Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve found it very strange the concern over this change. I mean, it’s only for public posts, which they could see if they just logged out or switched to a burner account anyways? Like, if it let them send a message or comment on posts, or see posts for followers only or something, I’d see the issue, but it doesn’t seem like that aspect of the feature was all that meaningful anyways. Am I wrong?

I mean I assume if it’s a big public priority of it’s probably something terrible, so there must be more to it than how I’m understanding it currently.

There will be no upward mobility—revolution will be the only way out.

Grew up in the Evangelical church - the way they always explained it to us is that it’s not a religion (which is a dogmatic set of beliefs that one only obey because they are told to), but rather it’s a personal relationship with Jesus, and you do the things he tells you to do only because you love him so much.

It also opens the door for some weird loopholes for dealing with apostates, since if you stop doing the things they tell you to, you must not truly have loved Jesus to begin with.

It really feels like they’ve honed the edge of the mind virus extra razor-sharp. Lots of wacky thought-terminating logic structures, kinda cool if it weren’t so devious.

Ok she seems awesome, and I’ve heard the PSL endorsed by at least a few Marxists I trust, but what do yall think about them and their platform? Any weird gotchas in there or history of grossness from her or the organization?

Yeah I was about to make a similar post - just had a big debate with some older family friends at a party my parents had that are die-hard dems (which was nice, as they’re way further left then most other people there).

They were aghast when I said I wasn’t voting blue, and had no idea who Claudia or the PSL are, of course.

Got a lot of “this is the most important election ever” and “if he wins democracy is over” of course. But the one that really chapped my biscuits was saying that if he wins, then [my family member] will lose access to reproductive health care and IVF in particular.

So I said yeah right, neither side is going to change a damn thing about that, because they both see it as way too valuable of a carrot/stick to give up campaigning and fundraising on it. If the dems care so much about it, why haven’t they actually done anything about it?

“Well Biden’s wanted to, but he’s been hamstrung by the extremist right!”

So what about those years when he had full congressional majority?

“Oh well yeah, I mean I guess he could have done more there…”

And then we got called away to the rest of the party and never got to continue.

Bonus points for my insistence that both parties intend on continuing the genocide - but ofc he is going to do it worse somehow. When I said I’m not going to vote for Genocide Light™️, they said, “Hell yeah I am! It’s better than the other option!”, and I sadly beat a dead horse a little more about there actually being more options available and maybe you actually don’t have to put your stamp of approval on genocide-with-rainbow-flag-characteristics.

Also bonus-bonus points for one of the two (very sweet, kickass person generally) asking “So what does genocide mean again?” in a completely honest, non-hostile way, indicating that they simply had not engaged with even the thought of such a thing happening before this conversation.

And these are the two that always get in trouble for being too vocal about their left-ish political opinions at these functions.

According to my grocery co-shopper, it tastes a little tiny bit different in an unexplainable way, and this minute differentiation is worth several dollars at a time apparently.

Seriously, I’m always telling people about this. The most adament speeders are always the “fuck the government”, you can’t tell me what to do, come-and-take-it types, and it just baffles me because like, yeah, they will come and take it; in fact they love to!

You are giving the pigs a free pass to fully legally and justifiably pull you over any time they feel like it.

Obviously they’ll still pull over anyone at any time and retroactively make up a reason, but at least then they are starting on shaky ground, and you’ve got a way better chance of beating any charges later.

If you hate the pigs so much, why would you make their job so easy? Especially if you’re riding dirty in any way, then that just multiplies everything above a thousand times. And naturally, those that are the most cavalier about doing that always seems to be the ones that love speeding the most.

Really such a bizarre way to word a policy initiative.

Like, “oh we need to give billions in bank bailouts in order to protect the wealth of all the _[black] hedge fund managers! See! We’re doing this for racial justice!”

Tag yourself

No, I absolutely will not.

My favorite line on this subject: only call the police when the situation would be improved by the addition of an easily frightened maniac with a gun.

That is to say, usually don’t.