Are we closer to a consensus on how to brand the site?

There’s a separate thread twitter here, but I made it known

Just for the sexiness of ruins or also for the connection that these were places where people gathered and talked/did politics?

The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole:

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For the latter mostly, but also because ruins seems apt for our political times.

This is one of the ruins that inspired Shelly to write Ozymandias

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I kind of like the fishies. I think something none political would be the thing to upset the least amount of people.

I also like something symbolizing the fall of rome or new colossus text

If you like fishies, how about Otto The Official Unstuck Politics Ostrich?

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Easy winner. My view may be slightly biased though.

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Excised approx 25 posts on the topic of lapka thinking we’re left wing bigots. Let’s try to keep this discussion on the topic of branding.

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I’m a nobody here and that’s fine with me but I want to ask a genuinely innocent question.

The npc thread is interesting to me. He’s (I’m assuming he’s male) horrible and obviously wrong in his thread, but is that the standard operating procedure? Someone espouses a view that sucks and they get their own thread? Is it because he’s known from 22?

Like if some random dingdong came in and started espousing awful views, would they be contained? Banned? Ignored bc they’re unknown?

npc isn’t some random poster, tho. He has a long history of being a garbage poster and I think containment is entirely justified.

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So the answer to that is yes. Fair enough, thanks.

I’m sure if someone random stumbled across this board and started posting like npc, they’d get their own containment thread too. Everyone would just assume they came from 22 though, and they’d constantly get asked to reveal who their old screen names.

No, I don’t think he’s known from 2p2. He’s all but certainly from there, but he hasn’t owned up to what his account there is.

I coulda sworn there was someone named npcxxxxxx on 22, but I could be mistaken.

Unstuck Politics

Come for the Discussion

Stay for the Community

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Yeah there was, no idea if it’s the same person on all three sites but seems likely

bump?

Here is one flowy nate cohn/upshot-ish, no direct political leaning implied, direction to go in

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here is a new colossus one with questionable coloring but this is in the direction of how it looks on the actual plaque

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Was thinking of trying something with a bunch of head in sand ostriches and one unstuck ostrich.

It may be helpful to decide on a decision mechanism, I’m more of a council of elders guy, so if anybody wants to form a branding committee or something lmk, otherwise I’ll just take some crap I’ve posted here and make a poll

Just one thing to consider about the new colossus route, it’s going to be a bit hard to use the statue of liberty or the torch that does not make people think of car insurance