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UK Has Reached Levels of Dankness That Should Not Be Possible: Count Dankula Is Convicted of ‘Being Grossly Offensive’, Faces Jail Time
March 20, 2018 — xanthippaPugs are cute.
Not just cute – they are sickeningly adorable!
Count Dankula’s girlfriend bet him there was nothing he could do to make her pug ‘uncute’.
Challenge accepted: by the time she got home, Count Danculahad made a video in which the pug in question appears to make Nazi salutes to specific stimulae…
Ha-ha, joke achieved. Bet undecided – but joke achieved.
Millions of people watched the video – and all ‘got’ that being ‘Nazi’ = bad, and that making a cute pug mimic Nazi salutes is adorably silly. Poking fun at Nazis and all that…because EVERYONE knows that Nazis are hateful and having a cute pug mimic them is adorable, in a silly and innocent sort of way.
I would love to show you the video itself – because it was adorably silly and mocked Nazis at the same time, but I cannot: it seems that every copy of this video has been scrubbed from virtual existence…and since my computer recently failed and was replaced (before I could back up my downloaded videos), I no longer have a copy of it.
Please, allow me to assert (from having seen it first hand) that it was funny and adorable and totally making fun of Nazis, and NOT promoting them in any way, shape or form.
This appears to have been lost on the UK police AND judiciary.
Count Dankula (a self-described communist – none-the less) has been found guilty of ‘being grossly offensive’.
Yes.
You read correctly.
‘Being offensive’ is now a criminal offense in the UK!!!
At this point, I would like to get into the whole argument how ‘saying/doing’ something is one thing, and ‘taking offense’ is completely different: one cannot control how others will ‘feel about/react to ‘ one’s speech or behaviour, because the reaction is completely divorced from the action itself.
But, I will not get seduced into that old argument, which, most of you – my loyal readers, are more than familiar with.
Instead, I will offer you Tommy Robinson’s reaction to the verdict – it speaks volumes!!!
Sargon of Akkad: This Week in Stupid (18/03/2018)
March 19, 2018 — xanthippa
REDDIT: ALL YOUR SUBREDDITS ARE BELONG TO US….r/The_Donald has gone dark
May 20, 2017 — xanthippaReddit used to be a really, really fun place. From r/aww and r/eyebleach, where people shared pictures and videos of puppies and kittens and all else adorable to just about every specific hobby, show or interest group there is. Need to identify a bug? r/whatsthisbug. Want to improve your make up skills? r/makeupaddictions.
No matter how funny or macabre or obscure – if you can think of it, there is probably a subreddit for it. If you have a problem, there is probably a subreddit support group for it.
And, like most things that intersect technology with culture, it is predominantly populated with young-ish people. As in, people who instead of receiving a well-rounded education have instead been through 12+ years of Cultural Marxist indoctrination. (For a full understanding of just how deep the rabbit hole goes, pleas listen to ‘Explaining Postmodernism’. A few hours long, but well worth the listen.)
And then the 2016 election came…
Just as it had polarized the US (and world) opinion into Trump fans and ‘NeverTrumpers’, so reddit has become increasingly polarized.
(Full admission: as a libertarian, I was not a Trump fan because he is a mercantilist. However, given the choice between a crook and a murderer, I’ll take the crook, thank you very much. Thus, I am a reluctant Trump supporter – with both eyes wide open as to who and what he is.)
Refocusing: just like the rest of society, reddit became deeply polarized when it came to the topic of Trump. On a site dominated by Cultural Marxists and SJWs (those not interested in politics may outnumber redditors (people contributing to reddit), but they are largely irrelevant in this debate) – especially among the people who run reddit who are wholly in-line with the oppressive political correctness and speech codes and safe spaces, were very few places where one could express an opinion favourable of Donald Tump…without getting outright banned.
The – by far the major – place to do this was a subreddit called r/The_Donald.
It was a place where meme were born and weaponized autism proved and disproved claims by digging up deeply buried evidence.
It was also one of the most positive places on reddit – where people were happy, supported each other and celebrated patriotism (no matter what country they were from) and battled against globalism and the destruction of individual cultures. That is all cultures – not just the ones popular with SJWs….
And yes, Donald Trump’s team regularly monitored this subreddit to take the pulse of what his support base was thinking, wanting, criticizing, etc. There are rumours that, at times, Donald Trump himself would scan the posts there to get a first-hand knowledge, to remain in touch with his supporters.
Reddit itself was not happy about that. Not at all.
If you are not familiar with how reddit works – the more votes a post gets, the more likely it is to get on the front page of r/all (where posts from ALL subreddits are shown. Except, that is, The_Donald. The admin people, least by Steve Huffman (username u/spez) first altered the voting algorithms – making votes given to The_Donald worth 1/10th or 1/100th (sorry – the link is no longer accessible…which is the problem I am writing about) of a vote on any other subreddit.
Then they took to other, more technical measures.
Shadowbanning, randomly unsubscribing members, not showing new posts (with a message ‘there does not seem to be anything here’) [sorry if my phrasing is not 100% accurate – angry and cannot access the older files to verify/check], not showing up on r/all…they tried just about everything they could to make The_Donald invisible on reddit. Some other subreddits would even permanently ban you if you had ever posted or commented on anything on r/The_Donald – no matter what it was you said. Even just subscibing to it was a bannable offense on some subreddits – really.
Which did not discourage members of The_Donald. As the saying goes, if they are trying to censor you – you must be doing something right!!!
And indeed, the redditors at r/The_Donald took it all in stride and derived positive energy from the negativity and venom cast at us. It really was a very fun and positive place to go – one where people were not censored, but where any racism or misogyny or other prejudice was met with derision and ridicule, while humour and positive feedback were greatly appreciated.
NO MORE!!!!
Alerted by a friend, I tried to check r/The_Donald, only to receive this message:
You must be invited to visit this community
r/The_Donald
At 8:41pm ET on 5/19/2017, Reddit Admins removed three The_Donald mods without warning. This was punishment for our refusal to comply to a special set of rules that were imposed only on this subreddit and prevented our members from fully enjoying reddit or our mods from defending users against harassment.
We’ve temporarily gone dark in a show of strength against these unfair restrictions. Check back at 9 PM EST tomorrow for an announcement.
The moderators of this subreddit have set it to private. You must be a moderator or approved submitter to visit.
This means no people subscribed to r/The_Donald can see the subreddit or access it, unless they have been specifically invited by the moderators.
Several related subreddits have also gone dark:
The_Donald_Mods This is a subreddit for every moderator of The_Donald to discuss and ask questions if they need anything. — We will use this to update you all on recent happenings, so please check here every so often.
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24 hours is a huge deal on a fast paced place like r/The_Donald, which has helped analyze heaps of documents from WikiLeaks to the murder of Seth Conrad Rich for having leaked the DNC emails.
Something very huge – site-threatening – must have happened to precipitate a reaction as severe as this.
At this time, it is pointless to speculate as to who will win this battle for r/The_Donald: the Mods or the Admins. Unlike Steve Huffman, I know Aaron Swartz would have been on the side of r/The_Donald – had he not been suicided…
Regardless of appearances, end well, this will not….
UPDATE:
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of r/The_DonaldHIGH ENERGY (self.The_Donald)
submitted 58 minutes ago * by TretesteΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ[M] – announcement
Dr. Jordan Peterson’s lecture in Ottawa, 11th of March, 2017 – with intro by Mrs. Tammy Peterson
March 13, 2017 — xanthippaAct! For Canada’s Ottawa chapter brought the iconic Dr. Jordan Peterson to speak at the main branch of the Ottawa Library.
And, luckily, we got Mrs. Tammy Peterson (a powerful intellect and personality in her own right) to give us a glimpse into how their lives have been altered since Dr. Peterson’s pro-free-speech rant went viral in 2016:
Q&A videos to come as they are published.
For the record: Dr. Peterson WILL go down in the history books as THE Socrates/Aristotle/St. Thomas of Aquinas/Jan Hus/Gogol/Jung/Nietzsche+++ of our era – all rolled into one.
Just saying…
…but history will prove me right.
He will have turned out to be THE most influential thinker of our era. That much I am certain about.
Unconscious woman “consented to rape”
March 5, 2017 — xanthippaLet’s get this straight: if a drunk person consents to sex, it is not ‘rape’. Because the decision to get drunk is in the power of the person giving the consent.
However, over the last 25-or-so years, the laws have been changed: if a person (a female person, that is) is ‘intoxicated’, then she is ‘not competent to give informed consent’ to sexual intercourse. Therefore, if an (equally intoxicated) male performs any sexual act (ranging from groping to actual rape), this is legally defined as ‘sexual assault’.
Not a particular fan of that law (because it is obviously misogynistic, as it states that an intoxicated female is less competent than an equally intoxicated male), but, this is the law of the land and until we can find legal ways to challenge it, it is binding on all members of our society.
Right?
“It’s not rape when a Muslim does it!!!!”
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