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Telsa Cola posted:Didn't someone earlier point out that a similar building was constructed elsewhere and it actually got good reviews from students because they actually followed through with having really good common spaces? The existing building serves like...less than 700 students. The new one will have 4500. It's uh, really not as simple as just scaling it up and not having windows is just the beginning of the problems with such a thing.
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Mostly, when I think about that proposed building, I think about what will happen when someone in the middle of a floor lets out a really bad fart. You know, the kind that you need to open a window for.
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Oct 31, 2021 20:15
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Neither is okay. Don't ruin the concert for everyone else. What if Ed Robertson picks a guy named Brandon?
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Oct 31, 2021 20:16
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Deteriorata posted:The ContentBlockHelper add-on lets you select out specific scripts to block on a page, which can be quite useful in stopping ads, videos, and other actions (like paywalls). You have to experiment a bit to find out which ones to block and which to leave. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome There is also a quite good paywall blocker extension for Chrome.
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Mooseontheloose posted:What if Ed Robertson picks a guy named Brandon? Brandon we never really knew each other anyway
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Oct 31, 2021 20:20
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Virginia, please don't gently caress this up. A choice between a proto fascist and a boring dude isn't difficult.
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Oct 31, 2021 20:35
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Terminal autist posted:So its ok for me to chant "gently caress joe biden" at a concert or some sport poo poo but chanting "lets go brandon" is unacceptable? I would assume you're a right winger either way, unless there was clear context to the contrary.
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Terminal autist posted:So its ok for me to chant "gently caress joe biden" at a concert or some sport poo poo but chanting "lets go brandon" is unacceptable? I would also be concerned if the pilot of my plane was on the loudspeaker saying "Play Freebird!" or "Yer Mother's a whore, Jeter!" or singing "We are the champions" , and those things aren't neo-nazi adjacent
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Somewhat related, Philadelphia this week became the first U.S. city to ban the police from pulling people over for minor traffic offenses. ACAB
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Hellblazer187 posted:I would assume you're a right winger either way, unless there was clear context to the contrary. if you walk up to me and shout "gently caress joe biden" i'll assume you're an rear end in a top hat, if you shout "let's go brandon" i'll assume you're a fascist rear end in a top hat. *shrug* no different than if you have a pepe frog or swastika tattoo. "a hit dog will howl" and i'm assuming we're accidentally calling out a whole bunch of people with hilarious bumper stickers itt so: #notallchanters
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Dpulex posted:Virginia, please don't gently caress this up. A choice between a proto fascist and a boring dude isn't difficult. Ah yes, but if the boring dude doesn't inspire you to get out and vote for them, then who can really say which is the better choice?
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AmiYumi posted:I’m going to a party with my partner to socialize with other adult humans, which is probably why I don’t fit in so good here in D&D.  You spend an awful lot of time posting in this thread about having better things to do than posting in this thread.eta: AmiYumi posted:Since it’ll need to be refreshed anyway, can we start putting “discuss XX topic in its dedicated thread, [here]” links in the OP? If nothing else, it might finally cut down the pages of sass every time one of the same bad faith posters struts in with a lukewarm take trying to restart primary chat or w/e I do hope "bad faith" is clarified for all the folks champing at the bit to wield it. 
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Oct 31, 2021 20:58
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"Lets Go Brandon/gently caress Joe Biden" is the stupidest troll and stupidest hill to die on. Just ignore it.
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Oct 31, 2021 21:01
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CommieGIR posted:"Lets Go Brandon/gently caress Joe Biden" is the stupidest troll and stupidest hill to die on. Just ignore it. Is that mod hat on or mod hat off?
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Willa Rogers posted:Is that mod hat on or mod hat off? Mod hat off. Frankly I think its a stupid phrase personally, but the fact that the Right wing makes tons of stupid catchphrases, and this is just another in a large pile, I just don't see why people should be surprised or shocked about it.
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CommieGIR posted:"Lets Go Brandon/gently caress Joe Biden" is the stupidest troll and stupidest hill to die on. Just ignore it. That would seem the sensible thing to do, but I'd say this thread has aptly demonstrated why it's had (and may continue to have) staying power despite the facial stupidity: it's got about the best possible ratio of effort to results of any recent political meme. A zero effort expression of uncontroversial disdain for a Democratic politician that prompts incredibly revealing and genuinely off-putting and/or offensive meltdowns. The comparison someone made to ArfJason's style actually seems fairly apt.
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LGD posted:That would seem the sensible thing to do, but I'd say this thread has aptly demonstrated why it's had (and may continue to have) staying power despite the facial stupidity: it's got about the best possible ratio of effort to results of any recent political meme. A zero effort expression of uncontroversial disdain for a Democratic politician that prompts incredibly revealing and genuinely off-putting and/or offensive meltdowns. The comparison someone made to ArfJason's style actually seems fairly apt. Maybe, I think its incredibly weird that it does have staying power, because after 1/6 and the entire mud slinging of the 2020 election cycle anyways, why is THIS the line too far? It makes no sense. I'd rather focus on the outright clear threat other things the Right is doing right now than this stupid phrase.
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Zeron posted:The existing building serves like...less than 700 students. The new one will have 4500. It's uh, really not as simple as just scaling it up and not having windows is just the beginning of the problems with such a thing. Yeah, I don't know why people keep coming in to go "Oh that building looks fine to me!" when a professional architect has pointed out all the problems and felt so strongly he resigned. Like, if you're looking at that thing and thinking it doesn't look so bad, it was designed by an amateur architect who supports Trump and only gets buildings built by donating all the money and forcing it. If this was two doctors I know exactly which one people would be trusting.
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CommieGIR posted:"Lets Go Brandon/gently caress Joe Biden" is the stupidest troll and stupidest hill to die on. Just ignore it. If people could just ignore it democrat party would not be a controversial thing to post here
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We know the old saying of what conservatism truly believed, of in groups the law protects but doesn’t bind, our groups the law binds but does not protect. The shedding of dog whistles by being openly racist is an expression of your in group not being bound, the use of dog whistles like Lets Go Brandon is used to identify yourself as part of the in group. While you could find all sorts of useful sociological additional benefit in say, folks debating how dumb the phrase is while the conservatives don’t care, the conservatives are largely unaware of them. They are mostly chasing the warm feeling of proclaiming their position among the in group.
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CommieGIR posted:Mod hat off. Frankly I think its a stupid phrase personally, but the fact that the Right wing makes tons of stupid catchphrases, and this is just another in a large pile, I just don't see why people should be surprised or shocked about it. i know your side: it's just more rightwing nonsense and should be ignored. and i know my side: let's assume the people chanting the chud chant are chuds and frown on displaying it in public or letting authority figures express this code. this seems reasonable to me, what's this weird point of view everyone is fighting against? like: quote:That would seem the sensible thing to do, but I'd say this thread has aptly demonstrated why it's had (and may continue to have) staying power despite the facial stupidity: it's got about the best possible ratio of effort to results of any recent political meme. A zero effort expression of uncontroversial disdain for a Democratic politician that prompts incredibly revealing and genuinely off-putting and/or offensive meltdowns. The comparison someone made to ArfJason's style actually seems fairly apt "oh look: more chud behavior" "it's just the 'ok' sign, bro!" "maybe we all need to calm down!!!"
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NecroBob posted:Ah yes, but if the boring dude doesn't inspire you to get out and vote for them, then who can really say which is the better choice? tbf the fascist is inspiring people to get out to vote for him, by being a lovely fascist. The boring dude could also try inspiring people by trying to do good things but this is apparently unreasonable Blind Duke posted:We know the old saying of what conservatism truly believed, of in groups the law protects but doesn’t bind, our groups the law binds but does not protect. The shedding of dog whistles by being openly racist is an expression of your in group not being bound, the use of dog whistles like Lets Go Brandon is used to identify yourself as part of the in group. While you could find all sorts of useful sociological additional benefit in say, folks debating how dumb the phrase is while the conservatives don’t care, the conservatives are largely unaware of them. They are mostly chasing the warm feeling of proclaiming their position among the in group. I'm pretty sure they're just Owning The Libs rather than doing the nazi code bit. Actual white supremacist dogwhistles like 1488 and fren and whatnot tend to be more directly malicious than just telling an old man he sucks e: Like I know "just don't respond lol" is an old excuse but they're really just doing it because the media is clutching pearls over it super hard Yinlock fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Booourns posted:I was saying let's go Brandon I just wanted to highlight this as an all-timer post/user-name combo.
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CommieGIR posted:Mod hat off. Frankly I think its a stupid phrase personally, but the fact that the Right wing makes tons of stupid catchphrases, and this is just another in a large pile, I just don't see why people should be surprised or shocked about it. Yeah, it's dumb and harmless on its own. I just marvel at the "Well if it owns the libs so hard it must be cool and good actually!" side of things. I mean, that's not really surprising or shocking either, but still.
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Yinlock posted:tbf the fascist is inspiring people to get out to vote for him, by being a lovely fascist Now I'm just thinking about American History X neo nazis reading this thread and getting super heated people think Let's Go Brandon is their thing and not lame boaters for trump poo poo. It's very funny.
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Oct 31, 2021 21:41
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CommieGIR posted:"Lets Go Brandon/gently caress Joe Biden" is the stupidest troll and stupidest hill to die on. Just ignore it.
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Dpulex posted:Virginia, please don't gently caress this up. A choice between a proto fascist and a boring dude isn't difficult. The last 20 years(which is about as long as I've been politically aware!) have taught me that it's apparently a very difficult choice for some people
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Oct 31, 2021 22:09
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Booourns posted:I was saying let's go Brandon Thank you for this.
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Oct 31, 2021 22:10
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Also, in typical conservative fashion, this is going to escalate until some innocent person named Brandon gets hurt or killed All because they wanted to spite a reporter Never forget that spite is one of the fundamentals of conservatism
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Killer robot posted:Yeah, it's dumb and harmless on its own. I just marvel at the "Well if it owns the libs so hard it must be cool and good actually!" side of things. I mean, that's not really surprising or shocking either, but still. Not totally harmless on its own. Intentional or not, it is one more public way to identify with and reinforce right wing thought and that is definitely not harmless.
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Trazz posted:Also, in typical conservative fashion, this is going to escalate until some innocent person named Brandon gets hurt or killed LOL yeah this is gonna suck real hard for at least one kid named Brandon.
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Oct 31, 2021 22:20
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Fren has been a cutesy way of saying friend in internet uwu-speak far longer than its been co-opted by internet neonazis. People saying fren to each other are not likely to be using secret white supremacist code. This is turning into moral panic lmao 
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Lets Go Brandon reminds me of when Clinton's campaign made pepe's a right-wing icon with that very, very stupid article; it would die pretty fast if it had just been ignored. Instead it's now apparently a nazi slogan, a triumph of the right, the realization of fascist violence, and worthy of getting the vapors over on an airplane. It has power because it's being given power. As for the message itself, it was a NASCAR audience naturally slagging off Biden, ignited by an amusing reinterpretation by a journalist. It has no inherent baggage to it and caught extreme visibility early on, nothing like the "OK" hand gesture or any of the other alt-right pre-planned nonsense. Someone just has to dislike Biden to find it cute, and evidently that's a lot of people.
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It's almost sundown in EDT, so screw USNews posting for a moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpEfX1IKEak&t=18s
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Froghammer posted:Turns out fascist Boomers are terrible at memes It's a millennial who coined it, lol.
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Turns out that non-fascist non-boomers are terrible at memes, too.
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To underlie the point being made: https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1454801643824979969?t=v3SigstguhE6DipjoMcRiA&s=19 This is the absolute loving worst way to respond to this meme. Not only do you ascribe incredible power to this meme, not only do you work yourself into histrionics over a boomer joke, you trivialize one of the most evil regimes of the 20th century. Things can be bad without being fascist!
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Trazz posted:Also, in typical conservative fashion, this is going to escalate until some innocent person named Brandon gets hurt or killed Ok, when I stop laughing tell me whether this is satire or you're serious.
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Two new national polls out today. NBC poll: quote:In the poll, 42 percent of adults say they approve of Biden’s overall job as president — a decline of 7 points since August, with much of the attrition coming from key parts of the Democratic base. ABC/Ipsos: quote:Although a majority (55%) of the public is following news about the negotiations at least somewhat closely, about 7 in 10 (69%) Americans said they know just some or little to nothing about what's in both bills. Fewer than half (31%) said they know a great deal or good amount. Despite Republicans having sat on the sidelines while the White House works exclusively with congressional Democrats to get both bills to the president's desk, the lack of knowledge extends across all parties.
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