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havires  ·  3518 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Horrible people are just a vocal minority: Prove it

Right before you mentioned Zoe Quinn you mentioned death threats, by those I assume you're talking about Anita Sarkessian (sp?) and those were proved to be fear mongering or attention-whoring by her because her story didn't add up. I still don't know anything about Zoe Quinn other than she's a bastion for... certain groups on Tumblr and parts of Reddit hate her fiercely for that. Anyway regarding Zoe Quinn, IF she did sleep herself into getting certain favours and help in an industry, I have to admit that's kind of grimy, because it paints a bad image. IF she didn't, then it's just Reddit being the schizophrenic asshole that we all know, love and probably hate. I'm on the middle of the road with my opinion regarding ZQ.

The Fappening, again with this one, I'm of the opinion that IF you're going to post sexually explicit content for a closed audience (ie a spouse, or SO) then don't post it into the "cloud", if anything use a Snapchat like service or, (GASP) just save all of that for when you're back with them, and use Polaroid! I mean to be fair, from what I've read about this story, Apple has shit security. The other thing I've read (and mostly thanks to a few SJWs that have infiltrated my circle of friends) is that you're literally ass-raping these poor women by viewing their nudes, and you should suffer the same consequences which would be dealt to someone if they actually ran up to Jennifer Lawrence (for example) and... Pardon the crude language, fucked her right in her sweet little ass in the middle of a busy LA thoroughfare. It's a scary thought when you have THAT kind of mindset floating around out there.

I haven't followed anything regarding to XKCD so I'm going to move on over that point.

I'll say it up front, I'll say and support whatever I want on the internet, regardless of how inflammatory it is, I feel like it was warranted. For example, there's a video of a cop basically bull-rushing a chick and slamming her into a wall because it looked like she was reaching into her bra or something for knife. I digress, the chick in question had walked up to another one and beat the living shit out of her, and then walked away casually as if nothing was wrong. As she was walking by she reached into her shirt or bra and started to pull out what a near by cop was a weapon. He used enough force as he thought was appropriate (since he was presumably on his way to quell the conflict) and then found out two things (what I can assume) was a few hours after the fact: the assailant was 13 and reaching for her phone. He wouldn't have known that until he brought her in, and he got fired for reacting to someone who might have had a lethal weapon, which she didn't, but he's not a psychic, so he didn't know that.

I think the cop used reasonable force in the given situation, but has to lose his job for basically paralyzing a minor.

What I'm trying to say there is: I'm a "troll", or at least I'm vocal about my opinions where it's called for. This thread seems like one such place. So no, I'm not a decent person "online" at least in forum type environments at least not when a hot button issue comes up.

There might have been a point to this but I lost it sometime ago.

EDIT: Regarding Anita's "death threats" found this in an Imgur area I still browse regularly.

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