• funkajunk@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Aren’t you? I know I am.

      The internet is a very weird place as it seems to deal entirely in black and white, judging people by singular events rather than the entirety of their character. One wrong move and you’re cancelled.

      Dude is not a Saint, and he never claimed to be. He got famous for playing video games, not giving lectures on moral purity. Enjoy whatever content he puts out, think he’s cool, but do not put content creators on any higher a pedestal than that. At the end of the day, they’re a whole-ass human being just like you.

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        Wow, this sounds so weird coming from someone on the internet (in a good way). All I see online is one giant echochamber and a cancelling machine. Thank you for sounding sane. Let the downvotes come my way now ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

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          2 months ago

          You complain about echo chambers as you use the language people use to farm votes/likes/etc. in echo chambers. Your comment could be a great screenshot for explaining it it’s such a great example.

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          The fact that you saw that person and this post demonstrates that you aren’t in an echo chamber. Free speech also entitles people to call you an antisocial and inconsiderate twat.

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        I’m not sure about you but I don’t go around saying the N word or paying people in developing nations to hold up incitements towards very real genocides. Felix isn’t a Nazi but he directly contributed to the climate that allowed them to come out of the woodwork and act as they are doing now.

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          Based on what an ex girlfriend told me after her study abroad in Sweden, the N word (at least back in the early 2010s) just isn’t considered as offensive there. She remembers being at a party where they played some kind of “secret spy” game they’d dubbed “n——r president” and being shocked about it

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            Not really sure how to say it but I think your ex was just a racist who hung out with racists. I know a few Swedish people through a friend who’s gf is from there and they would deffo take issue with it.

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          I mean I have said the n word (no hard r) in the last 10 years but I said it to a black persons face it’s not the proudest moment of my life probably peak cringe and it ruined my night. I was also ready to take all the social backlash that comes with it (getting punched in the face or worse.) I don’t hate pewdiepie but there is a reason why edgy humor was usually on late at night on tv and there were still limits to what you could say and do.

          The internet kinda blew all that shit out the water and looking back idk if it was a good thing.

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              No not as an insult. Just I got called it and I just said it back as I said no hard r. I was intoxicated and going through some mental health shit. I’m admitting it to prove a point that it’s very different when you say shit online then when you say it in real life, I would could of been hurt and would of deserved it as well but I talked to the guy I said it to and it turned out ok. I also didn’t monetise me using the word to an audience of prepubescent children.

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                  Because it is different and I’m not saying what I did was ok. I’m using it as an example of problematic behaviour that I exhibited in the real world. I’m not proud of what I did but I also can’t change the past. I could also be a coward and pretend I’m some kind of saint which I’m not. I’m not defending my what I did I’m also not defending people using the n word. As I said it’s something I did and something I knew was wrong the second I did it but as I said earlier I was ready to accept the social consequences of what I said to somebody.

                  Anyways I used the story of some very bad behaviour I engaged in as an anecdote to show that when people act shitty in real life there are actual consequences mainly the possibility of getting punched. The person I said it to and his friends decided not to beat the shit out of me and I’m greatful for that because I would of deserved it.

                  I don’t go around using the n word and I have no idea why the fuck I said it but yeah two days of drinking not sleeping will do weird shit to your brain.

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        Yeah I mean I don’t monetise my problematic behaviour though. Or entertain little kids for cash so I guess as a public figure you maybe do have a different social responsibility than just a normal citizen.

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          Any creative expression is ultimately “art” - anyone can put out whatever they want, the responsibility is on the viewer to accept or reject it.

          For example, I really enjoy standup comedy and I’m of the mind that you can joke about anything. If you do not like the jokes a particular comedian does, you don’t have to buy tickets to the show. Simple as that.

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            Since your a comedy connoisseur surely you also know that there are jokes that comedians will often tell each other but often aren’t done in public. Here is a famous example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_OQfYnmnE-Q

            Edgy comedians often perform in night clubs and generally to older audiences who you can expect to take the nuances of edgy jokes. I agree that if you go and watch an edgy comedian in a comedy club and don’t like the performance that’s on you.

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        One wrong move and you’re cancelled.

        Nah. It’s never one wrong move it’s entirely about how they respond to that move.

        The people who get canceled are dismissive of criticism (eg make up some bullshit about how what they said wasn’t even considered bigoted where they live) and/or double down.

        If someone shows true remorse and learning they’ll be forgiven.

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        Admitting you’re an asshole doesn’t make it OK. It just means that you’re an asshole and think it’s something that doesn’t need to be substantively addressed as long you acknowledge it. It’s you going “because I say it out loud it’s not my problem to fix, it’s yours to deal with.” I will never understand why people think that makes it better instead of worse.

        This is the dude equivalent of “if you can’t handle me at my worst then you don’t deserve me at my best.”

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          I said that I’m “a bit of an asshole”, alluding to the fact that we are not perfect and shouldn’t expect that from others.

          You’re kind of proving my point of black and white viewpoints, making a bunch of assumptions of my character based on very little information.

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      2 months ago

      Bro does live in Japan, seems like a pretty logical path from there to tiling window managers

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          Stereotypically, white people who move to Japan are “nerds” in some sense. Nerds love Linux. Really nerdy Linux lovers always use a tiling WM.

          It’s only a matter of time until bro is wearing a trench coat with a cyberdeck strapped to his arm and pretending he’s in some Neotokyo fantasy. 😔

          (P.S. I am a Linux loving nerd)