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JAQing off to harass a trans community member (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 year ago by corbin@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Saw this last night but decided to give them a few hours to backtrack. Surprisingly, they've decided to leave their comments intact!

This sort of attitude, not directly harassing trans folks but just asking questions about their moral fiber indirectly, seems to be coming from some playbook; it looks like a structured disinformation source, and I wonder what motivates them.

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[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

quoting @dgerard@awful.systems’s sneer from the linked thread here before some orange site assholes flag it:

[writes a ton of slander]

guys guys sorry I was wrong! but I've left the lies up, whoops how clumsy of me

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, the commenting was literally a 4chan op

[–] self@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how common is this? cause it’d explain a whole lot about the orange site

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

not sure it's actually routine, but it was in this case

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure this shit was,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854

Linked submission used to have a reference to the Daily Stormer in it.

This was pointed out in Lobste.rs, and the submission removed, but dang decided to keep it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26507076

Also I'm 99% the RMS support page(s) originated there