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  • Or barred because he literally posted a literal dick measuring picture to twitter. Or that he ran off Bootsy. Or that his drunken antics were always causing problems. He’s a problematic guy even without considering the racist comic.

    Too bad lots of people stay friends with shitty people, I won’t fault James for that. It’s hard to cut them off once they are already in your life.

    At least they separated professionally for the most part(I think Mike has shown up in costume uncredited in two recent episodes, and James has joined a stream or two of Mike’s when hanging out with him)


  • Quasari@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlthe right reacting to a leftist meme
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    11 months ago

    I think the big issue is that joking about school shootings is satirical to bring up how common it is in hopes to change it, while joking about fat people is just to be mean. No one is going to change because you made fun of them, in fact it might make the problem worse as state of mind is a factor in being unhealthy.

    You could probably make the same argument about abortion jokes being satirical, but I don’t think abortion jokes are made in order to enact social change. It’s usually just to be offensive. Satire is usually used to point out how ridiculous something is, the hope is that we as a society will see it and do something about it.


  • The 1m was confiscated because it was ‘illegal income’, not because he used VPN.

    Yes, it’s still shitty that using VPN to access GitHub makes his income illegal

    using VPN … makes his income illegal

    Yes, they fine wasn’t a flat 1m or whatever, but because he earned it while using a VPN on and off(cuz the great firewall periodically blocks github). None of that would of happened if he didn’t use a VPN, so saying that the direct reason he’s in trouble isn’t why he got punished is less honest.

    If your complaint is about how the number was determined, perhaps it would be better as “Chinese programmer ordered to pay entire income(1m yuan) for using Virtual Private Network.” Honestly, either headline is fine as long as the details of how that number was chosen is in the article.