• David Gerard@awful.systems
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    note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone’s best interests

    edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people

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      Can I ask a sincere question? whats a tech sociopath apologist, could you demonstrate an example?

      Again, im sincerely genuinely asking

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        Someone who takes it on themselves to act as apologist for the words/actions of tech sociopaths

        Often seen as “weird nerds coming to defense of $x” (such as musk, or in this case the kagi dudebro)

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          (And then I glanced at your post history and noticed a trend of JAQing off so I now doubt whether you’re sincere in asking)

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              JAQing

              https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions first hit (on google ;) ) which has a good explanation.

              E: And I don’t meant this post as a ‘just fucking google it’ or ‘educate yourself’ (well a little bit) but more to show there is more to this accusation of JAQing than just some way to shut you down. The method is used by bad faith actors a lot, so it is a pattern of behavior a lot of people react negatively too. So, assuming you are acting in good faith, it is a good way to learn why people are reacting to you like you are a bit of an bad faith actor. And if you are a bad faith actor, I only wasted a little bit of my time typing this out so nothing really lost.

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                  I had a weird brainfart a while back when I realized that Carlson reminds me of this guy.

                  The bad faith ‘bugs that think are offensive’ debate guy from starship troopers. He even wears a bow tie!

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              Short for Just Asking Questions. Where people ask loaded questions that act as a veneer to their actual statements. If you want to accuse them of the fact they are talking shit, they’ll say they’re “just skeptical” and “asking questions”

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      but why is mr wonka so easily offended? all I did was feed myself into the machine that makes chocolate chips but he called me a stupid motherfucker while his staff sang a jaunty tune

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          also, who in the fuck were you talking to? do you often wander into subs and demand nobody replies to your shitty posts?