So, I just learnt about Lyan Brunduke.
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@riley how is the software supposed to work without woking up the cpu?
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@arichtman He has a lot of videos like this, and about seventy thousand followers. Kind of sad.
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@gkrnours By spending all its time carefully making sure that it does not bother the straight white man, I guess. Other things just aren't important in a software's life. :blobcatflop:
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Min :neofox_fingerguns:replied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] It would be cool if this was actually true and not just chuds having a meltdown
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Min :neofox_fingerguns: last edited by [email protected]
@minneyar On a completely unrelated note, 'chud' happens to be a Russian ethnic slur aimed against Fenno-Ugric peoples. It appears in some of the oldest existing Russian documents, and might have been a good-faithed exonym for some tribe — historians are not sure who — a thousand years ago, and Chud Lake is the official Russian name for Lake Peipus, the larger one of the two border lakes between Estonia and Russia, but by now, it's mostly used by some Russian speakers as a derogatory epithet against Finnish, Karelian, or Estonian people, when they don't feel fancy enough for subtler constructs like "hot-headed Finnish gentleman".
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@riley @minneyar @arichtman @aburka i thought that was some acronym for like "creepy horrible un-dateable" or some shit in incel circles? that's a slur? goddamn it fuck this internet shit i'm sick of it fuck
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@riley @minneyar @arichtman @aburka right this, this thing is what i was thinking of
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He's a grifter.
I listened to a couple of his rants outside the Youtube pattern, noted the indicators of bad faith, compared the emotional indicators against a couple of anti-trans grifters, read some comments, and noted the curious pattern of what this all did to my further Youtube recommendations.
I'm confident that he's saying things only because that he believes they will sound like affirming common right-wing talking points to people who find affirming common-right-wing talking points pleasing. He does not do any sort of analysis or journalism, only preaching. He's not worth any more of my time.
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@spv Looks kind of like a collision. @minneyar @arichtman @aburka
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@spv Maybe it could make it obvious which one you're talking about if you kept the capitalisation and internal periods that mark it as a clear acronym. The other one is a transliteration of old Slavic 'чудь', from an era when people who wrote in proto-Russian had recently invented writing almost from scratch (using some Greek and late Egyptian letters to crib from), but had not yet rediscovered acronyms.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by [email protected]
@arichtman One of the stronger emotional indicators that I rely on in calling Brunduke a grifter appeared very shortly after this frame: he switched to a first-person plural, which he doesn't do often, and denounced a then-future statement from the Godot team as "we won't like it", and several similar phrases, three or four times. Opining on behalf of "we", as in, the listeners, is a recurring, and specific, thing that right-wing grifters commonly do these days, possibly due to Pumpkin using a similar construct often in his rally rants. I believe the deeper psychological roots of the construct are related to authoritarian yearning for conformity, though. This construct likely functions as a call for such conformity of opinion.
