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The Brain

#74745
June 22, 2020, 04:57:01 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 22, 2020, 03:11:49 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2020, 02:54:00 PM
What exactly is cancel culture? I feel like I know roughly what it is but the term is pretty new to me.

The relatively benign version of it is canceling public support for a public figure in response to them saying or doing something that transgresses against what the canceler thinks are the social rules.  Think Kevin Spacey here.  I don't have a problem with people boycotting individuals they don't want to support.

The toxic version of cancel culture is to do everything in one's power to publicly shame the target:  release private information, publish private photos, call their bosses, etc.  These are online lynchings.  I have a huge problem with people who engage in this behavior, and those who condone it.

Thanks. Just like you I have zero problems with people boycotting anyone they feel like. The toxic version you describe seems indeed to be very destructive, and unworthy of civilized society.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

The Brain

#74746
June 22, 2020, 04:58:47 PM
Quote from: Saladin on June 22, 2020, 04:33:55 PM
So...
What happened to CountDeMoney?

Oh he's in a much better place now: anywhere but here.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Tonitrus

#74747
June 22, 2020, 08:33:41 PM
Quote from: Saladin on June 22, 2020, 04:33:55 PM
So...
What happened to CountDeMoney?

He passed into the West.

HVC

#74748
June 22, 2020, 08:35:58 PM
He got infuriated that PDH was sad and left.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

PDH

#74749
June 22, 2020, 08:41:02 PM
Yeah, I mean I was a jerk...my dad dying and all.  I should have sucked it up.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Caliga

#74750
June 22, 2020, 09:26:50 PM
Quote from: PDH on June 22, 2020, 08:41:02 PM
Yeah, I mean I was a jerk...my dad dying and all.  I should have sucked it up.
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PDH

#74751
June 22, 2020, 09:45:34 PM
His final post was in response to my saying my first 1.5 years in Santa Cruz sucked, despite getting promoted and escaping Wyoming.  My dad had just died or was on the edge of it.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Caliga

#74752
June 22, 2020, 09:51:50 PM
Yeah, I guess I missed that.
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grumbler

#74753
June 22, 2020, 10:01:32 PM
Quote from: PDH on June 22, 2020, 09:45:34 PM
His final post was in response to my saying my first 1.5 years in Santa Cruz sucked, despite getting promoted and escaping Wyoming.  My dad had just died or was on the edge of it.

His final post really had nothing to do with you, and everything to do with him. 
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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PDH

#74754
June 22, 2020, 10:28:40 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 22, 2020, 10:01:32 PM
Quote from: PDH on June 22, 2020, 09:45:34 PM
His final post was in response to my saying my first 1.5 years in Santa Cruz sucked, despite getting promoted and escaping Wyoming.  My dad had just died or was on the edge of it.

His final post really had nothing to do with you, and everything to do with him.

Well, yeah, but I have to have something.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Saladin

#74755
June 23, 2020, 12:41:15 AM
So I read his last post.... Yeah...
"You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret."

Josquius

#74756
June 23, 2020, 03:40:29 AM
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Tonitrus

#74757
June 23, 2020, 05:25:12 AM
Quote from: Saladin on June 23, 2020, 12:41:15 AM
So I read his last post.... Yeah...

In seriousness though...I've met up with him in person a few months ago (pre-COVID mind) you.  He's moved, has a job, seems to be doing well.  Our ability to exchange obscure movie references was uncanny.  :)

Saladin

#74759
June 23, 2020, 07:35:36 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 23, 2020, 05:25:12 AM
Quote from: Saladin on June 23, 2020, 12:41:15 AM
So I read his last post.... Yeah...

In seriousness though...I've met up with him in person a few months ago (pre-COVID mind) you.  He's moved, has a job, seems to be doing well.  Our ability to exchange obscure movie references was uncanny.  :)

Ah ok. Good to hear. :)

Do we have a list of posters that are M.I.A?
"You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret."
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