Jason Thibeault @lousycanuck@mastodon.the-orbit.net

“It’s a strange kind of oppression in which silenced dissidents keep getting book deals, op-eds, sold-out speaking tours, lucrative Patreons, millions of YouTube views, and sympathetic profiles in the world’s leading newspapers. How much more attention do they want? How much freer can speech be?”

Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/pretty-loud-for-being-so-silenced

@lousycanuck

if I could help Jen find someone up to her stature I would, but unfortunately angels are notoriously slippery

Also it looks like I logged on just in time to say Jen is great

Earthbound is one of those pieces of art where if u played it at the right age you're able to write 10,000 words about how important it is but if u didnt youre like "yeah its alright, its pretty funny but the battle system is kinda boring."

Imagine Gab being the hill ur punkass chooses to die on.

Learning that the entire TERF movement arose quite likely from a cis lesbian being broken up with by a trans lesbian.

NOT SURPRISED.

it's been said a million times before in a million different ways, but just so we're clear where i'm at, if you have a problem with software shipping without the capability to fraternize with nazis, i'm going to go ahead and assume you're a nazi

"it affects free speech and is censorship!"

"ok so do you want to be buddies with nazis?"

"well no i just think they should be allowed to espouse their hateful rhetoric and terrorize people on the internet"

"okay so you're a nazi"

Let me be clear.

Saying devs shouldn’t make any ethical decisions concerning software is a cowardly decision, which enables hate, abuse and harassment to continue.

You’re not a centrist or being logical.

You’re giving space for hate to flourish.

#VoteDeniGetPlenty #Deni2020

As Presidenite I will make Ben Shapiro eat piss.

As we're seeing again, we admins presenting their cowardice and complicity with bigots as a moral decision to remain 'fair'.

This is the exact reasoning that allows immigrant children to be ripped away from their families and stored in concentration camps while they get sick and die.

Because we have to 'hear both sides'.

And that's pure bullshit. People who say that just don't want to be targets b/c they're afraid of standing up for something right.

So they hide.

MAN: doc i'm so depressed
DOCTOR: listen, they're doing an anniversary screening of Goodfellas, you should go see it, Joe Pesci is in it, he's very funny, it will cheer you righ--
MAN: funny how
DOCTOR: wh--
MAN: how is he funny
DOCTOR: I--
MAN: funny like a clown, is he a clown to you, what the fuck is so funny about him, tell me what's so fuckin' funny

Gab is people who dox, who jump queer people and stomp on them, who occasionally go off and shoot a crowd up. They're the people who, back then, bought the shirt McVeigh was arrested in.

If you don't get that, you shouldn't be running instances or making the software people use to access them. Best case scenario, the absolutely most charitable interpretation, is that you aren't responsible enough.

Before 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing was the big thing everyone remembered. The imagery was burned into our minds, and the violet potential of people like Timothy McVeigh, the Nicholses, and the people that supported them once the motivations became clear. Wayne LaPierre supported McVeigh It literally took 9/11 to do overshadow that. Gab isn't a bunch of wacky trolls and free. speech-testing provocateurs. They're people who idolize and occasionally plan extreme violence.

through the power of not jerking it, the denizens of Antihorntposting have accessed a realm of pure energy. they are immediately using this to spew globes of white-hot energy over all that offends them. sector administrator Rk'Tkrx Youngquist has advised "nobody read anything into this."

aw nuts

@lousycanuck @xenophora @applebaps Authentic on main. Absolutely Genuine, on main.