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    What can I say, I’ve seen it. A prime example was seeing how the comments on a once-great site - Boing Boing - devolved over the course of the years. In the years before comments were taken behind a paywall, it had become a total shitshow of liberal and leftist absurdity. And the mods, who often were also commenters, were fully in on it. No dissent of any kind allowed. Oppression olympics and “intersectional” one-up-manship (or should I say one-up-being-ship; wouldn’t want to “center” the humans or most definitely not the men too much) was on overdrive. Which is a real tragedy given how fun the comment section used to be before all the buzzkills moved in and took up residence (and mod privs). In some cases, they were pile-driving on Mark Frauenfelder, one of the founders and owners. Want to guess what some of the reasons were?

    Anyway, no more happy mutants were allowed, unless maybe they ticked a sufficient set of boxes, and even then, you got more points I guess if you were angry and embittered and could use all that toxicity to dump and ban/mute anyone that differed from your opinion even one iota…all of this brought to you by absurd extreme fringe liberals/leftists - oh and they would get extremely upset if someone were to call any of them “liberals”, lol.

    Anyway, no idea if the owners of the site did anything to clean up the situation when they took it behind a paywall to comment. Ironically, they ran to the impure Substack to host their comments and I don’t think you can even view them w/o paying. Something I am definitely not doing if it helps fund assholish gatekeepers like the little clique running the comment section beforehand…

    I think anyone that says they haven’t seen it is either happily offline and stays away from the ridiculous examples of liberals in their day-to-day IRL, or, more likely, is kidding themselves. Boing Boing is hardly the only example where I’ve seen this; it’s just there that I saw the most extreme example of it since the mods were 100% on board with it, apparently. Anyway, a total tragedy since I’m old enough to remember when Boing Boing was fun…



  • Well said. I’ve watched the left tear things to shreds, and it seems to be mostly online (I hope - though I do know a few of these types IRL). The purity tests and the more-leftist-than-thou and the constant calls to have certain people take a back seat and let the $MINORITY_GROUP do all the speaking is just so tiresome.

    I’m white, I’m male, and I’m cishet and I have zero plans to leave, but I have to say that the left is often just terrible at trying to appeal to a broader base. Yes, we get it - all should have a voice. But it gets just a bit tiresome to hear that my voice should somehow matter a bit less because of what boxes I happen to tick off, or that someone else’s voice should matter more because they tick off some box(es). Just as an example…and while demographics are changing, it would be a hell of a lot easier to win elections and effect actual real change if we would stop alienating so many people with this toxic bullshit. And honestly? I think some of the online people are plants that are TRYING to alienate a lot of the potential voting base and turning liberals and leftists into caricatures.










  • It’s weird how they can use Biden/Obama/The Clintons for so many things, including alternative histories.

    I had a conversation with a dumbass magabrain that’s in my life and he legit said he hopes that donvict will fix the “terrible Biden economy”. This, after nearly six months of donvict doing nearly everything to fuck up an economy that was doing very, very good especially after having to recover from Covid. I told him as much and how I don’t recall things being bad at all for my household prior to Jan 20th (nevermind looking at the actual numbers) and his response?

    Well, he was doing okay, too, but it’s possible not all the right people were doing okay, and many wrong people were benefiting under Biden. I didn’t have time to ask what the fuck that was supposed to mean, but I sure have a few guesses…

    These people will try to rewrite history of even a few months ago and when called on it, sheepishly have to admit that claim is bullshit (usually - the spokescreatures for donvict won’t admit anything because they are paid liars, but everyday schlubs are not that agile at brazen lying in many cases) and then switch to some other topic or change the narrative to having the government suddenly needing to choose winners and losers in the “right” way. Usually choosing “winners and losers” is supposed to be bad, but this is something like “states rights”. They don’t really mean any of this shit, the base mostly just wants a white country that centers cishet white male xtian men, and the elites that run things just want the tax cuts and no labor movement that threatens any of their plans…