TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago

I tried to look up this Mr. Gerard's lurid wikipedia past expecting at least a torture dungeon or wiki-cult or something; but all I found were a bunch of people grumpy that they couldn't turn wikipedia articles into cryptocurrency ads.

Booring.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

don't forget the ones outraged they can't use the Daily Mail or the Sun as sources

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

When I was listening to the most recent episode of the Maintenance Phase podcast which was all in on mocking J. Michael Bailey with a special dig at autogynephilia theories, I went to go see if David had any history policing weirdos on Bailey's wikipedia page, as an excuse to bring the episode in for a stubsack link. And he didn't, which means, once again, booring.

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