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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 11, 2024

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this is the most Jewish contribution I've ever seen you make

'shame he was simply unable to follow the rules' lmao okay, fair point. Shame you killed Jesus and His blood is on you and your people

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What a goofy post that seems like it's straight out of 4chan. But given that this account just started posting 12 days ago, I presume it's a ban-evader who will just make a new account.

The only other post from Vino I recall is him praising Hitler. It's definitely bait and not of great quality.

What the hell kind of comment is that supposed to be? I don't know who is or isn't Jewish, atheist, Buddhist, wiccan, Wiccan, etc. on here because I don't keep that kind of information on people to hand. We're coming up to Easter, is that supposed to be a crack in advance?

When you're ready, you won't have to

Shame that Christianity that sees Jews as "Christkillers" is dead and Christianity that sees Jews as "beloved elder brothers" and "forever Chosen people" is growing by leaps and bounds world wide.

I’m not sure what you were expecting, but take a 1 day time out for your bizarre culture warring.

What do you think of all the dead Palestinians recently?

Unable to similar-mind someone who would find that comment 'bizarre culture warring'

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I don't really care how you or Eetan feels about Jews, Christians, or Palestinians. You have to talk about them with a level head.

This may be a perfectly appropriate response to something from somewhere, but probably not to the question 'what do you think of all the dead Palestinians recently'?

They’re alright, I guess.

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I may be misreading him but I took this as pointing out Christian philosemitism is much larger than Christian antisemitism in modern times.

So it’s not really “bizarre” because he was matching the framing of the previous comment to say “shame most Christians disagree with your views.”

Though I guess it’s unavoidably culture warring in that responding in kind to a comment blatantly breaking the rules is still going to break the rules. But it didn’t strike me as over the top, so I would think this was more of a warning situation (unless you have other violations as a pattern).

@Eetan is probably somewhat antisemitic but I don’t think that was the intention of the comment, it was just bait/trolling. Of course, the latter is arguably more deserving of a ban here.

And that’s what makes the Motte special

Is the Motte supposed to be funny?

This is the funniest shit I've read all morning

And by the time this discussion is done, Zorba will come in and find that everyone has banned everyone and he's all alone on the Motte.

There definitely needs to be a day where absurdist comedy is allowed, maybe we can unban Hlynka on it

I think if Hlynka should be unbanned if he does “The Hock”, with photographic evidence to back up his claim. Trial by ordeal.

I’m not even remotely kidding.

That might be the funniest deep cut mashup of internet niche humor ever produced. It would be a scream come true.

I would kill myself if this happened.

Then again, Hlynka probably has a much higher chance of surviving the Hock than Skookum does.

Place your bets people, military training and oppositional defiant personality disorder versus medical training and weapons-grade autism. Who can weather the wastes first?

I am on standby to make the rdrama thread if that ever happens.

Much as I realise it's suicide to do so and that consciously I can not condone it, deep down a part of me very much wants someone from here to do The Hock (and hopefully live to tell us the tale) because the memes it will generate will be fire.

You know, and I had been meaning to ask in the fun thread this week, what happened to Mr Hock?

He was banned for only ever posting about the Hock. His reddit account is still active, so clearly he hasn't gone into the woods to his death.

I asked the same question about a month ago. Apparently he chickened out came to his senses and realized it was a suicide mission. He went on a big mountain climbing trip instead, which is less fun but more sensible.

Easter seems like the obvious choice for a resurrection.

As an Easter treat can we have a Skookum vs hlynka debate, ‘are some races doomed to die out because their men are short?’

Having everyone unbanned for 24hrs before being rebanned on April Fools would be absolutely wild.

God: Hey, I need you to turn my son over to the Romans so that can crucify him.

Jews: :-/

God: Trust me, it'll be awesome! You're my chosen people! Would I lead you astray?

Jews: Well, there were those forty years in the...

God: Oh, for my sakes! Will you let that go already? I gave you manna, didn't I?

Jews: Okay, fine, you're the god.

Jesus: X-(

A thousand years later...

Jews: :-(

How did you get that from the scripture, which to refresh your recollection, reads:

What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.

They all answered, “Crucify him!”

23 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.

But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”

24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”

25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”

Shame you killed Jesus and His blood is on you and your people

Eh, I wouldn't blame all the Jews for killing Chirst. Caiaphas and his ilk yes, but extending it to all Jews is just taking it too far. Even Herod Antipas (who was Jewish) didn't want to convict Jesus.

Eh, I wouldn't blame all the Jews

Well, you might not, but Christians for 1900 years nearly unanimously interpreted this biblical passage that way.

Until Scofield Bible and Nostra Aetate, but this is another story.

What exactly are you trying to convey through this comment barring pure antagonism? Consider this a warning. I don't extend a short ban only because you don't have any prior offenses in the mod queue, but personal attacks of this nature, especially so non-sequitur, are not kosher.

Edit: After this received a bunch more reports, I'm upgrading you to a day's ban. I feel like even a regular in good standing would deserve rebuke for an uncalled for and random attack of that nature, and you haven't earned that. Do not do that again.

Incidentally I partly agree that the above response does sound vaguely condescending, but just out of curiosity before you inevitably get modded - what did you expect to gain with this accusation? What was the point of the specific (((angle))) when you surely could've gotten away with simply calling the response out as smugly condescending without the added insults on top? Does it just not hit the same way?

Genuine question, feel free to respond in DMs if you think I'm baiting you to dig yourself deeper.

Once in a blue moon there is value all to itself in saying what you wanted to

Can't disagree, but counterpoint: keeping your power level in check doesn't automatically make you a cuck (not by itself, at least) and is a generally beneficial, widely applicable practice.

For what it's worth the modded post gave me a good chuckle but it's not worth getting sniped for.

The left has successfully eliminated every space available to the less-than-50-Stalins...except for this one. Our king Zorba probably deserves a statue or at least a portrait for this - it didn't happen by accident. But that was just a little side-cuck to your deserved response lol

Point is that I keep my power level in check 99.9% of the time. Turn on the radio, bite my lip. TV, hold my tongue. Out for drinks, better not say anything. I work for myself but otherwise can only imagine.

Once in a blue moon there is value all to itself in just saying "fuck" with an extra "k" on the exhale and pointing people to scripture (Matthew 27)

The left has successfully eliminated every space available to the less-than-50-Stalins...except for this one. Our king Zorba probably deserves a statue or at least a portrait for this - it didn't happen by accident.

Yes, but one of the methods by which this place continues to withstand elimination is exactly what you got shot for - i.e. immediately turning any issue or disagreement into culture war. Personally this is exactly why I value this place and am willing to hide my power level by e.g. not participating in political discussions or not considering "cope and seethe" a valid way of responding.

It's a feature, not a bug. You might see it as cuckoldry, I see it as a price of admission, I can always (and often do) slum it with fellow /g/entlemen but the quality of discourse and the IQ of the median poster is dreadful in comparison.

Point is that I keep my power level in check 99.9% of the time. Turn on the radio, bite my lip. TV, hold my tongue. Out for drinks, better not say anything. I work for myself but otherwise can only imagine.

Such is life for high power level beings, and for what it's worth I empathize. I still think that's not an excuse to flip out at people in the sole place where tone is the only thing actually being moderated (YMMV but I believe in this particular bit of propaganda) and you can otherwise freely post on [MIND-KILLING TOPIC] as long as you are verbose enough and make a passing effort at sounding neutral (the One Weird Trick jannies don't want you to know!)

We're in furious agreement all around it seems

Not really, the overarching point of my posts is that it's not gay and/or cringe to turn one's schtick down. Hlynka died for his our sins in this very thread, it really can't be more obvious.

That can all be true and there can still be some utility in occasionally not being disingenuous

Not good for the soul to run around sperging out with no-power-level hiding, not good for the soul to constantly be maintaining a lie either

I wasn’t really being condescending. Hlynka had a longstanding dislike for me, but except for one time he was being almost comically racist to another user for no reason I never reported him (actually even then I’m not sure I did, but I might have). I enjoyed a lot of his posts, and as another user said I thought he brought a valuable perspective as a Christian red state Reaganite conservative, a group who make up the bulk of American conservatives but who are certainly underrepresented on this board.

For what it's worth, I didn't interpret your post as condescending, but as simply regretful.

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