Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Somebody already did a potatochop, will that do?

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Yes that’ll do

And there goes the election.

-> Golf thread

Let's avoid pro-Trump memes.

What if they're pathetically hilarious?

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The thing with posting on an internet forum is that you should always be aware of the potential for your single post to be taken entirely out of context and used against you.

Whether that's in court, by employers, by border staff, it doesn't matter who might, you should have the imagination to know it might.

When you post something highly political, divisive, that shows support for someone, even as a joke, that context can be stripped and the post stands alone. Are these your opinions? Would you want to bet your profession on them? Would you risk your travel? Etc etc.

Most people wouldn't, and yet fail to have the imagination to see the potential consequences of their choices. The risk may be low, but hey, your choices.

The thing with posting on an internet forum is that you should always be aware of the potential for your single post to be taken entirely out of context and used against you

Golf club thread>>>>>

But these comments have never been levied against overtly anti-trump memes before have they?

Being candid, is there anything you could post that a US Boarder Security Guard couldn't take out of context?

But these comments have never been levied against overtly anti-trump memes before have they?

I've made the same statements elsewhere in the past, not specifically pro/anti a certain person, but generally that people should post online with caution, and that my moderation style will always look at posts out of context as that's how things can be perceived.

Here's an example from 6 months ago that I found quickly https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17239607/

Being candid, is there anything you could post that a US Boarder Security Guard couldn't take out of context?

Probably not, but some things are obvious, and some things are subtle / nuanced... things said about US politics and US presidents falls into obvious.

Also... there are some things that fall into "don't joke about it", such as joking about explosives when you're in airport security (duh!), yet people do and are then surprised by the outcome. The US Secret Service take jokes about harm to people that they protect very seriously, it really does not matter if you're making a joke online... you do not want your family holiday to the US to be cut short at the border by a dumb joke you put on LFGSS.

An article about getting calls from the Secret Service asking "which one?" when you drunkenly tweet about wishing George Bush was dead.

"when you speak on the internet, you never know who’s listening."

https://www.wired.com/story/secret-service-investigated-me-twitter/

Consider also that your posts may have an impact on not only you but also on @Velocio. Something I have to admit to having caused by casting aspersions on our ngb.

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Surely in the context of the dangers you describe, pro-trump memes are not nearly as dangerous as pro-trump's-death memes?

Sure, but that gate swings both ways, the harm is to the community or the individual, but there's still harm that didn't need to exist.

Suppose that old liability while inebriated is out of the window too, what a shunt

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Song of the day

https://x.com/sportingnews/status/1813004971702424029?s=61&t=B5PsHMFKGNZzt6Z5g-D2mg

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10/10

Just odd that your emphasis was on the much less harmful of the two

Ouch

It's not the BIGGEST audience of the season but definitely top-10, you think they'd have had her do some run throughs and got someone else when it was clear she was awful

I couldn't work out if it was some performance art/protest type thing ... so bad/weird it sounded like it had to be deliberate

Wut?

Like Les Dawson on the piano.

It’s been a bad week in the US for ears.