The Automated Ban List - Page 3001

Strange but kinda expected. Having been here for over 10 years, I can clearly see TL has been hijacked by leftists, precisely in the way the very people who do the hijacking constantly fail to understand (which is: forcefully limiting the horizon of "allowable" discourse by the gradual erosive process of increasingly authoritarian ideological though-policing, in this case reporting and banning, of reasonable dissenting opinion or communication styles - especially humor or pragmatic economics as opposed to emotion-based utopian grandstanding and "tact" - which results in a progressively more sterile environment where progressively minor offenses are considered reportable and justifiably bannable, diversity of opinion keeps shrinking and more emotions are ruffled more easily ... and so on, and so on, ad nauseam, until there's nothing but snowflakes and parrots left and you start to eat your own because us normal folks are already gone.)

TL used to be a fun gaming site where smart kids fooled around and exchanged views. We had idiotic topics like PUA (which I detested with particular vigor), lifting, MMA and other silly stuff, lots of joking (the difference in wit is staggering) and also in addition to the fun, the many interesting discussions that still appear to be happening - but no longer actually happen - on here.

Today, TL is effectively a marxist echo chamber. Just like modern academia. Grats, your work (or should I say the work of your cognitive masters) is complete.

I fail to understand which of the things I pointed out were remotely untrue. It seems to be an observable fact my latest comments resulted in some rather lively discussion (3 pages and literally zero vitriol?). No ad-hominems, no insults. Just a different kind of opinion.

Some of the posts that got me banned for months this year (the same posts would not have gotten me banned 5 years ago while this site was still politically neutral) were objectively funny (people actually told me so in PMs). I never trolled, lied or shitposted - this I can state with absolute honesty. Just me speaking my thoroughly informed mind (I'm almost 40 and have been working in academia for a decade, it's safe to say I'm not a complete cretin), or, alternatively, cracking relatively rude jokes. Because ... rude jokes are funny! Being mildly offensive is part of what constitutes not only humor but independent thinking at large. Especially when it targets violently cancerous people like Jeff Sessions or Hillary Clinton. These people deserve to be laughed at. Still, nowadays I seem to get banned by the Comrades for basically any post I make.

Since I'm looking to engage with the threads and reply, having your pen constantly taken away by Big Brother just when you're starting a discussion is rather demotivating.

And so, starting with the "trolls" and then lining up anyone to the right of center (which tend to simultaneously be people whose character refuses political correctness), you've already chased away all the hardline conservatives (let's just take a look at the "political representation" among the banned. How many radical leftists? Oh, none. Cool. How about "far right" posters?) and all the people who refuse to uphold the intellectually classist mode of expression, by reporting and banning us on a daily basis. Of course, this is exactly what you want - to eradicate opinion contrary to your ideology. More precisely, it's the ideology itself desperately defending its own existence. You're just its unwitting puppets.

In fact, I'm wondering how many times Zlefin, Igne or Plansix have reported me this year between the three of them. It's just a hint I have ... pure speculation ... that at least one of them has been mashing the report button at the sight of my name. For some context, in my roughly 13 years of actively participating on TL where I was also personally insulted numerous times, I have reported a grand total of 0 posts. Zero.

That's how people like me (whose character aligns with "right-field values") tend to operate. We are able to separate emotion from discourse and so we don't need to purge people who don't fit the dogma. The result is free exchange of information, also known as free speech. Not anymore, not on this site.

Sadly, there is no victory in this for you guys. You've conquered this little space (which was certainly never yours to take), and now you'll keep rotting intellectually in your little pool of poo. People like me were here for the fun and entertaining gaming site that TL used to be. We contributed in earnest, and now the playground is off limits we're just moving elsewhere. In my case, to environments that resemble TL before the marxist police took over – specifically chat groups on Facebook where people are interested in open discussion and willing to set their emotions aside.

Getting shoved out of this digital space by bullies has merely reinforced my beliefs (while also de facto proving them). There is literally no other way the phenomenon of leftist fascism ever works.

Incidentally, it is the exact mechanism that powers Trump voters. You see, people don't want to be told to sit down and shut up because everything they believe in is wrong by default, especially not by depressed, resentful college students and liberal elites, both of whom tend to mingle with reality far less than they believe.

Whatever needs the site has been fulfilling for me (which were rather extensive since for a non-trivial chunk of my life I've been getting most of my news and critical thinking ideas from TL, browsed it daily, had some amazing exchanges with sparkly intelligent people sprinkled with lots of hilarious banter..) I've already found elsewhere.

I guess xDaunt is the only pet conservative you're likely to entertain.

My final crime? Suggesting the sitting president of the US is, in fact, just maybe, not a blubbering retard but might be a person who understands politics in the current zeitgeist (ideological possession, voting by emotion, memetic communication, unity through common pride) on a phenomenally acute level (as evidenced by his objective historical success in actual, real-life politics, in spite of having the entire global corporate media apparatus against him since day one, and increasingly so). Apparently a bannable offense on this elite intellectual site. The correct thing, it would seem, is to believe that a man who has effectively been commanding global media attention by using nothing but twitter and the emotions of his opposition for years now has to be an idiot. He has to be a moron! And so, I'll be taking my interest in open-minded discussion elsewhere while you guys can continue ideological masturbation and patting each other on your collective intellectual backs while being constantly shocked by global political and social developments.

It's been fun participating for 10+ years. For a non-trivial chunk of my life I've been getting most of my news and critical thinking ideas from TL, had some amazing exchanges with sparkly intelligent people sprinkled with lots of hilarious banter. For that, I thank you all from my heart. It was like a fun and elaborate interactive newspaper. Sadly, this is no longer that place. The ideology won't have it.

For the college radicals in here who think they're the epitome of smarts and it's reality and other people that is constantly being stupid, please remember this post when Trump easily wins in 2020 and goes down in history as a legendary statesman and a decent American president.