Shit is getting serious when /Comics lockdown stuff and start banning people that commented in it when it hit front page. : Mirror

[-] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago

It's pretty crazy how much conservatives have been taking over reddit lately. They regularly have posts hitting the front page unironically now. Reddit has become a total shit hole

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

The reddit world spez wanted is coming to be

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Gotta suck up to advertisers and advertisers are sucking up to fascists.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

yes, unfortunately the forums it replaced mostly died

[-] [email protected] 100 points 3 days ago

That's a nice touch with the flagpole topper.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago

Link to the original comic

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I kinda miss newspaper boxes, that solid slam they made when you closed them. Haven't seen one in more than a decade.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You could buy a whole stack of papers for $1!

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

There's nothing incorrect in that headline.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

political cartoons aren't really meant to get a chuckle, but that headline did from me. it's just so ridiculous but true.

[+] [email protected] -32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We're posting screenshots of comics now? Not sure what showing reddit adds.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

Probably to confirm it was a Reddit post and was locked.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Also gives context of what the comic in question was. It's just good journalism, really.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

If you are reading this sub then you should know what the purpose of a mirror is

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

How many posts have you contributed in the over 2 years here ?

Yeah, shut up, and be the change you want to see !

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This is like the one time an uncropped screenshot is justified, it’s kinda the whole point of the post.

[+] [email protected] -19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably just upset at the inaccuracy of saying half mast and not half staff. It's only half mast if it's on a ship.

It's amazing to me how many people are missing that I'm not being serious. Just light heartedly pointing out the error.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Nope. Half-mast or half-staff would both be correct.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The US flag code makes that specification.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

The English language does not. This comic wasn't produced by the US flag code.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago

But it is about the flag...

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

It's being spoken by an everyday person. That is a term that everyday people use. It makes no sense to take issue with it.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

It makes no sense to correct someone when they're wrong?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If you wish to correct an entire culture against using a common idiom, enjoy your uphill battle. Everybody says half-mast.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not everybody

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's ok to just let some things go.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Or, I could just keep doing what I do and light heartedly point it out. What's weird is everyone else seems to be taking this much more serious than I do.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Indeed, I'm half mast right now...

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

yes, the funny textile with graphics that is commonly associated with polls. your point being?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The same one that disallows thin blue line flags? And flags with AI buff trump printed on them? And the president humping a flagpole during a press conference? If they don’t care about it why should you?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yep, those are all examples of breaking the flag code.

why should you?

I hold myself to a higher standard than those brain dead people. I'm not perfect, but when something is this easy to follow, why wouldn't I?

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Shut up nerd.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

NEEEERDS!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Gummy clusters?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The small spar on the bow of a ship is slso a staff, specifically the Jack Staff (or jackstaff). This also means the the U.K.'s flag should only be refered to as the Union Jack (after which the spar was named) when flown on a ship, and the Union Flag elsewhere.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's interesting. It's kind of amazing how many common English phrases are tied to sailing terms.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Thanks, English is my second language and I never stop to think about it. I was wondering why I would see both sometimes.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

People get it wrong a lot of the time is why you see it both ways.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I like the cut of your jib

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I didn't give you permission to Rate My Jib.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Guerilla jib raters just raided your stream!

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

I know you’ve been raised to blindly respect nationalism and that it’s really hard to break out of a mindset you’ve been steeped in, but please be aware that you are wielding a tool of the fascists right now and I don’t think that’s really what you want to be doing.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

What are you talking about? I'm not wielding anything. You're taking a joke based on the flag code way too serious.

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