Board 8 > Justin Trudeau topic literally deleted for "trolling"

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This site was bigger than Reddit until 2009 or so

feel like this is more about reddit growing than this place shrinking

i dont think I visited reddit for the first time until 2009 or a little later and I was very online before then

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

feel like this is more about reddit growing than this place shrinking

i dont think I visited reddit for the first time until 2009 or a little later and I was very online before then

Reddit got huge in part because of Digg's downfall with their redesign that everyone hated

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Correct. Look up the dictionary site thats censored and see when the entrant was put in.

Now tell that group of people to push for PC culture. Leftists are the new puritanical buzzkills.

top entry is from 2005 with 724 upvotes

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what

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Right. Four years later they were given a clear directive, which is exactly when people left this site in droves.

@Metal_DK educate this man
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how does pc leftist culture even affect someones experience on 99% of this sites boards

like everyone left this site because they couldnt call people r***** on the Uncharted board anymore?

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lol the top definition for Board 8 on UD is by maplejet

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

lol the top definition for Board 8 on UD is by maplejet

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Book%20Club

The only two definitions are from you and me, lol
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Also wait, UD is banned? That post wasnt auto flagged or anything?
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Book%20Club

The only two definitions are from you and me, lol

I guess there was a third definition I was responding to that got deleted?

god looking at stuff 14 year-old me posted is so embarrassing

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First of all, gfaqs as a whole went in major decline mode around fall 06/07/early 08. Due to social media and the centralized internet, gfaqs became an afterthought for the original purpose....games. The 07 contest pretty much is the ultimate example of this, after it the decline began and very quickly.

We've been running on fumes for a long fucking while now which is impressive to be fair. But lets be real, how often are we really getting new users? Its been a decade + since we've had major growth. Honestly, once a board starts creating containment topics for everything, you know its losing steam in overall usage.

I post on another sports message board, and we recently had a "when was the last time this place blew the fuck up in rapid amounts of posts?". Everyone said Boise State/Oklahoma in get this....January 1st, 2007. The beginning of the end/start of the you know what of you know when.

2007 ruined society. Get over it people.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Ill be damned, its not autoflagged. At least on beta.

It got flagged because of the entry on how our site runs.

this is not true. it was flagged before my account even existed here.
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https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1174759776531750913?s=19

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the justin trudeau thing is like the biggest 'who cares' on the internet right now. nobody is actually offended by it. you're mad about people pretending to be offended by stuff that the right does, and so your solution is... to pretend to be offended by stuff that the left does????

I feel like 'two wrongs don't make a right' is the logic that a 6 year old should be able to understand but then again I'm not sure what standard I should really be holding people to

no matter how low I set the bar I am always disappointed.

all that being said, deleting the topic was really, really dumb. I wish there was a better way to exercise your agency against internet censorship. this is an issue with modern society and there is no real clear solution on how to deal with it. I've only seen the problem getting worse. never better.
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MariaTaylor posted...

the justin trudeau thing is like the biggest 'who cares' on the internet right now. nobody is actually offended by it. y

Again, I'm offended by the extreme hypocrisy. This is the guy and a culture who made it a CRIME in Canada to deadname a trans.

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well he didnt do transface

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

a trans.

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Idk I could see a Vice article leading with "old footage surfaces of RDJ with blackface, racist accent" 20-30 years from now when an even more woke generation gets around to the movies of our time

its been a while since ive seen Tropic Thunder (probably hasnt been since whatever year it came out); but I dont think the movie was saying RDJs characters black face was good... he was playing a white character who was dumb enough to think blackface was a good idea. Its like the Always Sunny episode where they do the Lethal Weapon sequel.

theyre making fun of legitimately doing blackface, its totally different from Trudeau doing it himself for reals

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Again, I'm offended by the extreme hypocrisy.

UltimaterializerX posted...

Double standards and hypocrisy are the problem, especially with elected leaders making PC culture the law of the land.

why though? who gives a shit what these hypocrites think or do?

just ignore them. they have literally no power except for the power that you give them.

UltimaterializerX posted...

If you want to protect pronouns under national law in Canada, fine, but it can't come from someone who dresses up in blackface. You're smart enough to know why that's just dumb.

I don't think it should be illegal to use the wrong pronouns or to dress up in blackface.

now you can make a case that both types of behavior are shitty, but I wouldn't make them illegal.

UltimaterializerX posted...

You're either offended by everyone making a joke or no one, you don't get to pick and choose based on whether or not D or R is next to a name. For the record I say let everyone joke about anything, but hey.

okay so then don't pick and choose. let trudeau dress up in black face if he wants and stop pretending to be offended by it.

Seginustemple posted...

20-30 years from now when an even more woke generation

please no
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UltimaterializerX posted...

The media is calling it face darkening. Unreal. No wonder no one watches/reads these idiots anymore.

Literally who, dude? I just typed Trudeau into Google and there are literally dozens with a headline saying blackface, some of them even using the word racist as well.
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I googled face darkening and the top three articles are mainstream media using the term blackface or brown face in reference to Trudeau

did ulti get this shit from an infowars tweet

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He also frequents /r/the_donald
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MoogleKupo141 posted...

I googled face darkening and the top three articles are mainstream media using the term blackface or brown face in reference to Trudeau

did ulti get this shit from an infowars tweet

I found it, its from a single Daily Beast Tweet.

Stefan Molyneux and Paul Joseph Watson both said the media was calling it that, and Ulti trusted these idiots, like usual.
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lol of course it was PJW

daily beast was the first result when I searched face darkening and they totally used the phrase blackface in their headline

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also speaking of Stefan

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1174953478680014849?s=21

wat

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MariaTaylor posted...

just ignore them. they have literally no power

Dude is the leader of a large country

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

"Leftist hypocrisy"

Literally every Leftist I follow is roasting the fuck out of Trudeau rn, the memes are so good.

That may be true but I've definitely been modded several times for pointing out leftist hypocrisy

I'm not a conservative and I point out their hypocrisy just as much but have never been modded for it. The mods have a clear bias tbh
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UltimaterializerX posted...

This, on top of the ridiculous harassment from leftists on here, is why the block function was needed. Shoot me a PM and Ill let you know everyone that marks everything on B8 so you can shut off their access. I had a mod message me that whataboutism is not allowed on this site. No one outside of far left activists know or care what that word even is. Try saying it in person to some random guy at work and youll immediately become the guy no one wants to talk to, because no one wants to deal with the PC clown show who goes to HR every other day.

GameFAQs - lets adopt the policies of far left political correctness and then wonder why all of our message board traffic disappeared. This site used to be ranked in the top 100 on Alexa, and often it was much higher than that. Since going PC, this place struggles to crack the top 15,000. And I dont want to hear about our format being outdated. Text based help for games on Reddit sees utterly insane traffic. PC culture is not something anyone wants, which consumers tell companies over and over and over again. The companies who ignore this all go broke for a reason.

Once again, Reddit is a VASTLY superior message board service and you have zero reason not to be there primarily. GameFAQs is done, and has been for years. Take it from someone thats contributed a lot here; I see the hits on things. Its not even 5% of what it used to be and its dropping fast.

Except when certain people have for some insane reason been made mods, not even the block function is sure to help you.
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This just goes to show that some people don't actually comprehend why they get moderated.

Who was the person who was moderated 5 times in a row for spamming a brigade link?
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Also, this entire topic reads as "how come people dont like rep steve king, and how come roy Moore doesn't get elected, and how come I get in trouble when I say the n word, but when Trudeau wears blackface in canada he isn't immediately shot in he leg and eaten alive?"
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On topicish about Trudeau and his brown face. I love that Sheer said, just days ago, that he would forgive anyone in his party for something like this if they apologized, but is completely hounding Trudeau over it even though he has apologized. It really goes to show the right's hypocrisy.
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MariaTaylor posted...

why though? who gives a shit what these hypocrites think or do?

just ignore them. they have literally no power except for the power that you give them.

When 80% of your identity and existence is hypocricital, finding someone 90% hyprocitical is incredibly exciting and self validating and absolutely cannot be ignored at all. Even if that person doesn't exist and you made them up.
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A little confused by the slavish defense of Trudeau here. To me, a topic like this is the equivalent of a hyper-judgemental conservative Christian senator (let's say Ted Cruz) getting caught cheating on his wife. No, cheating isn't really that terrible of a thing, but of course if the guy doing it has made a career of moralizing against things that he got caught doing himself, that would be worthy of special criticism.

That is the Trudeau situation in a nutshell.

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

A little confused by the slavish defense of Trudeau here. To me, a topic like this is the equivalent of a hyper-judgemental conservative Christian senator (let's say Ted Cruz) getting caught cheating on his wife. No, cheating isn't really that terrible of a thing, but of course if the guy doing it has made a career of moralizing against things that he got caught doing himself, that would be worthy of special criticism.

That is the Trudeau situation in a nutshell.

I think there is a difference between some one championing for something with a thing that contradicts them in the past vs. someone championing for something and getting caught contradicting themselves in the present.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

A little confused by the slavish defense of Trudeau here. To me, a topic like this is the equivalent of a hyper-judgemental conservative Christian senator (let's say Ted Cruz) getting caught cheating on his wife. No, cheating isn't really that terrible of a thing, but of course if the guy doing it has made a career of moralizing against things that he got caught doing himself, that would be worthy of special criticism.

That is the Trudeau situation in a nutshell.

You mean like when he got caught liking porn on Twitter on 9/11?

Nelson_Mandela posted...

MariaTaylor posted...

just ignore them. they have literally no power

Dude is the leader of a large country

by acknowledging his supposed power, you are the one giving him power.

in what way has justin trudeau impacted your life? I'm gonna make a safe guess of 'not at all'

MZero11 posted...

That may be true but I've definitely been modded several times for pointing out leftist hypocrisy

I'm not a conservative and I point out their hypocrisy just as much but have never been modded for it. The mods have a clear bias tbh

maybe, but I wouldn't say it's very definitive. it's also just as likely that the user base has a leftist bias, and/or the left leaning users are the ones more likely to mark messages. there's tons of evidence that would support either of those theories.

it's also possible that you subconsciously use different types of languages when criticizing different people, leading to your 'pointing out hypocrisy' coming across differently in different situations.

Nelson_Mandela posted...

A little confused by the slavish defense of Trudeau here. To me, a topic like this is the equivalent of a hyper-judgemental conservative Christian senator (let's say Ted Cruz) getting caught cheating on his wife. No, cheating isn't really that terrible of a thing, but of course if the guy doing it has made a career of moralizing against things that he got caught doing himself, that would be worthy of special criticism.

no it wouldn't. that's why your original topic was FUCKING DUMB

this one at least has more of a purpose because it's about censorship.
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foolm0r0n posted...

When 80% of your identity and existence is hypocricital, finding someone 90% hyprocitical is incredibly exciting and self validating and absolutely cannot be ignored at all. Even if that person doesn't exist and you made them up.

all humans are hypocritical. it's why we survived and made it to the top of the food chain. we do atrocious shit on a constant basis to every other living creature, including other humans, that we are competing with.

I would rather be that than have the life expectancy of a possum.
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MariaTaylor posted...

all humans are hypocritical. it's why we survived and made it to the top of the food chain. we do atrocious shit on a constant basis to every other living creature, including other humans, that we are competing with.

I would rather be that than have the life expectancy of a possum.

explain this to ulti who has had a 15+ year continuous psychotic crisis about this, not me
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"Trudeau apologizes again, says he can't remember exact number of blackface incidents | CBC News"

Real question at a townhall earlier today: "I mean, I can kinda get how you can't remember how many times you've done blackface, but could you, like, round it to the nearest 5 maybe?"
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Trudeau deserves criticism

criticize him if you want. although I think it's stupid to criticize someone for doing blackface if you're supposedly okay with people doing blackface.

the issue is when you demand that people on the left also criticism him.

nobody likes annoying control freaks telling them what to think or do.

the world is not gonna end because some guy put black paint on his face. somewhere in the world there is a four year old child curled up in a ditch, slowly dying of starvation, in extreme pain, and with no one or nothing to help make the pain go away. he just has to endure that torture until he slowly perishes. nobody important gives a flying fuck about someone putting black paint on his face. it is completely inconsequential. solar rays from 80 bazillion light years away could randomly wash over our solar system and wipe out all life on earth before I finish typing this message. is it ever going to matter that some guy put black paint on his face?

trying to force people to care is an exercise in ultimate stupidity. especially if your entire point, your entire argument, is that you're mad about people caring about stuff that doesn't matter. um... okay then. in that case you are being just as hypocritical as the ones you are criticizing.
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MariaTaylor posted...

trying to force people to care is an exercise in ultimate stupidity.

and trying to force people not to care is...
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MariaTaylor posted...

UltimaterializerX posted...

Trudeau deserves criticism

criticize him if you want. although I think it's stupid to criticize someone for doing blackface if you're supposedly okay with people doing blackface.

the issue is when you demand that people on the left also criticism him.

nobody likes annoying control freaks telling them what to think or do.

the world is not gonna end because some guy put black paint on his face. somewhere in the world there is a four year old child curled up in a ditch, slowly dying of starvation, in extreme pain, and with no one or nothing to help make the pain go away. he just has to endure that torture until he slowly perishes. nobody important gives a flying fuck about someone putting black paint on his face. it is completely inconsequential. solar rays from 80 bazillion light years away could randomly wash over our solar system and wipe out all life on earth before I finish typing this message. is it ever going to matter that some guy put black paint on his face?

trying to force people to care is an exercise in ultimate stupidity. especially if your entire point, your entire argument, is that you're mad about people caring about stuff that doesn't matter. um... okay then. in that case you are being just as hypocritical as the ones you are criticizing.

I think for some, the anger is less about the blackface and more about the clear double standard. Because it's a left politician, it amazingly doesn't bother anyone at all. I wonder if it would have if it was a right politician. I guess we'll never know.

And yes, I guess if you put it that way, nothing at all in the world matters since we could all get obliterated any second. Why care about anything!
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