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T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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gently caress lowtax

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T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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code:
since a lot of people only check bookmarks, you should know that our admin, lowtax, has been credibly accused of abusing his partner.

[url]https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928980[/url]

please do what you believe to be ethical.
i have posted this at least 20 threads probably more it's 3am

gently caress lowtax, nobody gets to ignore this

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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That post is the strongest possible piece of evidence that Lowtax is a piece of poo poo and is scared.

Run piggy run, you hosed up and now the gravy train is gone. Suck my lady dick.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Also lemme just say yikesarooni

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Seeing the results of last night's rage fueled post spamming is rather interesting. Every big cspam thread is obviously in a tizzy, but oddly the ducktales 2017 (awoo) and the rimworld thread has had the most muted conversation.

I would *never* condone spamming, but if you see a popular thread that doesn't know about all this maybe tell them. Most people just go by bookmarks.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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The General posted:

What's BNR?

Not much what's BNR with you?

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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I really hope his enablers from the last two times take accountability.

Musharraf posted:

Mods knew




Listening to a woman literally posting from a battered women's shelter? That's a ban.




Suggesting that the woman might not be a lying whore because uhh there's no video proof or something? That's a ban.



T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Gringostar posted:

Lowtax is still welcome in D&D since they like Biden right?

D&D from what I have seen is totally on the gently caress Lowtax express

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Squizzle posted:

might as well spend the afternoon giving out some more avs that i have uploaded, since i have a handful still left on the server

please avatar me, i'm tired of this one

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Fellatio del Toro posted:

has anyone made an offsite QCS yet

kiwifarms

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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now is the perfect time to give out gangtags imo

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Soup du Jour posted:

the disintegration of SA leading to the rebirth of webrings would be a hell of a 2020 thing

goons spread out in a loose network of websites, increasing the surface area to volume ratio of our posts. the goonhive remains, now far more powerful and relevant on new platforms, less tainted by SA's rocky history. CSPAM mindset grows and flourishes, freed from the QCS boot and the small confines of a single forum. it grows, and grows, and grows, and by 2021 every single liberal has been owned into a fine paste or radicalizes into a proper shitposter. lowtax is the goldenstein of our new shitpost based society, hated along with all other trashmen, trashwomen, and trashnonbinarypersons.

and buddy, the original posters? the personalities that helped prepare cspam for it's great postening? we are worshiped as gods. except the mods, obv.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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WampaLord posted:

Just approved you, enjoy.

The queue is flooding again, I am approving as fast as I can :f5: :f5: :f5:

you're doing a stellar job under a lot of pressure :)

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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:smith:

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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gonna say this as an abuse survivor, i really think she is being coerced or manipulated by an enraged and panicking lowtax. i have a feeling we're not seeing him because even he knows going on a rampage will only confirm what and who he is. a number of the people in my life tried to recant an honest confession of being abused, it's an incredibly common thing for their abuser to pull out all the stops and convince them to stay, that's a big part of why abuse is so incredibly toxic.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Lightning Knight posted:

I can’t watch this at work, can anyone give me a summary.

she's talking about how lowtax has always been good to her and she's a sick person who flips out because of alcoholism. it's very much so not easy to watch, so enormous content warning if anyone hasn't clicked through yet.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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I'm also very worried that she's wearing a shirt that says FAKE YOUR DEATH because spousal murder is incredibly common among abusers and i'm in no state to give lowtax even a sliver of the benefit of the doubt.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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also i'm gonna take a break, that video was way too much for me. please take care of yourselves, especially if you've been in her position before.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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i went like 2 months without getting seriously triggered and then i watched the video. gently caress you lowtax

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Visual Basic Bitch posted:

my particular brainworms operate in a way where SA's broken piece of poo poo forums are part of the appeal. like if it changed I would get Real Mad for a few weeks before silently accepting the new thing that I might even come to like

why yes, every major website doing a huge visual refresh every year or two is hellish for me

i was mad when the buttons changed like a decade ago and i still miss the old ones

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Ghostnuke posted:

Registered with same username

What's the significance of Bread and Roses as a name?

old socialist saying, meaning to have both basic necessities like bread and also small luxury items like roses. it's also a good song.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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front page article calling out lowtax has been memoryholed

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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with mods on "gently caress this"/strike i'm gonna post all the slurs i've wanted to post for the last 10 years


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T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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QueenOfTheEvening posted:

this isnt "blowing over" this is an abuse victim rationalizing their abuse i've done the same thing

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Samurai Sanders posted:

Honestly getting the forums away from Lowtax in one way or another has seemed like the right thing to do for years for me. But you know...owning the means of production and everything.

Seriously. From what I've gathered, he's basically been the albatross on this thread's neck from day 1. The fact that him going away for years at a time allowed a wonderful community to form despite, rather than because of him should be a lesson every leftist should be noting down.

I know this is going to come off as callous of me, but we also need to be thinking as leftists and learn from what is happening. Not only because we're seeing what is effectively a successful (online, granted) revolution against a sex pest rear end in a top hat, but also to watch out for abusers, understand when a comrade may be being abused, and most importantly shut abusers the gently caress down. It's a "joke" to say lowtax is a cop, but let's be honest. He's like at least 40% of them, and if we can organize against lowtax, we can organize against the pigmen in the Nether, in minecraft.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Giga Gaia posted:

i read the gibbis so you dont have to

oh hey, looks like my mom's texts near the end

before i went no-contact and started healing, my therapist would want me to remember.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Cao Ni Ma posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJLaLe6PDw

listening to this on blast while watching the forums die

terrible taste, unfitting of your excellent anime avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OphRnaFvBcs

nothing but

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Good Soldier Svejk posted:

what kind of seismic fuckhead talks to their child like that

very bad parents

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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sweet geek swag posted:

Don't forget that this all happened immediately after FYAD got closed. It was seriously the closest the forums came to completely disintegrating until today.

It also came after the TMR trans thread debacle with Fluffdaddy, which looking back seems to be on the same thru line as FYADgate and now.

I really hope the offsites reject that gently caress, he's a lot like lowtax.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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SlimGoodbody posted:

has this made it through here yet? does anyone know more than this?

https://www.facebook.com/toad.roll/posts/10216978681648267


video of Logan saying she's safe in a hotel and her post was from loving up due to mixing booze and pills with bipolar or something. I don't even know what to think now.
https://www.facebook.com/toad.roll/posts/10216979542429786

Yes, the thread has discussed it at length. The goon consensus among people familiar with abuse is that this is a common reaction after a victim outs their abuser. It's because of the severe psychological, emotional, and even physiological damage abusers inflect.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Giga Gaia posted:

hot off the gibbis folks

I've had my share of sleepless nights but the "i didn't sleep the last day or two" at the end is really, really concerning. The fact that he doesn't seem to know, and the casualness with which he mentions it it, and the fact that it's an obvious and juvenile way to cut the conversation short. Jesus, it's recursively terrible.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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LK I really don't know why you're editing out what you're editing out but i'm glad you're putting in the effort to protect privacy.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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UnfortunateSexFart posted:

Can someone help me, I want to believe Logan's first story and think her redaction is highly suspect but I've also personally witnessed at least two people in my life completely detach from reality and imagine things that didn't happen. Not abuse though, and one was diagnosed schizophrenic. He thought the triads gang was after him in Canada, for example.

How do you believe people but also account for this sort of thing, honest question.

this is the third time he's married a woman who's done this, going by your argument. If she was hallucinating, Lowtax has fired her, deadmined her, and sent her, alone, to go back to her parents sans partner, job, or professional help. Is mental illness really likely, given all the other info that's coming out about his terrible behavior, beliefs, and actions?

Also a lot of people with professional, personal, and even first hand abuse experience are saying it's abuse.

T-man fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jun 25, 2020

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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i think of demons posted:

cw: abuser logic

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh gently caress lowtax

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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MightyBigMinus posted:

so like this community has blown out kickstarters and gofundmes and patreons sevral times before. i know there's links to shelter donations, but i feel like a couple thousand goons kicking in a few custom titles worth of money directly to his ex-wives would be more direct.

the modmin consensus seems to be to keep goons far away from all this due to ongoing legal stuff and it seems to be what the victims want. Good energy, save it for when/if they ask.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Like, is SA actually dying? (I mean more than it was)

Like, no more patreon for girlfrined abusers, and I'm not going to Toxx or buy forum upgrades after this.

Or is it just people don't want to associate with him anymore?

1. the patreon pays for the servers, at least partially
2. lowtax is a manchild and abusers really, really don't like losing control
3. even if 1 & 2 don't apply, almost every thread I shared the inital GBS thread in immediately started planning lifeboat discords and successor forums. It's lowtax goes or SA goes for most everyone and, critically, a lot of the modmins.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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from what I've experienced he's going to keep trying to soothe it over with gaslighting for a while yet

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Joey Steel posted:

Disagree. It'd be worth getting this site to the community that has built up over the decades. It's probably the best (lol) expression of web 1.0 still extant.

Joey this site is very much so a web2.0 experience, and there are a lot of kludged on stuff newer even than that. Saving SA would be nice for many better reasons than preserving outdated websites.

And the best web 2.0 site is the space jam site

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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SOMETHING AWFUL WAS WEB 2.0 YOU MOTHERFUCKERS

DUMB PIECES OF GARBAGE

LEARN YOUR GODDAMN INTERNET HISTORY

gently caress YOU

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T-man
Aug 22, 2010


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Koalas March posted:

Remember when every icon had a gradient and a metallic shine effect in the corners

I miss ugly 00s geocities web design, at least it had character

I was sad when they changed :(

B&R make a retro SA theme option tia

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