Oh, I get it, I just think it plays in to their rhetoric more than it contradicts it.

They’re grasping at any and every “he’s not a nazi” straw they can find or make up, this just gives them another one to grasp to, because they wouldn’t see or care about your intent, all they see is someone deliberately avoiding directly saying “musk is a nazi” or “what makes him a nazi is…”, which is exactly their tactic and feeds in to their cognitive dissonance.

You’re giving him the degree of separation they’re looking for, which he does not deserve.

So again, I understand what you’re trying to do, but I think that not explicitly saying “musk is a nazi because…” is counterproductive.

Yeah, I get where you’re coming from, and I like your design (though agree it could be a little easier to read) but feel like this is playing in to the “he’s not a nazi” narrative his supporters are trying to push, when he is in fact, a nazi, as well as a regime enabling industrialist. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, and we should be calling the nazi spade a nazi spade at every opportunity.

You’re wrong, and all you have to do to realise it is look around (hint: when you allow bigotry to exist in open society, aka, tolerate it, it will keep growing like the fucking cancer that it is).

I do have republican and conservative friends.

So you’ll tolerate a little bigotry, as a treat… 🙄

The worst thing about this is that racists are now going to use it as an example of how cops are “equal opportunity” murderers, not the armed division of the KKK who disproportionately murder Black people they actually are🙄

Ooh, my username checks out 😂

I’ve had pirated copies on every pc I’ve owned for a couple of decades, “long gone” lmao

Fuck EA, they ain’t seeing a penny from me, and I definitely won’t be engaging in any “ports” that probably exist to scrape my data and charge me more money lol

Oh yeah, they wouldn’t have scrapped it unless it was damaging them somehow (like you say, or possibly by being so transparent they couldn’t even muster any plausible deniability), rather than benefits claimants, as intended.

Thank fuck for miniature, and no doubt temporary, fucking mercies.

The human-run system is already designed to reject as many claims as possible and make it as absolutely difficult as possible for those they don’t flat out reject to get even the lowest rate (again, the default, which, like a rejection, you then have to appeal to get what you’re really entitled to), yet somehow AI would have managed to make it worse.

Don’t think for a second this’ll stop them from trying again, or making the existing system worse still in other ways.

After all, we are the real leeches on the government tax pot that they need to eliminate, not their fellow landlords and capitalists sat next to them on the parliament bench. 🙄

Na, your examples are just more of the road to fascism.

Also trying to compare the legitimate reactions of marginalised people to our lives being put under threat, that get framed by those with more privilege as an overreaction, to an actual overreaction by those with privilege to no threat whatsoever other than to that privilege is fucking gross and at best shows a complete misunderstanding of the gaslighting we face as marginalised people. At worst, it is actively participating in said gaslighting.

That’s truly awful, I’m sorry you’re having to find out who your friends and even family really are, and mostly, that they’re getting you to doubt yourself so deeply.

Trust your gut. These people are telling you who they are, listen. Don’t put your life in their hands.

I know it sounds impossible, or at least very difficult, but try and find or create a community of people who don’t do that shit to you, who share your fears, or at the very least don’t prioritise their own feelings and dismiss yours because they personally don’t experience that kind of oppression and can see how absolutely terrifying the world is for marginalised people right now, and who are willing and ready to act in defence of one another and marginalised people at large.

You are not alone, and your fears are valid and well founded

There are many others like you out there, but they’re probably just as scared as you are to reach out because they’re getting the same shit from the privileged people in their lives, and are also doubting themselves and thinking they’re alone too.

This is the time to find our people, support each other, build community, and resist. It is our only option.

Solidarity from the UK, stay safe friend.

Thank you! 😂

So it’s just adding the American format (which categorically does not demonstrate how a month and day can still be conveyed in order of significance, but literally the opposite) in to the mix and not providing any help or making things any simpler lol

Thanks for explaining, but if the person who introduced the 1-26 concept in to the conversation (and could have easily just said “MM/DD” to make their point significantly clearer), or the other person with their lecture are actually trying to change my, or anyone else’s mind, or make their personal preference more appealing to others, this (making things more complicated, when they are already perfectly straightforward, just not how they like it) isn’t the fucking way to do it lmmfao

don’t argue for your point with arguments that can easily be debunked.

I literally said I don’t know what a thing means (and now that you’ve explained, it’s a useless instruction to give me, since all it does is add extra steps for those of us already perfectly happy with the European format lmfao), and made no assertion beyond my personal preference, kindly get off your fucking high horse.

You can do 1-26

I don’t know what this means, also I don’t have to adhere to anything, the European format works perfectly well for me, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe in programming or technical documentation, but no, when I check the date I want to know the day and the month, beyond that, it’s all unnecessary information for everyday use, and we have it right in Europe.

You can’t change my mind. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An American friend shared these in our group chat today:

I have no reason not to believe either of them.

Be safe out there folks, and look out for those who are at more risk than you.

The time has come to disobey.

In my understanding they mean “democrats” as people who support democracy vs “Democrats” members of the democratic party, but if you ask me, they are one and the same, it’s just another way to say “liberal”.

Train them to what? Retroactively scrub their presence off the internet? Off of the government records? Impossible.

Really not sure what point you’re trying to make with Nazis and ice cream, but either way, laws don’t exist to protect citizens, and going forward, they are being written to actively harm them.

Expecting the law to protect you is a huge privilige.

You must act as if your rights are natural laws of the universe, and if enough people do then they may as well be.

That’s how we get to where we are now.

Rights dictated to you by the state are categorically not universal nor natural, they exist in service of the state and the capitalists who own it, and they can and are withdrawing them as they please.

The entire point of the post is that people who have more privilege need to stand the fuck up for those who have less, not try and find ways out of doing so.

Edit to clarify: giving the cops the pleasure of kicking down your door and arresting, or even shooting you for “resisting” isn’t making their job harder, only yours.