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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1673 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 31, 2026

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Fellas, I regret to tell you something you should have realized last week at the latest: it's incredibly over.

Posting separately and prior to the above, so it appears separately and below; this is much less important.

IMHO, this topic is a culture war topic (or at least, it can be, depending upon the presentation). Given that premise, the root comment is a nearly contentless bare link with a one liner snipe of the commenter's outgroup. For example questions, what is "it" and what does it mean for "it" to be "over"? It is plausible that these sorts of questions could have coherent answers that make the original comment benign, but they were not included in the original.

An alternative interpretation is that it is a "First"-post, though I would still probably characterize it at first impression as being paired with a one liner snipe of the commenter's outgroup.

Indeed, I think that the same sense that there even is such a thing as a commenter's "outgroup" on the topic in an indicator in favor of the premise that the topic (or at least a presentation of the topic such as this) is culture war.

EDIT: I should clarify that I am NOT asking for the comment to be modded. I am not entirely confident of my interpretation, and I'm not at all confident that the mods would think so, either. I did not report it because I don't have a strong opinion that it should be modded. I am merely expressing my opinion on some things that I did not like, and I am very open to contrary perspectives.

The rules for "low effort" are somewhat relaxed for the Friday Fun Thread, and "this is culture war" could arguably apply to anything with such a broad interpretation as "there exist people who disagree with you."

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