“That bitch left me, and she took the dog.”

-Republicans

America was founded as a whites-only ethnostate. We had some pretty big fights about that.

I live across the river from Washington and I have a friend that lives over there in the mountains. When I drive to her spot, it’s nothing but hard MAGA country for miles. This does not surprise me at all. One of her dogs got loose and ran into the neighbor’s yard a while back and, one of her children went to get the dog. The neighbor ran out with a gun and threatened the child at gunpoint because she was on his property. A fucking 14 year old kid.

It’s everything I’ve ever wanted.

Right, they are confirmed.

I get that the point you’re trying to make is something about unity, but it’s weird to say that. That’s a weird thing to say.

It shouldn’t be. It should be the rallying cry of the last 50 years. It’s like you are saying that water tastes funny.

This is my exact argument against billionaires. They are acting alone, making these sweeping decisions by themselves.

Yeah, I know, but telling them to stop when they do something good isn’t going to stop them from doing something bad. We have to make the best out of a bad situation until we can make the bad situation better.

Disagree. It’s never too late to get the money back, you just need politicians that are willing to take the initiative to go after it. Currently I don’t see any, so I continue to say things that I hope will help focus people and bring attention to continue advocating for these policies.

I’m all for updating policies and making sure the future is brighter than the past, but there is a statute of limitations. We can’t just reach back as far as we want in time and start prosecuting based on what we hope will be future regulations. The money is gone. Don’t worry, they keep printing more of it, though.

Charity is not something you do for praise. I’m sorry the billionaires are so thin-skinned my insults would hurt them.

Billionaires and celebrities almost all have some form of narcism. They love the attention. Again, we have to make the best of a bad situation. Stroke their ego for doing good, and maybe they’ll do more of it. If every time a billionaire did something shitty we just kept it out of the papers and lets the courts handle it, but then flooded the papers when a billionaire did something positive, I bet we’d see a change. Granted, I think thats a terrible idea, and the public should be made aware of the issues when they are relevant, but I also think we go a bit too far in over-publicizing the bad and under-publicizing the good.

If I meet you on the street and beat you up and steal your wallet, then donate it to a local homeless shelter, are you gonna be mad at me? It was a good cause, bro, why you mad?

If you beat me up and took my wallet 30 years ago, and then I saw you in Africa doing humanitarian work, yeah, I wouldn’t be mad. I’d say, “damn, it looks like they got it together. Good work.” I might even go over and make an act of forgiveness. I have a very hard time believing people can change, so when I see it, I do try to acknowledge it.

Which is exactly why I said TOS and not the US laws. I don’t really agree with the laws here either, because they create a safe harbor for illegal ends, but I understand that it is a lot easier, and arguably better, to self-police the content. That is what Patreon is doing. They view it as a violation of their TOS to generate revenue on a site that knowingly and willingly hosts CSAM. I’m with Patreon on this one. This wasn’t the first offence, and there is no way that the person that runs the site doesn’t know that material is on there. Pleading ignorant isn’t going to work. Running anonymous file hosting, no matter how good your intentions, is going to bring out the worst of the internet, guaranteed. If you can somehow get around that logic, you’ve got a bright future with the NRA.

How Libertarian of you.

Yeah, it really comes back to the idea of if a file hosting service is responsible for what the user uploads, which is an argument that has been going on since the beginning of the internet. Ultimately, yes, I think they are. I think you have to actively moderate what is uploaded, but on top of that, there has to be swifter and stricter punishment for those that do upload things that are against TOS and/or illegal. If someone is uploading CSAM, then law enforcement needs to go after them. Maybe they’ll actually do something people appreciate, instead of killing minorities.

Edit: If you are downvoting me without giving a reason, I just have to assume you are Libertarian, and that’s being generous.

1. It matters because we are no longer alone. We are not some small collective of 50 people in a rural town with no access to the outside world. We must act as one. Pretending like one person can go off and do whatever they want and it won’t effect the whole is how we get people like Trump. We must all act for the greater benefit of humanity, and if you aren’t praising efforts that help achieve that goal, I have to wonder why.

2. You aren’t wrong, but it doesn’t matter now, does it? Work on tax codes if that is your passion, but maligning the mistakes of previous generations and hindering current efforts doesn’t help anyone. The money is gone. It isn’t coming back. It may as well go to a good cause while we try to find a way to make sure it doesn’t continue to happen.

Hating someone because they are a billionaire is the same as loving one for being a billionaire. It doesn’t matter how much money a person has or doesn’t have. What matters is their actions. I’ll be the first to put an oligarch against the wall, but I don’t need it to be a billionaire. I just need them to be harming the world. I will concede that there are very few (read: nearly none) with that much money that do anything proper with it. Its pretty much all bad. But, in this case, we have on that is giving a portion away that can truly make a beneficial difference, and we should praise efforts like that so that they might continue. What’s the next billionaire gonna do when they try to give their money away and see that “All Gates got was vitriol and death wishes.” We don’t have to praise the billionaire directly, but I think we should agree that the money finally leaving the 1% to help the remaining 99% is a good step.

Doesn’t matter, Bill Gates is guilty of every bad thing that Microsoft ever did and I even heard he modelled clippy after Jeffrey Epstein.

It doesn’t matter how much good he does, some people will never forgive Windows 8.

You are correct. I guess what I should have said is that this is what they want us to see, no necessarily what they are using.

Sure, but you have to file FOIA and wait. It’s not truly open source.

It’s good in a sense that we can look over the code for any tomfoolery, but unless there is a smoking gun, it’s pretty worthless because it’s closed source by nature, and any changes they make won’t be published. Still, code nerds gonna code nerd.

That’s a phenomenal idea. If they push back, you could always involve your local paper. It kinda depends on where you live and the political leanings, though. If you are in the red, it may not do any good.

Because you are going to talk about them. You are going to let others borrow them. They may decide they want a copy of their owm. Or they may talk to others about it, and those people may decide to get copies of their own. Do you see how this works?

And they only have power because we listen. Engagement drives profit. Fox News isn’t profitable because they tell the truth.

Not only that, but he doubled down on it! I can’t remember the exact quote but it was something along the lines of “that judge was jealous. Everyone wants to fuck a 13 year old.” FFFFFUUUUCK. Goddamn these rich fucking cunts. I don’t think there is anything that gets me more charged up than hearing about a fucking pedophile that got a lenient sentence. The only purpose they can serve this world is to be made an example of. A brutal, sadistic example.

Tom Cruise is another example I fucking love to give. His movies keep Scientology afloat (in the case of sea org, literally). His movie’s profits fund slavery and abuse. STOP WATCHING HIS FUCKING MOVIES.

Honestly, that photo is what sets me over the edge. Don’t get me wrong, I already hated the bitch and hoped she died horribly and soon, but that picture makes me want to take the timeline into my own hands. I’m not a violent person, but sometimes exceptions must be made.