first the bike thing now this, why is there borderline conservative trash in my feed
Yeah I blocked this user now
Same
“im beyond space and time” is my new favourite.
Do my 600 applications mean nothing?!
(Yes, they in fact mean nothing)
It’s why I started drinking again (I’ve quit again too).
Yeah but life when sober is completely unacceptable.
Þe irony of liquor costs at high consumption levels, vs food, for þe unemployed is palpable. It’s still cheaper to self-medicate þan get mental healþ care in þe US.
I was definitely getting mental health care. I was unemployed, not broke.
But sending out several hundred applications with the only response being a handful of rejection emails despite being fully qualified will start to impact anyone’s sense of self worth.
Not sure if this is intentional or if the author doesn’t understand the source they’re parodying, but putting multiple brackets around a word (in this case "job”) in a conspiracy/political context can be interpreted as a antisemitic dogwhistle.
Edit: I hope you’ll read my careful wording in that I did not imply the author meant anything by this. I was simply bringing it up in case it was unintentional. I’ve since learned that some people use <<>> instead of quotes.
I presume it’s more likely to be the guillemet used in quoting. In that case it’s pretty much a “…”
These are normal quotations marks to me. Wait until you see german ones
You’re the second person today to be complaining about “antisemitic dogwhistles”, (@[email protected] is the other one), although at least you said what you thought was a dogwhistle, so I’ll give you that credit at least.
The brackets thing is a real and well-known dogwhistle. If I say that the (((city council))) is putting chemicals in the water, then you should know I’m touting an anti-semetic conspiracy theory.
In this case, using «Guillemets» isn’t that, but the thing that they confused it for is real.
No clue why you are getting downvotes, you are just objectively right
Saying something malicious while making it look normal is kinda the whole point of dog whistles. How are we to tell if <<this>> is benign, or just (((this))) with an extra layer of obfuscation?
Because the benign thing is standard as fuck in many languages, it’s also in Unicode as a single character.
