Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024

NotSanni

@Meg Very unfortunate I started the process for myself back in Spring, and both my brother and my aunt dragged their feet. Only the recent election results have been sufficient to light a fire under my brother, at least, with regards to getting this done.

if nothing else, maybe it would help to try to sell it to your mom as being able to more freely travel Europe?? that’s the only reason my aunt got kind of interested, when I brought it up to her most recently.

Jenn

Deals with very heavy physical health issues, please avoid is such topics are triggering for you.

I’m on hospice. It’s excruciating and full of pain, terror, and stress. But those symptoms are very well managed by a team of medical professionals I deeply and truly trust. They all have my best interests at heart. It’s a horrible process, and I hate it with everything I have inside of me. But there are agencies and support systems doing their absolute best to provide all possible comfort and symptom control.

I’m in a red state that has gone far redder as of this election, medicaid is openly on the chopping block during session one post-inauguration. Project 2025 has Medicare and Social Security on the chopping blocks. Currently, I’m lucky enough to be dying comfortably in my own home with all my comfort items, puts, and people. But if I lose my insurance and disability income? I’m looking at a very different end to my life some day, and that terrifies me to my core.

Pavel

So obviously it’s a very dark time, horrid things incoming and so forth…

But did anyone actually have The Onion buying Infowars on their 2024 bingo cards?

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.

Muscle Car

@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.

kalakh

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:

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Juniper

UGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHJJ

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

Roz

This was not accidental.

NotSanni

@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”

kalakh

@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.

NotSanni

@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.

Hobbie

@kalakh This is the variant I’ve seen

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)

Juniper

Empathy fatigue.

Roz

@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?

Tez

@dvoraen Git gud

dvoraen

@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!

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

dvoraen

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.

Tez

@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.