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    Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024

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    • KestrelK
      Kestrel
      last edited by Kestrel

      One side is “accidentally” doing Nazi salutes twice

      And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it

      I’m stressed. I’m concerned.


      EDIT: air quotes added for /s clarity.

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        Muscle Car @Kestrel
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        @Kestrel “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson.

        Time to inhabit that energy. Act locally, speak globally, lead with love and stay strong and true.

        Got what you wanted, lost what you had.

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        • kalakhK
          kalakh
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          It’s been two days and I’m kinda back to the post election night state of “I don’t know how I’m going to do this” dread. That, and I’m angry. I’m really, really angry. It’s not fun to be in my headspace right now, is what I’m saying.

          Anyway, shamelessly stealing this from a Discord channel:

          alt text

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            Juniper
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            UGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHJJ

            That is all. I just had to get it out of my system.

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            • RozR
              Roz
              last edited by

              This was not accidental.

              she/her | playlist

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                NotSanni @Kestrel
                last edited by

                @Kestrel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                One side is accidentally doing Nazi salutes twice

                And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it

                I’m stressed. I’m concerned.

                lol “accidentally”

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                • kalakhK
                  kalakh @NotSanni
                  last edited by

                  @NotSanni said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                  @Kestrel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                  One side is accidentally doing Nazi salutes twice

                  And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it

                  I’m stressed. I’m concerned.

                  lol “accidentally”

                  Look, sometimes you just caught up in the moment and invade Poland.

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                    NotSanni @kalakh
                    last edited by

                    @kalakh said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                    @NotSanni said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                    @Kestrel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                    One side is accidentally doing Nazi salutes twice

                    And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it

                    I’m stressed. I’m concerned.

                    lol “accidentally”

                    Look, sometimes you just caught up in the moment and invade Poland.

                    sometimes one does a lil nazi salute with one’s whole chest, by accident. many such cases. a lil uh oh whoopsy.

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                    • HobbieH
                      Hobbie @kalakh
                      last edited by

                      @kalakh This is the variant I’ve seen

                      a7734ec6-e723-49ce-905a-7e7eaaac8e29-image.png

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                        dvoraen
                        last edited by dvoraen

                        At risk of coming across as really callous towards, well, everyone in the United States, I’ve basically been forced to adopt this particular meme, because so many people in the US could not read the writing on the wall, amongst other potential problems* with our new… “administration”, and note the air quotes.

                        But first, the meme:

                        My Field of Fucks - It's Barren
                        (@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)

                        It’s not that I don’t care what happens to people, it’s that I’ve basically run out of tears to cry with, you could say. So at this point, my emotions have basically hit the computer science equivalent of an integer overflow and gone to the opposite side of the digital number line, so that’s why I read r/leopardsatemyface now. I’m still waiting for some of the diehards to realize they are going to get exactly what they voted for, just not what they think they voted for. (How about those egg and grocery price promises, errbody?)

                        * ||The fact that The Donald™ has alluded to election fraud by suggesting tampering (by Elon) with the voting machines… yeah. r/houstonwade on reddit went wild about this for a while.||

                        (@Tez WHY DID THE SPOILER BUTTON NOT WORK EITHER REEEE)

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                        • J
                          Juniper
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                          Empathy fatigue.

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                          • RozR
                            Roz @dvoraen
                            last edited by

                            @dvoraen said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                            (@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)

                            Were you doing it with just the regular Imgur URL from the URL bar or did you right click on the image and get the actual direct image link?

                            she/her | playlist

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                            • TezT
                              Tez Administrators @dvoraen
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                              @dvoraen Git gud

                              she/they

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                                dvoraen @Roz
                                last edited by

                                @Roz said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                @dvoraen said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                (@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)

                                Were you doing it with just the regular Imgur URL from the URL bar or did you right click on the image and get the actual direct image link?

                                I think it was the imgur-provided link instead of the direct one, yeah.

                                @Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!

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                                • RozR
                                  Roz @dvoraen
                                  last edited by Roz

                                  @dvoraen said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                  @Roz said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                  @dvoraen said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                  (@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)

                                  Were you doing it with just the regular Imgur URL from the URL bar or did you right click on the image and get the actual direct image link?

                                  I think it was the imgur-provided link instead of the direct one, yeah.

                                  Yeah, then that’s just any URL for a web page; it’d be like expecting a BMD post URL to resolve to an image just because an image appeared on the page.

                                  You have to have a URL ending with an actual image filename and extension.

                                  ETA:

                                  @Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!

                                  this isn’t funny

                                  she/her | playlist

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                                    dvoraen @Roz
                                    last edited by

                                    ETA:

                                    @Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!

                                    this isn’t funny

                                    Neither is what you’re insinuating with this, particularly when you consider that the initial response to me was flippant – and also not really funny from my perspective, but I didn’t take it as malicious or intended to be insulting (nor was my response to it meant as such either) – especially since, as we clearly just saw with not knowing how to properly image link from imgur, it could’ve just been a simple matter of me simply forgetting how to do it correctly. Secondly, if I had any real issue with the forum upgrade, it would have been voiced by now and in a very different way.

                                    That said, @Tez if that was in bad taste, I am sorry.

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                                    • TezT
                                      Tez Administrators @dvoraen
                                      last edited by

                                      @dvoraen There’s a place to put feedback related to the change. If you actually have feedback on things that are broken, they can go there. If you have any amount of searching to figure out how to fix it, that’s even better. Roz found the solution to the layout issue and posted it in that thread so I could implement it.

                                      I do not get paid to do this. I’m not just an unpaid volunteer, I pay for the privilege of volunteering. I assumed you were joking and responded in that fashion, because the idea that you were being serious was too wild to contemplate. If I was wrong, and you were serious, then yeah, it was in piss poor taste.

                                      she/they

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                                        dvoraen @Tez
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                                        @Tez said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                        @dvoraen There’s a place to put feedback related to the change. If you actually have feedback on things that are broken, they can go there. If you have any amount of searching to figure out how to fix it, that’s even better. Roz found the solution to the layout issue and posted it in that thread so I could implement it.

                                        I do not get paid to do this. I’m not just an unpaid volunteer, I pay for the privilege of volunteering. I assumed you were joking and responded in that fashion, because the idea that you were being serious was too wild to contemplate. If I was wrong, and you were serious, then yeah, it was in piss poor taste.

                                        To be clear, yes, I was trying to be completely facetious, because I could not for the life of me figure out what I was doing wrong for either one. The only reason I tagged you was because you probably would know the most and, tbh, I just did not have time to research it because I was posting right before my appointment for a surgery consult. (And to be fair, I did open the door to being whapped with a ‘git gud’, but my reaction to it was to sigh in all caps in my chair, but again, I didn’t treat it as serious. I just didn’t laugh or find it humorous as far as “it was not funny” was concerned.)

                                        But yeah. I probably could’ve handled that better either way.

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                                        • PavelP
                                          Pavel @kalakh
                                          last edited by

                                          @kalakh said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                          @NotSanni said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                          @Kestrel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

                                          One side is accidentally doing Nazi salutes twice

                                          And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it

                                          I’m stressed. I’m concerned.

                                          lol “accidentally”

                                          Look, sometimes you just caught up in the moment and invade Poland.

                                          I mean there are currently German tanks pointing towards Poland (maybe even driving through it, I’m not totally caught up on the minutiae of the movements) but it’s not what it looks like.

                                          He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                                          BE AN ADULT

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                                          • SolsticeS
                                            Solstice
                                            last edited by Solstice

                                            Struggling pretty hard. I’m LGBTQIA+, and it feels like the US is becoming a more hostile place than ever. My partner and I are basically alternating between literal panic attacks and each day’s headlines feel like a fresh hell. Trying to prop up my community members spiraling in group chat, and I just don’t know what to say anymore.

                                            In 2017, it was the stupidest timeline but we just had to knuckle down
                                            In 2025, I’m out of jokes, and this feels like literal hell.

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