This is why I’d be a bad politician. I couldn’t stomach pretending that the party leadership cares about democracy or fair play

Damn that is excellently put.

Very understandably, most reasonable people are uncomfortable with violence* but then we seem powerless at the state level to stop the gradual rise of violent ideology that everyone knows will end in classes of vulnerable people who are no longer protected by the prohibition on non-state violence.

* state violence that is part of the script of life isn’t scary for some reason though.

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Farewell from fediverse!

This is fuckin meaty I love it

Schnnnaaw what du we have heres

If funny looking hate mongers aren’t safe, then who is??

You’re speculating that an internet wouldn’t have emerged without capitalism. Capitalism exists, therefore we can’t know if that’s true or not.

I worked at a place that had self-hosted git and IRC for internal messaging. Was great!

From my perspective that seems to be happening. I feel like there’s a rift between the websites I use for work and the ones I use on my own time. I realize that for most people on the internet, the big central platforms are the internet–I’m not trying to universalize my perspective.

It’s just that I remember when computers and the internet itself were niche and business was still barely aware of its potential, so this kind of feels familiar: You’ve got biz churning away in the mainstream, unaware of another culture that’s growing up, outside of their malls and parking lots.

Maybe just a liittle cancer until we get smartphones and then we can nip it in the bud and ooops why is everyone mad oh no why are all the animals dying I just wanted to scroll for gods sake

You are speculating on hypotheticals though, since no one can know for certain how things would have unfolded in a different world.

I’m not even going to argue that capitalism doesn’t get you some positive outcomes for certain people.

It’s literal rather than representative

Who’s the ref?

It’s a miracle 😭

Oh my you win today

This. My partner (love) used to use all these excuses with her friends out of guilt for not having a “good reason” for not wanting to go to something… ohhh what a tangled web we weave I’d say as she left a fib for why she couldn’t go out to a concert after working two weeks straight. Invariably she’d go for a casual walk with another friend and get caught in her web of lies after someone saw her.

A minor faux pas, but so much stress just to avoid admitting you don’t feel like it.

Anyway she’s much better now. I’d like to think some of that is my being a radically honest judgemental misanthrope rubbing off on her.

She has like several of orders of magnitude more really good friends than me though, so I could definitely benefit from letting some of her rub off on me, too.

As a misanthrope I feel this so strongly.

This is also why I’ve stopped giving excuses and just say I’m not feeling like it. You can’t really argue with feelings—not by solutionizing, anyway.

Your username rules

That’s a beautiful phone. I’m sorry to hear of your tale of woe. Sadly, there are many like it

I’m talking about the same thing, but separating paid work from voluntary work.

Just because you aren’t working for a company, doesn’t mean you aren’t working for your community.

You’re also probably contributing a lot less carbon to the atmosphere, though.