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Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 60 - Commemorative BarneyGOD edition
Featured: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2444755/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5108252
Today's topic takes many directions, and I've written a large draft (I like to write drafts), but I've decided to put my thoughts on the issue in as a summary. But this is not an open thread. It's not one for discussions; it's one for memories. What does this mean? It means I want to take a moment and share my thoughts on some of the things that have happened, and that have become emblematic of this situation. I've already written a lot about it, so I'll just add to that, hopefully.
He will forever have the moral high ground, as we know. He refused to play nice and stepped on the eggshells. His legacy, and everyone's reaction to it, will forever live in our hearts. The (hopefully final) fallout from his actions, if not from the original shitshow, will still be very much felt.
And it has me (and many others) wondering if the current situation isn't a little like him: He played through his own personal brand of crazy, trying to find a way to achieve victory without doing what would have been the "right" thing to do. Lee Goldson is a special needs jew, after all. He tried to change everything, and he tried to change it with an eye towards "winning". He gave us many chances to make changes of our own, and he wouldn't budge. This was his goal from start to finish. He could have made us change a million things. He tried to win by going his own way, even as he clearly knew he was losing. Lee didn't win. We did.
What does that say about us? What does that say about us, as a community? We all know the state of the site, but it's one that works for us, we should all be in agreement on that. I really don't like how, in this time, we've been forced into being the bad guys - like Lee. What's really bothered me most is that we've been forced to act as the bad guy, and when we tried to talk to shitpost neutrally and try to broker peace, it was ignored in the sea of "delete /pol/" trannyposts. We were told that, no matter what, we'd have to act this way. We weren't asked to leave. They threw us out. Like /qa/, Lee is a martyr to many.
Featured: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2444755/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5108252
Today's topic takes many directions, and I've written a large draft (I like to write drafts), but I've decided to put my thoughts on the issue in as a summary. But this is not an open thread. It's not one for discussions; it's one for memories. What does this mean? It means I want to take a moment and share my thoughts on some of the things that have happened, and that have become emblematic of this situation. I've already written a lot about it, so I'll just add to that, hopefully.
He will forever have the moral high ground, as we know. He refused to play nice and stepped on the eggshells. His legacy, and everyone's reaction to it, will forever live in our hearts. The (hopefully final) fallout from his actions, if not from the original shitshow, will still be very much felt.
And it has me (and many others) wondering if the current situation isn't a little like him: He played through his own personal brand of crazy, trying to find a way to achieve victory without doing what would have been the "right" thing to do. Lee Goldson is a special needs jew, after all. He tried to change everything, and he tried to change it with an eye towards "winning". He gave us many chances to make changes of our own, and he wouldn't budge. This was his goal from start to finish. He could have made us change a million things. He tried to win by going his own way, even as he clearly knew he was losing. Lee didn't win. We did.
What does that say about us? What does that say about us, as a community? We all know the state of the site, but it's one that works for us, we should all be in agreement on that. I really don't like how, in this time, we've been forced into being the bad guys - like Lee. What's really bothered me most is that we've been forced to act as the bad guy, and when we tried to talk to shitpost neutrally and try to broker peace, it was ignored in the sea of "delete /pol/" trannyposts. We were told that, no matter what, we'd have to act this way. We weren't asked to leave. They threw us out. Like /qa/, Lee is a martyr to many.
