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Hey Ghazelles!
I subscribe to bloggingheads.tv, which is a great podcast for evenhanded and contentious debate around culture and politics. Yesterday, Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Bloggingheads.tv) and Matt Binder (The Majority Report) had a talk about geek outrage culture, #gamergate, and public shaming. Warning, this is a relatively long discussion, but unlike the long winded GG podcasts/youtube videos, this one attempts to have an actual constructive conversation on the issues.
http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/34468
They go over the very basic history of gamergate and talk about how conservatives have attempted to co-op the anti-social justice outrage in games and comic books as a “gateway drug” to conservatives. They transition into a talk about the consequences or virtues of online, public shaming for online comments.
EDIT: BONUS! You'll find a lot of the typical gator talking points in the comments. :D
After all this time, we still get people coming here thinking that the IDW is about simping for Peterson, Harris, Shapiro, and the Weinstein bros. I don't know if they're naive and impressionable kids or just groggy normies who haven't fully awoken from their lifelong slumber under blue pill tranquilization. But it's bizarre that so many seem to think that the IDW is about listening to and agreeing with the right people. I've made posts about this before, asking people about their opinions on who is in the orbit, as well as a few regarding political biases in the sub because that misconception is also a long-running problem here. Let's try and once again address this nonsense, shall we?
Here's a simple version of my take on this:
The IDW is about setting aside unhelpful tendencies like partisan tribalism and emotionalism, and remaining open to conversations which usually are either distorted by or outright disallowed by the "mainstream" narrative. It may involve particular people or groups but it's not about them as much as it's about the attitudes they embody regarding civil discourse. People often act as vectors of information but don't make the mistake of fixating on the person.
In the posts I linked above, I gave some elaboration on my view about so-called "members" and how these associations really work so I won't get into that here. But I am going to go ahead and offer up an update to the map of the network as it appears from my vantage point. For those of you who won't be bothered to read those other posts, I'll just rattle off a list of the major nodes:
Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, Douglas Murray, Gad Saad, Lex Fridman, Jonathan Pageau, Joe Rogan, Coleman Hughes, Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Noam Chomsky, Andrew Sullivan, Slavoj Zizek, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Michael Shermer, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, [Michael Malice](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5tj5QCpJK
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
Pilot on me!!
