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GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Twitter is flogging pictures of the dead suspect, who is brown-skinned. So right-wing fever swamp poo poo is in full effect.

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GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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He was an Army vet. They're saying HR specialist (42A?)

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Tiny Timbs posted:

Why are the mods/admins obsessed with keeping around posters besides me who suck and are a drag to everyone around them? It sounds like this person should’ve been dumped long before.

Speaking from experience as an ex-mod who had to deal with a few deranged shitheads, it's partially the energy it takes to get them gone (because idiots re-reg and tilt at windmills and it's extremely tiresome to have to chase down alts and re-regs), partially the pushback you get from the community you're modding that calls you a weak simp who can't take criticism because they love their bro's antics, and partially you just don't have the loving time to deal with the insane level of output they put out.

It's not that they're being kept around. It's that even in SA, the "we will ban you for anything" forum, it takes more effort sometimes than it's worth.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Kazinsal posted:

YOSPOS also has a "don't post anime" rule

hmmm, might check them out then

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Seems weird for the vet forum of all places not to full grasp the idea of the shitbag who sticks around just because it takes one more BTU to get rid of them than it does to tolerate them

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

What do British Thermal Units have to do with the forums?

it's the only measure of energy I remembered.

The big problem was you had offsite forums full of banned posters trying to brainstorm ways to stir poo poo up in here. It was too much effort to remember biographical details about "shitposter #8 on the internet forum you volunteer to mod", and it seemed increasingly silly to spend time and mental effort on it when I had a life and a family.

So when they started Photoshopping pictures of me into weird poo poo, and the vibe around here got weird and hostile even with the regulars, and I realized I had been out of the military as long as I had been in it, I figured yeah the juice is not worth the squeeze

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Multiple interviews with those who served with him basically said yeah, he was all used up.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Stultus Maximus posted:

That's not how ship naming works. There's no "we just name presidents in order" convention. HW Bush and Ford were both decorated Navy combat veterans.

I feel like you're slighting George W. Bush here, as there is not one single record of a successful Viet Cong sortie over Texas during is time in the Air National Guard there

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Platystemon posted:

Dubya’s military service controversy is so quaint by today’s standards.

What's funny is it's essentially an iteration of Dan Quayle's from a decade prior to that. Both children of privilege who managed to duck into the Nasty Guard.

Except W was a fighter pilot. Quayle was a welder.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Tiny Timbs posted:

Looper owned gently caress y'all

I don't think anyone's roping Looper in with his direct to video dreck

At least, nobody with taste is

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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These motherfuckers really want to see a fifth column in action, when we (the USA) starts killing family members of 2nd generation Mexican-Americans, you're gonna see some poo poo

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Discussion Quorum posted:

shhhh you're going to wake up Korematsu

I believe that Hispanics are both more dispersed and more thoroughly integrated into our culture and economy than Japanese-Americans were in WW2. So any attempt would be doomed to failure, although I'll admit they'd still try and it would come at an immense human cost.

I wouldn't even past some variant of "just one drop" laws making a comeback

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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GODDAMMNITTTTTT can Dems stop sucking for five loving seconds

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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CainFortea posted:

No, actually, not everything warrants a discussion.

Reminds me of my biggest criticism of Obama, which is that Republicans would tell him "we would like to kick you in the nuts as hard as we can exactly 10 times", and he would counter with "I would like it to be zero times" and then they'd start negotiating it down to 5

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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shame on an IGA posted:

OTOH I'm invited to a townhall meeting of all the DNC chair candidates later this month (finally replacing the guy that spent $120mm losing to Lindsey Graham by 10 points) and am extremely open to suggestions of what is the funniest question I can possibly ask them

Ask Martin O'Malley what kind of balls it takes telling SSA employees "together we are stronger" in his loving resignation email

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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every now and then I get randomly angry that a tabloid character from the 80s and the seventh funniest cast member of News Radio have this much goddamned effect on my life

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Panama was a low-cost military operation to remove a drug kingpin with an ability to threaten world trade.

Don't ask who helped make him a drug kingpin, please

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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I always thought it was a dumb and childish belief, but now I start to see the basic appeal of accelerationism. Just a "gently caress it, you assholes wanted this, slurp it up" resignation to the horrors.

It's still dumb and childish, but I recognize the pull it has.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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welp, some goose-stepper in Baltimore couldn't wait for the starter pistol


quote:

Subject: Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders

Dear Agency Employees,

We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump's executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.

We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5th, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days.

There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sure would be a shame if a certain agency that only seems to exist to give two rich immigrants jobs were to be the main thing reported there

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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That email obviously came from OPM and was routed through our Internal Communications email.

I wanted to reply to it with just "unsubscribe", but as my boss pointed out, there's a 99% chance nothing happens and 1% chance something bad does, so why chance it

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Soylent Pudding posted:

That's why you report it as phishing

Fuckkkkkkkkkkkk I will do that first thing in the morning, such a better option

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Random thought- besides the obvious gimme of Walter Peck (Ghostbusters), which fictional bureaucrat would almost certainly be part of the Trump Administration

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Kesper North posted:

Ghostbusters was a Republican comedy, a comedy designed for conservatives by conservatives. Walter Peck was an EPA whistleblower, not a future member of the Trump Administration. I hate to tell you this, but that man... is a Democrat.

Peck literally arrested a teenage girl for slander. He's Trumpy through and through

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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not caring here posted:

I assume deporting an actual citizen probably costs ICE a fairly significant settlement to make it go away.

Qualified immunity goes a long way. If ICE were genuinely vulnerable to legal consequences for their behavior, they'd have sunk the Treasury already with settlements.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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Fauci by a mile. Nobody was making memes about Bolton.

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GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

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poo poo. Just listened to the WTYP episode on Air Florida Flight 90 that crashed in almost exactly the same area

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