@poe_collector I like to tell myself it's a superpower, but then I also have made about $35k a year for the last 15 years of my life. Hey, at least I work for myself (because I am constantly disregulated by the demands of a corpo job)
@ExistentialEnso It's so interesting to me that you identify as a liberal, because I identify as a goddamn Christian anarchist and I feel ideologically aligned with you on a solid 90% of your takes
I always like my arguments more when I reason from things I think I can logically deduce as true. It is hard to note that in the midst of a response and filter it down, but it always feels better when I catch it and rephrase it.
@LisaTalmadge@MshanBC@fullslack_ The ex with the most bombastic claims of mistreatment literally worked for the heritage foundation and an org that helped Susan Collins politically bargain/rationalize support for Kavanaugh. If you do not recognize the conflict of interest, I do not respect your opinion
@MshanBC@fullslack_ The fact that he makes, owns and grows from mistakes tells me he's in touch with his full humanity, shame and all, and can actually have compassion for people, as opposed to the imperiousness of the neoliberal perfectionist types who have curated their lives to run for office
@LisaTalmadge@MshanBC@fullslack_ The ex with the most bombastic claims of mistreatment literally worked for the heritage foundation and an org that helped Susan Collins politically bargain/rationalize support for Kavanaugh. If you do not recognize the conflict of interest, I do not respect your opinion
@MshanBC@fullslack_ The fact that he makes, owns and grows from mistakes tells me he's in touch with his full humanity, shame and all, and can actually have compassion for people, as opposed to the imperiousness of the neoliberal perfectionist types who have curated their lives to run for office
Jennifer Welch on Graham Platner: “Everyone’s talking about toxic relationships and tattoos and all of this shit. Talk about Susan Collins voting to dismantle protections that keep women safe and keep women free because that is the real story here. She is a MAGA fascist to her core. I don’t give a fuck if somebody had a toxic relationship. I myself have been a toxic girlfriend, I’ve had toxic boyfriends. That’s part of the human experience”
@ExistentialEnso people like killdozer because they want catharsis in a way that skyking does not offer. they don't care about the specifics, they care about the harm to what they perceive to be their adversary
but like
the censorship resistance is baked into the technology
you don't lose it just because a bunch of people decided to walk over to the sand and build banks there or whatever. This is standard darwinian progress
@DCinvestor But also, I think we are losing the battle on privacy and decentralization. It really feels like most people just don’t see the value in it like they used to.
The energy really feels like if you didn’t do anything wrong, what is there to hide. Bums me out.
@DCinvestor The entire ethos of Bitcoin and crypto died in the hands of the Trump administration and the same gang of old men who already control the equity markets. The dream failed, we let the fox guard the henhouse. We handed the keys to the very people we fought to oppose.