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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:
Or maybe there are just some topics that need more nuance than something you can explain in a retarded ">your opinion vs my opinion" meme and trying to condense complex political topics down into something to be laughed at doesn't actually make that political idea correct.
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Have you considered understanding things well enough to be brief? I'm not the busiest person in the world but I do value my time, if someone drew out a long, dull, masturbatory thesis I'm not necessarily gonna spend time to read it if they weren't willing to spend time to pare it down.
 
Not Really Here said:
It can't be compressed if you either don't understand the subject well enough, is predicated on circular reasoning, or your inability to understand the thinking process of your intended audience.
All information is compressible, including information exchanged between humans regardless of the means.
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My physics prof used to say: "If you can't explain it to a 10 yo, you don't know what you're talking about. Or you're lying."
I smell a combination of both.
 
KateHikes14 said:
Have you considered understanding things well enough to be brief? I'm not the busiest person in the world but I do value my time, if someone drew out a long, dull, masturbatory thesis I'm not necessarily gonna spend time to read it if they weren't willing to spend time to pare it down.
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Then you just don't have the intellectual capacity to actually engage with the subject beyond a layman's view of it. It's okay, most people can't do it. But don't build your entire worldview around incredibly simplistic takes about reality that blame everything on a single scapegoat.
 
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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Needs must when the devil drives.
 
Romper Stomper said:
Then you just don't have the intellectual capacity to actually engage with the subject beyond a layman's view of it. It's okay, most people can't do it. But don't build your entire worldview around incredibly simplistic takes about reality that blame everything on a single scapegoat.
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He keeps fucking going.
So fucking mad.
About STICKERS!
 
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.
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If you think putting that in a meme is appropriate you don't have the intelligence to understand complex subjects.
Romper Stomper said:
Then you just don't have the intellectual capacity to actually engage with the subject beyond a layman's view of it. It's okay, most people can't do it. But don't build your entire worldview around incredibly simplistic takes about reality that blame everything on a single scapegoat.
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See above.
 
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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I've seen more nuanced examinations of world politics in Polandball comics than typically comes from "leftist" "intellectuals" on the internet.
 
And here comes the inevitable wave of right wingers afraid of confronting the fact that they live in a alternate reality nightmare dimension fueled entirely by memes. We definitely do live in a nightmare world, but it's not because of muh kikes and niggers.
 
Romper Stomper said:
And here comes the inevitable wave of right wingers afraid of confronting the fact that they live in a alternate reality nightmare dimension fueled entirely by memes. We definitely do live in a nightmare world, but it's not because of muh kikes and niggers.
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Nice thought terminating cliché avoiding the fact I compressed your post into six words, even "kikes and niggers" are better at expressing themselves than leftist meme makers.
But you do you.
 
Romper Stomper said:
And here comes the inevitable wave of right wingers afraid of confronting the fact that they live in a alternate reality nightmare dimension fueled entirely by memes. We definitely do live in a nightmare world, but it's not because of muh kikes and niggers.
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So you are capable of reduction that's a good sign, maybe try that with your memes and maybe people will laugh with them for a change.
 
Lame Entropy said:
Change is always hard for autists but they'll move on to bitching about something else in time.
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Doubtful. If they were causing enough whining about getting negrated that Null did this, they'll still moan about getting thumbs down and x ratings. Oh, you meant the other "sides" autists. I'd rate you optimistic but...
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The Kiwi Farms is just supposed to be the Kiwi Farms, not KiwiFarms/AH or KiwiFarms/BParlor, it's supposed to be continuous community all the way through, and his worry is that it's starting to splinter off into factions, which it is.
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It'd be the first forum that didn't stratify based on subforum then. Every single forum does this because naturally some people end up spending more time on one or the other part of the forum. There's no point trying to stop that. Even ignoring off topic there's a certain amount of grouping that occurrs amongst lolcow threads, never mind between the different subcategories.

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.
Romper Stomper said:
Or maybe there are just some topics that need more nuance than something you can explain in a retarded ">your opinion vs my opinion" meme and trying to condense complex political topics down into something to be laughed at doesn't actually make that political idea correct.
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That's probably true but leftists memes are the worst of both worlds.


They're trying to shoehorn a complex political topic into a meme format.



It's evidence of a fundamental misunderstanding of the format bordering on an autistic lack of social ability.


The right has plenty of complex ideas. We use other formats than fucking memes to propagate them though because while we're retarded, we're not autistic.
 
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brahmarakshasasolempi said:
They're trying to shoehorn a complex political topic into a meme format.
It's evidence of a fundamental misunderstanding of the format buffering on an autistic lack of social ability.
The right has plenty of complex ideas. We use other formats than fucking memes to propagate them though because while we're retarded, we're not autistic.
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Take a picture of Assad, insert team america world police walking away, add old school Turk soldiers charging toward huddled kurd woman with child and Putin smiling toward Assad.
Add quote "needs must when the devil drives". Job done as the anglos say.
But that would take work ethic and creativity.
 
Not Really Here said:
Take a picture of Assad, insert team america world police walking away, add old school Turk soldiers charging toward huddled kurd woman with child and Putin smiling toward Assad.
Add quote "needs must when the devil drives". Job done as the anglos say.
But that would take work ethic and creativity.
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Are we still discussing stickers or teaching Mossad how to meme?
 
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