Social Media Septic Tank Thread

[Hollywood Cannon]

I never knew 88 was associated with hitler in Germany, can you explain why 88?

Eighth letter of alphabet is H. 88=HH

It’s apparently be co-opted by Neo-Nazi groups. Clearly not what a Flyers fan/“reporter” is referencing in his username.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

That’s not really it. It started because had tweets back when TDA was kicked off the Rangers that were dug up. The excuse is that he’s now on the Flyers.



Whining about being ‘canceled’ also doesn’t fly when a $10m contract is involved.

That seems to be a completely different issue here though. That’s Dan being a Flyers apologist. The neo-nazi stuff? Can’t see how those would intersect.

 

[bennysflyers16]

That Steph girl from BSH deactivated her Twitter account at some point yesterday after all this went down.

What was the coles notes, she went after Barstool ?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

What was the coles notes, she went after Barstool ?

She made the tweet below. Portnoy saw it. He responded. Minions went after her in responses. She “deleted” account.

Somewhere in there she claimed that the tweet wasn’t a put down of Kevin Hayes and for the life of me I can’t see how that’s possible.

*For clarity sake, this screenshot was taken from Portnoy’s tweet. That is not me with a selfie as a profile pic.

 

[sa cyred]

What was the coles notes, she went after Barstool ?

Yea. Driver is known to try and go after people with her fanboy club. She decided to wanted to go after Kevin Haynes because he is a fan(?) of barstool. Portnoy found out and sicked his puppies on her and she deactivated. In the end both of them are dumb. Driver does the same attacks Portnoy does but with a smaller group,

 

[bennysflyers16]

Love or hate Barstool, usually don’t end well when you pick a fight with them. So big and so many blind followers,,,

similar to Flyers twitter fans.

 

[GKJ]

That seems to be a completely different issue here though. That’s Dan being a Flyers apologist. The neo-nazi stuff? Can’t see how those would intersect.

If the lesson here is that there’s assholes on the internet, everyone already knew that but you can’t stoke the fire and not expect the smoke when people have the receipts.

At least the other dude who also constantly apologized for the flyers (but somehow hates Couturier?) stuck to his guns.

 

[ellja3]

In Europe its pretty common sense that 88 stands for Heil Hitler. Its one of the things you avoid using like SS or claims like: "Arbeit mach frei".

In Germany the history of our country is pretty much in our minds the whole life. Your not proud about the history and you want to avoid being in connection with this history at all costs.

In my generation (iam nearly 41 years old) you dont even have national proud. I never ever have had a german flag or would buy one. Or would draw my face in german colors.

The newer generations are a bit more loosely with this things.


I never learned to be proud about my country because of my socialisation and i know a lot of people who feel the same.

Just a small insight in german society ;D

As a European, I'd argue ''it's pretty common sense'' is bit of a stretch, unless I've been living in a cave.

Edit: Germany is a whole different story, of course

 

[GKJ]

This was another one that was stupid, maybe even dumber but I give him credit for responding:



This is not nearly the same, dude, it wasn’t ‘2 people not getting along’ given it wasn’t settled in the room for very specific reasons, reasons of which there were many. This wasn’t getting in a spat in your Thursday night beer league.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Back in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s computing was relegated to nerds so it was a safe place to be.

I get that it wasn't as publicized and the scale was different simply because of the amount of people using online portals, but that does not mean it was safe. Nor does it mean many of those nerds weren't some of the worst people imaginable. Many of them are the same nerds still being shitty today.

It was already a cesspool by the late 80s.

 

[Lindberg]

I get that it wasn't as publicized and the scale was different simply because of the amount of people using online portals, but that does not mean it was safe. Nor does it mean many of those nerds weren't some of the worst people imaginable. Many of them are the same nerds still being shitty today.

It was already a cesspool by the late 80s.

Sorry i should clarify that it was more of a non echo chamber that many boomers find themselves in. To avoid turning this in a political thing it does seem like a lot of half truths / incorrect information is easily propagated through the internet. People go on webMD.com for an itch and come away thinking they have cancer, sickle cell anemia, and AIDS.

In high school quoting almost anything from the internet was not an acceptable citation while it almost seems now people will quote theonion as a viable citation.

It certainly was a safe haven for shitty people back then (slightly less so now).

 

[flyersnorth]

I get that it wasn't as publicized and the scale was different simply because of the amount of people using online portals, but that does not mean it was safe. Nor does it mean many of those nerds weren't some of the worst people imaginable. Many of them are the same nerds still being shitty today.

It was already a cesspool by the late 80s.

In my early days of BBSing and accessing Unix shells, I needed help occasionally. Many/most folks were friendly or at least neutral.

But there was always a small contingent of RTFM answers from people who just thought they were better than everyone else, and treated them that way.

 

[Ironmanrulez]

As a European, I'd argue ''it's pretty common sense'' is bit of a stretch, unless I've been living in a cave.

Edit: Germany is a whole different story, of course

Yeah maybe i was abit over the top

 

[Lindberg]

In my early days of BBSing and accessing Unix shells, I needed help occasionally. Many/most folks were friendly or at least neutral.

But there was always a small contingent of RTFM answers from people who just thought they were better than everyone else, and treated them that way.

Some linux users (super users) are still assholes...

 

[JojoTheWhale]

In my early days of BBSing and accessing Unix shells, I needed help occasionally. Many/most folks were friendly or at least neutral.

But there was always a small contingent of RTFM answers from people who just thought they were better than everyone else, and treated them that way.

My first "job" was selling sports cards on BBSes. I should not have been dealing with those angry nerds at 9.

 

[Lindberg]

My first "job" was selling sports cards on BBSes. I should not have been dealing with those angry nerds at 9.

Sports cards are an interesting study in human psychology. We've printed this image on cardboard and now it's worth X because it's 50 year old cardboard. Gross oversimplification but it does illustrate that value isn't correlated with need at least in modern society.

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

He stepped in one today. That’s a stretch though. 88 (I guess it’s in code & can be transcribed in “Hell Hitler” by Neo Nazi groups) can be Nazi symbolism but there obviously many uses for it that most don’t associate with that.

Lmfao Twitter is such a disaster man.

 

[scumpup]

Caught up on this thread. Saw none of my horrendous tweets. I am safe.

 

[Adam Warlock]

Deep down people like Steph were secretly excited about TDA bc it gave them an oppurtubity to basically say "look how good a person I am by tweeting how angry I am at the Flyers for getting this player!". Seems liks a lot of the fans are the same.

I totally get how Tonys tweets and stuff in the past rub people the wrong way... but if youre gonna hate on a guy for being obnoxious with his views by beimg obnoxious with your views... its not any better.

Twitter and social media reward extreme takes which is why its such a cesspool.

 

[Beef Invictus]

That Steph girl from BSH deactivated her Twitter account at some point yesterday after all this went down.

Yeah, unfortunately since they have her real name it won't stop the harassment she's definitely getting. Barstool fanboys often overlap heavily with misogyny/Gamergate fanboys.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I get that it wasn't as publicized and the scale was different simply because of the amount of people using online portals, but that does not mean it was safe. Nor does it mean many of those nerds weren't some of the worst people imaginable. Many of them are the same nerds still being shitty today.

It was already a cesspool by the late 80s.

All you had to do to find this out was try to get any tech help on any board in the 90s. Holy shit.

 

[TB87]

That Steph girl from BSH deactivated her Twitter account at some point yesterday after all this went down.

I just saw that. I wonder what happened

 

[TB87]

Sorry i should clarify that it was more of a non echo chamber that many boomers find themselves in. To avoid turning this in a political thing it does seem like a lot of half truths / incorrect information is easily propagated through the internet. People go on webMD.com for an itch and come away thinking they have cancer, sickle cell anemia, and AIDS.

In high school quoting almost anything from the internet was not an acceptable citation while it almost seems now people will quote theonion as a viable citation.

It certainly was a safe haven for shitty people back then (slightly less so now).

The onion is the greatest news site of our time. A significant portion of their “news” stories are hilarious.

 

[GKJ]

That Steph girl from BSH deactivated her Twitter account at some point yesterday after all this went down.

It was after someone told her that her nephews should be euthanized, of which she has been helping care for as their mother has had health issues since they were born (I think? This is an edit). It wasn’t like she was tired of standing up for herself, independent of whether or not you agree with what she said.

Man in the mirror moment because of the thread I’m in, that I’ve largely stayed away from. I just don’t understand putting your energy into these websites that you hate. And what they’re saying. That’s just not energy or a space I want to operate in. The thing these people want most is attention so why give it to them? Even my follows are like that, there’s no one I follow that I dislike but just want to see what they’re saying. The only time I see it is when someone else puts it in my feed or the algorithm does it. Or visit this thread.

 

[DancingPanther]

Steph Driver got torched today


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Apparently this is NOT a shot at Kevin Hayes .
Portnoy picked up on it and Steph has since deleted her account. Good riddance imo.

Somebody explain to me what's going on here

Edit: nevermind