You all know how hard I pound the table about using services of your enemies, and how crazy it makes me.
Well, I am subscribed to KiwiFarms founder J0sh on X, and he posted this:
original: https://x.com/XJosh/status/1919476240617996716
archive: https://archive.is/xU11p
"The irate black woman trying to debank @GiveSendGo says they're trying to switch to Stripe, as Square may have already decided to ban them."
I was eating lunch, and damned near spit out a mouthfull of food after reading that.
I swear, the right deserves to get their heads bashed in as often as they do, if they keep doing stupid shit like using either Square or Stripe.
For f*** sake, Stripe just de-platformed Odysee a few months ago over content, THEY ARE A HOSTILE PLATFORM, but GSG thinks they will somehow be able to thread the needle?
It is really astounding how even the minorest of disagreement sends him into a frothing tantrum.
Like, from a completely neutral point of view I respect the man highly. He has been fucked hard by all the powers that be and kept resisting on a level that has broken almost any other man before him, and cost him any chance of a happy or normal life. His contributions and principles in regards to that are legendary and deserve a place in history simply because of the lengths they have gone to try and squash him.
But dealing with him as a person is just impossible. You can't speak to him, because you don't know what will set him off or what he will read out of what you said to go apeshit on. You can't even respond to him positively because he might get pissed at being pinged in a thread he himself posted in.
And everywhere he goes brings with it his legion of ballwashers who shit up any thread he posts in and agree with anything he says. Which likely contributes to the aforementioned problem, a legion of sycophants telling him how right he is on every little thing.
It was really funny when last month his Queen Bitch, you know who it is, literally paid someone on the site to leak their chatlogs to try and shame and attack them. But that didn't count as infighting, despite being the dozenth time she has tried that. He doesn't even openly acknowledge her existence almost ever that I've seen, to a point where its comically noticeable that he refuses to. Which confirms some absolute backroom shit going on between the two.
Like, that kind of stuff is funny and should be allowed. But the lack of consistent rule enforcement, seemingly entirely to the favor of his TERF lovers is palpable.
I don't think anyone would be as committed to the "cause" as it is out of pure altruism or noble goals. Regardless of it he did it to have his little room to tantrum in, he still has gone to the lengths and given us the site to mostly have the freedom to do the same. And I doubt he would have done any of that if he wasn't already a contrarian little shit who rejects anyone telling him anything.
You dismiss it as a little dumb website from the outset, so of course you won't give it the same value I do in terms of simply letting it exist as it does. You are free to that opinion, but its something that means a lot to me as the alternatives across the web fall one by one. I used to be a /b/tard after all and I still lament that place's death to this day.
I mean, he has his own thread and its packed full of his lolcow history. Its a great read about how much of an autistic manchild he has always been, and I do give him credit for allowing it to exist as it does because few others would.
To be fair, this is a problem wide enough that he himself has had to step in to control at times. The DSP forum is constantly getting their shit kicked for being more pathetic than the man himself. Fatrick alogs are absurdly obsessed with him. And half the Beauty Parlor girls are only there to preen by comparison to the lowest bar possible.
Heck the "anti-lolicon" squad that has formed up are so pathetic and constant with their nonsense that it genuinely annoys me how much they are also allowed to shit up every thread. But that entire movement only started because of his own guilty conscious about Nick Bates, I think, and people worshiping his every opinion.
I don't disagree with any of your observations, they are all accurate. I simply never cared enough about him as a person, just his work, to develop much hate for him either. His actions are often very gay, but then I also do a lot of retarded and annoying shit online when I'm not working.
But I have the benefit of my work/family not being tied to my online in anyway, and not having the power to abuse to begin with. Its why I've rejected people trying to "nominate" me (for whatever it was worth) to mod around here, because I'd absolutely ban people for similar reasons he does like them annoying me.
I also do. As a person he is pretty awful, and I feel for anyone who tries to be remotely friends or anything else with him. I feel like a lot of people fall into sycophancy towards him because its the literal only position that might spare his ire (but not always). I am very glad that the corners of KF I like to lurk in are ones he barely ever shows his face around.
I think a lot of these sties exist as expressions of the men who build and own them. This is for better or worse, because it means that you need one or a small few of considerable principled fortitude and beliefs to keep them on track.
Josh was a young man with little to this world when he started on this path. I think that's a big reason why both his actions and the culture he cultivated are the way they are. If he was a man who had accolades, accomplishments, or loved ones to draw upon the memory or pride of he might be a vastly different man. Instead he was a punk kid who suddenly had the entire world against him.
It feels like I'm making endless excuses for him, but I think it just keeps circling around to "I get it" when I think about a lot of what he is and I can't muster as much hate as it might rightfully deserve. Which is then balanced heavily in his favor on the work he has done.
I think this is likely, I think I've even read people saying it on the site itself before. He has a very undue reaction to literally anyone talking to him that seems to be reflexive contrarianism.
Though personality disorders are usually either born or gained during developmental years, rather than as an adult. So I don't think he actually has it, but has developed a rotten personality and coping mechanism that is probably close enough to it. But that's splitting hairs really.
I think its just because I've been here too long. I was there for the original KIA near the start and I've was there for the founding of KIA2 on reddit. And I abandoned both when the userbase became to insufferable for my liking (KIA too Leftie, KIA2 on reddit too NPC). And in both of those I've always been obstinate and loudly anti-mod, which is the only time the topic comes up, so people assign higher nobility on to me than I deserve.