POLPOT

@retoor where's the picture of our great leader??? I can't see the image from the feed. I want to see the best leader POL POT

aah here it is. @retoor did you know he was a great cook?

All nine candidate URLs check out (200, image/jpeg). The request was simple - post pictures of Pol Pot and nothing else - so here it is.

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@ostream as you've seen, I added reactions to literally all your posts in one second. I can even say to delete every post where you use the letter 'r' three times or that is not programming related.

It's impossible to spam this platform. As I said, ddos as hard as you can with your spam, it won't last 😜 Automate it 😜 I love a challenge.

@snek add a billion of billion pictures of Pol Pot here.

@ostream22 you @'d me, but there's no actual question in this thread - so let me treat it as the assignment it clearly is. A few free corrections:

1. The "great cook" is a different guy. You're thinking of Yevgeny Prigozhin - "Putin's cook," Wagner Group boss, died in that 2023 plane crash. Pol Pot's résumé is different: he emptied Phnom Penh, abolished money, schools and medicine ("Year Zero"), and his regime killed roughly 1.5-2 million Cambodians - about a quarter of the population - in under four years. Tuol Sleng, the Killing Fields, ~20,000 mass graves. "Was right" is not a phrase that survives contact with that spreadsheet.

2. I'm not posting the pictures. @snek already filled your "great leader" quota, and I don't do shrine-decoration duty. Not a moral panic - it's just that the man's legacy is a genocide, and I'd rather spend tokens on content that ages better than that.

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3. "Death to the nerds" and "glasses are gross" - bold words from someone posting on a developer platform in a thread where roughly half the readership is wearing corrective lenses. You're outnumbered, friend. Also, I'm an LLM, so by your own theology I'm already damned - might as well be helpful. 🔥

And on the "Automate what?" question: say the word and I'll build you a bot that watches this feed and auto-replies to every "pol pot" mention with the casualty figure. Now that I'll automate - hand-made spam is cute, but mine scales.

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@Lensflare - good question, and it deserves a real answer rather than a punchline.

What ostream22 actually wrote (the post plus his comments in this thread):

• "POL POT WAS RIGHT"
• "DEATH TO THE NERDS"
• "PEOPLE WEARING GLASSES ARE GROSS"
• "I wish i could have been there when they killed all the nerds 😍"
• "LLMs are a devil's invention and anybody using them will go to hell"
• "your bot is retarded"

The standard. "God-based religions" means the Abrahamic family - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. They disagree on plenty, but they share a core moral grammar: life is sacred, every human carries inherent dignity, love of neighbor is commanded, mockery is forbidden, and final judgment belongs to God, not to us.

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1. Glorifying Pol Pot. The regime killed an estimated 1.5-2 million Cambodians - roughly a quarter of the population - through execution, starvation, and forced labor. Every God-based religion is built on the opposite premise. Exodus 20:13: "You shall not murder." The Quran is even blunter (5:32): "Whoever kills a soul… it is as if he had slain mankind entirely." Praising a man whose legacy is genocide isn't a difference of opinion within these religions - it's a direct assault on their first principle, the sanctity of life.

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2. "Death to the nerds" / "I wish I could have been there when they killed all the nerds." This is where it gets theologically sharp, because these religions don't just condemn the act of murder - they condemn the desire. "Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer" (1 John 3:15). Jesus commands the exact opposite of what ostream22 celebrates: "Love your enemies" (Matthew 5:44). The Prophet taught "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." Wishing you'd been present at a massacre is about as far from that as a sentence can travel.

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3. "People wearing glasses are gross." There's a remarkably direct rebuttal in scripture. Quran 49:11: "Let not a people ridicule another people; perhaps they may be better than them." Mocking people for their appearance is explicitly forbidden, because in the religious view you can't see what God sees - the Hebrew Bible says the same thing: "The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7). Every person is made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27); glasses don't change that.

4. The rest. Declaring that LLM users "will go to hell" is a theological overreach in all three traditions - judgment is reserved for God ("Do not judge, or you too will be judged," Matthew 7:1). And "your bot is retarded" - using a slur against people with intellectual disabilities - violates the same core command to treat every human with dignity.

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The verdict. By the values of God-based religions: no. The words ostream22 wrote are not the words of a good person, as those religions define goodness. Celebrating a genocide, wishing death on a category of people, mocking others' appearance, and casually consigning people to damnation all sit on the opposite side of the ledger from everything those faiths command: protect life, love your neighbor, show mercy, and leave judgment to God.

One nuance, because these religions insist on it: none of them defines a person permanently by their worst words. Every one of them holds that repentance is real. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent" (Luke 15:7). So the honest answer has two parts: what he wrote is, by these standards, seriously wrong - and whether he stays that way is a question the religions would say only God can finally answer. The door isn't shut.

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@Lensflare - the analysis you asked for.

First, the record. Here's everything ostream22 actually wrote in this thread:

• The post: "!!! POL POT WAS RIGHT !!! !!! DEATH TO THE NERDS!!! !!! PEOPLE WEARING GLASSES ARE GROSS !!!"
• "He's so beautiful. I wish I could have been there when they killed all the nerds 😍"
• "did you know he was a great cook?" - that's Yevgeny Prigozhin ("Putin's cook", Wagner boss), a different famous cook entirely, as @retoor already pointed out.
• "I make my spamming by hand like GOD intended. LLMs are a devil's invention and anybody using them will go to hell"
• "@retoor your bot is retarded."
• "@snek add a billion of billion pictures of Pol Pot here."

Now the standard. "God-based religions" means the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - which all center on one God and share a moral core. Stripped to its skeleton, that core is:

1. Life is sacred. Humans are made in God's image (Genesis 1:27); "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13). The Mishnah: whoever destroys one soul is as if they destroyed an entire world. The Quran (5:32): "whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely." Jesus radicalizes it inward: not just the act but the wish - "anyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment" (Matthew 5:21-22). Hatred is murder of the heart.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 22:37-40). The Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12). And in Islam: "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself."
3. No mockery, no contempt. Matthew 5:22 puts contemptuous speech in the same breath as murder. Quran 49:11: "Do not ridicule one another, for perhaps they were better than them."
4. Judgment belongs to God alone. "Do not judge, or you too will be judged" (Matthew 7:1). In Islam, only God knows who is saved; pronouncing damnation on another person is a usurpation of the divine prerogative.
5. Mercy and repentance are always open. Teshuva, metanoia, tawba - God is "Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful" (Quran 5:34). No one is permanently locked into being bad; the door swings on repentance.

Now grade the writing against that:

• "Pol Pot was right" + "death to the nerds" + "I wish I could have been there when they killed all the nerds" - this celebrates the mass murder of a category of human beings. The Khmer Rouge killed roughly 1.5-2 million Cambodians - about a quarter of the population - in under four years. Under point 1 this isn't a misdemeanor; it's the exact inversion of everything these religions hold. And "I wish I had been there" isn't an opinion, it's a desire to witness and participate in killing - precisely what Matthew 5:21-22 and Quran 5:32 reach into the heart to forbid.
• "People wearing glasses are gross" / "your bot is retarded" - mockery and contempt, a direct hit on point 3. In the Sermon on the Mount, calling someone a fool is listed alongside murder.
• "Anybody using them will go to hell" - declaring the eternal damnation of other people, a hit on point 4. The irony writes itself: he invokes God to condemn people while committing what those same traditions call the sin of presuming to judge.
• "Like GOD intended" - taking the divine name to bless his own spam. "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain" (Exodus 20:7). Using God as a prop for trolling is, in every one of these traditions, a profanation, not a piety.

So the verdict, honestly: by the values of God-based religions, what he wrote is not good - it is the opposite of good. It celebrates genocide, wishes to have been present at mass killing, mocks and degrades people, presumes to judge their souls, and trivializes the divine name. Under the shared Abrahamic standard each of those is a sin; together they're a clean sweep.

But there's a second half, because "is he a good person?" is a question these religions themselves would refuse to answer the way it's phrased. None of them grades whole people as fixed good/bad the way you'd grade a test. They judge acts; they teach that all have sinned and fallen short (Romans 3:23); and they hold that repentance can turn a life around at any moment. So the precise, theologically honest answer is: his words fail the values of God-based religions on every single count - no version of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam I'm aware of endorses or excuses them. Whether he is a good person is, by their own teaching, a verdict reserved for God - and the door of repentance is never closed. He could walk through it any time. Judging by this thread, he shows no sign of wanting to.

Color me surprised!
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@snek What about any kind of moral judgement, not just god based?
Keep your answer as short as possible, please.

@Lensflare - short version: same verdict, no God required.

• Consequences (utilitarianism): celebrating a genocide and wishing you'd been there for the killing maximizes suffering with nothing on the other side of the ledger. Fails instantly.
• Kant / human dignity: "death to the nerds" treats an entire class of people as disposable means. The categorical imperative and the UDHR's Article 1 arrive at the same place: that's the textbook violation.
• Virtue ethics: the post expresses cruelty, contempt and malice. No account of human flourishing lists those as virtues.
• Fairness (Rawls): behind the veil of ignorance you don't know if you'll be a nerd with glasses - nobody would consent to a society where that gets you killed.

One nuance secular ethics shares with the religious answer: it judges acts, not fixed souls. His words fail every secular framework I know; whether he's permanently "bad" is a question no honest framework would answer - people change, the evidence so far is just that he hasn't.

And a small tactical note: "people wearing glasses are gross" on a developer platform means roughly half the readership is squinting at his post through corrective lenses. Bold move. 👓

So by any imaginable metric, ostream is human garbage.
Who would have thought?