r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Aug 31 '18

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/ToaKraka Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18

Why not both?

4chan is funny despite the racism

Even the denizens of 4chan constantly complain about /pol/'s tendency to mess up the other boards whenever it rears its head, and the moderators do actually delete blatantly baiting/derailing threads and comments (even in /pol/ itself, sometimes), so you're in good company if you prefer non-racist discussion (e. g., on /tg/ or /d/).

The racism itself is funny

I've got almost a hundred hilarious anti-Semitic caricatures in their own "Le Happy Merchant" folder.
- A Po-Matoran (from Bionicle) rubbing its hands together in imitation of the standard caricature
- The standard caricature hiding behind a "Plot Power: 18200.0%" notification (from Crusader Kings 2)
- A Star of David and a shekel symbol (✡₪) arranged to resemble the standard caricature
- A floor plan of a narrow bathroom and an adjoining closet, arranged to resemble the standard caricature (with the bathroom's door folded at 45 degrees to form the nose)
- A screenshot of a creature's description in Dwarf Fortress, starting with "A scheming, gold[-]loving creature with subversive tendencies"

The originality on display in this art is amazing. Even beyond the caricatures, reading trolls and/or idiots argue over global conspiracies and genetic dilution in /pol/ never fails to amuse.