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Ah shit! Guilty af

Or, we could just accept the simple fact that if the candidates change, so too does the prediction. He made his predictions based on the options available at the time.

Kinda shortsided to consider that an L.

It’s like that, but even worse. This fuckwit uses the culture war to stoke violence and hate. He wields it as a fascist weapon.

So it’s a bit more nefarious than simply being a hypocrite.

So, the scandal isn’t that he does it, it’s that he is extremely vocally against it and legislates against it. The “gotcha” isn’t shaming him for enjoying himself, it’s scolding him for demonizing natural behavior while doing it himself.

Nobody would give a single flying fuck what he did if he minded his own goddam business.

Don’t forget that he excels at cheating on wives, bankrupting businesses, and stealing money from cancer charities (among other notable achievements)

Defederation and limiting posting for certain users on Reddit are in no way ill natured. To suggest it is, is no different than Elon Musk’s “freedom of speech absolutism.” People who go out of their way to personally start a community have the right to draw a line (not including protected classes) as to who can join their party.

You are seeing the consequences of engaging with the worst of Reddit.

I mean, it’s Reddit. What did you expect? This has been status quo there for years. Maybe don’t use it, or accept the that Spez is a piece of shit and each community can decide it doesn’t want crossover from other communities.

But really, is blocking people who have activity in another sub so different from a mastodon instance defederating from another instance? Just in a shitty Reddit way?

But roads are heavily regulated and monitored. In fact, they’re directly managed by the government. If I experience road rage I can call the police with the license plate number and there’s databases of drivers with pictures and VINs etc. This is not the point you think you were making.

the lack of implanted radio telemetry …

Absolutely wild that you’re accusing others of idiotic horseshit

The huge difference between mail or phone and telegram is that both mail and phone work with law enforcement, with useful records being made available upon subpoena. Telegram, by design, will not.

If you think drawing that parallel is useful to Telegram, they would then also be required to maintain the same standards of security as the mail, with package inspections, drug dogs, entire teams of government officials investigating illegal activities etc.

The criminals use it precisely because it is not a parallel to other available channels, as it circumvents those safeguards.

The Catholic Church should absolutely face dire consequences for the abuse they perpetuate and defend. Loss of tax status, prison for all abusers and those who assisted them in avoiding jail. You are making a great parallel.

It’s not that it “could be” used to abuse a child, wtf. It’s that is has already been widely adopted. It’s currently happening. Same as the Catholic Church.

You’re really trying hard to make this about “possible” crimes while ignoring the material ones.

The catch-22 is that it’s impossible to make this tool freely available as-is without also enabling the child abuse. You can’t pry the apart, or at the very least nobody has managed to yet.

So do we accept the abuse and let it proliferate, in the name of privacy? Or do we sacrifice privacy to make sure theres not a safe place for abusers?

There is no answer where no one gets hurt. It sucks when the interests of good align with the interests of bad, and it’s a shit show one way or the other.

Yep. The issue is that they put out a tool that does some good things, but is also heavily adopted by criminals who piggyback on it.

Should we let child abuse just proliferate with these tools, because there’s so much need for privacy? How do you weed out the bad without kneecapping the good? There’s no good answer here. The good parts of the tech working enable the bad parts, too.

There has to be a certain level of knowledge and acceptance of the bad parts to continue developing it. It’s a catch 22, so law enforcement has to pick between sacrificing the privacy or allowing a tool to exist that proliferates child abuse material and other ills.

There are valid arguments for the importance of privacy, and valid arguments for making sure there these crimes shouldn’t have a safe haven. Action to either end will hurt some people and enrage others.

I’m a bit amused to have come up with a new Trump insult after so many years. Run with it!

I’m not supporting anyone I use whatever platform I like

Newsflash: using a platform increases engagement.

What you do is, indeed, up to you. But don’t pretend continuing to use Reddit or birdsite or whatever doesn’t benefit them and proliferate the exact thing you are seeking an alternative for.

You ask if I’m here for entertainment? Yep. Because I don’t value entertainment over supporting someone like Spez and Google AI.

This is the conundrum for users of Reddit or X. There’s so much content in the mega-sites that ya’ll feel it’s worth supporting some of the worst people who own the worst companies.

“But I can’t find this entertainment elsewhere!” only goes so far when engagement means helping line the pockets of our abusers.

I was kinda proud of this one. I called him halfwit Hitler one day and realized I could just smoosh em together

What more could you expect from Halfwitler™

I respect their right to speak their mind. However, I believe there are other efforts currently where we can make a much bigger impact.

There are some huge issues on the table: fascist takeover, at least two genocides in different parts of the world we are involved with, systemic racism, LBGTQ rights, and many more.

We could get hung up on any one, and be correct in protesting that what we’re doing isn’t enough, to the only party even likely to entertain it.

But we won’t even have the option to protest if fascism successfully subverts democracy. Those protests only work if Trump doesn’t win. Project 2025 will not condone dissent.

I feel strongly about each of these issues, and agree with the protestors, but I feel that I am best served helping people register to vote/check registration status, supporting down-ballot dems, speaking against any Mom’s For Hate speakers in our PTA meetings, etc.

My main goal is to work to ensure that we have the ability to protest those important topics in a Post-Trump democracy, where the public has more bandwidth to energize. None of what we will happen if Trump cheats his way to the Oval Office again.

“Here’s some doomer poll data, but I put in a comment that the polls don’t matter” is a heck of a contradiction.