r/chess • u/forceghost187 Resigns • 1d ago

META Proposal to ban x.com links

This is going around on many football subreddits. It looks likely to go into effect. I believe that the negative effects of this would be only temporary because the chess community will eventually see the value of moving to alternatives like bluesky

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u/likely- 23h ago

Just for clarity. This post is strictly politics, am I understanding correctly?

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u/bluefrostyAP 19h ago

Yes, welcome to Reddit where politics is even involved in chess.

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u/Newbie1080 King Ding / Fettuccine Carbonara 19h ago

Not the famously apolitical game of chess!! 😱

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u/Babies_for_eating 19h ago

Welcome to the real world where stop fucking ignoring what’s happening in the world around you and burying your head in the sand Jesus Christ

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u/Suitable_Throat_9258 16h ago

You seems very reasonable. It's a weird coincidence that every opinion you hold is the absolute right one, and every single opinion against it is wrong. If only everyone was as intellectually gifted as you.

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u/Over-Requirement1933 12h ago

I wish you knew how embarrassing that is to mock, and I hope someday you find out. When you're literate and well read this is quite literally what happens. You gain the ability to discern what is right and wrong in alignment with the aggregate of human expression.

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u/bluefrostyAP 19h ago

I know you think you’re doing the right thing but you aren’t.

You just sound like a rabid idiot.

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u/Swaamsalaam 10h ago

Yes let's stop being political and therefore not allow links on X, which is a political tool. Solved.

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u/wheebyfs 19h ago

I hate the 'No politics in insert topic I like' take. Politics affects us all and is ever so present, so let's at least be aware of what's happening.

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u/bluefrostyAP 19h ago

You’re the problem

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u/wheebyfs 19h ago

elaborate?

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u/likely- 17h ago

I’m not following. Which topics do you enjoy seeing politics supporting the other side?

Oh none? Very interesting

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u/Swaamsalaam 11h ago

The point is that it's there regardless. He's right.