Shout out to all my naggers on Reddit!
This is a mess. You're going to drive away your existing user base. Get rid of this, get rid of this now. Not tomorrow. Now.
@Montauk Joint: Regardless of what happened, I had a lady sobbing her eyes out to me and the soft spot in my heart couldn't handle the pressure. Whether she got crack or not, maybe her kids felt the positive repercussions of me coughing up that money in one way or another.
You don't know the situation, and I was using that example as a neg on myself to prove my point...so...thanks for helping me prove my point.
You don't know the situation, and I was using that example as a neg on myself to prove my point...so...thanks for helping me prove my point.
@Adversar: If we could take back every dollar that was donated to a scammer taking advantage of the correctly calibrated moral compass of a stranger, we could probably cure cancer in a month. Blindly exchanging dollars to make oneself feel better is asinine.
Caps-lock is not a function of the English language and should not be used to get your exceedingly narrow point across.
Caps-lock is not a function of the English language and should not be used to get your exceedingly narrow point across.
@nan0werx: So, if people want to know about it they can research themselves. We don't need some emotional ambassador who ignores half of the story himself. This isn't politics, this isn't a campaign.
Can nobody just look at things themselves anymore?
Can nobody just look at things themselves anymore?
@HugePants: Reddit is filled with validation hungry drama queens. As far as experiments go, Reddit is the most intriguing social study I have ever come across. You can certainly look for everything negative that comes out of the experiment, but to do so would be to ignore half of the experiment itself. I analyze that place like a scientist, not like a teenager in distress.
@nan0werx: Good on you to wax circlejerkingly on Reddit's behalf, you little Reddit defender you. There is a lot of dumb shit that happens on Reddit, to ignore that is the personification of ignorance. I have seen more misguided attacks on strangers than on all of the Jerry Springer/Montel/(insert tabloid talk show here) sets over the years combined.
Don't get all defensive, you sound like your back is in a corner. I'm sorry that I use logic to defend my verbal accusations, but maybe you should use logic to explore the magical world of empathy as well.
Don't get all defensive, you sound like your back is in a corner. I'm sorry that I use logic to defend my verbal accusations, but maybe you should use logic to explore the magical world of empathy as well.
@HugePants: I mean, you can pick and choose your arguments, but the last I heard from the "Hivemind" that I technically belong to, we wanted r/jailbait removed from the Google search results. Don't get me wrong there is a lot of stupid shit that goes on there, but every now and then people make valid points. Unfortunately history has a way of highlighting blemishes and allowing good deeds to fly under the radar as it were.
All I really want to stop at Reddit are the personal crusades to dig up personal information on people and then use it against them. Whenever I have put myself under the microscope at Reddit people have incorrectly judged me and attacked me with the tenacity only an angry mob could produce. Let's face it, we all have a little dirt on us.
Go to Reddit for the lighthearted stuff and you will understand why we go back time and time again.
All I really want to stop at Reddit are the personal crusades to dig up personal information on people and then use it against them. Whenever I have put myself under the microscope at Reddit people have incorrectly judged me and attacked me with the tenacity only an angry mob could produce. Let's face it, we all have a little dirt on us.
Go to Reddit for the lighthearted stuff and you will understand why we go back time and time again.
@Adversar: You must get screwed over a lot in the real world. If you can't justify yourself, even for a cause as righteous as cancer fund-raising, you shouldn't receive a dime from a stranger. I gave a lady $40 the other night on the street because her "Children were freezing". Ten seconds later she jumped in an SUV with some sheister, most likely to get a $40 bag of crack. Desperation causes the typically righteous actions of people to u-turn into underhanded territory.
This wasn't about dying kids. This wasn't about pitchforking a "Monster". This was about a lack of justification; something that could have easily been avoided with justification.
This wasn't about dying kids. This wasn't about pitchforking a "Monster". This was about a lack of justification; something that could have easily been avoided with justification.
@HugePants: Way to point out that we are judgmental by being judgmental.
*cough* motherfucking hypocrite *cough*
*cough* motherfucking hypocrite *cough*
I use Reddit every day. The people that do this are fucktards. Every day there is a new crusade against someone based on incomplete information. Every day someone is labeled a "Douche bag" because of the way he looks by the nerd-mind that is Reddit, and every day someone is judged based on a paragraph summary of their lives. The thinking is so bass-ackwards there that some days it's hard to remove my palm from my face. I swear to god Reddit is like opposite day 24/7; go there with an opposing view point and your ass will be held to the fire. Reddit, I love you, but you are a fickle mistress indeed.
@Arken: So the aliens' kids can see their Gameboy screens in the back seat. Those trips get long, you have to keep the tykes happy.
I wonder what you would catch more of with this device in public; weird looks or electronic fish.
@FriarNurgle: I want to create an electronics company called "Orange". That way, in the realm of tablet devices, people could compare Apple's to Orange's.
I'll let myself out.
I'll let myself out.
@Homer Berkowitz: I wonder what else this fake fire can't burn.
@mohamedzv2001: Really? Because I live here and it doesn't seem that bad. Move to the Midwest, you can pretty much live however you want with almost zero intervention from the government or its agents. I'd say saying it's "Really incredibly close to a fascist regime than most countries" is about as far fetched as it gets.
Let's see what the bottom 84 countries by GDP (out of 190 total) start to look like.
#86 - Kenya
#87 - Ethiopia
#88 - Yemen
#89 - NORTH KOREA
Source - CIA World Fact Book
I'm sorry people hate America so much and can only speak about it using hyperbole.
Let's see what the bottom 84 countries by GDP (out of 190 total) start to look like.
#86 - Kenya
#87 - Ethiopia
#88 - Yemen
#89 - NORTH KOREA
Source - CIA World Fact Book
I'm sorry people hate America so much and can only speak about it using hyperbole.
@mercurious19941: I am an American and I support this message.
@Saturn666: Actually, we were both arguing alternate political viewpoints. I'm sorry that you only managed to scrape off the surface of the argument. I appreciate your comment though. Actually no, I don't.
@jmcm: I respect your opinion, and I agree that it is horrible for people to resort to violence. But I'm not buying that Mubarak is ordering these people into the streets with molotavs, I believe that their ideals are what is giving them this directive. They are a minority and they are very threatened right now. Call them brainwashed, call them demons; in their minds they are right and they want to carry out their lives they way they have been. Even in times of turmoil I see two sides to every story with a gray area in between that involves compromise.
@anitesh.jaswal: If you find one of those betting sites that takes money on situations like this, I'm betting the farm on what you are betting on. I don't buy the liberal hivemind dream scenario of an Egyptian Youth prescribed democracy. You can't use chaos to create stability. Burning buildings and throwing shit has never in the history of the world caused an instant transition into political tranquility.
