Hey there!

Howdy! "Only 21 days left until the election..."

I’ll add some logging, bots, and some other stuff in a bit

Your countdown is making me nervous.

Ha ha, to be fair

It also really puts it in perspective.

I think Steve Bannon is unfortunately right; that we won't know until January.

Which geopolitically and domestically is a nightmare.

My dad was sure to vote ASAP, though what's troubling is most Republicans are waiting until the 3rd; a blessing and a curse.

Well it’s how folks should be voting. I don’t know why everyone decided to call an audible and change how elections were performed.

Lunacy, right

Just keep it the same

It's meant to sow division and confusion by design

Darren Beattie's nailed this one on the head.

I run 100 times the risk of sickness in the store than I do at the voting place.

I had written about Alinskyites and Marcusians early on, but didn't count on a collaboration

Precisely

Walmart is okay, but not the polling station

If folks really wanted to keep folks safe they would be pushing for mail in groceries

It's mind-boggling the mental gymnastics and inconsistencies

🤸🏼‍♂️

What's wild is how rights are being trampled

and how little litigation is taking place

Yeah churches etc have been so clamped down. Yet protests are 👌

haha--you're going to get me angry thinking about that

Okay okay.

Do you write about politics?

Lol sorry.

No

Me on the reg

lel

I would say that looks like Chinese to me, but I can read some Mandarin

I ask because I want to build up the opinion pages, and it's masturbatory to only post my own writ. I talk to the War Room guys on occasion, and might get up an interview soon, but if people in this discord--should they turn up--want to write, i'd be keen on publishing.

Or if in future discussion of news items

there is an idea that needs to be explored, I can help get that up.

Anyway, getting ahead of myself granted I just turned on Discord

I use discord on the desktop and phone.

But if I’m doing admin I do it on the ‘puter

Right on.

I added some emojis

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Haha. Incredible.

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Can't believe I've refused myself Discord for so long.

It's pretty good for creating chat communities

I held off for a long time thiking it was dumb

I realize I originally created my account to join The_Donald server

Then I made one for grad school students and it's going swimmingly

but was initially overwhelmed.

The Donald

lel

You use this educationally?

Well

I imagine that'd be killer for a CCP-Virus-era class dynamic

It's for just keep up with folks in classes etc.

Makes sense.

Professor Rick!

Not yet buddy

Also the Rick thing is a internet name thing so I know if my name is being used elsewhere

it's also a spongebob joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSyOH3AtOJI

lol, howdy Patrick. To reiterate, I'm Joe

But your last name is Mckinnon or something right the Sheph thing threw me off

I had an account, now banned, I used before moving north where I went by Joe Sheph as a transmogrified version of Joseph.

Haha

i iz dumb for not catching that

No, all my friends similarly thought I was having a stroke.

Would it be prudent to provide the invite link publicly, or does that allow the invited to bypass necessary mediums?

Hold off a bit

I'm going to setup captcha and a rules thing

Absolutely. I defer to you on all things Discord.

I learned a lot from this dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMEPlFAzjk

If you want to help out you can think of anything you want to say rules wise for the server

or I can just copy what I screenshotted earlier

Fortunately the 'illegal activities' is a great catch-all. That'd account for incitements to violence etc

For the most part I don't care to police stuff really

Yeah

Curbing conversation is a great way to chill it

There's nothing particular to the political conversation that'd warrant additional rules, really, so your set-up definitely works.

Cool I'll keep working on stuff

Awesome; I'm gonna check out this video you sent.

Hey before I go to town doing server setup, do you have an email tied to your account?

Like can you recover your password etc.

Yes

[email protected]

I helped a dude out one time and he didn’t. I had to do all of the setup twice.

So lame.

Hold on

to the discord- gimme a sec to confirm

No rush man

[email protected]

I had to construct multiple personalities for when we pitch our TV shows; Ian Caird has been a trusted ally lol

Lol

A guide to markdown in Discord! FYI https://gist.github.com/matthewzring/9f7bbfd102003963f9be7dbcf7d40e51