This source was founded and is fully funded by the Heritage Foundation, and this article comes from the staff of the far-right Daily Caller. This is not a reliable source and anything coming from them should be taken with an entire salt mine.
Hi @rosethornRangerTTV. I can see you’ve just recently joined our instance, so let me first say: Welcome!
While you’re here, please keep in mind the ethos of Beehaw when interacting with other folks in the comments - Be(e) Nice. We’re working hard to make Beehaw a pleasant little corner of the internet that is welcoming and inclusive.
I personally don’t have any issues with something like this being posted in !politics, but @coyotino’s question is valid. I think in the future it wouldn’t hurt to include a question (or questions) related to your ideas to help get discussion started, or link to an article expanding on the idea that you’re interested in discussing. Regardless, I’m glad you’re here, and I hope you enjoy the community that we’re working to build.
Reports should work even if you’re registered on another Lemmy instance, but they might be broken if you’re browsing from Kbin. Kbin’s federation is a hot mess and we’ve had a lot of issues with it.
I don’t have a problem with this thread. I was already aware of it, I’m aware it’s borderline editorializing, but honestly I think it’s funny and I’m not going to be a stickler when it isn’t harming anyone or making the community worse off. I’m more concerned with editorialized headlines if/when they are misleading or don’t reflect the actual contents of the article. If this starts to be a trend, we’ll address it, but as a one off it’s not a big deal.
I don’t think that the author is suggesting that mockery or laughter should be our only action, just that it should be part of the arsenal
I was reminded of the trend of Milkshaking a few years ago. That wikipedia article includes a quote from a Vice Article on the trend that refers back to Serbian resistance as well.
But there’s a method to all this dairy-based madness. Milkshaking can be seen within a tradition of nonviolent civil disobedience known as “dilemma action”. A term coined by Serbian activists in the 1990s, dilemma action creates a lose-lose situation for the opposition. It’s a genius move reserved for some of the absolute worst people in our society, because there’s no good way to respond to a milkshaking: do nothing and you look like a twat, or fight back and look like you’re overreacting. Plus, a milkshake will really mess up your suit. Still, that’s not to say you should go out and do it, unless you want to risk arrest: the guy who milkshaked Farage has since been charged with assault, after all.
It’s a pretty incredible phrase.
Thanks! I almost skipped it when I saw it pop up this morning, because I’ve seen so many articles about this topic, but I’m glad I didn’t.
Folks, I don’t think this is going anywhere productive and I think it would be a good idea for all parties involved to take a step away from the thread.
Ah, thanks for that. I’ve not been in a position to consider filing the EZ in years so I didn’t realized it had been phased out.
I haven’t seen a lot of details about this program. What I’m most interested in is which forms it will support. One of my frustrations is that a lot of tax prep services advertise “free” efile, but almost all of them only allow it for the 1040EZ which is very narrow, and most adults will have to file at least a 1040 and probably will need additional forms as well.
There have been some questions about the quality of the source posted in this topic - Mediabiasfactcheck.com has them at a “Poor” factual reporting level. There are, however, a few more reliable sources reporting on this, such as this article in the New Republic
Ha, thank you. I didn’t realize we’d been around two years already…
FWIW, the native lemmy UI also calls it the account’s cake day, so it seems like that carried over.
Hey @Scary_le_Poo, I know we don’t have this in the rules anywhere on the site - there’s some ongoing discussion among the mods about how to handle things like this, but I’d like to encourage you to use something like an archive link if you’re going to post an alternative way to access an article, rather than copying the full text of an article into a comment.
Looks like the show had a 52 metacritic score and lost about half its viewers over the course of the first season. I don’t think you need to look much further than that to wonder why the second season was canceled.
Hi @lolcatnip, we have one rule on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. If you disagree with another user feel free to express why, but low effort, drive-by insults aren’t really in the spirit of this instance.
Thanks, that was a real whoosh moment for me, lol. 😅
Can I ask what you’re trying to get at by posting this?
Hmm. On the beehaw side there is a link to the main propublica site, but the title is also a link directly to the article. It’s probably the usual lemmy/kbin oddness.
Just jumping in here to remind folks to Be Nice. We’ve had to clean up some comments in here already and if issues continue the thread will be locked.