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Mar 26 • 11 tweets • 5 min read

@teacake90s

@teacake90s "Putin saw it and weaponised the madness."

Good for him. Regardless of what else he has done in life, and I'm sure a lot of it would give me nightmares, he and his administration are not wrong about the "woke dictatorship" in the West, as I believe one of his people put it.

@teacake90s

@teacake90s If Putin is able to "weaponize" the truth and get the West held up to scorn in the process, then the West deserves that scorn and should welcome it, for the same reason that the Russians in the Soviet era had cause to welcome the scorn they got.

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@teacake90s Because as good as getting praise can feel in the short run, praise isn't always good for us. Without those moments in which we don't feel so good about ourselves, how do we overcome our vices?

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@teacake90s In order to coherently argue that one does wrong by giving rhetorical ammunition to "the enemy," one has to make the case that the criticism being leveled against one's society is unjust. That one has enabled the enemy as he took a cheap shot.

@teacake90s

@teacake90s If our woke friends are claiming that this is what has been happening, then what can so many of us do with these lovers of cancel culture other than point, laugh, and look at who the H e l l is talking.

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@teacake90s What do the woke ever do other than take cheap shots? So, boo hoo hoo, after decades of siding with people who've engaged in targeted harassment and mass defamation, the West is being seen as the realm of a s s h o l e s?

@teacake90s

@teacake90s Newsflash: Westerners, these days, mostly ARE a s s h o l e s and visibly proud of it, which makes this kind of complaint the height of privileged entitlement.

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@teacake90s The woke (and their apologists) want to act like complete p r i c k s, smirk in the faces to those they treat like dirt, and still be thought of as good people by themselves and others.

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@teacake90s They want to be thought of as decent people, without having to exercise the self-control and engage in the self-examination needed to behave decently.

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@teacake90s Which is to say, they have become arrogant. Are they upset? Let them be. They deserve considerably worse than they've gotten. #IStandWithJKRowling

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Mar 27

@archiveis

@archiveis @waybackmachine This is what I am seeing when I go to your site.

"Welcome to nginx!

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@archiveis @waybackmachine "Commercial support is available at nginx.com.

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@archiveis @waybackmachine Let us speak plainly, because we will both save a lot of time by doing so. I am aware of the fact that you provide this service for free. If you have found some way to monetize it, I have no idea as to what it would be, so I suppose that you don't really owe us anything.

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Mar 26

@bbguyla

@bbguyla @CandidToAFault @Ponderosa1415 @teacake90s "i want to make sure i am completely understanding you. 'so-called' are you saying trans people aren’t entitled to rights?"

That's not a sincerely asked question. That's straw manning.

@bbguyla

@bbguyla @CandidToAFault @Ponderosa1415 @teacake90s I think we all know what a "rhetorical question" is. I've expressed myself quite clearly and in detail. What you just did was lie about what I said, and then try to disguise your shady behavior by putting your statement in the form of a rhetorical question.

@bbguyla

@bbguyla @CandidToAFault @Ponderosa1415 @teacake90s This won't fool anybody whose IQ is in excess of room temperature, but there are always plenty of i d i o t s listening in. It is to these people that bad faith responses such as yours are directed. They are designed to rouse the rabble.

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Mar 26

@ThirtyOneMKs

@ThirtyOneMKs @CandidToAFault @Ponderosa1415 @teacake90s Because others will see it, and because like you, the person I blocked was a lowlife.

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@ThirtyOneMKs @CandidToAFault @Ponderosa1415 @teacake90s Logic does not lend itself to expression through isolated soundbites, but Twitter is built around the concept of forcing users to limits themselves to those soundbites. Thus the tweetstorm.

Tweets are strung together to get around Jack's limit.

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@ThirtyOneMKs @CandidToAFault @Ponderosa1415 @teacake90s But this becomes a problem when dealing with users who, like MK White, are all mouth and no brain. As one takes the time to set up a carefully reasoned argument, they'll be breaking in, demanding an answer to their brain dead spew now now NOW.

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Mar 26

@jimineedles

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s You're seriously comparing the decision to not share porn with children with that of trying to get people fired from their jobs, defamed and turned into social outcasts for engaging in political dissent?

Really?

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@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s And, I might add, let's take a look at what qualifies as "politics," these days.

Denying that wearing a dress and wanting to be a girl will make a boy into a girl is now considered to be enough to make one a member of the far right, if not a Nazi.

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@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s This position is taken on the very same site on which Jewish, Muslim and non-Caucasian users were routinely dogpiled, slurred and issued death threats by literal neo-Nazis a mere three years ago, with no meaningful support given to them by the community or the company.

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Jan 31

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@WilliamHBart Bill is telling something less than the whole truth.

The Onion did a humor piece. Bill threatened them with hellfire over it, over an alleged violation of the Ten Commandments. I pointed out that Bill was lying about what those commandments had to say.

@WilliamHBart

@WilliamHBart I also had something to say about the morality of sticking one's words into God's mouth. It all starts here.

https://twitter.com/brief_fiction/status/1488264011993206784

Bill then lied about what I wrote and tried to create drama, threatening me with hellfire if I didn't validate him.

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Jan 30

@UNM

@UNM @UNM_Global I just got to deal with your social media liaison, Nora Heineman-Fleck,

linkedin.com/in/nora-heinem…

who posts on Twitter as @NoraReed. This is the person who you've chosen to have represent your university on the Internet.

@UNM

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed This person, your representative, went on the attack because I referred to her / him / it / (whatever Nora wants to be called) as "Ms. Reed."

https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1487529670547410945

Let us note that Nora, who is a biological female, still chooses to go by the name "Nora" (a woman's name).

@UNM

@UNM @UNM_Global @NoraReed Most people, on seeing the name "Nora," would think that they were dealing with a woman, with a "she," which biologically was the case. But Nora came absolutely unglued over nothing more than the fact that I made that simple, natural assumption.

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