Thing is, if he was trolling (which imo is the most obvious explanation) then he doesn’t get to complain when people flip out. Either he’s not sure how trolling works or he underestimated the response he’d get.

No one gives a fuck what the Nazis think, but tragically now they have “proof” so whenever we claim “white genocide is not a real thing” to neutral parties they can go “ah-ha! but wait! is is what appears to be a tweet totally supporting it!”

Tragically that’s still too complicated for this day and age. People see one tweet that seems like a complete tweet (note the lack of numbering possibly indicating a part one of something) and it will be taken as the whole thought.

It’s already their business model.

Worse, you can be 100% right but if you’re perceived as being a dick about being right people will side with the person who is wrong because “you were too mean”. Conservatives have mastered using that in their favor. Keep your cool and destroy them nicely.

You have to do it JUST right so that it’s clear the opponent is the idiot but you don’t seem like a jerk. John Stewart is an amazing example of it, like when he took down a woman who claimed she had read the whole ACA and there were death panels and other bad things and brought a binder onstage with the printed bill…

That’s the thing, there’s no indicator that it’s satire. Not even a simple lol. I’m sure he did mean it as a joke but an early lesson of the internet is that tone is not easily inferred and you need to be VERY obvious as to your intent or the mob will decide it for you.

The Daily Show did a bit years ago on a game called TapFish that claimed the same, that kids don’t quite understand digital transactions as involving real money (three kids used their dad’s password to blow $1500 on the game and seemed to find it funny).

I did that when I was three once. My dad had tried explaining his credit card to me (I understood paying in cash at a store but not plastic) and I misinterpreted as “Daddy’s card magically knows to pay for whatever we have” since he didn’t explain the register’s role. So at the hardware store I grabbed a shoelace…

It’s just so hard to explain, I agree.

.As a Floridian I think you forgot the addendum “unless it’s to show off to tourists” which it looks like she was doing. Seriously, almost every big swimsuit store in my hometown of Panama City Beach kept gators and did twice daily feedings. Of the two I know of that didn’t, one kept small sharks and the other had a…

I’d personally go less shade, more false sympathy.

Well it’s more broken coal’s back than oil’s but we’ll see how it goes moving forward. Or....not, given the soon to be administration proably won’t like that.

Eh, Daily Show was pretty funny even while we were in Iraq and Afghanistan. It can be done.

Seriously, The Rock Obama was amazing. I loved that bit.

I refrigerate bagels because it takes me a while to go thru all six, I eat them very sporacicaly. My grandparents froze bread for the same reason: my grandma only made sandwiches for granddad a couple days a week and switched between white and brown bread so those loaves would go over a month.

To be fair, some places in the US are now selling unrefrigerated milk. Those little milk box things, like juice boxes. IMO milk only tastes right cold anyway so I stick them in the fridge at home but I am curious as to how that works.

I’ll bet I could have picked up one of the fake trees my work was selling and spray painted it gold and it would have looked better.

This was the perfect place to put Christmas Tree of Might and you didn’t. For shame. I shall fix that.

One guy tried to tell me “Happy Holidays” is invented by retailers as part of the war on Christmas by trying to appeal to non-Christians to get money from them too (why he thinks retailers want to fight Christmas I do not know) when REALLY the nondenominational greeting is “Season’s Greetings.”