Religious sects are just factions with differing headcanons about their religious text’s characters.
Religious sects are just factions with differing headcanons about their religious text’s characters.
Thank you, I will check it out!
Could you be more specific? I’ve never used tampermonkey before, but I’m willing to try it.
Don’t hurt yourself in your confusion!
Did you look at the posts? It’s all over the comments! Would you like some more examples for your edification?
Well, in a truly “free” society, yes freedom of speech would constitute freedom from “social consequences.”
Just as people can refuse to listen, they also can refuse to interact with persons that say things that upset them. This is a social consequence, and one that would be still be present in a “truly free society”.
I don’t think it’s the opinions, I think it’s the users’ literal stated plans to harass users of other instances.
Literally a commenter on one of the linked posts:
yeah lol. I might start farming up a few accounts at the new non-overloaded instances that are popping up. Don’t need to register at beehaw itself to bug their libs. maybe somewhere has open registration
Edit to say: I support the defederation.
Just what I was thinking. I don’t think I even have a proper bread making bakery in my town. I wish I could be in the culture that this comment is from.
If you’re taking about OP, I get what you’re saying. It’s a lot to get mad at the ignorant or the struggling because of something that isn’t being widely reported. Many people are “ignoring” something that they don know whether to believe, if they even know about it at all. I do stand firm, however, that once you know about an atrocity that a company has committed, continuing to use it either indicates you don’t care or (if the atrocities are ongoing) are complicit in their activities.
Yeah, they really come off as an angry jerk when they’re telling us not to be jerks.
To be fair, what you’re asking is for normal people to step outside the media they normally consume and seek other (sometimes untrusted) media to come to these conclusions. Some would say, “If this really happened, why isn’t the media reporting on it?” I know why, you know why, but the regular person out there thinks it must be an extreme view if their preferred media outlets are not reporting on it.
How do you think we should attack the system? Isn’t boycotting exactly that?
What you are talking about is not the same as what OP is talking about. Following the analogy, it’s not like you should stop using shovels (or knives, or water) because someone bad used them (hell, Hitler was a dog lover, and I’ll be damned if I stop loving dogs because of that asshole). Rather, it’s that you shouldn’t just use the shovel you know murdered someone because the person murdered didn’t matter to you. Stepping out of the analogy, it’s not about the tool used (though the case could be made for some things) but about the companies who made them and how they used them or knowingly allowed them to be used.
Isn’t it difficult to initiate change to big companies without user pushback? What impetus do they have to change when their user base accepts what they are given? Sure, regulators and legislators should do something, but they aren’t going to do it on their own. People need to do their part, and mass exodus is something the media reports on. I’m not asking anyone to abandon these places entirely, especially if their communication with certain people relies on it, but anyone can move away from them to some extent. Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s not with doing. Also, in no way am I saying that it is the users sole responsibility to bring down or hold these companies accountable, but it usually takes some grassroots to get something started.
Oh, no conspiracy, just actual Republicans found guilty of illegal gerrymandering, while also applying all kinds of tactics for voter suppression. If Politics is like sports, some of the Republicans are cheating.
I’m not sure that’s the entire reason.
And yet, they keep winning congressional seats and Mayoral races. I wonder why that is… /s
Some of that can be done with prosthetics and photoshop, but yes.
Thanks I fixed it.