CU vs FEC was specifically about campaign financing, but yeah basically ruled that organizations like corporations are protected by 1A, and money counts as free speech.
Which is obviously bullshit on every level, but just one way that a SCOTUS with a few corrupt individuals can destroy democracy for an entire country.
Just for another use case, pronouns can help clarify if you prefer to be called sir or ma’am.
I wouldn’t call you a bigot for not having preferred pronouns though, that seems really silly.
I think it’s pretty reasonable to assume that any blackmail Epstein was holding against any and all of his clients is in the hands of the Kremlin.
Thank you for the update! I’ll switch over <3
A bunch of people contributing a little bit each month would also be huge:
https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
I got dozens of people telling my to post my dick because I said that neopronouns are stupid.
I wouldn’t consider myself a Nazi, I’m extremely anti-Nazi. I’m very involved in trans activism in real life. I’m in management - I changed schedule posting so that it includes pronouns. I ordered give out free pronoun pins (I wear one too). I correct people and guests when they misgender someone. I’ve been to marches and I’ve donated to events. I have a lil trans flag in my window. Real life trans safety and inclusion is important to me. (And why I’m off put when a Hexbear confuses all people with penises as automatically being “men”) I’m not making these up to try to look a certain kind of way, this is all verifiably real and I can get you the pictures and receipts if you need them.
Maybe I’m not pronoun progressive enough yet and I’ll change my mind later. I still think neopronouns are stupid, and only part of chronic online-ness. I’m willing to consider that I might still be in the wrong here.
But if you sexually harass someone and get 100 upvotes, you’re punching down.
If the mods delete any posts and ban users who call out sexual harassment, you’re punching down.
What I see is people who probably don’t stand up to bullies in real life, they turn into bullies when they’re the big fish in a little pond.
Ok, the deep lore of “post your hog” makes sense, and I honestly don’t think I can argue against sexually harassing a literal Neo-Nazi. Let the kid gloves come off.
But it is straight up sexual harassment. Yeah, it shuts people down quickly and easily, that’s literally what sexual harassment was designed for. And it’s not being reserved for Nazis, it’s being used liberally and the community and moderators foster an atmosphere that encourages sexual harassment of outsiders.
And to be fair, I see there’s outside actors acting in bad faith. But sexual harassment is either okay in a community, or it isn’t. You can’t blame a pro-sexual-harassment environment on a bad faith outside actor. And when sexual harassment has been normalized, how much space do you really have to complain about other people being bad faith actors?
The really terrible thing is that I don’t think Hexbear is even capable of having a good faith discussion about sexual harassment, with itself. If anyone was to point out the issue, the mods and most prolific posters would not be able to take it seriously and nothing would change.
In unixporn someone brought to light that the traditional term “ricing” had racist origins, and there was a little pushback, but by and large the community accepted that the term will be removed and banned. The community learned, and changed.
I have 0% expectation that Hexbear community is capable of listening, or changing.
No, you just use it against anyone who doesn’t immediately agree with you on everything, and now you are the bad faith actor, and you’ve made being a bad faith actor more important than genuinely helping any progressive causes.
I actually just dm’d you with the post earlier, check your messages.
They forgot to mention that the reason Ukrainians don’t have agency is because the West is turning them gay:
Have you done so many brain gymnastics that you think you genuinely care about the lives of Ukrainians, or are you aware that you’re lying for political points?
In what way do you actually value Ukrainian lives?
What about the sexual harassment?
Yeahhh, he’s like “everything was taken out of context to smear me”, he shows the context and it doesn’t make him look any better.
It’s a shame bc I really wanted to get into hyprland, but I won’t get involved with a project that is okay harassing people for being trans.
I started with Ubuntu as a beginner and I don’t recommend it any more. Canonical keeps trying to reinvent things it’s own special way without consideration for the rest of the community, like Mir (dead), Unity (dead for a while, brought back by a community volunteer), and snap packages (more downsides than upsides).
Mint Debian Edition is a good way to go. My top recommendation right now is Fedora. Fresh but stable, and widely adopted so it’s easy to get help or find answers when you have a problem.
This is serving big proud boy gravy seals, or QAnon “the storm is coming” energy.
If you’re rich enough you can just buy your way out of most consequences.
Trump moonlights as a nationalist but in reality he’s a globalist businessman who is friendly towards Russia and China. Sure, he says build the wall, but he hired immigrants at his properties.
Trump did lean in heavy to the nationalist rhetoric in 2016, and where did that get him? One term, twice lost popular vote, twice impeached, and what should have been a red wave midterm in 2022 turned into a red fart. Edit: not to mention currently drowning in legal issues and hemorrhaging money on lawyers
Most Americans don’t want nationalism.
America actually sucks ass on its own merits
Oh I 100% agree. I don’t think Russian propaganda is seriously influencing America, not any more anyway. Maybe Russia tipped the scales in 2016 enough to get Trump elected, maybe not. I think everyone has adapted to it now.
I think Russia impact online right now amounts to just making the internet a less fun place to be, because of the annoying trolls. I don’t take it very seriously.
American capitalism would self destruct even if Russia did not exist.
It’s not, politicians overwhelmingly don’t use nationalist or anti-Russia rhetoric because it doesn’t get them elected. Vivek is going hard nationalist, and he’s what, 9% support among Republicans?
There’s a few hyper-nationalists in the Republican party, but it’s the tiny minority, and everyone else in America just uses them for entertainment.
Maybe you should have thought of that before you became peasants.