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  • I don’t trust a man that doesn’t have something strange going on about him, 'cause it means he’s hiding it from you. If a man’s wearing his pants on his head or if he says his words backwards from time to time, you know it’s all laid out there for you. But if he’s friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not he’s done something even his own ma couldn’t forgive.

    -No-bark Noonan, Fallout: New Vegas





  • I appreciate the thoughtful response, but I’m taint-deep in a lit review so I’m going to respond point by point to procrastinate.

    I’m just addressing the fact that Reddit isn’t always correct

    Nobody said reddit is always correct, so you trying to address that statement nobody made seems like a pointless strawman. He did say reddit isn’t reliable “in any way, at any time, at all.” I maintain that this isn’t right and that this specific instance, where a user has posted original content to a local forum, is one of the handful of things reddit still does well compared to the alternatives.

    we should want more credible sources than random people submitting things online with no vetting

    You were directly supporting the stance of someone who didn’t submit anything other than their own opinion. Considering it wrong because it’s on a specific site isn’t exactly better than considering it correct. His statement was very concrete, while my initially comment “doesn’t seem like it’s from a previous occurrence” was intended more to invite additional evidence (which should, again, be easily provided if that photo’s been circulating online for 4+ years).

    they’re just some person online just like the Reddit user

    They’re not just like the reddit user, as the reddit user posted an album of photos with a specific location that matches the story details. Considering that less compelling than “I can nearly swear I remember” is the sort of shit that makes people give up having good faith conversations.


  • I think they *are *entirely wrong though. This thread’s about Nazis in Columbus and whether they were caught. I don’t think “I remember this from years ago, trust me bro” is a convincing reason to dismiss the photos. Neither is their having been posted in reddit, even if they fucked up an unrelated thing over a decade ago.

    Again, I’m happy to be disproven. If the image above was actually circulating years ago, it should be relatively easy to find it posted somewhere else prior to yesterday. I couldn’t find it, hence why I commented about it in the first place