Defining the 21st Century Republican Party?

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:31 pm

At the risk of beating a dead horse, the NC GOP is among the most corrupt in the entire country. I really can't stress enough how horrible they are.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:53 pm

YellowKing wrote:At the risk of beating a dead horse, the NC GOP is among the most corrupt in the entire country. I really can't stress enough how horrible they are.

Yeah, the thing is that over the past couple of decades, these states level shenanigans get rolled out to every other state and attempts to make them federal are the norm.

There's a cartoonish level of villainy at play which would be funny if it weren't so serious.

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LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:43 am

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:53 pm There's a cartoonish level of villainy at play which would be funny if it weren't so serious.

That was MI. I would like to believe we are moving away from it, albeit slowly, too slowly for my comfort. Or maybe we're just on a much slower train than OH and WI nowadays, it looks like we're moving away.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:15 am

It is who the GOP currently is...

Pillen, a Republican who took office in 2023, was later asked about the article’s findings during a September interview with Nebraska radio station KFAB, the New York Times reported.

When asked to comment on the piece, Pillen responded: “Number one, I didn’t read it and I won’t … Number two, all you’ve got to do is look at the author. [The] author’s from Communist China. What more do you need to know?”

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:29 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:31 pm At the risk of beating a dead horse, the NC GOP is among the most corrupt in the entire country. I really can't stress enough how horrible they are.

We hear you. Just fyi. No one is ignoring you when you say this

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:43 pm

Haha I know, I just love being proven right yet again when another example of their awfulness shows up.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:41 am

"We're gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing - anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious."

https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/17 ... NcXCfN8s1g

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 11:20 am

Sigh. Going meta here but @Grifman I don't know if you realize you understand that this posting behavior is giving people the grumps. You took offense the last time someone pointed it out yet you persist. As told to you repeatedly by multiple members please take the 5 seconds to change x.com to twitter.com so the forum software can render the message. People don't want to click into blind links. It isn't hard. I don't get it. It seems willful at this point.

I say this because the post is pretty useful but people are going to ignore it in the form it is. That seems like a complete waste of good curation.

Edit: Not trying to be too harsh but instead raise attention that I think this point has been made at least 3 or 4 times at this point. It isn't even something I have much issue with but I know several others do.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:39 pm

Grifman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:41 am "We're gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing - anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious."

A lot of my friends, colleagues, and neighbors. They enrich my life. Mike Davis doesn't. He can get fucked. Article III is such a transparent grift.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 2:17 pm

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:38 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 2:17 pm

I don't know what's supposed to be there, but it isn't.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:16 pm

Given I have both ad block and a FB fence add on my browser, I assumed it was me and I was OK with that.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:16 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:16 pm Given I have both ad block and a FB fence add on my browser, I assumed it was me and I was OK with that.

+1

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:51 am

malchior wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 11:20 am Sigh. Going meta here but @Grifman I don't know if you realize you understand that this posting behavior is giving people the grumps. You took offense the last time someone pointed it out yet you persist. As told to you repeatedly by multiple members please take the 5 seconds to change x.com to twitter.com so the forum software can render the message. People don't want to click into blind links. It isn't hard. I don't get it. It seems willful at this point.

I say this because the post is pretty useful but people are going to ignore it in the form it is. That seems like a complete waste of good curation.

Edit: Not trying to be too harsh but instead raise attention that I think this point has been made at least 3 or 4 times at this point. It isn't even something I have much issue with but I know several others do.

Just an aside, I've also been chastised for not including the actual content of tweets in a separate quote box too, so that people who are using something that doesn't allow for inline media such as tweets or whatever can see what's being posted. I don't do it all the time (and neither do you or quite a few other folks, it seems), but I figure if we're trying to establish some protocols here and then point out when someone doesn't follow them, we should add that to the list.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:53 am

That is a strawman

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:05 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:16 pm Given I have both ad block and a FB fence add on my browser, I assumed it was me and I was OK with that.

+1

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:10 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:53 am That is a strawman

You posted that right after my post. We're you referring to the video, my reply or something else?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:30 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:10 am
Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:53 am That is a strawman
You posted that right after my post. We're you referring to the video, my reply or something else?

Your reply.

First, let me defend Grifman a little bit here myself, just in that I saw Grifman make attempts to edit the x.com domain into a twitter.com domain in a number of posts, but I think it's just not in his natural way of posting to then edit his posts. All I can ask is that he provides the edit, and if he doesn't do it, I will likely "sigh", and then provide the edit myself. I'm not interested in issuing a 'forum ticket' or anything, I simply want to just read the twitter post in line with reading the forum and not have to click on the link. It's that simple.

That aside, and back to you and malchior's post... and my "Strawman" comment.
What is generally being asked is just that the x.com domain be edited into a twitter.com domain. It's a simple edit of one's own post. Let's call it 'the bare minimum beyond doing nothing'.

You then say that: "Well, if we are going to demand that everyone share Twitter posts in the absolutely best way, we should also add to the list that people go into the Twitter posts and cut-n-paste the contents of that Twitter post and include that also as an alternate"

But your goal is not to have that added to the list (as you say), it's that you want the whole thing struck down, and you offer up the "Everyone should have to also quote the Twitter text." as a strawman.

Unless you are trying to say you really sincerely do want everyone to do that with every Twitter post and you think it's equivalent. I can't imagine that's the case, but hey - maybe you do feel strongly about that.

Scraper · Post by **Scraper** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:38 am

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:54 am

Oh, we will survive.

It's Okay.

The 21st-century Republican Party will still be here when we collect ourselves.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:26 am

JFC, I actually didn't think it was a big effing deal that Grifman is posting it that way. I was more or less trying to say that there really are multiple complaints about how things should be formatted and I was making a (apparently) less than obvious comment that we all do it wrong in someone' else's opinion.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised at your subsequent long reply detailing why I'm a dick.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:39 am

wow.
I'm not saying you are a dick. I said you provided a strawman.
I'm sorry you took it that way, and so I'm sorry I even said a thing about it. I should probably have just let malchior reply and stayed out of it, my fault.
Everyone - please post however the fuck you want. Sincerely.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:33 pm

An alternate venue for the video in question.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:38 pm

Not JUST a formatting issue...some of us simply don't want to click on and thus support an X link due to the late unpleasantness, if you will.

I'm not going to chastise anyone that does so, I 'm just not going to read/click it. No harm, no foul.

Is my position ludicrous in the face of the millions+ clicking X links everyday? Of COURSE it is, but I'm pretty hard core anti-social media in general these days, but the X situation is pretty much due to a meaningless, silent protest against Musk and what he's trying to do/done with Twitter.

Thinking further, however, if his end goal is to kill it (I've said as much here, a few times, even right after he bought it), I should be clicking like mad on links I guess.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:52 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:38 pm I'm not going to chastise anyone that does so, I 'm just not going to read/click it. No harm, no foul.

+1. People gonna do what people gonna do. We can state our preferred etiquette and then move on. I will or will not be bothered to click through based on my curiosity overcoming my desire to 1) be lazy and 2) not want give my eyes and clicks to Twitter. Things can be left without comment or context or quote. If there is just a link with nothing else the odds of me clicking through are nada. No biggie. And yeah, I know not getting my one click isn't changing things but, meh. Just consider one alternative to not following the etiquette plead for by someone out there is not making the effort to post at all.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:46 pm

It's not a big deal, but I think that 90% of people are just going ignore the posts completely, especially if there is no discussion/commentary added.

Hell, it's not like I follow, fully read, or watch every single link. I glance at it, decide if I want to know more, and then choose whether to invest my time.

A drive-by link post needs some context. If there is no accompanying comments, and the embed itself is not visible, then the entire post is just a string of random characters, and we're expected to commit to the topic and content before we even know what it is.

After all, if the poster didn't care enough to put any effort into making the post, why would I put effort into reading it? I'm not doing that, and I suspect that few others do, either.

Like I said, it's not a big deal, but it is a complete waste of the poster's time.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:57 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:33 pm

An alternate venue for the video in question.

Thanks, that was worth seeing and I don't click Xitter links.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 2:30 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:46 pm It's not a big deal, but I think that 90% of people are just going ignore the posts completely, especially if there is no discussion/commentary added.

Thanks. I mean, to each their own, but presumably people post things with the expectation or desire for some engagement. Drive-by links that don't even resolve through the forum software is not an ideal way to achieve that.

That said, to each their own. If he knows he's not going to get much or any response, and continues to post x.com links, that's life.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:26 pm

Absolutely - and that's his option - but it comes with a trade-off.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:38 pm

All the links I've seen on here work fine for me. <shrug>

The only difference I've noticed in this forum lately is everyone seems to be more irritable than usual.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:49 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:38 pm All the links I've seen on here work fine for me. <shrug>

The links working isn't the issue. It's that the forum software doesn't recognize X links like it does Twitter links, and displays them as blind links as opposed to actual posts.

this:

https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/17 ... NcXCfN8s1g

vs this:

The only difference I've noticed in this forum lately is everyone seems to be more irritable than usual.

That's an everywhere thing.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:50 pm

Truth. Irritability seems to be at peak levels here recently.

waitingtoconnect · Post by **waitingtoconnect** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:45 am

Wait till the topic of what part of North America makes the best maple syrup; then it is ON.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:37 am

waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:45 am Wait till the topic of what part of North America makes the best maple syrup; then it is ON.

ON as in Ontario? Let the Battle of Maple Syrup Hill begin…

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:43 am

And for the record, I 100% put myself in that "more irritable" group.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:56 am

YellowKing wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:43 am And for the record, I 100% put myself in that "more irritable" group.

Same. Unagi also gets a shout out here:
Mild mannered Clark Kent has turned into a snarky attack dog.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:46 am

I, however, am a bastion of kindness. My very presence causes music in the air, a slight scent of lilacs and a feeling not unlike that of playing with a puppy on a warm spring day.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:05 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:46 am I, however, am a bastion of kindness. My very presence causes music in the air, a slight scent of lilacs and a feeling not unlike that of playing with a puppy on a warm spring day.

You’re a closet psychopath with murder in your heart and everyone knows it.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:12 am

I'm a calm and peaceful butterfly.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:19 am

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:05 am
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:46 am I, however, am a bastion of kindness. My very presence causes music in the air, a slight scent of lilacs and a feeling not unlike that of playing with a puppy on a warm spring day.
You’re a closet psychopath with murder in your heart and everyone knows it.

I forgive you, my child.