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[Leonard Helplessness]

What did he catch a perma for?

Being a piece of shit, mostly. He's been mentioned in this thread before as someone who liked to derail E/N threads and make them about him, and he has 14 pages of autism in the CanPol thread, most of which reads like this:

His ban reason was "Get help, but away from this forum."

 

[kissbummer]

Here are some more posts from Chairmaster for reference

 

[Karl der Grosse]

So is he dead yet or what?

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

So is he dead yet or what?

I figure he’s still sitting in the hotel room waiting for the goon rescue squad to break down the door.

The SJW brigade will blame the mods for his faux-death, the permaban pushed him over the edge.

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

He sure was a winner in the Climate Change thread, had well over 200 posts there until he got banned from it.

As for what he was posting:






Just look at this cow's posts in the climate change thread while the paywall's down. It's some hilarious shit.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

I went and looked in canpol and he had a different wall of autism posted there.

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In both cases, the mods went in and spoilered the text for god knows what reason.

Well shit, now THAT is the kind of post I should have left SS with!

Aran put me back in so I can post that pls k thx.

 

[aquariumwater]

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Unsurprisingly, this is him

 

[Frank N Berry]

Something Awful was saved from the brink of collapse by its own users, and thank god for that

If you were of a certain age when the internet became an inextricable part of daily life, you probably posted a thing or two on Something Awful. Created by Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka in 1999, the site evolved from a cynical blog to a massive forum, irrevocably shaping online culture—for good and...

news.avclub.com

According to AV Club Lowtax was going to shut down his only source of income, but the donations of goons were able to save the site.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Something Awful was saved from the brink of collapse by its own users, and thank god for that

If you were of a certain age when the internet became an inextricable part of daily life, you probably posted a thing or two on Something Awful. Created by Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka in 1999, the site evolved from a cynical blog to a massive forum, irrevocably shaping online culture—for good and...

news.avclub.com

According to AV Club Lowtax was going to shut down his only source of income, but the donations of goons were able to save the site.

That article is horrible. He praises the moderation of SA??? Has he visted it in the last decade? The Moderation at SA is why it’s at death’s door. He also states it keeps out the right wing trash, because there’s nothing like a left-wing echo chamber to bring the comedy. The fear these guys have of differing opinions is amazing.

I know when I joined SA in 2004 my main concern was finding a safe space that didn’t allow non-PC opinions or thoughts!

 

[Ghostse]

Something Awful was saved from the brink of collapse by its own users, and thank god for that

If you were of a certain age when the internet became an inextricable part of daily life, you probably posted a thing or two on Something Awful. Created by Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka in 1999, the site evolved from a cynical blog to a massive forum, irrevocably shaping online culture—for good and...

news.avclub.com

According to AV Club Lowtax was going to shut down his only source of income, but the donations of goons were able to save the site.

Yes the entirely solvant, paying for itself SA was in danger of being shut down if a (literal) spineless jobshy footfetishist wasn't given $60,000. That was definitely going to happen. lol.

 

[Brazen Wanker]

SA is internet herpes. It will never go away, and a few times a year there will be flare-ups that catch your attention.

 

[piss challenge]

Unsurprisingly, this is him
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Yikes

I wonder what percentage of the “women” that post on SA are actual women?

 

[Grog]

Unsurprisingly, this is him
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How many troons are just skinnyfat guys who get moobs and try to "save face"?

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

He sure was a winner in the Climate Change thread, had well over 200 posts there until he got banned from it.

As for what he was posting:

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Just look at this cow's posts in the climate change thread while the paywall's down. It's some hilarious shit.

Wow, that's a unique take on climate change. He's worried both about huge flooding, and an ice age? Most people at least pick one.

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

Can't upset the special snowflakes by possibly exposing them to something negative.

The moderation there has always been laughable at best and outright retarded at worst

I went and looked in canpol and he had a different wall of autism posted there.

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In both cases, the mods went in and spoilered the text for god knows what reason.

I have not been there for ages but I remember around the time I left starting to question my own political stance. At the time I was confused and considered myself to be an amlibdem but I couldnt fathom treating people they way they did for having differing opinions. Now I just understand that this was that neo-lib-destroy-murrica movement picking up and i wasnt just the odd man out by feeling offput by this.

On a lulz side note: I actually knew one of the mods irl (i cant remember his online handle because lol over a decade ago and he was into that ghey lycanthropy bullshit which included his name) but I remember him being obsessed with what he refered to as a "civil war between normie goons and otherkin goons"

eww.

 

[dingle]

Can't believe they permaed chairmaster, the best poster on SA. He reminds me of tobleronetriangular.

I firmly believe you can't have a good internet community without a heaping helping of abnormal psych, and if you ban people for being abnormal in unapproved ways then there's no one to fuck with the people being abnormal in approved ways and then you end up with the troon megathread

 

[Silas]

Well shit, now THAT is the kind of post I should have left SS with!

Aran put me back in so I can post that pls k thx.

Hit the showers.

Or the ovens.


Your choice.




(I'll PM you later)

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

Wow, that's a unique take on climate change. He's worried both about huge flooding, and an ice age? Most people at least pick one.

That's what's so great about global warming climate change-- you can bend it to fit your needs, whatever they may be! Flooding? Climate change! Drought? Climate change! Heat wave? Climate change! Cold snap? Climate change!

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

That's what's so great about global warming climate change-- you can bend it to fit your needs, whatever they may be! Flooding? Climate change! Drought? Climate change! Heat wave? Climate change! Cold snap? Climate change!

To be honest, they can call it whatever they want, what'll get me to pay attention would be them having their theory predict something in the future accurately, rather than come up with a post-hoc explanation for how the weather we already had totally fits their theory.

So far it's about as solid a theory as the people who keep predicting the end of the world based on obscure texts from dead civilizations. The world's gonna end in 2000. No wait 2012. No wait 2016. I meant 2020, of course.

What's the current slated "We're fucked" timeframe? Is AOC's 12 years still valid, or have we moved it out again?

If the world is, in fact, not flooded and utterly fucked by 2030, will the global warming people admit they were at least partially wrong? Or will it just be 12 years from CurrentDate, always?

 

[Next Task]

Something Awful was saved from the brink of collapse by its own users, and thank god for that

If you were of a certain age when the internet became an inextricable part of daily life, you probably posted a thing or two on Something Awful. Created by Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka in 1999, the site evolved from a cynical blog to a massive forum, irrevocably shaping online culture—for good and...

news.avclub.com

According to AV Club Lowtax was going to shut down his only source of income, but the donations of goons were able to save the site.

The AV Club would be such a great site ... if it weren't completely overrun with SJWs with TDS and can no longer fathom that a lot of people want their entertainment, the thing their site is ostensibly about, to be escapism.

But no, to them 'escapism' means 'how does this fit in with my political values'? One of their writers supporting the moderation at SA is par for the course, now. It's sad, really.