Nope I am a right-wing Conservative blogger. I've been harassed by police over my positions in the past and have had to take legal action against them, representing myself, to force them to back down. I even published the police apology in my article here.
Hi there,
You believe that a person should be punished for their speech
Well yeah, sometimes. To quote US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v US, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting 'fire' in a theatre and causing a panic". Freedom of speech is not freedom to write monumental falsehoods in the knowledge it is not true. That is called, 'malicious defamation'.
You’re not aware of this because you just came here from Reddit. You came here from an ideological bubble where you have never been challenged and never needed to defend your positions
Wut ...? I'm a right-wing Conservative blogger who has been harassed by police over my positions and has had to take legal action against them, representing myself, to force them to back down. I even published the police apology in my article here.
Speaking of defending my position, I've been (counter)-sued in the past for defamation and defended myself and won and here is the public judgment. Unlike Jones, I complied with court rules and then flayed the other side's case to death with (legitimate) procedural motions.
TTRPGs are a waste of life once you are adult. I enjoyed Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay as a child. As a child. As an adult it is a futile endeavour. Spend the same energy improving your actual life! Not playing a sad fake one in a sweaty basement or online.
CRPGs are different insofar as there is graphics, musical and story content as well as some objective challenge, but they get samey in the end and find myself losing interest in recent years. Wrath of the Righteous is the only one I have spent much time on recently, and also the Rogue Trader CRPG.
I remember when TTRPGs died for me. I was listening to this woke dude at university lecture on how he had, 'enlightened' his little school friends back when he was at school.
These kids had been playing Dungeons and Dragons, getting the rules wrong and having a blast. For example, they allowed healing potions to take you over the hitpoint cap so they could have hundreds or thousands. The guy corrected them and turned their childish but fun power fantasy into the joyless, humourless, pompous crap that is mainstream TTRPG. The woke dude thought he was impressive. It felt to me like the day I put my Transformer toys away for the last time. Sad on so many levels.
The police officer is not to be faulted at all.
It is a shame though that he did not have a taser or something to enable the mentally ill perpetrator to be apprehended and taken to a suitable hospital, instead of killing them.
I just wish they would hurry up and roll out this feature on web. It's always been stupid to prevent blocked people seeing the blocker's account, especially as it is legitimate to have multiple accounts on Twitter so you can just read from an account with a different use case.
Alex Jones deserved to be punished. He was the subject of a default judgment due to litigation misconduct. He did not answer questions or comply with discovery. After he lost and had damages awarded against him, the bankruptcy court found he could not discharge many of his debts in bankruptcy due to "wilful or malicious injury".
The only thing I disagree with is punitive damages which are out of all proportion to the loss incurred. Punitive damages are only allowed in limited circumstances in my country, England, and they are still limited to some connection between the wrong and the alleged loss.
Make no mistake though, Jones is a scumbag. If he had followed the rules the other side would have had to prove actual malice. He did not follow the rules and he lost because of it.
Just to explain this for non-British folks here. This is not quite as bad as it seems, it is however a government foul-up.
Here in Britain, the government wants to stop terrorism. Unfortunately, it is no better at that than it is at anything else. So it made this organisation called Prevent which is intended to stop vulnerable youths and adults from being turned to terrorism. Unfortunately, it is not very good according to an official review published by the BBC.
Basically, they asked schools and hospitals and councils and so forth to keep an eye out for children and vulnerable adults being radicalised into terrifying terrorists. They offer short and not very nuanced courses. The reality is that well-meaning or power-tripping local authorities very rarely find real terrorists but do refer a lot of children to this.
The majority of referrals are of children under 15. This can sometimes be for very little reason - little Timmy drew a gun so he's a white supremacist. Ironically, it often leads to frankly racist referrals of Muslims or Conservatives for citing mainstream views.
It is worth reading the PreventWatch website.
I've watched it. It is moderately entertaining but all the characters are horrible and evil. The bare posterior is totally gratuitous.
Morally, it is awful. The main character is literally an evil witch. She may even be proven to have made a deal with a literal demon. The exact opposite of a good role model for young people or indeed, anyone.
Of course, some would say that's basically Disney's idea of an ideal role model.
The original movie was overrated. It was watching a vulnerable guy get beat up and beat down until it reached a single point which was the only point.
Whilst being interviewed by a cruel TV host who only brought him on the show to mock him, Arthur tells a joke: “What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner, with a society that abandons him and treats him like shit?” Arthur rhetorically asks. Then he answers as he shoots the cruel TV host who was holding him up for amusement. The Joker yells, “You get what you deserve!”
Of course, Arthur's self awareness itself to ask the question and answer it breaks immersion to me. It is the author speaking to us. The director might as well have walked on set with a sign. It is a valid point though. The movie paints us a picture of a vulnerable disabled white male - one of the least celebrated and protected groups in our society.
The left hated the movie because it challenged their discourse of privilege. For example Rolling Stone talked of concerns that the, "that Joker casts disaffected young white men in an overly sympathetic, verging on celebratory, light". Should we not treat vulnerable victims of abuse with sympathy?
It's difficult to see how it could have been followed though, without re-writing Fleck to be enormously less inadequate. The director had always said it was not set up for a sequel.
So, what you actually mean is u/AbleistSL, you are salty because I opposed Kiwi Farms, with some success. Quite a few people have gotten fired, banned and ruined when they are associating with Kiwi Farms. Here's a video interview of Joshua Conner Moon the owner of Kiwi Farms admitting to hosting (textual) child rape stories. And by child I mean rugrat.
And, as far as I am aware, I have not been rejected by the dissident right. It's Josh who was the only person ever to be banned from Hatreon. The dissident right rejects Kiwi Farms, for obvious reasons.
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They might just not have read it. I used the word 'misogyny' so they might have mistakenly thought it was woke. The thing is, u/m0r1arty, what I was pointing out in my article is that believing transwomen are men is now protected. The Helicopter Meme is now protected speech in UK law and puberty blockers have been banned, whilst childhood transition is now being heavily scrutinised and restricted. Winning in short.
I've created this post about the recent Godot Game Engine controversy because I wanted to spread two things the other posts have not.
Firstly, those who support free speech are winning. In the UK, thanks to a recent link in my article, believing the transwomen are men is now a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010. You can be sued for oppressing someone for holding that belief. The Helicopter Meme is now a protected class of belief and therefore speech.
Secondly, it may be inferred that some of this is caused by the influence of the Godot Game Engine's corporate sponsors, so I've made a handy list.
Saul Alinsky's famous left-wing book, Rules for Radicals, is literally dedicated to Lucifer, amongst others, on the Acknowledgements / Dedications page.
Context: So the Godot Game Engine is middleware. It provides basic functions for game developers. It is open source and MIT licensed. On 27 September, the community manager used the Godot X account to publish this tweet (archive).
Developers responded in moderate terms asking for the project to fix bugs and not take political stances. Community managers went wild, blocking anyone who disagreed on X, Discord and even in some cases on Github, citing vague Code of Conduct violations.
The founder @reduzio has been tagged into the drama and has gone private. @Grummz has some good content on it too. I might write an article later.
Even Snopes has debunked this Newsweek headline. When the, "fact checkers" are backing a Republican point of view, it's over for the left: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/
They must be terrified Kamala will lose. Before I became a Conservative I was Labour Party staff and an elected councillor. I can't remember us ever sending hundreds of staff over there!
Plus, we were very shy of it because of the time Bill Clinton laid into the Conservative Prime Minister John Major over supporting the Republicans and Major had to personally apologise.