trans women did not ever experience “male privilege” unless you meant it in a very trivial sense

Ok but doesn’t this imply no one would click their links anyways

i understand the point of paying creators, but the fundamental nature of advertisements is psychological manipulation. there isn’t really properly ethical ads because the very practice is based on mental warfare

quilt primarily split because the other modloaders are made by bigots. this is why doctor4t decided to only use Quilt, because Fabric has weird transphobes on it as far as I remember and the forge team is just full of weirdos. Doctor4t says this explicitly on the Effective mod page. plus quilt is literally compatible with 99% of fabric mods so it’s kind of pointless to get up in arms about it. i’ve used primarily quilt for modding as of recent and have found exactly 1 incompatible mod, which isn’t even really incompatible, seems to just be a side effect of quilt waiting for 1.21 to start updating and patching it

also the forge/fabric split was somewhat justified too. fabric is comically less bloated and boots way faster than any forge setup. lexmanos is generally an asshole (and bigot afaik) hence NeoForge, and that isn’t really shaping up to be much of a split because pretty much everyone seems to just accept NeoForge as the new forge now.

also the reason people say not to ask for forge ports is because they’re doing this stuff in their free time and it takes fucking ages to port something to an entirely new platform

yeah, but still.

these ads are sponsorships by hosting companies etc, not mod developers or players. i mean i suppose some members of the companies could be minecraft players but it’s not necessary to be hired, I’d imagine

well i guess that would answer that

I understand, I don’t want to invalidate you and I’m sorry

I’m convinced it’s either an example of an outright scammer, in which case we’re trying to make it all about personal responsibility for no reason when the actual problem is we got scammed. Or it’s an example of something else going on we don’t know about. Because like you said, randomly blowing 4000$ on basically anything I can think of is extremely difficult. Especially because of the amount.

Only thing I can think of that wouldn’t result in SOMETHING at least a LITTLE helpful to their situation (like a car or products they could resell or just use) would be gambling, and that’s its own kind of addiction. But because there’s no mention of gambling or gambling addiction (something I really hope people would sympathize with), it feels really likely they’re just a scammer who appears to also be a bigot, and this seems like a classic example of people compromising their beliefs and practices because they think they can “get ahead” of a troll or scammer by doing so. A good secondary example of stuff like this is when people assume someone with neopronouns is a troll, and when someone actually is a troll using neopronouns, they point to it as proof of their assumptions all along. When the best option is actually to just ban them or, possible in this case, pursue outright legal action if they truly are just a scammer who doesn’t need any of this money and is funneling it off somewhere.

I don’t think anyone is genuinely thinking or saying that in a smug tone (except tbf maybe this specific incident because it appears they’re also a bigot and possibly a scammer). Anyone spending hundreds on DoorDash because they actually want to, and not as some sort of weird scammer power play, is probably either not thinking through their financial decisions entirely or has some other reason to do so that isn’t malicious or even purposely dismissive of the people that donated to them.

Wtf why would you assume that

Disliking how a site treats what they assume to be a normal homeless person, but alsp disliking that homeless person for being a bigot after they reveal themselves to be one, is a completely reasonable position from my perspective.

Why would you even assume I’m trying to defend her bigotry? What the fuck are you even trying to imply, where is this jump coming from

I genuinely didn’t even know she was a bigot until you mentioned it here, I checked out very early in the Rachel events it seems

she literally didn’t though, people shit on her long before she started spouting that shit

I think the point is that money almost always helps, but it isn’t a transactional thing when you give money to someone asking for aid. You aren’t actually owed correct behavior from them or for them to recover and have a better life (this doesn’t mean scammers pretending to be in need are good, either, just that those asking in good faith shouldn’t be judged for their decisions with money given to them willingly with full information). But

Sorry, yeah, it’s an accusatory tone in my comment, though I don’t mean it at you. I don’t necessarily think YOU’RE saying anything bad or trying to be bad-faith at all. I’m trying to explain why I don’t like the idea of people being allowed to criticize posters in this comm, even for benign things or for good reasons. It isn’t you who is “JAQing off” in my metaphor, it’s some theoretically future person doing it with the lack of a rule as pretext to do so

You did not say it but plenty of people have who are not you and are likely to in the future (I wasn’t directing at you with my mocking either. You literally didn’t say anything close to it; Others have though and I saw it as an opportunity to make fun of them)

I want us to work towards a site culture that can give advice to people without being a dick about it, but I think that takes work.

Please stop reading my posts in bad faith. I am not defending homophobia either. I am not defending her bigotry or even her actions. I am just pointing out the sheer ghoulishness of people’s response before they knew HER ghoulishness.

I didn’t want to get into arguing about this which is why I left it at only a paragraph mentioning it in passing.

there’s a difference between something having a statistically positive effect on most recipients, and being able to outright expect that positive effect from a single instance

Regardless of her shitty behavior the site was just as shitty to her beforehand. The homeless person we shit on for buying drugs being a bigot doesn’t justify us jumping on a homeless person for buying drugs. It just means we’re lucky it wasn’t a fully innocent person who got the brunt of it

nobody “says” that they hate black people or gay people when they start JAQing off