The nutjobs may be taking it seriously, but we shouldn't take the nutjobs seriously. It would be a waste of time to address them, they would never believe it anyway.
Literally everything in the stickied Voat post is bullshit allegations and complete guesswork, based on sentences taken out of context and obvious groan-worthy dad jokes.
And seriously, wouldn't you change your logo if it turned out to bear a similarity to an design allegedly used by pedophiles? It's a really simple design, which has been used in a lot of other contexts. A similar thing happened with the heart-within-heart symbol, which has been used by a group of ice cream manufacturers for decades, but also happens to allegedly be used withing pedo circles. Again, a very simple design, that a lot of designers probably all came up with independently.
Have you read the stickied list of so-called "proof" at the Voat Pizzagate page?
Sentences deliberately taken out of context, obvious office in-jokes, tons of dad humor that I recognize from all the places I've worked.
People are reading a hell of a lot more into this than it warrants. E-mail correspondence taken out of context can be interpreted in a lot of ways, especially if it was related to conversations, text messages or chats that happened beforehand. People are only seeing maybe only the 20% of the correspondence that was written down, and they're interpolating wildly to match their agenda.
Perhaps you've heard about the concept of disparity of power, of the majority vs. the minority, of humor often being used by people being kept down to get back at those in power.
To use a phrase that may have been overused slightly, please Check Your Privilege.
They were obviously faked, using one of countless fake tweet generators. Hell, they could simply have used the "Inspect Element" function in Chrome, to edit it directly.
Proof that Obama made the IRS do any such thing, thank you. The president is not all-powerful, you know. He does not micromanage every part of the government.
That's simply a matter of bad phrasing, they have to phrase it in a diplomatic way.
If you actually bothered to find out how it works, it's to provide at place where people won't be shouted down for having unpopular opinions, and won't be shouted down by the people who tend to dominate public debate. It's a huge help for people who are a bit shy or maybe not fully comfortable with who they are in relation to the rest of the world.
How anyone could possibly spin this as a negative thing, is a mystery for the ages.
Alt-righters in particular hate safe spaces, because they're prohibited from invading them with loudmouthed aggressive rhetoric.
Yeah, there aren't really that many use cases for really fast connections for personal use. HD streaming, even 4K streaming won't saturate a 100Mbit/s link, but heavy torrenting definitely will.
The biggest pirates also buy the fastest connections and pay the biggest subscriptions.
Unless of course the ISPs want to focus on just business customers, who can definitely saturate a 1Gbit/s link no problem, given enough employees. But that's a much smaller and tougher market, which requires significantly more resources to be spent for techs and support tasks (24/7 support is expensive to run).
A safe space is one where you can express yourself without being judged for who you are. That is, a prejudice/racism/sexism/ageism/etc.-free place to discuss ideas openly, that would otherwise put you at risk of ridicule, hatred and attacks. It is not a dissent-free zone, in fact thoughtful and honest criticism is encouraged.
But I guess that's just a little bit too complicated when you're used to one-line "zingers".
R/the_donald is so utterly bizarre. I tried reading some threads before the election, and it was just weird. Completely mindless "RAH RAH DONALD DONALD" posts on top of mudslinging, threats, conspiracy theories, just all over the place. Utterly devoted "true believers" trying to see who can yell the loudest, working themselves up into a mad frenzy in every thread, just short 5-6 word comments, verging on incomprehensible spam.
It was a frankly rather frightening look into the minds of madmen.
In comparison, the Hillary subreddits I found were all a lot calmer, with longer posts (and better spelling), and a much rational dicussion of topics, no hatemongering or mudslinging.
Oh no, those poor opressed straight white male conservatives. Now where will they go with their sexism, racism and bass-ackwards ideals of "woman stay in kitchen, strong man work make money!"?
The entire concept of the Internet is overwhelmingly liberal/libertarian by its very nature of free information exchange and sharing-is-caring. Suck it up, buster.
Make your own Conservanet with blackjack and hookers, if you're feeling that oppressed.
While I generally enjoy my cask strength whiskys straight, sometimes you just want to mellow it out to mild, smooth 50% ABV instead. Adding a little water is perfectly OK.
Full-strength young and angry Islay whisky is quite a trip at cask strength, I don't always want it that rough.
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The nutjobs may be taking it seriously, but we shouldn't take the nutjobs seriously. It would be a waste of time to address them, they would never believe it anyway.
I did. There's no evidence.
Literally everything in the stickied Voat post is bullshit allegations and complete guesswork, based on sentences taken out of context and obvious groan-worthy dad jokes.
And seriously, wouldn't you change your logo if it turned out to bear a similarity to an design allegedly used by pedophiles? It's a really simple design, which has been used in a lot of other contexts. A similar thing happened with the heart-within-heart symbol, which has been used by a group of ice cream manufacturers for decades, but also happens to allegedly be used withing pedo circles. Again, a very simple design, that a lot of designers probably all came up with independently.
Have you read the stickied list of so-called "proof" at the Voat Pizzagate page?
Sentences deliberately taken out of context, obvious office in-jokes, tons of dad humor that I recognize from all the places I've worked.
People are reading a hell of a lot more into this than it warrants. E-mail correspondence taken out of context can be interpreted in a lot of ways, especially if it was related to conversations, text messages or chats that happened beforehand. People are only seeing maybe only the 20% of the correspondence that was written down, and they're interpolating wildly to match their agenda.
Oh yeah, just over half, then.
I don't think they're mentally challenged, they just don't give a shit.
You would know.
Perhaps you've heard about the concept of disparity of power, of the majority vs. the minority, of humor often being used by people being kept down to get back at those in power.
To use a phrase that may have been overused slightly, please Check Your Privilege.
Not racist. Are you familiar with the concept of "humor"?
She's a comedian. You seem to be missing this fact.
Well, you can only really infer anything about the part of the population who voted, which was less than half.
And that's a huge problem.
Links to said tweets, thank you.
They were obviously faked, using one of countless fake tweet generators. Hell, they could simply have used the "Inspect Element" function in Chrome, to edit it directly.
http://i.imgur.com/hvbxk8A.png
Those tweets were blatant fakes, creates by Milo's personal army of shitheel alt-righters.
Proof that Obama made the IRS do any such thing, thank you. The president is not all-powerful, you know. He does not micromanage every part of the government.
That's simply a matter of bad phrasing, they have to phrase it in a diplomatic way.
If you actually bothered to find out how it works, it's to provide at place where people won't be shouted down for having unpopular opinions, and won't be shouted down by the people who tend to dominate public debate. It's a huge help for people who are a bit shy or maybe not fully comfortable with who they are in relation to the rest of the world.
How anyone could possibly spin this as a negative thing, is a mystery for the ages.
Alt-righters in particular hate safe spaces, because they're prohibited from invading them with loudmouthed aggressive rhetoric.
Ah yes, the "safe spaces" that conservatives and alt-righters have made up their own definitions for.
Try actually asking a university how they define safe spaces, sometime.
So you somehow believe that Twitter only exists to provide a micro-bloggin platform for Trump?
They'll do just fine with one less hate-spewing gasbag on their service.
And the sole readers of said micro-updates.
Uh no, most of those tweets were faked.
So what you're saying is that Trump is going to use the US government to enact his personal vendetta against a private company?
Yeah, that's probably going to turn out really fucking well.
He's going to get spanked like the ill-behaving child he really is, if he ever tries something like that.
First you need to find an openly islamic bakery.
Yeah, there aren't really that many use cases for really fast connections for personal use. HD streaming, even 4K streaming won't saturate a 100Mbit/s link, but heavy torrenting definitely will.
The biggest pirates also buy the fastest connections and pay the biggest subscriptions.
Unless of course the ISPs want to focus on just business customers, who can definitely saturate a 1Gbit/s link no problem, given enough employees. But that's a much smaller and tougher market, which requires significantly more resources to be spent for techs and support tasks (24/7 support is expensive to run).
You have weird definition of "safe space".
A safe space is one where you can express yourself without being judged for who you are. That is, a prejudice/racism/sexism/ageism/etc.-free place to discuss ideas openly, that would otherwise put you at risk of ridicule, hatred and attacks. It is not a dissent-free zone, in fact thoughtful and honest criticism is encouraged.
But I guess that's just a little bit too complicated when you're used to one-line "zingers".
R/the_donald is so utterly bizarre. I tried reading some threads before the election, and it was just weird. Completely mindless "RAH RAH DONALD DONALD" posts on top of mudslinging, threats, conspiracy theories, just all over the place. Utterly devoted "true believers" trying to see who can yell the loudest, working themselves up into a mad frenzy in every thread, just short 5-6 word comments, verging on incomprehensible spam.
It was a frankly rather frightening look into the minds of madmen.
In comparison, the Hillary subreddits I found were all a lot calmer, with longer posts (and better spelling), and a much rational dicussion of topics, no hatemongering or mudslinging.
Oh no, those poor opressed straight white male conservatives. Now where will they go with their sexism, racism and bass-ackwards ideals of "woman stay in kitchen, strong man work make money!"?
The entire concept of the Internet is overwhelmingly liberal/libertarian by its very nature of free information exchange and sharing-is-caring. Suck it up, buster.
Make your own Conservanet with blackjack and hookers, if you're feeling that oppressed.
Ardbeg is nice, but I prefer Bunnahabhain.
While I generally enjoy my cask strength whiskys straight, sometimes you just want to mellow it out to mild, smooth 50% ABV instead. Adding a little water is perfectly OK.
Full-strength young and angry Islay whisky is quite a trip at cask strength, I don't always want it that rough.
In that case, I mostly agree with you.
City housing is stupidly expensive, but no one is forcing people to live there.