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I thought I’d spent a lot of time on the motte this month, but I’d missed quite a few of these, especially at the beginning. Particularly impressed with @GBRK’s post on decoupling the different types of immigration!
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Sounds like the person you remember was riffing off of You Are Still Crying Wolf:
I think there are twin dangers of this.
First is that basically, for want of a better way to put this, cries of “this is literally Hitler” have done more to normalize Hitler than anything done by Nazis in the time since tge Second World War. If a guy looking for fraud in the government and who dreams of mars colonies is fascism, it’s actually not that bad. If the worst of literally Hitler is someone like Trump, who’s Blitzkreig thus far has managed to make whistle stops in Greenland, negotiate with Putin, and rename the Gulf of Mexico, Hitler isn’t that bad. Nobody is frightened of this government, and the left has no cards to play. And so, Hitler isn’t that boogeyman Voldemort that everyone fears. He’s just a conservative.
Secondly, there’s no longer any effective way to alert the public if a fascist actually shows up. After 40 years of everything I don’t like is Hitler, if a guy who actually wants to genocide Muslims shows up, it’s no longer possible to find unused verbiage that will tell them that the Antichrist is here and he wants to kill everyone.
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I presume I wasn't the only person to nominate @teleoplexy's post, but I feel it's worth mentioning I did so 10% for the social commentary and 90% for the density of creative "meth-" portmanteaus.
I kept hoping for an "all craftsmethship is of the highest quality", but didn't see one. I was sad.
I'm jealous that I didn't come up with this - it was right there, really.
It's ok, "methgineering" still made my day. Honestly one of the top two words I've heard recently.
Well, don't keep us in suspense.
Oh, the other was "obligationship" - ie when you spend time with someone because you have to, not because you want to. Think stuff like hanging out with your significant other's family.
I like that as a corollary to “situationship.”
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I'm flattered! It's also probably the quickest turnaround on AAQC that I've seen. Still up and active in this week's thread.
I got one posted at 9 pm the 31st once. It was teen mental health and parenting, I think.
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Back in the old country (and for a little bit on the Motte sub) the AAQC report was compiled weekly. I think that would actually be better, for a variety of reasons, and I myself did manage to post them twice a month for a while. But they've been strictly monthly for about three years now, and that pace seems to remain achievable in ways that twice a month, or weekly, is not.
Coincidentally, a different user made a post this morning that was similarly strongly nominated, that will definitely be in the next roundup, but the timestamp said "April" so I left it in the hopper.
I like the monthly format a bit better simply because I think the passage of time will help make the case for a post having quality and insight rather than simply being the most popular long post on a popular topic for this week. If done correctly, a quality posts should be insightful and interesting content on their own even after the heat of the moment has moved on.
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I believe it racked up 7 or so nominations when I saw it, but not sure, I'm bad at meth.
Whatever the exact numbers, it was clearly a fêted meme.
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