thank you, that's perfectly awful :-)

so the official reply is that mod got bored, and also was asked to re-open. which is, of course, fine.

and to be clear

• i didn't think there is any conspiracy, that would be ridiculous,
• if we subscribe to the idea that a community is owned, not stewarded, by mods, it's perfectly fine to do with the community whatever the mods want, without the need of them being accountable to anyone else,
• i do think that reopening the sub after closing it in protest is mostly sad,
• and a very small and rather insignificant footnote to a more general discussion on (f)utility of using master's tools to bring down the master's house.

fwiw it looks like we were just pushing each other's pain points; i should've disengaged much earlier either.

that's as fine parody of the ea communication style as i ever^1 seen.

let me bow out^2 now.

adderall is an amphetamine (or a mix of its salts), but it is not the metamphetamine, and it's not what makes the eas racist, cultish or even overly verbose debating club dropouts. (and neither would speed, fwiw.)

(and i certainly hope that there's no need to explain basic organic chemistry here, so please do not use the “the difference is just a methyl group” argument)

also: what in “don't medicalise gobshittery” is unclear?

nah. i have a proper adhd and am medicated to my ears with medikinet (yeah, so it's metylphenidate, not adderall, but for the purpose of the reply it doesn't make a difference), but it didn't make me an adult debating club aficionado. can we please not medicalise gobshittery?

by jingo!

it's the type of the very dense cult jargon that you stop noticing only when you're ears-deep into the cult.

“confabulate” is, imo, the closest we have (i don't remember who originally used this analogy, unfortunately)

perhaps they named the child after this fucking gobshite?

yes, it was deliberate choice (along with using nazi-borrowed uniforms and tons of visual quotes from fucking leni riefenstahl.)

jesus. this is korvax from the “no man's sky”. korvax are uploaded efective altruists.