My company sent me a fishing test email from a "no-reply@companyname.com" email address. I sent it to our security department and asked if I would ever get legitimate emails from that address. They never responded except to say that I passed the phishing test, so I set up a filter to automatically forward emails from that to our security department with a message questioning its validity. Let's security tell me if emails are legit or not.
It doesn't have anything to do with chess. However, whatever organization is handing out these champion titles has the right to award and remove the titles as they choose. If they don't want a bathtub-shitter as their champion spokesman, they are within their right to remove the title.
I bet that digging into the bylaws of many sports/competitions would reveal codes of conduct that participants must follow.
In nearly half a century on this planet, I've been seeing this same war going on. Sometimes blatantly, like now, and sometimes through terrorist attacks coming from either side. AFAIC, they can fight until they glass the entire region and none of them are left. There will never be a solution as long as religion exists in the world.
They don't even want to make a better world for themselves. They are only concerned with making a worse world for people they don't like. They are fine being collateral damage in that.
But if it's my opinion, then shouldn't I speak up?
Because opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, and they all stink. Throwing your opinion out there when no one asked for it is like breaking wind because you appreciate your own brand. And I will admit, guilty as charged.
something that is actually bad for high quality discussions
This is purely a matter of opinion, proven by the fact that, not only do I have no issue with a joke comment thrown around in serious posts, I prefer the minor chuckle as a break from the soul-crushing reality that is everyday news.
I'll, once gain, point to the fact that you are the one choosing to engage these comments. It takes more effort to downvote, and immensely more effort to type out a reply, than it does to just scroll on by. When I walk into my local 7-11 to get down on a Coke-Banana Slurpee and some Takis, I don't start bitching and moaning about the fake penis enlargement pills and trucker speed I see along the way. I head to what I'm interested in, pay the man, and make like a baby.
The world is full of shit I don't want to deal with and would rather not see, but I don't control the rest of the world. Learn how to make peace with that and you'll be a lot happier.
The reason they make it to the top is precisely because they are low-effort and infinitely recycled. Many different users think of them as a response, then see the comment and upvote it because "same". It's not that the joke is good or not, it's that I thought of it and it was already there, so have an upvote.
If you want a decent discussion about something, maybe replying to a low-effort joke response isn't the way to go about it. The great thing about the Fediverse is that you yourself choose what to interact with and what to ignore. If you are interacting with something you'd rather ignore, maybe that's something to ponder on a personal level.
The American "Healthcare" system is a money-making venture, first and foremost. Health care is simply the structure the corporations use to wring as much money from the masses as possible.
If my ex packed me anything before I left, it'd be dynamite... And she'd pack it up my ass.