It's not an open question to anyone who's been paying attention.

I don’t think it’s actually an open question.

It's only an open question for those who don't pay attention. Responding to jewdefender in earnest is the 4chan equivalent of taking the bait. Newbies take this one-sided charade at face value, while from a higher vantage point, the hard right only dupes itself. That would be alright with me, if it didn’t lower the quality of discourse in the process. To be fair to oblivious newbies, they probably expect a guy with such a long and unquestionable history of bad faith (just to name one, his deletion of all his old comments to prevent just that discovery) on here to be banned, as he should.

On one hand, yes it's undeniably funny, on the other, I find the idea of being roped in to some wignat's galaxy-brained plan to make their arguments for them incredibly annoying. Say what you will about SecureSignals, at least he says what he means, and you can take it or leave it.

It's pretty clear who he is.

An obvious bad faith actor.

Just because you've been able to pull the wool over the eyes of a terminal Quokka like @ZorbaTHut doesn't mean the rest of us are fooled.

I actually have no idea who he is, but he just pushed his shtick way too far at one point, for me to believe he's actually against antisemitism.

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