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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The lesson here is masks are totally ok so long as you are engaged in mass violence. Preferably authoritarian mass violence, but I’m pretty sure any kind of mass violence is totally fine so long as masked. That being the case I’d say don’t be authoritarian. Also, wear a mask. 😁

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social You guys are almost there. Now let’s try it with loaded guns. 🤔

@ekuber@hachyderm.io A decent person surrounded by cockroaches.

I’m just going to guess that maybe only certain white men and those that directly serve them have a right to stand their ground. The rest of us have a right to get killed by those certain white men and their servants. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-woman-rihanna-kelver-stand-your-ground-wyoming_n_6a74f003e4b04fcbf74e003b #uspol #USPolitics #2A #standyourground #standyourgroundlaw #trans

@david_chisnall We don’t need any more arguments against AI. This is simple, folks. Don’t fucking use AI products. No need to evaluate them. No need for reviews. Stop giving these fucks our attention as if they are legitimate companies making legitimate products. They need to be refused and discarded without any further consideration. If we write about them it should be to hurl expletives at their creators. That’s all. Why is this hard for everyone? 🤦🏾‍♂️

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social That’s what you see. This is what I see.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Lütke is clearly suicidal.

@ireneista @xgranade @zkat I haven’t given up. And I won’t.

So now law enforcement is carried out by soldiers… who execute Black folks… Not that any of you care. The victim isn’t a white person so it doesn’t count. https://apnews.com/article/memphis-tennessee-national-guard-shooting-0ee15a07db84a17d709a1f0345858465 #uspol #USPolitics

No, AI is not conscious. Stop being stupid. Next thing you know people will start thinking Roombas are conscious, too. TBF I don’t think we have a good definition of “consciousness” or “sentience” so maybe we could just start declaring all manner of things as conscious to boost shareholder value. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/19/could-ai-be-conscious #AI #fuckai #stupidity #scams

@ret@furry.engineer @30p87@chaos.social @anselmschueler@ieji.de @davidgerard@circumstances.run You’re arguing with someone that is not arguing in good faith. Also, there’s no point in debating with our opponents. Defeat them and push them out of our stuff. Their exclusion will say far more than any argument we will ever make. Seriously. We don’t need them. Stop trying to speak to them as if they care about your words.

@amydiehl@mstdn.social Now let’s try the same experiment again but with a twist: *POC who aren’t South East Asian of any gender versus white male* Pretty sure I could guess the results fairly accurately…

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I don’t want to work for these stupid fucks anymore. They can fix their own fucking code. Why wait around for them to fire us all again? Why deal with their inane, bigoted, inhumane bullshit all day and night? The pay and health benefits are never enough to deal with the damage they cause. Dumpster diving and day farm labor is at least honest and doesn’t necessarily involve punching down and exploitation. And they can’t call me at 2AM demanding I join some Zoom mtg.

@zappes@mastodon.online @theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social Then that most likely means you weren’t an ally in the first place so there’s no need to worry about alienating you. Anything that forces you to deviate from the bigoted status quo would most likely piss you off. *No need to give any shits if you don’t like it since there’s nothing about any kind of change that isn’t cis het white male centric ever be able to accept.*

@tillybridges@mastodon.social I commented! I’m not supporting any anti-trans anything ever. And if this idiotic county decides to do anything physical or kinetic to my allies I will absolutely put my *life* on the line to protect those I care about.

@skeletor@mas.to Out of spite is all I got 😁

@akareilly Children don’t need social media. Adults need children to have social media so that we can market to them. That said, the solution is for parents to actually parent their own children. Not to create a dystopian online identification regime that will be used to identify and persecute dissidents. Another solution would be to make commercial social media illegal. Much better solution tbh.

@cmconseils Last time we built a Death Star, women weren’t even allowed to fuel up a TIE fighter. Now, women can pilot a TIE fighter, serve as Death Star Laser Engineer, and even become Grand Inquisitor! We’ve come a long way, baby!

@Wraithe They’ll never pay us enough to live. They’ll also never pay us what we’re worth to their companies. Burn all the motherfuckers to the ground and salt the earth.

@zappes@mastodon.online @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @forse@kolektiva.social Then don’t provide pronouns and don’t complain when other people do. And leave us LGTBQIA+ folks alone. We don’t need or want help from centrists.

@gabrielesvelto Let’s do both.

@MissConstrue@mefi.social It ain’t bad. But it’s largely based in Liberalism. Also, you can still smell the whole “we wish we were still an actual empire and able to legitimately wield political power” in the air. At least the Catholics seem to believe wealthy people should compensate us fairly. But that thinking is old and busted. The Catholics will impress me when they start calling for the arrest and execution of the wealthy and the abolition of capital. Until then? This is weak sauce.

@veronica@explains.social It’s not about being deserving. Every living thing has an absolute sovereign right to be let alone. And that includes being free from any and all prying eyes. It’s not a right granted by anyone. It’s a right that is intrinsic to simply existing. “Privacy” is the word we use to express that intrinsic right.

@zappes@mastodon.online @forse@kolektiva.social It’s fascinating that you’re a centrist bigot. Why are you even in this convo? It’s clear that you don’t support trans rights or any reforms to gender. Why torture yourself? You aren’t going to own the libs no matter how hard you try 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@tchambers And if you want that vaccine then move to a non-US Western nation and remove any melanin you might have in your body. Then you’ll get the shots for free!

@ErikUden And now you get why I’m done with the Democrats. And the entire political system here in the US. It’s a pointless distraction. Pure political theater and nothing else.

@dgar The difference between now and the past isn’t whether we would kill an entire civilization for a given natural resource. It’s that we normally don’t *say it out loud*. Typically, we just proceed while saying we’re liberating folks or some other dumb shit. This is an era of terribly unfortunate honesty.

@Sablebadger @cstross Pretty much! Though Trump’s real trump card is his vague hope that DHS will be his brownshirts, deployed against us in the event of the collapse of his Coalition of Fascist Collaborators.

@anubis2814 Sounds great! Are you volunteering to form a militia with me? No? Then I’m going to remain a gun nut. Just be sure to duck behind something bullet resistant when you see me coming. You’re probably amongst those I would be protecting so it’s best you hide while the grown ups take care of business on your behalf.

@geonz@mathstodon.xyz @zed@mstdn.party @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social Hopefully this means public transportation in Champaign-Urbana has improved.

@skeletor@mas.to Speak for yourself 😁

@lina@vt.social That’s what’s been most disheartening about all of this. In a scant few years we went from “nearly competent” to “monkeys throwing feces at the screen”. Now a bunch of systems don’t even work anymore and critical thinking has been thrown out the window.

@geonz@mathstodon.xyz @zed@mstdn.party @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social I lived there once. I’d never move back. And you definitely need a car to get around there unless you’re a student at UIUC.

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Stuff like that might make me think that *some* Christians *might* be able to redeem their idiotic death cult. Here’s hoping 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾

@linuzifer@23.social 5304 😈

@argv_minus_one @gabrielesvelto My ancestors didn’t die for freedom of speech. They died to escape slsvery. And the enslavers were demanding freedom of speech for their fellow landowners, not the folks that tilled the soil. Nationalist myths aren’t a starting point for this. But I get what you mean. I don’t think social media as we know it was designed for freedom of speech. It can allow for it… but that’s the problem. The *allow* part.

@AnarchistArt@mastodon.social Don’t assume it will. Keep fighting anyway!

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social He was never alive in the first place 😉

@ATLeagle@mastodon.online @BrianJopek@mastodon.world Battery acid is far more effective.

I will not support Newsom for president… assuming we ever have presidential elections again. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/gavin-newsom-california-billionaire-tax #uspol #USPolitics

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The billionaires said “no” so that means no universal health care for us.

@argv_minus_one @gabrielesvelto I use parental controls. I’ll gladly accept more parental controls. I’m opposed to any forms of age check bs. Especially the methods being rolled out currently. I think commercial social media entities should be held criminally liable for allowing children on their platforms. And any sleazy ID or age check racket should be forbidden. They’ll have to come up with a better way to prevent liability. *Like going out of business.*

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social The Democrats are the loyal opposition. While individual candidates and politicos may care about winning votes, the organization and its leadership want the conservatives to win and run the country. This isn’t a new desire. The political preferences of the Dems shifted with the election of President Carter and had moved ever rightward since.

@futurebird@sauropods.win We will never find actual allies amongst evil people. Useful idiots? Yes. Grifters? Most certainly? *Allies*? Have we been watching the same show these past 100 years? Cuz I haven’t seen any of those floating about.

@cstross @Sablebadger The Epstein thing isn’t going to destroy his presidency. He doesn’t need public opinion to stay in office. Guns in willing hands will do that just fine. Nonetheless, all of this is personally embarrassing for the Trumps. And, just in case he’s successfully removed from office by something other than assassination, all of those fucks are tidying up their baskets of lies about their participation in the Illuminati.

@GGMcBG@mstdn.plus @Nonilex@masto.ai They aren’t sorry. The Catholic Church is just virtue signaling in hopes of getting more tithes.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social I’m not interested in “don’t help; just film”. Clearly, that didn’t do anything for him or anyone that ICE has kidnapped or killed. But y’all have fun with that if it makes you feel better about inaction. Let me know when you’re ready to do more than talk.

@Nonilex@masto.ai Let me know when the Catholic Church starts paying out reparations to, well, basically everyone. Words are easy. Actions are hard. Actions that require money are impossible.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Good first steps. LMK when we’re at the “rent bulldozers and drive them through existing data centers” stage. I’m not interested in being persuasive.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social A broken clock is right twice a day. Good boy, pope. Now try a stance on abortion that doesn’t make me want to remove your tax free status.