Padraig!

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  2. Posted

    Nothing much man. How about you? It's been too long.

    where have you been all this time

  4. Posted

    I'm running my mouth in wild directions that aren't related to the topic at hand. 4chan's boards all tend to be stupidly hateful, even the smaller, more condensed and obscure ones. I forget what point I was originally making.

     

    yeah that's largely true. still, some of the most honest discussion comes out of 4chan. anonymity does have its perks

  5. Posted

    I think most places have their drawbacks, shit people, etc, and the best thing people can do is try and avoid that stuff on those sites, while still using them for the things that you like about them. I generally dislike reddit for the FREE SPEECH I LIKE CHILD PORN ATHEISM IS THE ENLIGHTENMENT etc stuff that I've seen on there a LOT, but that's largely avoidable by not going into places like r/atheism and the countless porn areas and stuff, instead I use it to look at Crusader Kings 2 stuff mainly. I barely use tumblr because it's harder to avoid the shit, but if I do it's just to look at funny pictures really. Same with 4chan, I'll browse /vg/ for grand strategy general and I'll go through the anime board and the tabletop strategy board but that's about it. All three of these sites have massively shit, vocal people, the goal I have is to use them while acknowledging these problems exist and trying to avoid them.

     

    yeah this is truth. reddit is a shithole but places like /r/linguistics, /r/paradoxplaza, /r/futurebeats are really cool. tumblr is fine if you dont follow shitty blogs. i follow a bunch of funny ones, like therailrat, so i dont get all the preachy activist shit. 4chan is my time sink. if i've got nothing better to do, i'll just browse /lit/, /int/, /mu/, or gsg too. also i go on twitter so i guess thats another social time sink.

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  6. Posted

    facebook is monumentally shit. reddit is filled with fedora wearing new athiests. imgur is like reddit, but without the text. 4chan is the edgy 16 year old who carries around a copy of mein kampf. tumblr is a college age studying english who just thinks she's an activist because she signed a petition.

     

    i h8 the internet

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  7. Posted

    "This made my day"

    "What is air"

    "This"

    "Guys, seriously read this"

    "If you don't reblog this I have NO respect for you"

    Well clearly you have no proper respect for anybody if you say shit like that.

    "i can't even"

     

    "Asafgasjhfgaskjfhgadsjhfsgdf"

    what blogs do you follow

     

    the ones i follow literally only blog pictures

     

    i feel like im missing out 

  8. Posted

    I'm reading padraig's post and I'm reading everyone else's posts and I'm not sure what attitude I should be taking towards this thread

    im honestly really surprised that this hasn't just turned into an enormous shit storm

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  12. Posted

    calling social justice activists (im assuming thats referring to highly liberal, womens rights, anti-racist, anti-transphobic, politically correct college age teenagers) extremists is another example of people taking a movement they don't fully agree with and homogenising it, lumping them in with the less numerous people of the same movement who are extreme in their views. this happens time and time again, but not just against SJAs, but against pretty much any fringe politcal movement. take - say - libertarians, who most of the time are just people with a political view. people who disagree with them (myself included), lump them in with conspiracy theorists, or crypto-fascists, or anarchists, or racists, etc etc. this nonsensical attitude towards people you dont agree with makes it far easier to discredit what they are saying. 

     

    when i hear people talking about otherkin, transethnicity, transableism blah blah blah, i pretty much stop listening. i have no doubt that these people exist on tumblr, but they are widely rejected by the community at large. i dont feel the need to go into detail into why they are rejected (i will if you want me too), but they are very very much so on the fringe of the tumblr community. 

     

    i do agree with some of his points, like that the contemporary post-modern attitude and reaction against modernist ideals about striving to be perfection - the nietzschean ubermensch (which I'm aware was around before modernism was a proper cultural movement but it was highly influential on modernist thinking) - has lead to a general attitude that we should accept being 'good enough'. this is evident with the fat acceptance movement, that claim that one should be allowed to be fat without being shamed, regardless of whether it's healthy or not. I don't fully identify with this. im not going to go into detail about why, as that is not the point of this post. 

     

    while yes, the modernist attitude to perfection was certainly problematic - it rejected moral relativism, and went on to inspire hitler, who thought that the ubermensch wasn't actually an unattainable ideal for all humans, but something that only the aryans could achieve - i think the post-modern reaction simply goes too far. it's possible to strive to be something better than what you already are, and i dont see how doing so is bad.

     

     

    he mocks people using trigger warnings, but i think that's just absurd. what does it matter to him if people who have been sexually assaulted dont want to see images or text that deal with it? while yes, i do agree that tumblr is an enormous echochamber hugbox, that's not really a valid criticism. for every site like tumblr, there is a site like /b/.

     

    one thing, i think is really ignorant, is him whining that "nobody cares" about transmisogyny. well yeah, obviously he doesn't care, i'm almost certain he's a able straight white cis male. of course he doesn't have to care, it doesn't effect him, and statistically, probably nobody he knows. i've already gone over why i agree that body shaming in my opinion is a silly concept, but seriously, if you don't think transmisogyny is a thing, and something that needs to be fixed in our society then you're probably just a bad person.

     

    this guy comes across as a early 20 something white herero cis dude whos education on the matter of social justice theory is out of context screencaps, and infopics he found on /b/. his outright missuse of basic terminology and insistance that PoC and trans people just stop complaining and deal with it means he is so privileged that to him, their problems aren't really "real" problems, just things that happen, and absolutely not an injustice. if he actually understood what he was talking about and presented some specific coherent argument instead of just ranting about how he thinks transmisogyny isnt a big deal and how much of a hugbox tumblr is, i'd take him serious. 

     

    this is the shame shit i read on 4chan every day just presented in audio form. somebody with no interest or knowledge in the subject preaching to the converted. 



    also i bet this thread is going to turn into a massive shit storm

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  13. Posted

    wow so edgy

     

    so brave

     

    /tear

    can we please stop overusing edgy and brave 

     

    saha saying he doesn't like tumblr isnt edgy or brave

  14. Posted

    holy SHIT you are a freaking 6 year old member

     

    except now that i think of it I am a 4 year old member

     

    WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN

     

    if your account isnt at least 6 years old, you're basically a non-member. (just kidding)

     

     

    Nah, its community has actually dwindled pretty far over the years. We're just chilling out mostly. Armies don't exist anymore. Dustin isn't even the admin anymore, Tappy is. A lot of stuff's changed.

     

    thats true. this place feels like a ghost town. and everyone seems a lot older than back then. i dunno, like, there's a lack of young users compared to a few years ago, for some reason new young members stopped joining. oh well ): 

  16. Posted

    where is the "well at first this, then that, then i changed my mind, then i changed my mind again, but i dont know ghsdaghdas why is sexuality so confusing" option

  23. Posted

    Final Smash: Whole stage turns to turds and everybody eats the turds and poops them out until the stage is a different stage and also they are all hurt by your stench and the stench of everything that just happened.

    Taunt: Sticks out tongue and goes "nyeh"

    poetry

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