wizardbeard

No

They still effect visibility under most post sorting options, lower scored things display lower. Matters in a minor way for scrolling through the subscribed feed.

Kirbo is God's most favorite creation, after all.

The many escapades of Christian Kirbo.

Context: Youtube animator TerminalMontage makes goofy game summary animations, uses gag about Marx (Kirby boss) being satanic and Kirby using the power of God to defeat him. He then works that in as a minor character trait for Kirby appearances in other videos, culminating in his video about the game Kirby's Adventure. This pisses off a number of commentors, so he doubles down on it. Resulting in probably one of my favorite gag interpretations of Kirby ever.

Surely there are easier ways to break ankles

The space cold makes his nipples go pointy, so he can use them as telescopic antennae to transmit data back to Enterprise.

Thank you for making content!

People have been calling 1984 prescient to the current time since at least the 1980s.

And everyone knows my personal theories of how those in power are planning to screw us over are the only valid theory. My mom said I am a very clever boy.

More seriously, I don't think you're wrong, but leaning on the authority of 1984 is bound to draw some banter.

I think part of the issue is that a lot of people who are aware of this know that it's been happening for a lot longer than since Trump's first election, and it's not specifically a right wing takeover. It's an overall consolidation of power into the hands of an ultra-wealthy few, and right wing is currently the most advantageous position for them to take.

This particular video is from 2018, a year into Trump's first term, and it shows a large amount of local news stations that were believed to be spread across the political spectrum (at least for US run stations) all reciting the same exact script.

But the movements of Rupert Murdoch, or the Sinclair Media group, or iHeartRadio, or any of the many number of conglomerates didn't just crop up overnight purely under right wing situations to support right wing movement.

Unless you really think Trump's first election was some 5D chess thing, he was catching flak from all sides. Before that, the news media gave incredibly kind coverage to Obama's involvement in the Middle East, his use of drones, his moves to further the rights granted to the US government and intelligence agencies through the Patriot act (started under Dubya, but expanded under Obama), the construction of illegal immigration centers during his tenure... the list goes on for him like it does for most Presidents.

The screws have been tighening for decades, this isn't something shockingly new to present day, we're just approaching critical mass.

At the very least you're taking moderator position in many previously dead ones while simulataneously promoting them. I'm not really looking to split hairs on the technicalities or whether you created them, are taking over them, or stepping in to assist.

Why? Was there really a need for all of these communities?

Edit: to be more clear, I'm seeing I think six communities you've posted links to in three or four different community promotion comms, and at least the two communities you've promoted that I skimmed are almost all 10+ links you've posted with barely any actual conversation or additional context by you.

That all seems a but much, especially when the comms are pretty specific niches of content that I would think could fall under existing comms. A specific mergers and acquisitions comm? A specific comm for obituaries? Just comes across a little odd.

Is there a reason you're registering so many new communities all at once?

I'm really curious to see what their "big new draw" will be for this. I wish I believed it was possible for it to just be "carefully handcrafted content and a level of polish people have come to expect us to lack".

I honestly feel like they're just trying to be too much to too many people.

Not seeing a lot of short ones:

• Sleezo
• Skunk
• Weenie
• Dogfucker
• Spaz
• Pork Rinds
• Shakes
• Depends
• Stank
• Gassy
• The Feet
• Cranky Pants
• Fussy
• Titboy