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Articles & Happenings is the third attempt at a news board on the Kiwi Farms. It is a cursed place. Every moderator who has been assigned here has resigned within a year. During 2016, the political crossfire was so bad it spread to different boards and culminated in me banning American news discussion entirely for several months. It has been deleted in its entirety twice. There is no actual discussion here, it's people posting garbage. It leans much further right than the rest of the site and doesn't particularly conduct discussion because dissenting opinions are dogpiled by a thousand memelords posting shit they read on /pol/ without any critical analysis.

The only rules that can be enforced are empirical ones with boolean violation answers. New threads must cite a real source directly and must use the headline of the article as a thread title without any editorializing. Articles must be archived in some way and must link to the original article. Replies that are one word or a reaction images are automatic one-month bans from the board.

I'm creating this now because it seems like this place is here to stay and is one of the largest areas of the entire site. I might as well throw in bare minimum effort to improve it. I don't even try to find mods for here because they will quit, without exception. I've added new prefixes ("Business" and "Crime") just now.

Discuss.


New threads should be made like this.
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Romper Stomper said:
Ah yes of course. Something like the situation of Assadist Syria having to balance the geopolitical implications working with the Russians after a United States withdrawal from the region against a Turkish invasion to genocide Kurds is definitely something that can be compressed down into a haha funny meme. I was 14 once too. Grow up.
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The condensation of information as a means of rapidly transmitting ideas isn't a new development and 'memes' are just the most-recent iteration of that. Political cartoons have been doing this for thousands of years, considering that we've found, for example, plenty of pro/anti-Caesar graffiti and depictions in different art forms, and similar ones for Jesus of Nazareth, Genghis Khan, King Henry VIII, just name any historical figure you'd like and there's probably a hundred different examples of what would constitute as a "meme" for its time.

It is not only possible to condense any idea into a simplified and easily transmissible form, it's a necessity if you want your idea to become widespread. If you stand on a street corner and hand people a 40-page explanation to lay out all of the various angles and intricacies concerning Syria and the Kurds and the Russians in order to try and make your case known, I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that every single person will either refuse to take the pamphlet or throw it away as soon as they're out of sight.

If you make a condensed version of this idea, wrap it up in humour and add something pithy and memorable, you've in essence infected the viewer with a simplified version of your idea, it took seconds to accomplish, and it's going to stay in their head for significantly longer than expecting them to memorize several walls of information. You don't always need nuance, and the ability to spin off on a three-hour tangent using antiquated words that most people have not and will never again encounter in their life isn't the hallmark of intelligence, it's a failed reproductive strategy because your information will nearly always fail to take root in anyone else's mind, they just go glass-eyed and quit giving a shit.
 
brahmarakshasasolempi said:
There's also a certain amount of missed interaction in the sense that I'm pretty sure lots of people lurk in cow threads but post in of topic which makes it seem like thunderdome is all they're here for. I can only speak for myself though. I don't like shitting up cow threads with my opinion and it's rare that I have information that's worth posting in and of itself. But I do read them.
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I only post comments on subjects that I'm familiar with, mostly I just give people positive stickers. Rarely do I do the autstic, dumb, or MATI stickers unless the person is really being one. Case being the AnOminous vs artilleryfroth petty slap fight they had. Pretty much artilleryfroth was being an autistic sperg about AnOminous not being a lawyer or something. Now I'm curious if it's still going on.

Edit: Here's the petty slap fight I'm talking about. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/i-am-not-a-licensed-lawyer.85111/
 
It's HK-47 said:
If you make a condensed version of this idea, wrap it up in humour and add something pithy and memorable, you've in essence infected the viewer with a simplified version of your idea, it took seconds to accomplish, and it's going to stay in their head for significantly longer than expecting them to memorize several walls of information. You don't always need nuance, and the ability to spin off on a three-hour tangent using antiquated words that most people have not and will never again encounter in their life isn't the hallmark of intelligence, it's a failed reproductive strategy because your information will nearly always fail to take root in anyone else's mind, they just go glass-eyed and quit giving a shit.
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If you take a larger amount of time making a point than a person will remember it for your point will die and be shelved in a collection somewhere.
 
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Helvítis Túristi said:
I only post comments on subjects that I'm familiar with, mostly I just give people positive stickers. Rarely do I do the autstic, dumb, or MATI stickers unless the person is really being one. Case being the AnOminous vs artilleryfroth petty slap fight they had. Pretty much artilleryfroth was being an autistic sperg about AnOminous not being a lawyer or something. Now I'm curious if it's still going on.

Edit: Here's the petty slap fight I'm talking about. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/i-am-not-a-licensed-lawyer.85111/
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Side Note (Re: AnOminous) - Don't fuck with members that have a better score than Null.
 
It's HK-47 said:
The condensation of information as a means of rapidly transmitting ideas isn't a new development and 'memes' are just the most-recent iteration of that. Political cartoons have been doing this for thousands of years, considering that we've found, for example, plenty of pro/anti-Caesar graffiti and depictions in different art forms, and similar ones for Jesus of Nazareth, Genghis Khan, King Henry VIII, just name any historical figure you'd like and there's probably a hundred different examples of what would constitute as a "meme" for its time.

It is not only possible to condense any idea into a simplified and easily transmissible form, it's a necessity if you want your idea to become widespread. If you stand on a street corner and hand people a 40-page explanation to lay out all of the various angles and intricacies concerning Syria and the Kurds and the Russians in order to try and make your case known, I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that every single person will either refuse to take the pamphlet or throw it away as soon as they're out of sight.

If you make a condensed version of this idea, wrap it up in humour and add something pithy and memorable, you've in essence infected the viewer with a simplified version of your idea, it took seconds to accomplish, and it's going to stay in their head for significantly longer than expecting them to memorize several walls of information. You don't always need nuance, and the ability to spin off on a three-hour tangent using antiquated words that most people have not and will never again encounter in their life isn't the hallmark of intelligence, it's a failed reproductive strategy because your information will nearly always fail to take root in anyone else's mind, they just go glass-eyed and quit giving a shit.
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How is this post not tl;dr but that other one is?
 
Romper Stomper said:
Retards love to complain about "leftist memes" but the lack of willingness for the vast majority of people to read anything with more than 4 words on it has contributed to the collective dumbing down of everyone on the internet. Just because something is simple doesn't mean it's right or superior in its message.
Dumbfucks
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I did read all of that big post. The only person on here I don't read the full posts of is @Rich Evans Apologist since he's just making them to mess around.
 
Longposting isn't so much the problem as unspoilered and poorly-formatted longposting is.

The High Prophet of Truth said:
I did read all of that big post. The only person on here I don't read the full posts of is @Rich Evans Apologist since he's just making them to mess around.
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Everything I argue, I argue with full belief. I just don't care if people agree or disagree with it, hence why I'll engage people that want to chip at the idea or back and forth. Posting with the goal of actually changing peoples' minds on here is retarded; it's a bunch of monkeys hooting at each other about how smart and how right they are however you strike it.
Entertainment as such should be the prime motivation.

However, the kvetching isn't lately as entertaining now that the election mania's over with. It's pretty droll and repetitive, no new absurd conspiracy theories to dig into just yet. People who've never read anything about IR commenting seriously on geopolitics is about as mundane as it gets.
 
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