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i was considering how to more fully reply to all this but it just seems more and more like you’re either intentionally being disingenuous or are maybe too oblivious to see that being put in the crosshair of 150+ million people’s violent, purity-obsessed, hate-driven political ideology is itself a mortal threat. i’m suspecting the prior given how clearly you muddy the analogy to insinuate that i somehow think it’s reasonable to shoot a schoolyard bully dead for pushing me on the playground, as though any sane human wouldn’t think that an overreaction.

but sure, a public plan to eliminate the political voice of any “woke enemies” (that’s anyone LGBT or non-servile women btw) by replacing public servants with staunch ideologically-aligned republican loyalists and leave us with no options to resist except violence definitely deserves no second thought. definitely should not be considered a threat, sure, ok.

a non-violent system of addressing political differences only works if everyone’s voice can be reasonably heard. the system is barely doing that now, and will shortly be stifling a lot more voices that aren’t ideologically aligned with nationalistic christian conservatism the moment they get the power to do so. if they’re shutting down the system that prevents violence, the result should seem obvious. violence is happening now because people are trying to use the system, and it’s failing, and it’s getting further disassembled and stacked against them right now. that alone is directly threatening - but the fact that they couple this with loud fear-mongering intended to stoke people into a fearful, hateful panic over the particular group of people (who are also simultaneously getting silenced) should worry you even more, because this circumstance is actually threatening.

there was anti-asian violence (and worse) during ww2 when the rhetoric was “dirty japanese people are going to kill you and your family”. there was anti-muslim violence after 9/11 when the rhetoric was “dirty brown people are coming to kill you because they hate america”. there was anti-asian violence (again) during covid when the rhetoric was “dirty asian people are intentionally bringing the wuhan virus over to kill you and your family”.

now the rhetoric is “lgbt people are coming to shoot your schools up and rape your kids” - and wow i sure wonder what will happen next. those gays better not feel threatened or it’ll ruin my peaceful sunday, right? with the planned republican loyalist capture of government and the justice system, i also sure wonder what will happen the first time some poor gay guy is stupid enough to defend himself from an “in person” (seemingly this matters to you) attack by hitting back at the american pure-blood super-straight patriot actively assaulting him. will the (gay-hating christian republican) system work to exonerate him (a disgusting gay man who probably rapes kids according to our news and politicians) before a (gay-hating christian republican) judge and a jury of his (gay-hating christian republican) peers? lol hmmmm no you’re right there’s no threat at all.

Do you perhaps think an eye for an eye is a good concept to live by?

no, but nothing is so black and white. do you perhaps think that bullies should always be acquiesced to? that defending yourself from attackers is inherently and unilaterally immoral?

i’m trying to mind my own business and live my own life peacefully. they’re the ones constantly (publicly) cheering for me and my kind to be dragged out of our homes and shot for virtue of being born either non-white or non-straight (depending on flavor of republican, maybe both).

the reason violence is no longer acceptable as a mechanism for political change is that we built a system to address grievances without it: our representative democracy. we rose above the need by using the law to ensure everyone can be heard. Indeed the very system republicans are attempting to dismantle and replace with autocracy; they’ve already thoroughly corrupted the highest courts in our country to do so. they intend to continue to close all reasonable avenues of political resolution specifically for the purpose of being able to call any resistance to their rule “terrorism”, as you just have. this itself is an act of political violence.

if I corner you in an alley with a gun so you have nowhere to run and tell you to give me your wallet, but I haven’t shot at you or even aimed it at you yet, does this make me non-violent? is it acceptable? would you fight back, or capitulate? how about if I then tell you to leave but not your partner? would you fight back then, or just leave them to whatever fate might befall them? be careful with your answer: if you say anything other than “I’d leave them with you and continue about my day like normal”, you will be seen as a dangerous criminal. the police won’t help you, they don’t help your kind, and you probably brought it upon yourself in their eyes.

i wouldn’t know, according to them and their folks, my friends and family and I are not people, so I guess my definition of that must differ. moreover, I don’t dispense sympathy for people who would cheer and support the news that me and mine have been hunted down and shot in the street. I don’t sympathize with the aggressors. I’ve just been trying to mind my own business and live my life as best I can, but these people (in sudden newfound need of sympathy and feelings of safety, lmao) have been talking for years of purges of non-Whites and gays, and civil wars, and rounding up the undesirables (that’s me, apparently, by virtue of birth) to clean up the country. might as well be asking me to sympathize with a school shooter over his hearing damage from not wearing earplugs while he mowed down a classroom.

I really hate the guy but if you’ve never had a near-death experience you wouldn’t understand that your logic is a bit weird in the moment. it takes more than a couple of moments for your brain to catch up with reality. his shoes are special thick lift shoes to make him seem way taller because he’s extremely vain. if he fell out of his awkward tall shoes when he ducked, he probably would have been preoccupied in the moment with not appearing short and weak (his true form) until the reality caught up to him. I don’t doubt at all that some sycophantic pr stooge was yelling into his earpiece to “look triumphant, look triumphant!!” when he was getting back up though.

hey it’s not our guys that declared that anything a president does is automatically legal, even something like this. you folks fought for and pushed that ruling through. you’d have to be a special kind of dumb to get upset that you’re getting shot at when you’ve expressly legalized the act of shooting at people. great “law and order” move guys, you legalized all the so-called “biden crime family” actions to make sure your guy can do whatever he wants when he becomes king. i guess they’re just the normal biden family now thanks to y’all.

same. I see outrage-obsessed people constantly talk about how using a custom domain or (gasp) running your own mail server is internet suicide and literally impossible because your addresses won’t be seen as real or your mail will never get delivered by anyone. I’ve been doing both for over a decade with no trouble whatsoever, so I wonder how badly these folks are botching their mail setup to be getting that treatment.

Also, we are always advertising that we are hiring so that we have a fresh set of resumes to choose from if we need someone immediately.

Sure just go ahead and be disrespectfully wasteful of everyone’s time. other people are just tools that exist to be used, after all.

disgusting behavior, given the number of people actively trying to find good work to survive. if I was looking for work and I found out someone was doing this with my resume I’d be livid if they ever dared to call me.

that there is a look of panic as he realizes it was too big for a single bite and now he has to draw attention to himself to finish it and he might get in trouble

wow gta 6 is going to be total trash, isn’t it

I agree with your general sentiment here (that such an arrangement is not trustworthy enough for me to feel completely private) but your delivery of said sentiment is really fucking rude, dude.

Even if it’s not secure enough for you or I to feel private, it likely exceeds the security necessary to satisfy most people’s threat models so they can not only feel private but objectively be more private than if they just used Google docs.

incremental or opportunistic privacy improvements are better than none, a fact that has seemed to be lost in elitist privacy circles these days.

my mistake. I thought they’d said “Tomato Tomato” but now I understand I misread it and it’s “Tomato Tomato”. I ought to be more careful.

I’ve been assured he was 12 stories high and made of radiation

uh, you got them backwards, it sounds all weird that way. I think you meant “Tomato Tomato”

this is so wholesome. I’ve never delved into vtubers because it seemed like a lot of anime girl avatars being spazzy in video games, but this is so digestible and of course dads would have no problem listening to a literal bear talk about tools. I’ll have to broaden my horizons maybe.

man, that was such a bummer. when they got along well, they had such amazing chemistry. People change. sometimes it’s good, sometimes it sucks.

I’ve seen you do this like 2 or 3 times now - is this your weird hyper-puritanical troll tactic to farm engagement? Find posts that are not NSFW but gently brush up against any topic of human (or elf, apparently) anatomy and call for them to be marked the same as hardcore porn? lol - should I mark my post as NSFW because I said the word “porn”?

i cannot imagine what you’d find NSFW about this post. the mention of a nipple? the topic of piercing? of raves? humor? elves are hot, maybe it’s elves.

carpet for your only hole 99c

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bunch of fuckin art pirates. crying about software piracy while they have their own bots pirating everyone’s art.