After a decade of cryptofascism and failed political activism, our dear friend jart is realizing that they don’t really have much of a positive legacy. If only there was something they could have done about that.

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“Sufficiently polite nazis–which you cannot tell apart from normal users–will help a community, but uncivil people–even if good!– will harm it.”

This is literally how you get a Nazi bar.

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Having flashbacks to the rationalwiki discord server

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I was today years old when I learned that there was a rationalwiki discord server.

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multiple RW discords, all officially unofficial

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Rationalwiki users later voted to disaffiliate from the discord server for reasons largely unrelated to what I’m having flashbacks about.

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now, you might have had similar thoughts about this guy in the most recent Nix post

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I’ve had his number since way back.

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I thought you were paraphrasing but that’s a direct quote lol

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Non-Nazis, shockingly, are capable of recognizing “sure, they’re following the rules right now; but they’re still Nazis” and deciding not to associate with them. The people who are willing to associate with Nazis… well, you know.

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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here’s the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

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