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inb4 we've decided it'll be for the best if it's locked as it, at the very least, isn't really going anywhere, and, by attracting attitudes that are no longer welcome and tolerated on the forum, it doesn't contribute to our efforts to keep the forum healthy and friendly.
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Spectre: Why are their community managers being a bunch of morons?
If I made a game and it had backers who told me in droves that they had only backed my game because a certain racist youtuber was in it – even though that is impossible because the youtuber wasn't mentioned in the entire Kickstarter campaign – you bet I'd shitpost the living crap out of them.


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Spectre: People should make another thread if they want to discuss wider cultural issues.
Which is, after all, what always goes wrong. But, honestly, with the situation being as it is - and the situation is like in the attached cartoon unfortunately - how would it even be possible to discuss this issue by circumventing the wider cultural context? Doesn't that play into the hands of the "youtubers say the darndest things" people, who desperately try to separate the person from his world view?
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budejovice: inb4 we've decided it'll be for the best if it's locked as it, at the very least, isn't really going anywhere, and, by attracting attitudes that are no longer welcome and tolerated on the forum, it doesn't contribute to our efforts to keep the forum healthy and friendly.
If the planet as a whole "isn't really going anywhere", why should threads on this forum be expected to?
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Vainamoinen: He also said he'd create an empire that lasts a thousand years, and he didn't make it into the 13th year. Wouldn't give much on Hitler's numbers if I were you, rtcvb32.
If he didn't make specific stupid mistakes he might have succeeded, like bombing civilian towns, and the US getting involved in the war.

We can see repeatedly a very small number of people can influence and silence a much larger majority. You have the police for example who might have say a hundred but handle a town of twenty thousand. And people will respect them, either out of admiration, duty, or fear (either judicial or due to being armed).

But going back to JonTron, SJW's are very much affecting people they shouldn't. Very much 'stick with our narrative or be bullied into submission', and it's a repeat, you see it everywhere.
Post edited March 24, 2017 by rtcvb32
I know the background of both parties, I have researched the topic at hand and I find myself not caring.
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rtcvb32: people will respect them, either out of admiration, duty, or fear (either judicial or due to being armed).
And I guess your "respect" for Muslims is out of fear only?
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Spectre: Why are their community managers being a bunch of morons?
How so? Examples.
I don't frequent their place.

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Spectre: If the people behind this game had grown up as you put it then there wouldn't be a problem.
I mean no offense, but It seems you already have a formed opinion about the dev team, and that is making it difficult to see the reasoning behind their decision.

Unlike many fans, Jon Jafari understand their decision:
https://twitter.com/JonTronShow/status/845038284967493638
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Titanium: I know the background of both parties, I have researched the topic at hand and I find myself not caring.
Aye
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Spectre: Why are their community managers being a bunch of morons?
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almabrds: How so? Examples.
I don't frequent their place.

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Spectre: If the people behind this game had grown up as you put it then there wouldn't be a problem.
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almabrds: I mean no offense, but It seems you already have a formed opinion about the dev team, and that is making it difficult to see the reasoning behind their decision.

Unlike many fans, Jon Jafari understand their decision:
https://twitter.com/JonTronShow/status/845038284967493638
Did you watch the video posted in the thread earlier?

It isn't that a private company parted ways, it was they did it because of a handful of SJWs, and then when JonTron fans, who backed the game on kickstarter, said they wanted a refund or showed support for him, they were banned, kicked, thread locked.

Why was/is it OK for only one side to have a voice? That is the real issue.
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rtcvb32: Didn't Hitler say he only needed like a half million soldiers to control a population of 300 million people? I'm trying to find the quote and the numbers...
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Vainamoinen: He also said he'd create an empire that lasts a thousand years, and he didn't make it into the 13th year. Wouldn't give much on Hitler's numbers if I were you, rtcvb32. They're about as screwed as Trump's. I know, I know. Hitler "has been a strong leader for his country". Still. He was an asshole, OK? Let's give up your obsession with the guy, thanks.

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richlind33: If you hate your country so much why don't you migrate somewhere, like, say, Ethiopia? lol
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Vainamoinen: I happen to like my country. And I think, culturally, we're on a good way. And we will continue on that way if the hate and the lies, just like the ones spewed by JonTron, make a quick runny dump back door exit. And, eventually, the values of the dominant culture will persist, to which the dominant religions will eventually adapt. And you guys are so much closer to this than we are. You have surfer hijabs, for goddess's sake. And you're scared out of your plutocratic wits.
JonTron is a hater???

If anyone is emotionally invested it's you. A quick perusal of your post history confirms that.

Personally, I think it's the people who demand global cultural homogeneity that are intolerant and hateful -- and profoundly ignorant. God help you if you get what you wish for, because it will be the end of the diversity that you so loudly advocate.
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rtcvb32: people will respect them, either out of admiration, duty, or fear (either judicial or due to being armed).
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Vainamoinen: And I guess your "respect" for Muslims is out of fear only?
People fear that witch they do not find familiar. Ignorance is a good breeding ground for that.
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Vainamoinen: And I guess your "respect" for Muslims is out of fear only?
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Titanium: People fear that witch they do not find familiar. Ignorance is a good breeding ground for that.
So that which is unfamiliar is necessarily good or positive?
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MajicMan: Did you watch the video posted in the thread earlier?

It isn't that a private company parted ways, it was they did it because of a handful of SJWs, and then when JonTron fans, who backed the game on kickstarter, said they wanted a refund or showed support for him, they were banned, kicked, thread locked.
Wait what??? They got banned, just like that?
I didn't know that.

If they want refund, they should get one. This is criminal behavior. =/
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Titanium: People fear that witch they do not find familiar. Ignorance is a good breeding ground for that.
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richlind33: So that which is unfamiliar is necessarily good or positive?
Not necessarily. Not the point. Perception is king, facts are, unfortunately, irrelevant.
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Vainamoinen: And I guess your "respect" for Muslims is out of fear only?
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Titanium: People fear that witch they do not find familiar. Ignorance is a good breeding ground for that.
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richlind33: So that which is unfamiliar is necessarily good or positive?
There's nothing wrong with a healthy fear. I fear a snake, while i might also find them fascinating.

Islam and Muslims on the other hand are their own can of worms of a topic, and won't get into that here.

PragerU covers this a bit in depth.