He apologized for "the timing and content" of his tweet. Maybe I'm focusing too much on the word timing but it sounds like another case of "I'm not sorry I said it, I'm sorry you're upset by it"
We get this question a lot, I'll copy-paste my answer from last time. I'm happy to have people come and ask, hopefully you'll stick around some.
Over on reddit the mods of the original KiA became very censorious and pushed a lot of rule changes that no one wanted (They even had points where they had votes on rule changes, then did what they wanted anyways when the userbase voted overwhelmingly against them). This resulted in a lot of talk regarding politics and SJWs in gaming and nerd culture being banned, despite being very much on topic. Different people put forward different reasons for them doing this, I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it was because they were scared of getting shut down, but it seemed very power-hungry and very sketchy.
This caused a schism and KiA2 was made in an attempt to be less censorious. This schism lasted over to the .win sites when KiA1 mods made their own and we made our own. I don't go over to that one, but I assume many of the rules carried over from the KiA1 subreddit and it's probably dead. KiA2 tends to err on the side of fewer rules (Which I prefer), with much more talk about a wider range of nerd-culture adjacent subjects.
One of the big things is that both subreddits were in fear of being shut down for a while on reddit. As I said I would like to believe that is why the mods on KiA1 went the way they did, but they were extremely heavy handed with it.
KiA2 took another route, and after making KiA2.win they privated the original KiA2 subreddit with the intent of hiding it through the election that way, and tried to encourage everyone to go over here (that's what the sticky post is about). This .win was never privated, but unfortunately only a fraction of the users came over here.
I think it has split us quite a lot. The KiA1 subreddit was quite large before the "schism", and after it remained large, but mostly inactive as it seemed that the most active users migrated over to KiA2. Now the KiA2 users are now split between reddit and .win, which reduces activity even further. I think the subreddit was unprivated later, and I think there is still a substantial number of users over there, though I keep expecting to hear of it being purged eventually.
I saw a post elsewhere that really summed up what I think is happening: They want to devalue the word fascism so you don't have a word to describe what they are going to do.
You're not alone. I've said in other posts that I am in graduate school and I want to say things like this to my boss/thesis adviser every damn day. I never feel safe expressing even the slightest conservative opinion to anyone there, and one thing I want to say to him specifically is how he treats the Democrats like his undergrad football team: He can't tell you any details about anything about them, but they can do no wrong and their rivals are literally evil despite the fact that he can't tell you the first thing about them either.
Over on reddit the mods of the original KiA became very censorious and pushed a lot of rule changes that no one wanted (They even had points where they had votes on rule changes, then did what they wanted anyways when the userbase voted overwhelmingly against them). This resulted in a lot of talk regarding politics and SJWs in gaming and nerd culture being banned, despite being very much on topic. Different people put forward different reasons for them doing this, I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it was because they were scared of getting shut down, but it seemed very power-hungry and very sketchy.
This caused a schism and KiA2 was made in an attempt to be less censorious. This schism lasted over to the .win sites when KiA1 mods made their own. I don't go over to that one, but I assume many of the rules carried over and it's probably dead. KiA2 tends to err on the side of fewer rules (Which I prefer), with much more talk about a wider range of nerd-culture adjacent subjects.
I don't think they have the intelligence to even begin to recognize cognitive dissonance. Doublethink never seems to bother most of them.
I'm not surprised there aren't great articles with how the media is. I know someone who is somehow a Taiwanese nationalist and has extreme TDS, and thinks things will be fine or even improve with Biden. I've asked his opinion about the rising tensions in the South China Sea, he somehow thinks Biden will turn it around. I don't know how often he's in Taiwan, but I know he's been in the US for 20+ years now. I may try bringing up this pact next time. Sadly I think Taiwan's days are numbered, I was reading a 4chan post about how Taiwan has all of these advantages over China but it also seemed dependent on international support for Taiwan, which I increasingly doubt will be present under Biden.
Do you have like for them breaking the defense treaty? I'd like to send that to someone
You don't need free speech to talk about the weather
I've told this story elsewhere, but your last sentence reminds me of a postdoc from Germany in my lab. Once I was talking with him and his wife at a lab party and the subject of the German economy came up. His wife is from a city in East Germany, and she was going on about how German media was not just incorrect about the state of the economy there, they were actively lying. He kept trying to defend the media "You're overexaggerating. Why would they lie? What would they have to benefit?" Her answer was "I don't know why but I know they are"
This then went to Merkel and the immigration, and when asked they both agreed that Merkel was great and the immigrants were needed because the German media said so. I asked (and in retrospect this was an extremely risky thing to ask) what if the media was lying like they were about her home city. Suddenly she sounded exactly like her husband only a minute earlier and any sense of logic about it went out the window. I didn't challenge it any more, but it made a lot of sense how people can so blindly walk into authoritarianism.
I find it weird how these people can be so educated and informed about our field, and I respect their opinions in that regard, but be so utterly clueless about everything else to the point I can't stand to listen to them speak.
I agree, I don't think some of the professors realize how bad it's getting. I remember there being a social-type event a couple years ago, and overhearing the head of my program talk to a professor about a complaint against him because his rotation student thought he didn't like her because she was a lesbian. He had absolutely no idea about her sexuality and was shocked and blindsided. Both were (and I believe still are) at a minimum hardcore Democrats.
The program chair's response was something to the effect of "I know, I know. Just... be careful, around these students". I mostly just remember the pause he had, it made me wonder if he realized how far it was going. Now that I'm writing this I'm also realizing that he stepped down as chair last year and that makes me wonder if it might have been connected. His replacement is a white woman huge on diversity and inclusion and goes on at length.
I know my advisor is clueless about the world outside his lab, he thinks Biden will be amazing because he "has a plan". He doesn't know the details of the plan, but he had basically the same idea and was unironically excited about Clinton in 2016. He just treats politics like a sports team and he picked the Democrats just because. I keep thinking at some point this far left plague is going to hit here like it did at Evergreen, and he's exactly the sort of guy who would blindly walk into the crosshairs.
There's becoming an issue to find churches that aren't compromised now. It feels like there are many that drive this bullshit
I'm a graduate student in a STEM field. Most of my life I was fairly libertarian, and when I started I thought it would be fine being a libertarian in a STEM field would be fine. It is absolutely not. I don't feel safe expressing my political beliefs, compounded by the fact that these brainwashed idiots have done more to push me to the right than every post on /pol/ combined.
Honestly I never thought politics would be the main reason I would want out of academia so badly, and I'm not even sure now what to do after getting my doctorate.
Never underestimate the ability of Republicans to cuck out. PrecisionStrike is exactly right
I mean does this shock anyone? I'm still vehemently against us having KiA2 back on there.
And Tim will keep sitting on that fence excusing it
I heard many conservative politicians condemn Chauvin, I'm sure I will hear many liberal politicians condemn this cop... Any minute now... Anyone?
Shit, can we get the SJWs made at that Democrat over having only two genders?
Would you happen to have a link? I've been enjoying his stuff but I've been falling behind lately
Glad to see the one I was about to report already on there, but it won't do anything. As the saying goes, double standards are the only standards they have
If they can just commit massive fraud to get their way then what do they care?
I'm all for them tearing each other apart, but this is going to go the way of the Tara Reade allegations
Am I allowed to tell these spam bots to kindly kill themselves?