AdBru seems to be having a crappy few days
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link
it's good all the rest of your tax money is being used really well then
― I Love You, Fancybear (symsymsym), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
pretty rad to see my tax money at work studying reddit bans
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:57 AM (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a shitty post fyi
― Dr Keith Assblow (stevie), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
guys Bruneau is like Pennywise, he feeds on these criticisms
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
its not that bad of a post
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
it's part of a series nobody subscribed to but nonetheless had delivered
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
k i'll bite. so what's the real world implementation of this?
reddit is, like, society, man.
bans are removal from society. we already have that in place, jails.
mods enact the bans, they have the power to ban users. so in the real world they would be cops and/or judges.
control + f doesn't work in the real world but we have something called profiling. i guess the idea is to grant the police the legal right to seek out speech they deem threatening. tbf they already do this with what's in place now.
so let's look at this solution. we are going to fight hate speech by empowering an already racist and abusive justice system with the legal right to lock people away for saying things it declares hate speech.
combine this with our wonderful Patriot Act anti-terror ways and the current administration and this would be like giving a loaded gun to a toddler.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
a bar. a bar is a play where people are free to gather and talk. if a group in the corner starts chanting nazi slogans, they hopefully get banned from the bar.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
life is a play, too. we just haven't been told our lines yet.
*takes the deepest toke*
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
All the world's a stageand all the men and women merely nazis
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
fuckin cropdust this thread
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 05:37 (six years ago) link
this is good h/t to chaki
https://youtu.be/Sx4BVGPkdzk
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Contra’s stuff is fun.
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
Quite a day!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.vp3pxOLLB#.dxmOZjBB6
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
He added that during his karaoke performance, his "severe myopia" made it impossible for him to see the Hitler salutes a few feet away.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
All kinds of fun!
In addition to tech and entertainment, Yiannopoulos had hidden helpers in the liberal media against which he and Bannon fought so uncompromisingly. A long-running email group devoted to mocking stories about the social justice internet included, predictably, Yiannopoulos’s friend Ann Coulter, but also Mitchell Sunderland, a senior staff writer at Broadly, Vice’s women’s channel. According to its “About” page, Broadly “is devoted to representing the multiplicity of women's experiences. … we provide a sustained focus on the issues that matter most to women.”“Please mock this fat feminist,” Sunderland wrote to Yiannopoulos in May 2016, along with a link to an article by the New York Times columnist Lindy West, who frequently writes about fat acceptance. And while Sunderland was Broadly’s managing editor, he sent a Broadly video about the Satanic Temple and abortion rights to Tim Gionet with instructions to “do whatever with this on Breitbart. It’s insane.” The next day, Breitbart published an article titled “‘Satanic Temple’ Joins Planned Parenthood in Pro-Abortion Crusade.”In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a Vice spokesperson wrote, "We are shocked and disappointed by this highly inappropriate and unprofessional conduct. We just learned about this and have begun a formal review into the matter."
“Please mock this fat feminist,” Sunderland wrote to Yiannopoulos in May 2016, along with a link to an article by the New York Times columnist Lindy West, who frequently writes about fat acceptance. And while Sunderland was Broadly’s managing editor, he sent a Broadly video about the Satanic Temple and abortion rights to Tim Gionet with instructions to “do whatever with this on Breitbart. It’s insane.” The next day, Breitbart published an article titled “‘Satanic Temple’ Joins Planned Parenthood in Pro-Abortion Crusade.”
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a Vice spokesperson wrote, "We are shocked and disappointed by this highly inappropriate and unprofessional conduct. We just learned about this and have begun a formal review into the matter."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
The previous November, Yiannopoulos emailed Bannon with a bone to pick. Breitbart London reported that a London college student behind a popular social justice hashtag had threatened the anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller.“The story is horseshit and we should never have published it,” Yiannopoulos wrote. “Reckless and stupid. … Strongly recommend we pull. it’s insanely defamatory. I spoke to pamela geller and even she said it was rubbish. We’re outright lying about this girl and surely we’re better than that. We can and should win by telling the truth.”Six minutes later, Bannon wrote back to his tech editor in a fury. “Your (sic) full of shit. When I need your advice on anything I will ask. ... The tech site is a total clusterfuck---meaningless stories written by juveniles. You don’t have a clue how to build a company or what real content is. And you don’t have long to figure it out or your (sic) gone. … You are magenalia (sic).”
“The story is horseshit and we should never have published it,” Yiannopoulos wrote. “Reckless and stupid. … Strongly recommend we pull. it’s insanely defamatory. I spoke to pamela geller and even she said it was rubbish. We’re outright lying about this girl and surely we’re better than that. We can and should win by telling the truth.”
Six minutes later, Bannon wrote back to his tech editor in a fury. “Your (sic) full of shit. When I need your advice on anything I will ask. ... The tech site is a total clusterfuck---meaningless stories written by juveniles. You don’t have a clue how to build a company or what real content is. And you don’t have long to figure it out or your (sic) gone. … You are magenalia (sic).”
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
How did buzzfeed get those docs? Like emails I get but how did they get Milo's texts to Rebekah Mercer? Milo himself?
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
need a shower after reading that
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
there's so much information in that article it's difficult to process - what could the possible repercussions be of this information leaking?
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
I doubt there will be any, it's too labyrinthine, too inside baseball
one more reason to hate Vice, I suppose (not that I needed any more)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
bummer :/
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
the outing of some of the breitbart fellow travelers is interesting and sad
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
are the actual emails linked anywhere?
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
a lot of people in my office right now confused and pissed about their journo friends being outed it seems
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
if these leads to fewer people working with/cooperating with Breitbart that's great
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
Oh joy!
Favorite detail from this incredibly comprehensive story: that Fake Steve Jobs dipshit was pen pals with Milo https://t.co/c02YGZXJp6 pic.twitter.com/Um6M9AEpmI— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) October 5, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
Lyons deleted his twitter today
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
It's a start.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
Baked Alaska Public Humiliation Fetish Compilation Volume Onehttps://t.co/yPGqyaJ6Uc #MilkLeaks pic.twitter.com/XC6DclrXon— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) October 5, 2017
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
Maybe I'm being naive but those emails really don't sound like David Auerbach to me. I only follow him on Facebook but it seems so out of character for him!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
you're being naïve
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
he's also tacitly admitted it on twitter
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
he's disputing it afaict
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
Doesn't the story say he says 'that wasn't me' after being emailed at the address in the emails?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
major bummer if true
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 6 October 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
everyone is bad, you shouldn't actually like anything
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 6 October 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
wow @ moldbug watching the election at thiel's house
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 October 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
Not surprised but still hilarious that Bannon misuses "your" in those emails. Also lmao @ "You are magenalia."
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
magenalia = d&d supplement title
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 October 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
yeah it's a lars von trier/pta collab
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
The Land of Magenalia
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
Stealing that one, sorry Babo
No you didn't. https://t.co/xi7XYwTqMg— 💀zombië queen💀 (@UnburntWitch) October 6, 2017
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 6 October 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
who would have thought that an industry based on building personality cults would be rife with sociopaths. i'm just glad i have a new reason to give my mom when she asks why i just don't get a job in media—"you raised me too well and i'm not a sociopath"
― maura, Friday, 6 October 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link
Huh, turns out the leftist feminists were correct all along.
Again.
Still, I'm sure lessons will be learned.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 6 October 2017 08:57 (six years ago) link
the Baked Alaska dude is a pretty amusing sidelight to this story, this "alpha male" constantly posting videos of himself getting brutally owned over and over again feels like some kind of performance art
― frogbs, Friday, 6 October 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
A friend of mine knew him in high school and was not surprised at his general life arc.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
was it widely known before this article that milo's stuff is often ghostwritten? don't think i'd heard that before
imagine being so dumb and/or lazy that you don't even write your own shitty copy
― ATTACK MY RUSTY TOOLBOX (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 October 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
less than two hours. dude pioneered an entirely new non-canon way of being mad online pic.twitter.com/LuWFzt4Wdn— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) October 6, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link