Friday Fun Off-Topic Megathread! - Politics

Friday Fun Off-Topic Megathread!
March 2018 Meta Thread
Scott Walker Refusing To Hold Elections GOP Might Lose
NRA boycott: REI, Mountain Equipment Co-Op, stop selling major outdoor brand with NRA ties
FedEx won’t drop the NRA so these companies are dropping FedEx
Reps Lieu And Rice Call For FBI Investigation Into Potential Illegal Campaign Payments By Trump Associates
Trump silent after Putin's nuclear 'threat'
Reddit dragged into Russian propaganda row
Russian banker said he met Trump through NRA
Americans haven’t been bamboozled by bonuses: The GOP tax law is a flop
Trump tweets: "Trade wars are good, and easy to win"
Trump Has Said Nothing About Putin's Satan 2 Video of Nuclear Missiles Aimed At the U.S.
Delta CEO says, 'Our values are not for sale,' after Georgia lawmakers drop tax break
Jared Kushner’s Real-Estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade
Qatar Refused to Invest in Kushner’s Firm. Weeks Later, Jared Backed a Blockade of Qatar
It’s Time for Paul Ryan to Remove Devin Nunes
How the Russians pretended to be Texans — and Texans believed them
'I know he’s watching television because he’s calling me five minutes after': Republicans go on TV — then they get a call from Trump
Top Hollywood talent agency cuts ties to FedEx after pressure over NRA links
Dow falls 230 points at open after Trump tweets that 'trade wars are good'
Donald Trump attacks Alec Baldwin in furious, misspelt early morning Twitter post
If Republicans are leaking texts to Fox, it sure looks like they’re trying to discredit the Russia probe
Emails show oil was key part of Bears Ears monument decision: NYT
Report: Trump Wants His Chief Of Staff To Get Rid Of Jared And Ivanka
Tammy Duckworth: giving birth shouldn’t force me to give up my Senate vote on key bills
Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show
Donald Trump Attacks Alec Baldwin's 'Dying Mediocre Career,' But Calls Him 'Alex,' Misspells 'Dying'

Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:45 AM PST

It's Friday! It's fun! It's a fun Friday Off-Topic MEGATHREAD! Please keep all the fun condensed in here so the fun goblins can't steal any.

Please feel free to share any political cartoons, image macros, infographics, memes, or other things that would typically be off-topic here on /r/politics! Please keep in mind that civility rules are still in place, and that meta discussion should be saved for modmail or our monthly meta thread.

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March 2018 Meta Thread

Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:40 AM PST

Hello /r/politics! Welcome to our meta thread, your monthly opportunity to voice your concerns about the running of the subreddit.

Rule Changes

We don't actually have a ton of rule changes this month! What we do have are some handy backend tweaks helping to flesh things out and enforce rules better. Namely we've passed a large set of edits to our Automoderator config, so you'll hopefully start seeing more incivility snapped up by our robot overlords before they're ever able to start a slapfight. Secondly, we do have actual rule change that we hope you'll support (because we know it was asked about earlier) -

/r/Politics is banning websites that covertly run cryptominers on your computer.

We haven't gotten around to implementing this policy yet, but we did pass the judgment. We have significant legwork to do on setting investigation metrics and actually bringing it into effect. We just know that this is something that may end up with banned sources in the future, so we're letting you know now so that you aren't surprised later.

The Whitelist

We underwent a major revision of our whitelist this month, reviewing over 400 domains that had been proposed for admission to /r/politics. This month, we've added 171 new sources for your submission pleasure. The full whitelist, complete with new additions, can be found here.

Bonus: "Why is Breitbart on the whitelist?"

The /r/politics whitelist is neither an endorsement nor a discountenance of any source therein. Each source is judged on a set of objective metrics independent of political leanings or subjective worthiness. Breitbart is on the whitelist because it meets multiple whitelist criteria, and because no moderator investigations have concluded that it is not within our subreddit rules. It is not state-sponsored propaganda, we've detected no Breitbart-affiliated shills or bots, we are not fact-checkers and we don't ban domains because a vocal group of people don't like them. We've heard several complaints of hate speech on Breitbart and will have another look, but we've discussed the domain over and over before including here, here, here, and here. This month we will be prioritizing questions about other topics in the meta-thread, and relegating Breitbart concerns to a lower priority so that people who want to discuss other concerns about the subredddit have that opportunity.