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Captainant

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  1. Andrew Fuckin Callaghan of Channel 5 News does some incredible journalism genuinely excellent field reporting and interview work of a terrible crisis
  2. Boeings CEO is an acolyte of Jack Welch, and is really following in his footsteps with destroying a formerly great American company
  3. This feels exactly like the interwar period in the early 20th century - lots of agents of chaos stirring the pot so that despots have a more free hand to do their deeds.
  4. It's really something else how some folks think that misrepresenting and occasionally making up your own facts is a "difference in opinion". You're right slorch, theres not much debate to be had when the thing being disagreed upon is what "is", and the opposing voice has no reasoning or supporting info besides "it just IS!!" Nevermind any court findings or multiple verified reports from journalistic outlets that are equivocated with some opinion piece from an extremist outlet. The Internet has been fucking awash with disinformation, and surly was particularly awful with it during COVID and the 2020 summer of love through Jan 6 when it peaked and the worst offenders finally started catching bans for their repeated bullshit posting. There was SUCH a distinct pattern and behavior of "well this link says I'm right so I'm gonna ignore EVERYTHING else". I think that history is a major part of what fueled everyone's reaction - we've seen that shit before, and it's never been in good faith.
  5. These ball spots have been atrocious
  6. I broadly agree with what the essence of your post is saying - but even when bringing other links, LHL was materially misrepresenting what those links said and doubling and tripling down. He would not listen to people pointing out what LHLs links said the opposite of what he claimed, and so people ratcheted up. He moved from one hollow assertion to another, and people replied to each failed assertion in kind. He even admitted that he did not plan to participate in a discussion and just wanted to stir the pot. It would be dog piling if it was 3 pages of everyone quoting the same post and repeating the same thing. It's not dog piling to reply to the false assertions that someone makes as they make them. I just don't understand using this dude as your example case, imma. He was not, by his own admission, there to be a "funny dickhead" or to actually talk about the issue. Just to be a dickhead.
  7. It's stain "less" not stain "proof" steel amirite? But no, 301 stainless will corrode over time when exposed to chlorides - like road salt. There are better grades of stainless that have lower carbon content and more chromium, but that's not what elmo put in his truck
  8. That's wild that war thunder is that accurate in their armor modeling lol. It's also ironic that a free to play game out of russia is helping to kill more russians
  9. They used 301 stainless steel too, which is not meant for heavy duty exterior use. If they put a clear coat on it, it'd be fine - but Tesla is rawdoggin the cyber truck. Anyone driving a cyber truck on a salted road is gonna have a baaaaad time
  10. I think Imma got the reaction he did because he was validating LHL's performative victimhood, which has really become a fucking drag on discussions in general. Any time someone gets pushback, they have a lazy out to just say "boo hoo mean old CR slime" and the site owners take them seriously. It's enabled so much bad faith posting and echo chamber crap because everyone has decided that "the CR must be bad because everyone says it is", and it's used to shut down discussion when folks are just too lazy to defend their lazy positions
  11. You're right, SIs decline was purely political and had nothing to do with the changing habits of their readership or their short term optimized business plan.
  12. I'll be damned, Robb County has convened a grand jury to consider charges for law enforcement officers who sat idle during the massacre https://www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/grand-jury-begins-examining-robb-school-investigation/ From the article it seems that since the county attorney handles misdemeanors, this GJ is (presumably) only considering felony charges. I am thankful to see some actual accountability coming.
  13. Just to reply directly to this: there's nothing "toxic" in page 1 and it's all well sourced discussion including direct quotes of the governor. Youre trying to do the same LHL did in just posting a headline and ignoring that reality doesn't back you up. And then getting weirdly self righteous about it, of course.
  14. A business group living it up quarter to quarter while ignoring the long term instability they're accruing? Something like that would never happen! The linked article includes the seeds of their downfall: Cutting expenses (read: paying for fewer writers) while amping up advertising monetization (replacing now missing/thin content with ads) sounds like a quarter or two of good money, and then nobody will want your enshittified product anymore
  15. It's incredible how much you are misrepresenting that thread and it's discussion, imma. A couple of folks have had hot takes that Abbott is directly responsible, but that's not the focus of the discussion. It's mainly just debunking LHL's talking points from "the right source". You still haven't linked a specific grievance or problem post, you're just repeating the same "well it's JUST BAD, ohkay??" and repeating your misrepresentation.
  16. I don't disagree that Twitter embeds were and are a terrible source of good information, but contemporaneously it was the best way to find out what was happening in our government. Like, cabinet members found out they were fired via Twitter for fucks sake lol. I do think more stringent rules on sourcing would go a LONG way to cutting back the bullshit, but that doesn't really fix the underlying problem of folks just ignoring facts and defending it as an opinion. And it wouldn't really have prevented the LHL situation since he just refused to address any of the court filings or well sourced reporting that directly refuted his """opinion""" from the national review
  17. Well it'll help when companies aren't gouging for profits as much too https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits
  18. It's not just sourcing though - LHL straight up admitted to wanting to troll the thread and refused to actually answer any reasonable challenges to his sources or counterfactual claims. I'm not sure why you're defending him and his urge to submit straight up lies as a "difference in opinion". It's not in good faith, and I'm not sure why you're not more mad at him for coming into the thread with no intent of actual discussion. You mention getting "all kinds of DMs and complaints" - I'd be curious to know the essence of those complaints. It's a bad habit on your board to turn off your brain and complain "muh CR!" when they just want to disengage from a conversation they can't defend. Just like how LHL pinched off a fatty of a shitpost and got called out for it, and ran away to beseech the mods rather than defend their point. Like, do you think people need to be less surly? Because I still can't find a single post in that thread - and you haven't provided one (even though you said you had lol) - of specific language or "dogpiling" a poster. He was not dogpiled, his shitty sourcing was. Just really weird to see you get so animated and hard headed about this and refusing to see the facts. Did a croot complain or something? I've seen people get immolated on the football board wayyyyyy worse
  19. One of many unfortunate casualties of that upper stage failure. Lotta years of blood sweat and tears getting burned up on reentry
  20. Or they'll stand by while the capital is attacked, like on Jan 6. Failure to prevent a coup from an internal enemy is a pretty severe breach of duty and their oath.
  21. https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists Pretty good writeup on why the nazis were "national socialists", but it basically boils down to a propaganda play. FTA: Elon really has got the brain worms, it's wild to see the decline in realtime
  22. IMO you should consider rules and policies on factual discussions and posts then. If someone is arguing things that are factually untrue, then any thread with that person is gonna go to shit. All the oxygen for discussion will be eaten up by just getting basic facts straight. That's exactly what happened in that thread. The fix isn't telling people to be less mean, it's to tell them to stop presenting bullshit headlines as irrefutable fact. The posts in that thread you're doing your weird high road act on pretty clearly and calmly lay it all out. Genuinely, you're more passionate than anyone in that thread - and you're strangely not mad at the person pooping in the punchbowl, but don't like that people are trying to fish the turd out
  23. LHL was continuing to press a falsehood and insist shit to be true without evidence, even when presented with facts to the opposite. Just not sure what you're so mad about lol, it's like LHL lit a bat signal for you and you came in from the top rope to defend someone posting """alternative facts"""
  24. Just to be clear, you're defending someone who's only contributions to the thread were a link from the national review whose evidence doesn't support the claims in its headline, and was disputing that TNG prevented CBP from rescuing a drowning mother and daughter. What's the decent discussion to be had? That our state should not be letting people drown in the river? Genuinely, can you point to a specific exchange as toxic in that thread? It's just a loop of LHL making an unfounded assertion, and then everyone pushing back with actual facts to counter "The Right Scoop" from NR.
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