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Cake day: August 28th, 2023

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  • I think the point was that if AP had published their “filter” and made it a separate and visible toggle setting in their code, this would have been fine. They didn’t choose that option though and this doubling down on the doubling down is just further proof of their disingenuousness.

    Personally, I still find AP’s initial attitude churlish and distasteful. The belief that there should be some kind of divider built into the platform in order to “weed out the toxic elements” goes against everything the Fediverse stands for, which is the diversity of opinion without constraint. It is literally the reason why most of the people who left reddit are here in the first place.









  • Generally speaking, I don’t argue with strangers on the internet with the goal of changing their minds or “educating” them. I mean, I do start with that intention…who doesn’t? But by the time I am finished, I realize that I’m just clarifying my own thoughts and positions in my mind.







  • I firmly believe that one of the reasons we are where we are is because people have never believed that things could get like this. They truly believed that we would have bread and circuses forever no matter who was in power. (See your local idiot who say stupid ass things like "all politicians are bad so I just don’t bother voting) And they believed that the only thing that would change would be little things that they personally care about (I.E. abortion or their personal taxes going down or the deficit, which most of them don’t know what it is or means yet they bring it up to sound smarter than they are). They did not consider that there was any way the president could do any of the things that Trump has done. This includes Democrats and liberals and even leftists to a certain degree. No one truly believed that somebody could go for such a power grab as the President of the United States. Even now there are people who don’t believe that there’s any way they could lose their right to vote. As Trump is constantly attempting to push through his Save Act which would curtail tens of millions of people’s ability to vote if allowed to be signed into law.