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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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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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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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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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.

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