How to make Cypherpunks a Safe Space - aka, the art of the feels

[Zenaan Harkness]

It's really funny of course, but also sad. Americans (I'm assuming
jnn is a yank) had an awesome foundation notwithstanding its
foibles, yet have been so dumbed down in their education, so vaccinated
at such an early age (before blood brain barriers are grown) causing IQs
to drop significantly, across the board, and "every child must get a AA
gold star, regardless of actual capacity".

To use the politically incorrect term, "for my fellow White brothers
across the pond", this is really, really sad.

The fact that even sarcasm is not read as it is, (not able to be
heard?), or that the primary response is to use such an email an
assertion of weakness on the part of the author, is again, just sad.

Humans bitching about one another, to no end, and to no benefit to
anything. Well, it's no wonder the Western empire is about to fall...


You know, a very good friend of mine, involved in many human rights
rallies here in Australia once pointed out (to a "hell yeah" response)
that his greatest opposition was never the police, never the courts, not
even the government - for those who try to help humans/ society at a
grass roots level, our greatest opposition is always the humans
themselves - sabotage from within, by petty-Nazis, those micro dictators
who only ever see the speck in their brothers' eye, assuming that any
reduction in their own personal power (e.g. to hand over disputed
decisions or payments to the whole broader group for example) must be
opposed to the death, because "I is committee, muh personal power is
king" .. or something.


In those immortal words of Trump - so sad.


  jnn, railing against windmills, making declarations of hilarity and
  stupidity, fingers fimly planted in his ears, unwilling to engage
  the facts of any debate he wildly asserts his pronounciations upon.


Good luck fellow humans,
Z



On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 07:21:50PM -0400, John Newman wrote:
> Someone forwarded me this off list.
> 
> Is poor little credulous (really the most gullible and irrelevant moron I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with) Zenaan sad that nobody likes him and filters his email? 
> 
> How _fucking_ hilarious! ;)
> 
> I only checked my garbage box because someone recommended it. Yourself and James Donald will continue to accrue there, blissfully unread :)
> 
> > On Mar 26, 2017, at 9:23 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
> > 
> > So I'm just your average snowflake, incapable of receiving any challenge
> > to any unreasoned thought I spout without instant reactivity and a shit
> > tonne of F-bombs, so fragile that I melt into drop (make that 1/10th of
> > a drop) of water at the pre-thought hint of a verbal flame fest, I self
> > medicate on a daily (oh all right, hourly) basis since I'm so damaged by
> > the system/state/the-man that it's just, you know, hard to cope with my
> > life and all the emotional pain of having feelings and worse, having to
> > read so many people who DISAGREE WITH ME.
> > 
> > This is not ok! It's just not safe for my fragile feels (which I try
> > to chemically suppress at every opportunity).
> > 
> > SO, I have discovered the answer, it's a 12-step process so should be
> > straightforward even after a dozen tokes:
> > 
> > 1. I acknowledge that there are dangerous thinking pepes out there who
> >   occasionally disagree with me.
> > 
> > 2. Worse, there are really vicious folk who have opinions and feelings
> >   which are flat out wrong! For healing and winning, those morons
> >   really need to be seen for who they are!
> > 
> > 3. Learn how to attack in response, preferably pre-emptively to let the
> >   attacker expressing their counter-thought know that I'm on to them!
> >   This step is really important, without verbal attacking, strongly,
> >   repeatedly, and in as many creative ways as I can conceive, I am not
> >   worthy of my feelings, and someone else who reads the conversation
> >   might think I lost the argument.
> > 
> > 4. If the attacker triggers my feels, I always double down with some
> >   F-bombs and other strong, powerful words which really get the message
> >   across - there's no point exposing myself to such a fate which is
> >   worse than death.
> > 
> > 5. If the attacker still doesn't stop sending emails disagreeing with
> >   me or disagreeing with my feelings, threaten to kill-file their email
> >   address, to REALLY send them the message that I am NOT messing around
> >   here!
> > 
> > 6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 a few times, especially number 5, since that
> >   sends a really strong message when you keep saying it.
> > 
> > 7. THE ULTIMATE KEY - it's really important to never respond to what the
> >   other person says, only to reinforce what I've originally said, or
> >   drop a few more F-bmobs. Responding to what the other person says is
> >   weakness and must be avoided religiously.
> > 
> > 8. THE MOST IMPORTANT KEY - one must never, under any circumstances,
> >   agree with the other person, not even on a small point, because
> >   agreement is weakness. I can't emphasize this one enough.
> > 
> > 9. THE BIGGEST KEY - is of course to actually kill file the person who
> >   persists in disagreeing with me. Then my feels should be reasonably
> >   safe from their differing opinions and especially from any facts or
> >   logical inconsistencies they may have pointed out.
> >   Actual kill-filing is a great end to a long debate, because everyone
> >   watching knows that you've really won the debate and put this person
> >   in their place!
> > 
> > 10. When all else fails, pack another bong and light up.
> > 
> > 
> > Have a feels-safe-space, snowflake filled day y'all,
> > Zenaan