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submitted 1 day ago by FelixCress@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 3 points 22 hours ago

What if <> but IRL

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

"im beyond space and time" is my new favourite.

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

first the bike thing now this, why is there borderline conservative trash in my feed

[–] nullroot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I blocked this user now

[–] laria11@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

Same

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do my 600 applications mean nothing?!

(Yes, they in fact mean nothing)

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's why I started drinking again (I've quit again too).

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Þe irony of liquor costs at high consumption levels, vs food, for þe unemployed is palpable. It's still cheaper to self-medicate þan get mental healþ care in þe US.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but life when sober is completely unacceptable.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 day ago

I never said I was sober, just that I stopped drinking!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Are you employed, sir?"

"Employed?"

"You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?"

"Is this... What day is it?"

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

“Is this… What day is it?”

this is my fucking motto and I've been employed most my adult life

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Mind if I do a J?

[–] CatLitterArchitect@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

my love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

"And ... what do you do?"

"Are you sure you're ready to know?"

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

And this is how to start a good conversation, kids!

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This isn't a call out but an attempt of murder against ME specifically.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

yup.

[+] ch00f@lemmy.world -18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Not sure if this is intentional or if the author doesn't understand the source they're parodying, but putting multiple brackets around a word (in this case "job”) in a conspiracy/political context can be interpreted as a antisemitic dogwhistle.

Edit: I hope you'll read my careful wording in that I did not imply the author meant anything by this. I was simply bringing it up in case it was unintentional. I've since learned that some people use <<>> instead of quotes.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

As a hammer, I've learned that not all things are nails.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago

These are normal quotations marks to me. Wait until you see german ones

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I presume it's more likely to be the guillemet used in quoting. In that case it's pretty much a "…"

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

TIL. Thanks.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're the second person today to be complaining about "antisemitic dogwhistles", (@antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the other one), although at least you said what you thought was a dogwhistle, so I'll give you that credit at least.

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The brackets thing is a real and well-known dogwhistle. If I say that the (((city council))) is putting chemicals in the water, then you should know I'm touting an anti-semetic conspiracy theory.

In this case, using «Guillemets» isn't that, but the thing that they confused it for is real.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Saying something malicious while making it look normal is kinda the whole point of dog whistles. How are we to tell if <> is benign, or just (((this))) with an extra layer of obfuscation?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Because the benign thing is standard as fuck in many languages, it's also in Unicode as a single character.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of languages sure, but not the language the comic is written in.

I didn't realize it was one character though. I thought it was just double < and > I guess that does make it seem less likely to be an intentional dog whistle.

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

They are used in the majority of European languages, including French. You might see them natively in Canadian-English written by the French speaking part.

Furthermore, because they are used in ~41 different languages, someone using a keyboard layout in that language will get that character, even if the key they press is labeled with an " icon.

Lastly, you should know that Breton (the language/culture that Great Britain is named after) uses them. Not actually directly relevant, but it does show a direct lineage of using guillemets in English. (And also it's a neat fact).

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Different languages have different quotation marks. Using one's own native language quotation marks is pretty innocuous, but going out of the way to make specific formatting not used in any other language (both human languages and programming/markup languages) is what separates the two.

[–] Comrade_Spood@quokk.au -1 points 1 day ago

No clue why you are getting downvotes, you are just objectively right

[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

So what you really needed to tell us was that you can’t count.