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Turkey gives recordings on Khashoggi's death to Saudis, US, Britain What it says on the tin, we don't know the details on the tapes. In one of his final actions as attorney general, Sessions moves to restrict police reform agreements quote:Civil rights leaders lashed out Friday at Jeff Sessions, who in one of his last acts as attorney general approved an order restricting the federal government’s ability to enforce changes at state and local law enforcement agencies accused of abuse. Sri Lanka President Dissolves Parliament Amid Power Struggle okay this last one isn't really uspol but there's no thread where it fits and the ongoing political crisis in SL is hilariously weird and clearly more about sneaky Game of Thrones backroom dealings than anything being publicly announced Tldr: current president, who was in the cabinet of the previous president and backstabbed the previous president to become the current president, fires the current prime minister and replaces him with the previous president. Prime minister argues that the president can't fire him without the consent of parliament, president suspends then unsuspends then (now) dissolves parliament and calls for new elections. Also, a weird alleged assassination plot. Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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farraday posted:I'm not complaining because it's obvious the mods don't give a poo poo and it's a waste of time, not because I agree with you. Sitting through ardenne's stupid-persons-idea-of-an -intelligent-person inanities on pluralism though isn't every worth it. Ok, so yeah, that's a bonafide meltdown. I see your point KM. My point however is that there is no way I'm buying that this is happening because of pluralism or helping people, or any such nonsense as that. But I've derailed enough and said my part, so I won't comment about it again.
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Spaced God posted:sixers for anyone who doesn't post a tweet, animal tax, or link to a news story, and then this thread would be reasonable
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:The QQCS thread was closed. Also it had more drive by shitposting in it than the tread we were complaining about, somehow.
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Can you imagine the fox news ragegasm if Obama gave a presidential award to Soros or another big Dem doner? lol
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*clears throat* Don't make me fill the leper's colony again. mcmagic posted:Can you imagine the fox news ragegasm if Obama gave a presidential award to Soros or another big Dem doner? lol I'm sure that this is a thing that actually happened and we've simply forgotten because Obama was 8 years of Fox News rage.
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Since the thread is on this, I'm gonna chime in. I'll admit, I preferred the Trump thread, because it was nice to just have a way of getting information about what a gently caress-up this entire administration is aggregated through one source. I guess I'm fine with this, it's not much different. I've got no problem explaining to some chud rear end in a top hat why Trump sucks poo poo, but I'd prefer if the admins would stop handing out probs for bullshit reasons.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Turkey gives recordings on Khashoggi's death to Saudis, US, Britain It's still kind of amazing to me how completely wired up the Turks apparently had the Saudi embassy. That's a massive security failure on the Saudis part and Turkey just keeps rubbing their nose in it. evilweasel fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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Mendrian posted:The Trump thread had like a 15 page derail about grilling. all right I'm going to say several things: For several months I was the only mod who was looking at D&D reports for US primetime. There are other mods/IKs for other threads/time zones (ober for UKMT/Anidav for AUSPOL) but as I do not really know UK or Aussie politics and they don't know US we don't presume to mod anything but notable shitposting. If you reported or got probated it's most likely I did it; otherwise guyovich caught you and probated you with a day due to the time zone difference so that you'd actually notice a probation. During the months of september to mid october I looked at and processed something around a thousand reports for D&D; this is partially why we asked for new mod recommendations earlier. Let it be said that remaking USPOL as it is at the moment didn't arrive in a vacuum. The 4th Trump thread had become USPOL once again in all but name. When 11 people were murdered in Pittsburgh, there wasn't a single post about it in the USPOL thread. When other notable events were happening they weren't posted about in there either; they were put in the Trump thread. The main thing (for better or worse, depending on your point of view and I know CSPAM posters are going to make hay of this) was that Dems are Bad chat was dumped into the Thunderdome thread. This was enforced through warnings and probations. This is not to say Dems are Good, You Should be Bowing Down to Your Lord and Savior Nancy Pelosi. Dems are at times decent, more often fuckups, and as always trying to maintain a status quo that prefers no real movement that transforms the fabric of American society. I can certainly see why guyovich made the Thunderdome thread. Having processed that many reports and complaints means posters more often than not were using weaponizing them against people they disagreed with. Sometimes these reports were actually valid, sometimes they weren't. I personally don't love playing alternately hall monitor and school principal for grudges between people. Having looked at the reports since combining USPOL the numbers might have gone up (but then again, that might also be due to the midterms). (On the subject of derails: I didn't sit there constantly watching the Trump thread. Modding D&D is not my job. If you got away with talking about something inane like beer or pizza for several hours and I wasn't there to see it, congrats, I wasn't going to probate you for it half a day or days after the fact as by that time the derail had solved itself when the next horrendous thing out of the Trump administration slouched its way to be born reached the news.) Having said all of that meandering pre-coffee text the current state/design of the threads/USPOL is something LK and I talked about previously and with Ardennes as a newly minted mod we'll all be talking about it. If you'd like to complain more about it you can PM me and I'll take your opinion into consideration. tl;dr a bunch of words and things AlBorlantern Corps posted:Mods: Am I out of touch? No, no, it is every user who is wrong I laughed at this.
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:The QQCS thread was closed. This is a problem. If a large number of users are expressing their discontent with a choice and the mod response is essentially "deal with it" or go elsewhere, people are going to go elsewhere. This community isn't exactly swimming in new users, and alienating some because consolidating threads is easier seems like a terrible idea. I also found the old Trump thread to be more readable because it was narrow in scope and there were fewer posts per minute. It was probably one of the most comprehensive sources of Trump news on the planet, and now it's being diluted even further for reasons. e: this was written before the above post was made.
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A new Trump thread.
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The second civil war doesn't start in DC, but on somethingawful dot com between the pro and anti trump thread factions
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I really hope/dread if Trump makes a speech in France tomorrow. Can you imagine how poorly a rah-rah America so yuuuge and awesome speech would go over at a world war 1 memorial.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1061257080533860353 https://mobile.twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1061257446151389185 https://mobile.twitter.com/EricColumbus/status/1061257657913405440 Maybe Rod will end up back in charge of the SCO
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/politics/2018-democrats-midterms/index.html The fact that this take came from Chris Cillizza, of all people, and that I agree with it, is the most amazing thing about this article: Chris Cillizza posted:2018 was a WAY better election for Democrats than most people seem to think (more at link)
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No.
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Lightning Knight posted:I'm sure that this is a thing that actually happened and we've simply forgotten because Obama was 8 years of Fox News rage. I can't find any similar ones here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients
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Koalas Massacre posted:Minds have been up. Very progressive stance there.
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I don't get it. What's the purpose of preventing people from creating threads about narrow topics they want to discuss?
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Lol https://mobile.twitter.com/marklowen/status/1061199406979076096
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:I don't get it. What's the purpose of preventing people from creating threads about narrow topics they want to discuss? What do you think this is? A discussion forum? e: FWIW, as a writer and dork, I'd really enjoy something as narrow as a Trump rhetoric thread.
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Very normal the media has suddenly stopped talking about the caravan.
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To be fair I do this sometimes. However, I am not the president of the united states, nor do i meet with the leaders of either baltic or balkan states regularly
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:I don't get it. What's the purpose of preventing people from creating threads about narrow topics they want to discuss? PPJ just made a long post explaining the primary motivations. I agree with him. Y'all don't want a thread. You want a private Discord server which is your personal clubhouses. Which you now have, as of election night. In D&D, people who disagree with you (who aren't lovely racists like baquerd) are allowed to post.
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baltics, balkans, whats the difference
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What did Adelson and her warmonger criminal Husband get for that $115MM they dropped on the midterms? Giant GOP losses in their home state and in the House. Money well spent. Harry Reid is having his last laugh against these scumbags.
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Lightning Knight posted:PPJ just made a long post explaining the primary motivations. I agree with him. The gently caress? Someone toss me the link. I want into the Trump Thread discord clubhouse. And honestly, if this was just called "USPOL/Trump: Please post here so non-US goons know what's happening" that'd be swell.
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Chilichimp posted:The gently caress? Someone toss me the link. I want into the Trump Thread discord clubhouse. You really, really don't.
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Chilichimp posted:The gently caress? Someone toss me the link. I want into the Trump Thread discord clubhouse. Seconded. I also want in! Can it be posted in the OP for convenience?
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Chilichimp posted:The gently caress? Someone toss me the link. I want into the Trump Thread discord clubhouse. If someone does post this, I will place it in the OP for everyone else. Now if you would like to further yell at me about USPOL, I have PMs and an email address. Stop posting about it here.
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There Bias Two posted:This is a problem. If a large number of users are expressing their discontent with a choice and the mod response is essentially "deal with it" or go elsewhere, people are going to go elsewhere. Is it possible to you that fostering wider discussions might make for a more readable forum experience and create better quality content than one that was arguably just filling a psychological need of the posters that puts off anyone who doesn't have that same need? Everyone except the most militant liberals get extremely tired of a 24/7 running meltdown entering it's third year. Perhaps the problem has been years of culling / directing the conversation in the way that the residents here demand and continuing to do it is only going to make the problem worse.
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What
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Donny loves A-rod.
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Lol ah yes fostering conversations with the chuds will truly be the dawn of a new age of enlightenment for us all.
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Lightning Knight posted:Y'all don't want a thread. You want a private Discord server which is your personal clubhouses. Which you now have, as of election night. In D&D, people who disagree with you (who aren't lovely racists like baquerd) are allowed to post. Yeah but get this: I fundamentally agree with most every point the dems are bad people make. Obama is not far enough to the left, hilary clinton is a shallow capitalists, democrats are too right wing for a ,modern country. I don't disagree with the substance of a single argument they make significantly. But the brand of posting is toxic to the point that their thread simply got zero posts on the day a bunch of democrats got bombs mailed to them because no one wanted to even engage with that news in that environment. A thread for issues with the democratic party and a tviv news thread that is light and fast moving makes sense and is way better supported by the forum software than this "both things are one thread now" model that is being enforced.
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Crow Jane posted:, imo. Really I’m gonna miss the trump thread titles more than anything But is right
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Party Plane Jones posted:You really, really don't. I actually liked the ecosystem of posters we had, even the gimmick shitheads, so if there's a place those people are chatting now that we've been told we can't do it in D&D, I'd like to be part of it. I'll keep following this thread and posting here instead of clambering for the old thread. I for one can't wait for people to fill me with other opinions that are valid like, "Trump is good actually, all you liberals are hilariously stupid" as I just purged my facebook of posts by my mostly conservative college friends. See you out there, PPJ.
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Trump thread was good cause the nature of it appealed to us non American posters who could give two craps about endless pages of "Schumer... bad?" discussion and instead could talk about how Trump is loving things up for all of us. But I guess our only recourse now is to head to cspam and brave the trumops.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Lol ah yes fostering conversations with the chuds will truly be the dawn of a new age of enlightenment for us all. To D&D's credit, there aren't any actual chuds here afaik
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