I wouldn't be shocked to learn Lindsay had inside connections or was otherwise advantaged. He's got a massive crowd of apparent supporters, but they don't even upvote each other or anything.
I was hoping the comments would just be a ton of "found another one," but it's actually all zero engagement "you were so right, James, you're so smart and wise, how do you do it? Wow!"
Very suspicious.
@IfidnRetards here's one. It's a big one, be careful.
Almost every major social media pays some form of bot to boost engagement and manipulate the algorithm in their favor. You'd be retarded not to honestly, just from a business standpoint. Its one of those "all benefits as long as nobody notices too hard" situations.
Until we break the current iteration of the internet, that builds basically everything around clicks, impressions, ads and "showing your content" then that will continue to be life.
Its still pathetic when someone does it, because its usually being done to make themselves seem bigger and more important than they are rather than purely rational.
I don't know how it works, but there's clear selective targeting that happens.
On most posts where someone says absolutely idiotic leftish shit, there will be nothing but mockery in the replies or comment section. On most posts where some idiot like Dan Crenshaw says something idiotic, it will be nothing but mockery in response. And the responses will always be varied -- some meme images, some one-line zingers, some longer responses.
It's like back in the days before Youtube hid the dislike counts, damn near everything that should have been heavily disliked was heavily disliked. The White House couldn't release a single video that wasn't 90%+ disliked.
But occasionally, there will be a post that's been targeted for manipulation where a flood of bot-like responses will come out of the woodworks that are all basically some form of "you're so right" or "you're so wrong" or some other generic off-topic derailment ("he's a convicted felon").
Now if all of those types of responses appeared to varying degrees on all posts, it wouldn't be so weird. But they don't. They just appear en masse on random posts but not others.
You don't understand! Saying a mean thing about a heccin Jew - even if the mean thing has nothing to do with being a Jew - is a heccin antisemitism and le bad!
I had to check when that account was made because I knew there was no way pre-Elon Twitter would have allowed an account named "retard finder". Sure enough it was December 2024.
The word retard seems to be making a comeback. I even see it on reddit now when I peek in over there. They all have to say "regard" and "regarded" though because of the sitewide filter.
It's funny, really. I still hold some of my old liberal values, in some respects, but I'm just so fed up with all this nonsense.
It was always, dare I say, retarded, that they said the word "retarded" was a no-no word. It was always used against everyone but the actually mentally retarded people. You don't call actual retards retarded; they can't help it, and are often actually nice people.
You call people who aren't retarded retards, because they don't have an excuse for being retarded. That's how it always was, and it never should have fallen out of favor. It's a massive cultural victory that it's coming back, as "uncouth" as it may be.
Political correctness was always wielded as a weapon against us, and was never in good faith.
'Gay' and 'faggot' and 'retard', great insults, fantastic words, we should never have stopped. Glad they're coming back
Wonder what else will return. Queer won't be too hard, they're using it positively. But it sounds too 'old timey'. Nigger maybe? If that women with the kid is any indication, it's now received a bit more positively when they act like niggers.
It was always used against everyone but the actually mentally retarded people. You don't call actual retards retarded; they can't help it, and are often actually nice people.
While true I never saw anything wrong with that either. It's funny,
idiot
moron
retard
Were all words originally used to medically describe a physical condition, and they turned into insults so for some reason we're no longer allowed to use them in the original sense. Banning words just means we'll come up with new words.
"Euphemism treadmill" is the term you're looking for. They need to come up with a new clinical term once the old one becomes an insult, which it does every time.
I think the push to power the treadmill also comes from the other side: Once a word becomes mainstream, then there has to be a new one for people to virtue signal how sensitive and woke they are. Then that implicitly means the old word is bad and it transforms into an insult.
I wouldn't be shocked to learn Lindsay had inside connections or was otherwise advantaged. He's got a massive crowd of apparent supporters, but they don't even upvote each other or anything.
I was hoping the comments would just be a ton of "found another one," but it's actually all zero engagement "you were so right, James, you're so smart and wise, how do you do it? Wow!"
Very suspicious.
@IfidnRetards here's one. It's a big one, be careful.
Almost every major social media pays some form of bot to boost engagement and manipulate the algorithm in their favor. You'd be retarded not to honestly, just from a business standpoint. Its one of those "all benefits as long as nobody notices too hard" situations.
Until we break the current iteration of the internet, that builds basically everything around clicks, impressions, ads and "showing your content" then that will continue to be life.
Its still pathetic when someone does it, because its usually being done to make themselves seem bigger and more important than they are rather than purely rational.
I don't know how it works, but there's clear selective targeting that happens.
On most posts where someone says absolutely idiotic leftish shit, there will be nothing but mockery in the replies or comment section. On most posts where some idiot like Dan Crenshaw says something idiotic, it will be nothing but mockery in response. And the responses will always be varied -- some meme images, some one-line zingers, some longer responses.
It's like back in the days before Youtube hid the dislike counts, damn near everything that should have been heavily disliked was heavily disliked. The White House couldn't release a single video that wasn't 90%+ disliked.
But occasionally, there will be a post that's been targeted for manipulation where a flood of bot-like responses will come out of the woodworks that are all basically some form of "you're so right" or "you're so wrong" or some other generic off-topic derailment ("he's a convicted felon").
Now if all of those types of responses appeared to varying degrees on all posts, it wouldn't be so weird. But they don't. They just appear en masse on random posts but not others.
I enjoy his historical perspectives. He does some good deep dives on American communism and the founding of the UN.
His politics are retarded and get more retarded every day the less people take him seriously.
He should stick to history.
The comments I saw were going after him. One suggests he might be fishing for a spot on the DW.
Weird. I'm not signed in, so maybe Nitter does things differently, but what I saw was as I described; a bunch of zero-likes saying how correct he was.
Now I am seeing a different set though, odd. Still a bunch of low engagement agreement, but also some people ripping him.
If a Jew falls in the woods, and no one hears him kvetch, does it make an antisemitism?
If truth is inlaid into reality, then ipso facto, yeah it's antisemitism.
James' own words: "call it racist until you control it."
I guess it's now "call it anti-Semitic until you control it." Don't think that's going to work out too well for whoever tries it though.
You don't understand! Saying a mean thing about a heccin Jew - even if the mean thing has nothing to do with being a Jew - is a heccin antisemitism and le bad!
Retard finder clearly gained a passive skill that baits more retards.
I had to check when that account was made because I knew there was no way pre-Elon Twitter would have allowed an account named "retard finder". Sure enough it was December 2024.
The word retard seems to be making a comeback. I even see it on reddit now when I peek in over there. They all have to say "regard" and "regarded" though because of the sitewide filter.
And I'm completely in favor.
It's funny, really. I still hold some of my old liberal values, in some respects, but I'm just so fed up with all this nonsense.
It was always, dare I say, retarded, that they said the word "retarded" was a no-no word. It was always used against everyone but the actually mentally retarded people. You don't call actual retards retarded; they can't help it, and are often actually nice people.
You call people who aren't retarded retards, because they don't have an excuse for being retarded. That's how it always was, and it never should have fallen out of favor. It's a massive cultural victory that it's coming back, as "uncouth" as it may be.
Political correctness was always wielded as a weapon against us, and was never in good faith.
'Gay' and 'faggot' and 'retard', great insults, fantastic words, we should never have stopped. Glad they're coming back
Wonder what else will return. Queer won't be too hard, they're using it positively. But it sounds too 'old timey'. Nigger maybe? If that women with the kid is any indication, it's now received a bit more positively when they act like niggers.
While true I never saw anything wrong with that either. It's funny,
Were all words originally used to medically describe a physical condition, and they turned into insults so for some reason we're no longer allowed to use them in the original sense. Banning words just means we'll come up with new words.
"Euphemism treadmill" is the term you're looking for. They need to come up with a new clinical term once the old one becomes an insult, which it does every time.
I think the push to power the treadmill also comes from the other side: Once a word becomes mainstream, then there has to be a new one for people to virtue signal how sensitive and woke they are. Then that implicitly means the old word is bad and it transforms into an insult.
you display some of the atlanto axial instability typically associated with trisomy of the 23rd chromosome.
I've seen the actual word posted. They only enforce that rule against users and subs they don't like.
I didn't know. Guess I only frequent the verboten subs.