And yet, I'll still be thrown in jail for 15 years if I get caught carrying the small handgun I carry with me literally every day of my life while travelling to or through New York.
That is the thing with gun laws for me. It's not about me wanting a gun or not wanting a gun. It's literally about throwing innocent people into prison for nothing. Ruining lives of harmless, innocent people is never acceptable, I don't care what the cost is of the other side.
Yes.
And if you want a more clear war where we directly fought brown people. Look at all the land we took from Mexico.
The reality is, if you boil these wars down, they will always be white people fighting other white people. Because, well, for most of human history white people have been in power virtually everywhere, so the only fights that weren't essentially instantly won were fights between whites. Back when people wouldn't even consider Spaniards or Italians "whites."
Change my mind by reminding me of times any white actually fought back
I dunno, the bloodiest war in American history?
There is no constitutional basis for a "disinformation board." In fact, it's one of the few things the federal government is explicitly not allowed to have.
Even if this board never does anything, its very existence is unconstitutional. Not to mention we're paying for it.
If you actually have these beliefs, there are ways to express them without destroying your own masculinity. The leftists who agree with you may look down on it, but still.
Hot take black people exist in Japan a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶w̶e̶l̶l̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶b̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶J̶a̶p̶a̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶n̶g̶e̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶p̶a̶g̶e̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶n̶n̶e̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶t̶h̶l̶e̶t̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶e̶t̶c̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶J̶a̶p̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶ why
why
Rampant consumerism and marketing. Which is ironic when so many of these people are so against "capitalism."
They're all about "sustainability" until it comes to spending a bit more up fronfor a reusable metal canister and actually using it for its life before recycling it at a scrap yard.
What it is is that they don't actually care about the environment; they just think it's fun to buy "green" shit.
Nobody should be forced to be a parent
Contraceptives are so god-damn accessible. Not having sex is even more accessible. It really isn't that hard.
Stuff like this is always bullshit. With plastic bags in particular, if you don't get the free, ultra thin plastic bags, you have to purchase disposable plastic bags for your home needs. The purchased bags are always thicker. Consumers would be upset if they actually paid for a plastic bag and they were as thin as the "free" ones. But you see the issue, hopefully. By banning "free" plastic bags, you're just forcing yourself to buy thicker disposable plastic bags.
I follow a few Instagram "models" (for reasons) and they are hilarious. They are all about "sustainability" and ultra against single use plastics. But the funny part is that weekly, or more frequently, you'll see they have a different reusable plastic cup/bottle or whatever. A proper reusable plastic cup takes soooo much more than a week's worth of disposable plastic cups' plastic. This is lost on them.
No. It should not be "added" to anywhere. We need to stop insisting that existing companies expand into other territories; including acquisitions. It gives too few people too much power, and reduces options.
It's because the modern trend of "transgender" has nothing to do with gender dysphoria or believing you're in the wrong body or whatever. For most trannies, it is only about:
- Getting attention and fitting into a new social circle after struggling to fit in anywhere else
- Controlling others/authority (e.g. "use my pronouns!")
- Being a lazy, disgusting slob
Being a tranny is no longer about passing. If what they were saying about just wanting to be a woman was true, then they would try damn hard and could pass. The goal use to be passing, but it is not anymore.
The goal now is to make yourself look even more ugly after deciding that you are too ugly as a man, so now you become an ugly "woman" and if society mentions you're ugly, it's now just because they're transphobic. And, more importantly, any insecurities you have about yourself, you can blame on "being born in the wrong body" and having to "struggle" trying to become a woman.
They're lazy. They don't want to put the actual effort in to passing; they just want you to do all the work by calling them "she"s. If they put in the work and actually passed, they wouldn't have the problem of people "misgendering" them (besides people who knew them before their "transition"). But this isn't what they want. Being a woman is a lot of work, and they don't actually want to be a woman.
Like, these people aren't even willing put in the effort that most women put in natively. Let alone additional effort to actually transition. How many times have you seen a tranny who isn't even willing to keep himself shaved?
Well, yea, Africa is ideal. But if we could just start by deporting them from red states, I'd be happy.
Do you think black people who got abortions before are going to just give birth instead, or do you think they'll deport themselves to a liberal state?
All private messaging should be end-to-end encrypted. There's really no excuse at this point for it not to be. It can be seamless.
And the importance of this goes beyond whether or not you trust Twitter and the government with your messages. Even if you trust Twitter as a corporation, and trust every single person they employ, and your government, you should still want end-to-end encryption.
Why? Because no website is unhackable.
Twitter themselves were recently hacked in a big way: fake tweets promoting a crypto scam came from major accounts like Obama, Elon Musk, etc. The details of this hack haven't been released, but it is speculated to be a social engineering attack that gave them access to do this on all of these huge accounts. There is no reason why this hack, or a hack similar to it, couldn't also give them access to everyone's private messages, which they could then store offline.
Why would a hacker want to do this? Why would a hacker care about your DMs when you're a nobody? If I were nefarious and found myself with a database of every single person's private messages, I would write an algorithm that searches this database for private shit. It could be as basic as looking for keywords like "sex" or more advanced like searching images for predominantly flesh tones. This software could then automatically send its findings to the user with a blackmail demand. If it doesn't receive the demand within a timeframe, it could automatically send these findings to all of their followers.
Sure, depending on how basic or advanced the algorithm is, there may be a lot of false positives. But would you want to risk your private messages to anyone being exposed to everyone?
Or, if they don't want to monetize it, they could just publish the database in its entirety. Once it's on the open internet, it's never going away. Perhaps a terrorist does this with all american accounts to hurt the country? How damaging would it be for everyone's private messages to be in a searchable database? Perhaps they could blackmail an entire country with the threat of releasing the database?
And, the worst part is, if you've ever sent something you wish to keep private on one of these services, you are forever at risk of this happening, because there is essentially no way to guarantee it gets deleted from their server. Even if you delete the message on your end, and convince the recipient to delete it on their end, it very likely stays on the server forever.
Speaking to that last bit, there should be legislation regarding the handling of private data stored on servers, including private messages.
I agree that there is a large overlap, but only because it is an incredibly small minority of people that have noticed what I'm talking about. I don't think it's one political side specifically; everyone is guilty of perpetuating this shit.
Although, some of the only non-technical people who have seen the light are people who used Gab (or this site) and were forced to try the "Add to Homescreen" option from their browser to get an app-like, fullscreen experience from nothing more than a mobile website.
I am so fucking sick of "app culture."
Name one good technical reason by Twitter needs to be an app and not just a mobile website.
Why are people so stupidly adamant that everything they use on their phone be an app? And because people demand an app, companies neglect their mobile sites in favor of developing their app (and because companies want the ability to track and spam you easier that an app provides versus a website).
The other thing to consider is that his 43 billion didn't just vanish when he bought Twitter. He now has an asset worth 43 billion. If you buy off judges, DAs, etc., that's a one time thing. You cannot "resell" a bought judge.
Not with just $43 bil he couldn't.
And I suspect that a Twitter acquisition has far more potential than "owning" $43 bil of local governments. Neither give you full control of the thing you bought, by the way.
I can't say I agree. How would you spend $43 billion to benefit free speech?
Twitter is the cheapest way to get a big platform with name recognition that people of all walks of life actually use. If you bring it back to free speech, not only have you made a large platform free speech focused, but if it is a successful endeavor and benefits the platform financially (as it surely will), you'll set a path forward for other companies.
Right now companies clearly believe that going woke is the only path to success. A lot of this is big investors who invest based on how woke a company is. We need to show that that can be changed.
Giant waste of money
The dude has plenty of money and is doing this for shits. Don't concern yourself with him not making a return on his investment, the lulz he's experiencing right now are worth it to him alone.
And if you mean it's a waste of money in the "he could be giving it to charity" sense... I hope I don't have to explain why that's so dumb.
You might be a TERF, but I'm a FERF.
It truly is crazy how powerful propaganda is.
This is actually incredibly interesting. Why would Russia enforce laws protecting non-Russian businesses if the only real thing that can be done to punish them (sanctions) is already done to its near fullest extent?
Unless a country decides to go to literal war with Russia over copyright laws, I see no reason why they wouldn't take this play.
Hell, go all in and have a Russian State media site where the state pirates for you.
I've seen stories/images of Russian false flags. Not stories that are false flags, but stories of false flags. Particularly, a picture of a crater created by a "missile" that has obvious shovel marks in it.
These are really interesting to me. Because the concept of a "false flag" is inherently a deep conspiracy theory, but now they're being shared as a matter of fact. The people sharing them are now OK with admitting that false flags are something that can and do occur, but still refuse to entertain the idea that there could be a false flag from their government.
Moreover, these same people will "debunk" any conspiracy theory about their own government by saying "would such an organized conspiracy really leave tell-tale signs like paid actors with IMDB profiles"? But then they laugh at the Russians for supposedly making huge mistakes, like leaving shovel marks in a "missile" crater. They completely fail to see their hypocrisy.
I have no idea if these false flags were real or not. All I know is that so many people that are saying they are false flags are the quickest to say false flags aren't real.
People will recognize how widespread "misinformation" is in the "Russian media" and see very clearly how the media in a country can convince the country of something other than the truth (in their minds), but refuse to accept that the same thing applies to them.
Most republicans believe that abortion is murder. Murder is not a states right issue.
It's just disguised as a states right issue because that's the step needed right now. Federal bans will be difficult short of a constitutional amendment.