Folks, i'm not deleting anything in here yet. However, please do be careful, when you are not defending bigotry (or, especially, the use of slurs), that you don't end up sounding like you're defending it by accident.

Three comments deleted. They're all from yesterday; i am just popping in to clean up the rest of the derail of users sniping at each other, especially since the context was lost given that the inciting comment was deleted yesterday.

Also, just a note that calling substance-dependent folks "nasty addict[s]" is not something we encourage here. I'm letting the comment stand but please do not talk about people this way. Many, many folks are addicted to something.

Edited post text at poster's request!

tiny frying pan: i think this line of questioning has gone on long enough; take it to MeMail if Don Pepino's comment isn't sufficient to answer your question.

Added USPolitics tag! Please carry on!

One comment removed, its responses left for context. Let's try to be sensitive to context by avoiding holocaust comparisons here.

Folks, i do understand that this is all interconnected (i say so often!), but try not to relitigate the 2024 election (or any earlier elections)) in here unless it's genuinely relevant, please?

One comment removed as requested.

One deleted. Name-calling isn't OK. Please stop engaging each other in arguments in this thread.

Also, fixed the conversion factor in chariot pulled by cassowaries' comment, with permission.

flabdablet: you are threadsitting here. Give the conversation room to breathe, please!

Okay, enough. saladin, jamjam, and 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a, please stop derailing the thread by sniping at each other. Everyone else, please do not feel tempted to help out here.

jamjam: "I doubt there’s going to be a whole lot of sand left, what with people like you needing so much to put their heads in." Please do not talk to other members like this!

chariot pulled by cassowaries: just a note that you're verging on threadsitting here. The conversation needs a little room to breathe!

One deleted. It's ableist and upsetting to use Joseph Merrick*'s disability to make a throwaway joke.] *aka the Elephant Man

One deleted; i think it was posted to the wrong thread. At any rate, it wasn't connected to the conversation in here.

MattD: "The weirdest feeling has got to be the fat people who aren't (yet) on the shot. The sense of sheer inevitability, that every late night snack or second serving at dinner is close to the last one before it never happens again." This is amazingly condescending as well as sizeist and arguably ableist, and it is moralizing about fatness and fat people (at the end of a comment condemning other people for moralizing about fatness and fat people, no less!) Fat people are not an abstraction or a hypothetical, we are real and we aren't all desperate to be thin. (And fatness is not always caused by overeating.) Please be more mindful.

Galvanic: "Ok boomer." I'm letting this stand in the thread, but please do not talk to other members like this. Drive-by condescension doesn't create a good climate for conversation.

Hey, just a quick note: conflating women with AFAB people is Not Great wording! It's upsetting to a lot of transmasc and nonbinary people to be rhetorically lumped into the "woman" bucket this way.

Changed post title, with poster's permission.

I fixed the HTML in this comment by Silvery Fish, and deleted two comments related to the broken link (the first commenter specifically requested that their comment be deleted after the link was fixed, and the second deleted comment was a reply to that one.)

Just chiming in to suggest we drop the Billy Joel derail, the point has been made.

URL in the post has been fixed. Please carry on.]

No comments deleted. While it is OK to disagree and speak in critical terms, please try to do so in a way that engages with the post rather than calling it "fucking stupid".

Folks, just a quick note: this post has picked up a number of flags, as have some of the comments. The article may be LLM-generated (or at least LLM-assisted), but the post itself is fine and the conversation seems to be going alright, so i'm not deleting anything. But please continue to keep things on-rails and at least vaguely on-topic. Thanks!

One deleted at user request!

Hey there, this is a near-double of Wordshore's post from last week, and the conversation there is ongoing, so i'm going to go ahead and delete this. I do encourage continuing the conversation over there, and particularly bringing up hauntology, which i think is an important lens on BoC's aesthetic!

This isn't a huge deal or anything, but please do not snipe at other users unnecessarily, thx.

Fixed the formatting in Thivaia 2.0's comment!

Edited the URL Description as the long URL was breaking the view of the front page

Fixed typo in post title! Please carry on!

Typo and post link have been fixed.

Redacted a few errors as requested.

Hi folks! Just a reminder: while the right-wing politics machine is global and all of these things are interconnected, we would definitely like to keep things in this thread focused on Hungary and the Hungarian election rather than recentering it around US politics and elections. You can definitely mention US-related stuff -- JD Vance was particularly important in this election, and that's definitely on-topic! -- but be mindful of the space you're taking up, please.

One comment removed as requested.

Link fixed!

Removed that duplicate paragraph from the post, and added "AI" and "LLM" tags while I was at it.

Fixed the USPolitics tag. Please carry on.

Deleted one: wrong thread.

I like those Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, but they tend to wreak havoc with screen readers and end up not aiding accessibility much at all. So being the fun police I took the liberty of replacing them with your garden variety ASCII italics. Sorry about that.

One comment deleted, let's avoid "that's what she said" jokes, those are pretty dated and sexist.

Made a few adjustment to the post, as agreed with OP:

• Changed the text to reflect the nonspeaking/nonverbal difference, as pointed in the first comment.

• Changed the name in the title from Anna Stubblefield to Jayson Blair as she was convicted of raping a man with severe cerebral palsy. ]

One deleted: poster's request.

One deleted. Please keep this thread on track. Let’s focus on uplifting Trans people, sharing accomplishments and achievements, etc. derails will be deleted.

One comment removed as requested.

The second comment by grokus has now been deleted. Folks were, rightfully, flagging it again today and I see no reason to keep such an offensive comment up. His original comment is still there, but as travelingthyme said, please let us know if deletions feel more productive .

One deleted. Poster's request.

One deleted. Poster's request.

I've reached out to OP about a re-wording the post to address the feedback given in the comments, stay tuned.

I've reached out to OP about a re-wording the post to address the feedback given in the comments, stay tuned.

Comments left up for transparency, but if deletions feel more productive, please do let us know. The two users making Transphobic comments will be permanently banned and not let back in. This type of behavior is not allowed. Re-centering the conversation to share their Transphobic comments, de-centering Trans people who are impacted by this discussion most, and sealioning will never be tolerated. Guidelines for reference.

Moved text below the fold as it was breaking the mobile display text wrap on the front page.

Title fixed!

One deleted: wrong thread.

After review by the Moderation Oversight Committee, the comments by cendawanita, gwint, and others have been reinstated.

Removed a trolling comment by cendawanita and a bunch of responses from gwint and others about the US and South Korea that was a derail. Please move on y'all. EDITED TO ADD: Those comments have been reinstated after a decision by the Moderation Oversight Committee--BB 10:23pm ET 3/4/2026

Hey, this is a general mod note to y'all to be careful with your analogies and how far you stretch them. It can cause a lot of derails and needlessly raise the temperature of the thread, so think'em through please!

Hey prismatic7, Several of your comments have been removed, particularly the one saying "fuck you" and another using explicit violent language towards another member. Using that kind of invective against other members violates the Content Policy, hence the removal. If you keep making those types of comments, we will have to start issuing timeouts or bans. The situation sucks, yes, and you’re in the middle of it, which is terrible, you have our sympathies, but that’s zero reason to be abusive to other members of the site. Knock it off.

One deleted for spam.

One deleted for use of the r word. Feel free to re-write the comment without it.

Hi, just a mod note to say we're aware of prismatic7's comments and recognize the frustration that produced them. Thank you for sharing them. But please remember that many MeFites, including in the US, don't agree with or like what's going with the administration or this war with Iran. Lots of folks are on your side and also frustrated with our lack of power in preventing this and so much other shit the American government has done and is doing. To my fellow Americans and westerners, please take a few minutes to think about where prismatic7's comments are coming from and why. Finally, the back and forth about those comments isn't doing anyone or this thread much good, so please recognize the validity of multiple viewpoints about all this and avoid arguing specific points repeatedly. No comments have been removed. (This mod note has been edited to clarify a distinction between individual MeFites and MetaFilter as an organization)--BB 3/2/2026 at 7:50pm ET

Several comments that were about America have removed. This post is about Great Britain, please avoid injecting USA issues into it.

Thella's earlier comment stating that TERF is a "slur-ish silencing" term has also been removed for being transphobic. Other comments addressing that statemen have been left up for context.

A comment by Thella has been removed for transphobia, per the Content Policy. Continued violations of that policy can result in a ban.

Added Substack tag by a user's request.

One deleted. Posters request.

One deleted, poster's request.

AI comments deleted and one reply to them also deleted.

Calling Lindsey Graham "Ms. Lindsey" is homophobic so that comment has been removed, per the Content Policy. The member who wrote the comment, WatTylerJr, has been banned for a day and emailed a note about refraining from such remarks in the future or they may face a longer or potentially permanent ban

Post edited to include note and clearer link to the mentioned film, with OP's approval.

Main link updated at OP's request.

One deleted. Poster's request.

humbug: "uspol tag please?" Added!

One deleted. Insensitive comment that fails to contribute to the thread in a substantial way.

martin q blank: "A group of Washington Post reporters has started a GoFundMe to get their colleagues home and pay for relocation, housing, legal support and more. IIRC we're not supposed to post fundraiser links here, but it's easy to find on the site." Generally speaking it's best to avoid GoFundMe type links in a post. But as a comment and for reporters dealt another crappy hand by a billionaire? Share that link(s) in the comments!

growabrain: "I've wanted to post an academic FPP on Metafilter about pornography, in order to stimulate a general debate about the topic (which is dear to my heart) and I wonder if it can be done without it being deleted. I know that the community is very politically-correct and protective and lots of people are offended by various subjects. So is it possible? The links I discovered are Wikipedia-worthy and couldn't pose any offense to anybody. So, if the consensus is 'better not', I'll keep them to myself. Your opinion?... Grazie." Moderator here, but not on duty. There's no inherent restriction against a post about pornography, but obviously it's a sensitive topic that can spark various reactions in the comments. So be mindful of that and lean into the academic side of things. Probably a good idea to leave include a Content Warning and put the bulk of the post inside. Feel free to email the mods a draft of the post if you want any feedback about whether it's ok as a FPP (which you're not bound to follow). I imagine that as long it's handled with care and sensitivity, it should be fine.

tiny frying pan: "What is this post actually about? The range of topics seems all over the place." Hi, friendly reminder that there is a list of tags/keywords for every post, located on the right side of the post on desktop or at the bottom of the page on mobile. Granted, that's not easy to find on mobile, especially for this particular post, but it IS there, if people are wondering what a post is about. Remember, folks don't have to read, enjoy, or understand every single post. It's perfectly fine and even encouraged to just close the tab or window if you don't like or understand a post and move on to another one.

Added AI tag.

Removed a snarky comment that was attacking another member and a response to it. Please remember that AI can be a pretty heated topic, but that doesn't mean you have to get nasty with other community members, that's a choice you're making. Knock that off.

One comment removed for being more about what that person things MeFi's attitude is about AI instead of the thread subject.

I've deleted the whole "BDSM is a Thing" derail. This is a serious discussion about a sensitive subject, so please Be sensitive to context. CynicalKnight please take a step back and let the thread move on.