trebuchet

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trebuchet is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 18, 2021 and July 25, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “got this comment by trebuchet which I want to quote”; “New major warnings (halfway to ban) for Trebuchet”. It most often appears alongside BLM, /b/, /sp/.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 18, 2021
  • Last seen: July 25, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

May 18, 2021 · Original source
Some commenters got into a subthread about a claim that transgender advocates wanted to rename “Mother’s Day” to “Birthing Person’s Day”, with the predictable response that nobody really wanted to do that and it was a fake conservative talking point / hyperbole / satire / attempt to scare people. Someone else pointed out that a Congresswoman was now using “birthing person” instead of “mother” and this seemed non-fake and non-nutpicking, and someone else pointed out that using “birthing person” was different from demanding other people use it, or changing the name of an entire holiday. At this point we got this comment by trebuchet which I want to quote:
July 25, 2022 · Original source
1: I finally went through the past three months of reported comments and banned people who needed banning. New bans for Brett S, Karl, Sleazy E, JSTR (3 months), Adept, Cal Lawson, Charles Casaburi, Arian Bagheri Pour Fallah, HumbleRando, Deiseach (1 month), and NavyBlueSmoke. New major warnings (halfway to ban) for JDK, истинец, Roger Biles, Ludex, Trebuchet, and Golden_Feather. New minor warning for Beowulf888.