god. everything about this. the misplaced eye. the gradient abuse. the fucked up mouth-neck zone. the misproportioned head. the lumpy legstumps. the poorly tessellated shell.
this smug piece of shit killed my son and now it’s taunting me. i hate it.
Dark times are indeed afoot for the Google emoji animals. Quite a fall in the official rankings.
The New York Times is known to moderate the comments on their website, requiring human moderators to individually approve each comment before it is posted. And, according to an individual with knowledge of the comment moderation operations, in addition to spam, profanity, and ad hominem attacks, the Times prohibits spreading conspiracy theories. So, like, you can’t rant that the news of the day was actually secretly created by the illuminati. Fine.
But! There’s a problem now: our President-elect is busy spinning conspiracy theories. And it would be unfair to prohibit commenters from spreading the theories that the soon-to-be-President spreads.
Apparently, the Times’ editors decided then to give the President a magical power where he can admit nonsense theories into the permitted discourse. So, you’re allowed now in the comment sections to say that three million undocumented immigrants voted in the election, if that’s a thing that for some reason you want to say. But, the editors also decided, you’re not allowed to present any evidence for these theories, because there isn’t any evidence, because the theories are totally made-up. So, you’re not allowed to say, for example, that you saw three million undocumented immigrants go to the polls, because you didn’t.
