Stupid Republican idea of the day

[wonky]

@Kobal2

It’s been said before, but there is no meaningful nor practical distinction between behaving like a shithead and behaving like a shithead “ironically”.

Or between getting fired and getting fired ironically.

[kaylasdad99]

@Kimstu

The antisemitic triple-parenthesis absolutely does have the widely recognized meaning “this person is Jewish”. Even though some non-antisemites use it defiantly, it is still commonly associated with antisemitism. It hasn’t “lost all meaning” at all.

I’ve never heard of this at all.

It doesn’t represent hugging the person?

Again,

[Kobal2]

It can be either - the meaning as “hugs” seems to come from the Second Life crowd, but there’s also an antisemitic meaning.

[eschereal]

@kaylasdad99

I’ve never heard of this at all.

It doesn’t represent hugging the person?

Again,

Hugging is like
(((kaylasdad99))), that is some rough shit you are going through.

The anti-Semitic version is more like
Hey, man, did you see what (((kaylasdad99))) did the other day?

The context makes the meaning obvious. Now, of course, people are using it to express solidarity with Jews, fuck your waspy assholery, and (((eschereal))) thinks that is perfect irony.

[Skywatcher]

The alt right encompasses a nebulous swath of internet users—the hyper-libertarian free speech activist, the shitposting troll, the genuine bigot—where the levels of idealogical crossover and discourse make it difficult to tell what’s intended as provocation and what’s legitimate hate speech.

[Horatius]

@Skywatcher

The alt right encompasses a nebulous swath of internet users—the hyper-libertarian free speech activist, the shitposting troll, the genuine bigot—where the levels of idealogical crossover and discourse make it difficult to tell what’s intended as provocation and what’s legitimate hate speech.

I have surprisingly little sympathy for people who just do things that are “intended to provoke” when they end up suffering the foreseeable consequences of the reaction they intended to provoke.

[Sherrerd]

@Derleth

It’s a Nazi sign now, and so help you if you do it innocently: You’re now a Nazi beyond any doubt, and will be treated as such.

I wonder what the next sign is going to be. Smiling, no doubt.

Blinking.

[Slash1972]

@Kimstu

I’m perfectly willing to take your word for it that you are not and were not at the time a genuine “White Power” advocate. But I think you’re giving yourself a bit too much credit if you think that your “ironically” shithead behavior didn’t still make you look like a shithead.

Perhaps. But I’m perfectly fine with the distinction between “shithead” and “racist shithead”

[Slash1972]

@eschereal

Hugging is like
(((kaylasdad99))), that is some rough shit you are going through.

The anti-Semitic version is more like
Hey, man, did you see what (((kaylasdad99))) did the other day?

The context makes the meaning obvious. Now, of course, people are using it to express solidarity with Jews, fuck your waspy assholery, and (((eschereal))) thinks that is perfect irony.

Sorry, but I didn’t know that either. And I don’t see how your second example shows that “context makes the meaning obvious” if one didn’t know about it already.

[Monty]

@kaylasdad99

I’ve never heard of this at all.

It doesn’t represent hugging the person?

Again,

From the Wiki here, apparently it used to mean hugging. (Personally, I’d only seen {} to mean hugging but without anything between the curly brackets.) Now it’s called (((echo))) and is used by anti-Semites and other assorted bigoted morons.

[digs]

@Monty

From the Wiki here, apparently it used to mean hugging. (Personally, I’d only seen {} to mean hugging but without anything between the curly brackets.) Now it’s called (((echo))) and is used by anti-Semites and other assorted bigoted morons.

Just a crazy idea, but I think I’ve stumbled upon something the other day that could revolutionize online communication.

Plain old communication.

Do any of us say “Triple parentheses, hug, triple close parentheses” in actual conversation?

So, if you want to mean hug, you could skip the punctuation and say “Sending you a hug”. *Or, *better yet, since no one’s really hugging anyone online, you could just say what you actually mean. Like “I’m sorry you’re going through this. I’m here for you, if you want to talk about it.”

I’d Less Than Three that, by the way…

[Rick_Kitchen]

A Republican county organization is sending out flyers to Hindu voters telling them to vote for Republicans because their symbol is an elephant and the Hindu god Ganesha is an elephant.

[Grey]

Reaching out and trying to make the party responsive to more than ornery whites is a good thing to do.

Sending out a hamfisted flyer that looks like a high school senior threw it together after reading a book about the world’s religions is dumb.

[Kobal2]

Also telling them to worship the GOP. Also also, the GOP, well known for :

• thinking outside the tax cut box

• listening to others

• looking beyond what they see

• cutting bonds of materialistic attachment

• GIVING and SHARING

[Slash1972]

@Rick_Kitchen

A Republican county organization is sending out flyers to Hindu voters telling them to vote for Republicans because their symbol is an elephant and the Hindu god Ganesha is an elephant.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnZ72iQVsAAr7ZW.jpg:large

“Would you worship a donkey or an elephant? The choice is yours.”

hahahahaha!

[Kimstu]

@Kobal2

Also telling them to worship the GOP.

Not to mention how delighted the Pubs’ conservative Christian base is going to be with their BOWING DOWN TO HEATHEN IDOLS and ENCOURAGING DEVIL WORSHIP and all the rest of what they doubtless consider recognizing Ganesh Chaturthi to be. :rolleyes:
On the other hand, maybe the best thing that could happen to the GOP at this point is to be taken over by sane civic-minded immigrant communities. Definitely a step up from the GOP we’ve got now.

[Sandwich]

@Rick_Kitchen

A Republican county organization is sending out flyers to Hindu voters telling them to vote for Republicans because their symbol is an elephant and the Hindu god Ganesha is an elephant.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnZ72iQVsAAr7ZW.jpg:large

Well, it could have been worse. There is another ancient Hindu symbol which is closely associated with Republicans and other right-wing fanatics after all.

[Derleth]

@Kobal2

Also telling them to worship the GOP. Also also, the GOP, well known for :

• thinking outside the tax cut box

• listening to others

• looking beyond what they see

• cutting bonds of materialistic attachment

• GIVING and SHARING

It’s a universal truth that you advertise what you don’t have. After all, if you had it, you wouldn’t need to shout about having it.

[Ludovic]

@Sandwich

Well, it could have been worse. There is another ancient Hindu symbol which is closely associated with Republicans and other right-wing fanatics after all.

Wait, I don’t think that GOP support for farm subsidies means that their symbol is a cow!

[kaylasdad99]

@Kobal2

Also telling them to worship the GOP. Also also, the GOP, well known for :

• thinking outside the tax cut box
• listening to others
• looking beyond what they see

• making personal sacrifices

Plus, they label the unbroken tusk as the broken one. :dubious: