citation required. maga is successful because fascism works. maga is successful because young white males are fuckign idiots.

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I don’t accept that defending trans SAFETY is a losing election issue.

You’re not saying that they are disinterested, that this is an ineffective way to spend energy or something. You’re saying that it will actively drive moderate Americans to hate trans people. I think you need to look into your heart.

So you think the way to counter the Republicans using fascist tactics to demonize trans people is to not support trans people. Because if we support trans people, it will only make more people side with Republicans and attack trans people.

Fuck that. Fuck that every conceivable way.

you have to win votes from both sides.

I don’t know what you mean by this. Progressives just need people to vote. The higher the voting turnout percentage, the better progressive candidates do. Conservative voters are the last people to stop voting due to disenfranchisement, they are practically immune to it. There are not a lot of swing voters.

omg you’re serious. ha ha, dumbass.

Hate speech. Reported. Not cool.

I mean, it’s easier if you cooperate, but clearly they don’t need your permission if they are quicker or smarter than you.

I wasn’t a kid anymore when HL came out. Hope you are still having fun, whatever you’re doing.

There is no real dichotomy between the logo we have and the proposed typographical symbol. They have different uses, neither can really replace the other. Keep the established colourful Fediverse logo in visual layouts and when desired use the typographical symbol in text. It is natural that they won’t be exactly the same symbol because they are designed for different needs; one is meant to look pretty and one is meant to read well as text.

No I’m just so very bored and this is the classic bikeshed issue so I figure I won’t cause any problems here.

Booo!!! Satan hater!! Hey everyone, this guy hates Satan!!!

That’s nonsense.

If you know what those reasons are, then whether or not they have been articulated should not influence how you feel about those reasons. To think I could control your mind by not saying things. Just think of all the things I am not saying right now. You’ll go mad.

If you DON’T know what those reasons are, then you are simply not able to respect them less than you do now.

X-ray diamond finder

*rolls eyes* This is real life, not Minecraft!

Evolutionary pressures are inevitably going to turn them to using the two most effective but distinct strategies for exploiting and controlling voters that can exist. As soon as techniques more effective than, “win by allowing the voters to educate themselves and vote their conscience,” were developed, mass democracy was fucked.

I… umm… yes, I will grant that in UTF-8 and perhaps UTF-16, it encodes to fewer bytes. But that doesn’t have anything to do with my point.

Oh my god, you’re right. How could I have failed to see the risk. They must be stopped at all costs.

pretty sure this guy is trying to trick someone else into summoning a demon. It’s like telling people to hit alt-f4 to chat.

It’s a little rude. That’s it. Nobody needs your permission to take your photo. They are doing you a social courtesy to ask at all. You deal with it with infinite grace when a corporation takes your photo. You can tamp down your umbrage a wee bit, I think, when someone you have a personal relationship with requests the same grace. Yes, it’s a little rude. No, it’s not “incredibly disrespectful and mean.”