# Unprofessional Moderation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504>\
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**Created:** [March 28, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504 "2024-03-28T13:20:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/15 "2024-03-28T17:39:54Z")

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You need to look at the context.

This is the “political jab”:

> [@Bridge collapse in Baltimore {2024-03-26}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridge-collapse-in-baltimore-2024-03-26/999372/232):
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> One thing is for sure: it would never have happened if trump was president.

Out of context, it’s just a plain and simple political jab. But it’s actually a reply to this:

> [@Bridge collapse in Baltimore {2024-03-26}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridge-collapse-in-baltimore-2024-03-26/999372/116):
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> I see these people online. It must be exhausting trying to fit anything that happens anywhere into a conspiracy.

So it’s actually a fairly clever riff on conspiracy and political types who go out of their way to bend everything to fit their skewed view of reality. If you think it’s just a simple political pot-shot then you’ve missed the entire point of it.

That is the part that I found funny.

But in the literal sense it is still a political pot-shot, which we don’t allow, regardless of whether it’s a joke or not. Hence the mod note.

If anyone took offense or thought I was endorsing a particular political view or pot-shot, I apologize. That was not intended.

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