It's not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.
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Semi related: Something weird has been going on at dbzer0 yesterday and today. They are not normally tankies, they always seemed like they were just kind of sensible and doing their own thing, but since the time of the "pro AI" vs "anti AI" thing they now seem to have declared absolute scorched earth war on "the liberals" in the same way that the triad always has.
It's like all the issues all of a sudden came out at once. The Dragonfucker argument is back, someone has been following me around all day and hectoring me on random topics and just told me UniversalMonk did nothing wrong, they all of a sudden hate PugJesus with a hundreds-of-comments-wild-personal-attacks passion, the "anti-AI troll" banning random people mod is now posting tankie stuff... it's fuckin' nuts. It came out of nowhere.
Pug has always been right on the Tankie line. I've had multiple accounts banned after interactions with them.
What did he accuse you of doing?
Edit: Wait. How did PugJesus ban your account?
I'm assuming liberal use of discord and the report buttons. Zero actual evidence of even trying to understand. Just seems highly correlated.
As for what I do? I suppose I don't feel we need an entire global system breakdown to fix some of the world's challenges (I can be roughly described as a centrist).
So you don't have proof of your accusations.
Ah, so I'm right. And now we see the people with a high school emotional maturity come out.
Edit: Yep, knew how this was gonna go.
My guy, you're not even on topic 🤣
Trying to turn this from pug is a borderline Tankie to court presentable evidence that pug doesn't get people banned 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh look who's pitch hitting for the person I asked.
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Ah
Okay then, carry on lol