Bull, and I cannot stress this enough, crap. Conservative ideology eschews objective truth in favor of beneficial positions every fucking time.

Nobody is “protected” from consequences of their speech. Free speech means we don’t have laws prohibiting speaking. It doesn’t mean you cannot be fired from your job, or people won’t call you a douchebag.

Isn’t that how you’re supposed to do it?

The problem is that the left gets people cancelled for hate speech. The right gets people cancelled for objective truth. Read the comments that people are getting fired for. It’s a blatant doouble standard that shifts the overton window on public discourse. Fascist bigots are running the country, and there’s no room for compromise with hate.

Exactly. We don’t know their motivations. If they are unhinged, and I don’t think the odds are against that possibility, then they shouldn’t have ever had access to firearms. If they were acting in self defense, then that’s a different problem entirely. The former is a threat to everyone. The latter is a threat to fascists.

I would argue that shooting a fascist is an act of self defense. My point stands.

Anybody who shoots someone in cold blood is not someone who should have access to firearms. Whether you want the person they killed dead or not, they are violent sociopaths and we need common sense restrictions to keep guns out of their hands.

Check out Immich next. It’s sort of like a self-hosted Google photos except it allows you to own your photos.

The water wars will probably kill us off before we run out of oil.

No, I’m sorry, the answe is “profit.” The US has a lot of natural gas, and the people who force it out of the ground bought enough politicians to build pipelines everywherr so we could sell gas to more people. Electric and heat pumps are far more efficient, but the cost per btu of heat is so cheap for natural gas that it doesn’t make sense to switch to electric even when the energy costs are low, and the cost to install a heatpump or geothermal might reduce monthly costs, but it would be decades before it pays for itself. Most people don’t expect to live in a house long enough to reap the benefits of more efficient investments.

Not one of those people ever did anything worth a damn. They produced no value, created nothing novel, built nothing, contributed nothing, or earned a fair wage for honest work. Each of them was born with more money than they could spend in a lifetime, and they will use that leverage to grow their fortunes.

Humanity will continue to aupport their oppulence at the cost of our own joy and liberty. Billionaires are parasites.

“Effective” is a relative term. Going meatless won’t fix the underlying problems that allowed factory farming to destroy the world. Why aren’t electric cars mandated? Why do we pipe natural gas into homes? The same shortsighted, profit-motivated decision processes will still exist even if we make better personal choices.

You can just block whole communities and even instances, if you prefer. I use the blocking feature for forums in foreign languages. It’s not like an insult or anything. You can just hide all the F1 and comic book stuff.

I like that line. I’m stealing it. Might paraphrase to fit the situation.

I did technical trainings, and I always used to say that the only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.

I mean, yeah. The centrists run the Democratic party. They aren’t going to relinquish control.

I would say that there’s a lot of work to do in general. Protest voting is like any protest. It’s disruption to draw attention to a problem. It doesn’t solve problems, it isn’t even an attempt to solve a problem. Protest is the last step before violence, and most people aren’t willing to go any further.

The fact that people are willing to protest vote is everybody’s problem. You can’t say the protesters are wrong, or their methods are wrong, or that they don’t have valid concerns.

Poe’s law, my dude. There are definitely dipshits who make the argument that milk doesn’t need to be pasteurized because breast milk isn’t pasteurized.

No third party president will ever succeed at all under the current system.

That’s precisely the way I described it working. The ratchet effect exists because there’s never more progressives willing to leave the party, but some do and the remaining progressive voters weaken their own position with compromise.

Maybe stop acting like this is new?