A fine endorsement.

First they came for people I don’t like, I assume, and I said hell yeah, there’s no way that will ever be me. Over here, officer. Come for a few more kinds of people I don’t like. Nothing bad ever happened to the French!

And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.

I don’t give a shit what children see.

They’ll live.

Stop spying on adults.

Or: strenuously avoiding a national ID system, because of how obviously that could be abused. And probably still hacked anyway.

It is possible to do such an ID system sensibly, fairly, and for considerable net good. But we wouldn’t.

Advertising shits in your brain.

Let’s get rid of it.

Your business model is not my problem.

Especially when plenty of profitable services add this shit anyway.

If ignoring them worked, we’d be fine.

peperony and chease

I think the majority of Lemmy users are American or expect American news to dominate. The thing you’re complaining about only happens because of that.

Given that everyone’s first assumption is that it’s about the US Supreme Court, obviously no. You have to meet people where they are.

Even for domestic US news, the same shit happens for state versus federal governments. Sometimes on websites that namedrop cities and politicians but don’t bother mentioning what fucking state they’re in.

As if misleading headlines are the audience’s fault.

‘1920s Germany also had cops and racism’ is tacit denial of what got worse in the 1930s.

Not aided by straight-up lying about the Florida concentration camp, because god damn, you have a psychological need to blame the previous democrat for every evil done by republicans. Ron Desantis built that camp last month. Can’t let that stop you from recycling time-vampire nonsense about Obama also separating children… from child traffickers.

Natural-born citizens are being snatched off the street and maybe shipped to foreign prisons the same day, but hey, I’m sure that was status quo under Biden. We had immigration laws and cops were shitty, so that’s totes mcgoats the same thing as publicly salivating about rounding up sixty-five million people.

We did it, Patrick!

Thank god you’re here to let everything get worse.

‘Attacking the preferable option is fundamentally counterproductive.’

‘When will it not be?’

Incorrect.

And how’d that work out, last year? Did attacking Harris make things better in general? Or even on this specific issue?

Yes, let’s make this about the most progressive figure in the conversation, and not the supermajority of conservative bastards who openly want civilians dead.

Improve your reading comprehension.

But the no client list definitely included Bill Clinton!