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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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i really enjoyed his article about saturn and i think his analysis of conspiracy theories as ontologically inheritors to classical symbolism is correct and as far as i know his own insight. also i am gay.
#522
"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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We're so far out from the geocentrist paradigm that it's hard to understand the logic of classical symbolism, but really it makes perfect sense. If the world was deliberately created specifically for us then why wouldn't things we find similar be inherently related? "Blood is hot and red and fire is hot and red therefore blood is like fire" is the same logic of playing a videogame and knowing the blue key goes to the blue door
#523
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i, too, aspire to view the world thru a Gamers eyes
#524
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Article that will never happen: " I disowned my Zionist relatives and ended my Israeli citizenship."
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Sam Kriss is not only a douchey typical rich twat with zero civility and humanity, but also a sexual predator https://m.facebook.com/notes/monitoring-the-lefts-support-for-r-pe-culture/metoo-and-sam-kriss/1518056408275666/
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i was just catching up on it in the other thread but i guess this is probably a better one for it

either way, holy shit; i was uncomfortable just reading it, couldn't imagine being in her shoes

he just posted a statement about the whole thing that starts off... about as well as these things can, i guess, but:

Today an allegation of sexual harassment and aggression was made against me, and I want to address it here. My behaviour was absolutely unacceptable, beneath both me and especially the person involved, and there’s no excuse for it. I’ve apologised privately to her, and I’m apologising, publicly, now.

I’d like for a moment to add some conext to the events described, which I hope will make them more explicable if not more excusable. By the time of the night described in the accusation, she and I had, as she mentions, previously met twice and we had an existing sexual relationship. The behaviour she describes was informed by that fact. I wasn’t fully aware of how unwelcome my advances were at that point: we had been messaging intimately and frequently up until then, and I went into the evening thinking it would be a continuation of the relationship we had already established. Had I known the extent to which I was making her uncomfortable at this point I would not have pursued it further. Again, this is entirely my fault, for not being properly attentive and not picking up on her signals. I crossed a line from persistence to aggression; I’m fully responsible, and I’m sorry.

After the incident, she continued to message me amicably for months, including suggesting that we might meet again, until other divisions became apparent. Because of this I had no idea that I might have hurt or upset her. If I had, I would have apologised immediately. Again, this is not to suggest that she misled me, but that I did not realise the impact of my actions.

Anyone who follows me closely will be aware that I am friends with many women with public platforms. I hope that the responsibility for my actions can stay with me alone, and that nobody else is made to feel as if they have to answer for me.



...that last paragraph is so fucking tone deaf that i'm not even sure how someone even mildly attuned to satire could have written it

edit: rereading it, i'm not feeling too good about that disclosure in the second graf, either

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#527
Online
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i guess it's tone deaf but since id already seen people going after the women hes friends with i saw it more as the "dont attack women for knowing me" than some sort of "im not misogynist, i have woman friends" thing

kinda baffling he alludes to previous encouters with this woman to try to explain his behavior a bit when in her post on fb she already indicated things had already been bad even before this meeting. rip deadken, hoping he didnt inflict this kind of troubling behavior on other women but these things are always a pattern it seems like, like if hes ordering her drinks for her then it seems kind of too deeply instilled in him to be an isolated incident
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ilmdge posted:

rip deadken
#529
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so he's publicly moping now? go to hell, deadken, you rapey piece of shit.
e: oh so the tweet is a couple days old. still
#530
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jesus christ that statement is so bad it takes a couple of reads for the terribleness to sink in
#531
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Sort of odd that he both accuses her of leaving out important information while acknowledging the rest and directly apologizing. It's like he's going for what will be seen as an appropriate and plausible response (prob with some help from other ppl who game social media) while covering his ass. It also puts in a new light all the accusations that he leverages his class position.
#532
Dont Mess With Sucess
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Jeez.. if you can't even trust a New York Times published editorialist, I wonder, who CAN you trust....
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marimite posted:

Sort of odd that he both accuses her of leaving out important information while acknowledging the rest and directly apologizing. It's like he's going for what will be seen as an appropriate and plausible response (prob with some help from other ppl who game social media) while covering his ass. It also puts in a new light all the accusations that he leverages his class position.



i think this is why, as petrol said, it can take a minute for the lowness to sink in

i'm so used to scanning response statements for all the weaselly ways people evade ever having to actually use expressions like "sorry," "my fault," "i'm responsible" etc., so the fact that he included those kinda momentarily blinded me to the other ways it's completely fucked

#534
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when you put a little blood in the water to satisfy the sharks so they go away
#535
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I dunno why bringing up pre-existing sexual encounters is relevant, most people know not to force PDA/grab someone's tits regardless of context. I wouldn't paw my gf's tits in public despite an established sexual relationship (not true of course) (im incel)
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#537
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man turns out to be rapist shocker
#538
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get in here and fight us sam kriss
#539
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Bring back tpaine, the only one of us to consistently call out Sam Kriss for being gross and a bad poster.
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#542
Dont Mess With Sucess
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babyhueypnewton posted:

Bring back tpaine, the only one of us to consistently call out Sam Kriss for being gross and a bad poster.

are you joking wit hthis... i was never nice to sk... I STARTED THNE SEARCH TERM MEME

#543
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we all thought that deadken was becoming a terrible left Thomas Friedman, instead he became a terrible left O'Rielly.
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also this bit 100% confirmed the story for me

But this only caused Sam to go into overdrive. He bragged about getting ‘kicked out’ of a Frat House in America, but that it didn’t matter as, “18-year-old boys only join Frat Houses to procure alcohol and women, and I was 21, so I could procure my own alcohol and women”.


i remember him bragging about this for some reason six years ago. i guess even an american frat house found his behaviour unacceptable

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#546
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elemennop posted:

also this bit 100% confirmed the story for me

But this only caused Sam to go into overdrive. He bragged about getting ‘kicked out’ of a Frat House in America, but that it didn’t matter as, “18-year-old boys only join Frat Houses to procure alcohol and women, and I was 21, so I could procure my own alcohol and women”.


i remember him bragging about this for some reason six years ago. i guess even an american frat house found his behaviour unacceptable


I remember that, "bragging" is completely accurate. how cool American frat houses are guys

#547
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ithought deadken was already known to be shitty for a longerttime than him being an op-ed writer
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i remember him boasting about drug abuse and other debauchery, like that orgy and the funny accompanying picture with the mask. i guess i just expect communists to respect other peoples wishes and feelings and bodily autonomy more than he apparently does, he must have an immense ego to behave that way :/
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UNUSUALY COOL
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belgend posted:

ithought deadken was already known to be shitty for a longerttime than him being an op-ed writer



we've always accused him of being champagne socialist, hedonist careerist, and a guy using feminism/socialism to get laid, but only a couple of people met him in real life. impper was ambivalent about him, jools and discipline kind of defended him, though it seems dispo changed her mind at some point?

#551
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i ran into deadken randomly one time and didnt think much of him other than that he's a blabbering jittery mess, but Alas, i didn't know that he was a piece of shit who needs to get his ass kicked. We've really reached peak Sam Kriss, close thread & delet forum
#552
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Wow it's very strange that a lot of people online apparently respected Sam Kriss... not merely as like a dumb rich kid jester
#553
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that's ketamine, folksk
#554
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Constantignoble posted:

rHizzonE alum and noted guy-I-don’t-know-well-enough-to-properly-slam Sam Kriss



update: i now possess more than adequate knowledge

#555
mt.real
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i'm glad i have another data point of confirmation for my "ah, this writing style means this person is douchebag trash with rich parents" chart
#556
UNUSUALY COOL
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this is some fucked up shit and i don't think the response even begins to qualify as the baseline of self-criticism required.
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cars posted:

this is some fucked up shit and i don't think the response even begins to qualify as the baseline of self-criticism required.


it's a little performance for his fans/colleagues, albeit an obviously tone-deaf one. it certainly has nothing to do with making amends. like, the bit about having female writer pals, and please don't put this on them - is that meant to make him look like a good guy to his readers, or salvage his relationships with said female writers, or what? whatever it is, fuck him

#558
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my massive house
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Today an allegation of sexual harassment and aggression was made against me,


subtle distinction but note he calls it "aggression" rather than "assault"