Superabound posted:

Hey I'm Pond. I'm Ocean Book on Something Awful. I'd like to post, but I was banned from wddp for good reason. I was being obstinant in the face of having to check my privilege. I've gotten better at it, I hope. I'm certainly not perfect. I've also learned I'm having a lot otrouble with my gender identity, and could use a supporting informed community to help me out with it. Also I'm no longer actively alcoholic or psychotic, so If you've seen my posting during those phases I'm much better than I was then. Particularly wth the alcohoism. I kind of like my psychotic self, by my alcoholic self is just the worst -_-

Torka (anxiety cat) might recommend me, or maybe hubbart if he is around. I always had the sense that Impper kind of liked me, but he could never admit to liking anything.

Anyway I've just missed this community a lot, and would like a chance to come back and be a better member than I have been in the past.

Big le sad face

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

some dickless on postplace:

i never got what was wrong with people sending bro aziz some money for pants T B H



it's not like he scammed people out of massive amounts of money or anything and i think most of it was lungfish who was just lungfish



from how i remember it he posted freaking out saying that he needed to get a job but had like One Shitty Shirt and no anything-like-formal pants that fit and could barely make rent and buy food as it was and shit and then a bunch of people gave him some money and he was super grateful and then posted about all the stuff he was able to buy and then people flipped shit and called him a scammer with absolutely no evidence and made fun of him for, like, being muslim or something? and having a trans boyfriend on disability? i don't even remember



but the impression i got was that bro aziz needed help, some people helped, and then a bunch of people went all fyad on it and he got ran out

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

some dickless on postplace:

i never got what was wrong with people sending bro aziz some money for pants T B H



it's not like he scammed people out of massive amounts of money or anything and i think most of it was lungfish who was just lungfish



from how i remember it he posted freaking out saying that he needed to get a job but had like One Shitty Shirt and no anything-like-formal pants that fit and could barely make rent and buy food as it was and shit and then a bunch of people gave him some money and he was super grateful and then posted about all the stuff he was able to buy and then people flipped shit and called him a scammer with absolutely no evidence and made fun of him for, like, being muslim or something? and having a trans boyfriend on disability? i don't even remember



but the impression i got was that bro aziz needed help, some people helped, and then a bunch of people went all fyad on it and he got ran out

thats how ive felt about it since it happened tbh. i spoke with him a bit on aim before and after that whole thing and i think it was for real. whatever heres a muslim meme.

tpaine posted:

so is postplace the main wddp now or is it still wddp.org

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

The thing with brother aziz wasn't that he was running a scam it was that he was a huge dumbass who blew through money like cocaine

This discussion is very undialectical. We can't just say that Brother Aziz didn't budget well or that his spending was wasteful. Wasteful compared to whom? For what purpose? Why is wastelessness something we should be striving for? Of course bourgeois economics are going to use bourgeois economic categories to judge Brother Aziz and of course they will fail.

The only question we should ask is was the one economic goal that matters: 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need' met, and comparing Brother Aziz to the capitalist world system it's not even a contest.

Stories of quotas, empty buildings, etc are just scary stories, you hear the same old stories about Venezuela now. You would use bourgeois scare tactics and free market propaganda (I like how it's assumed the free market informs an economy of demand well, pure propaganda) to justify the return of price (and therefore value), hastening the return of capitalism.

ilmdge posted:

Lucille posted:

going in, expecting the worst

http://www.postplace.org/index.php?/topic/507-vouching-for-membership-ex-wddp-and-lf-users/?p=235043

theres no point in your trying. you wont get in, and if you did, youll get banned and be unable to get back in again. they're not like this site was with the open registration so they can remove posters they dont want posting easily

have you gotten banned yet? I assume just posting here puts a scarlet letter on you. I still have no clue why I was abruptly banned like a year ago