TSG_Asmodeus (he, him) @ TSG_Asmodeus @lemmy.world

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I’m just not super interested in people so hellbent on ideological purity that they’ll ignore the most basic mechanics of the world we live in.

So why are you concerned about people getting vasectomies? Why does that mean they cannot also put their ideals out into the world?

You haven't been in a real conversation about this, have you? I understand, we're all in echo chambers of varying sizes. I noticed you also didn't say 'where' which was my original question. I think you're a little younger than I initially clocked you, so I'll ask this carefully:

People move to your country; what does that have to do with having a vasectomy?

You've said passing on ideals, but you haven't explained the connection. The more people around me the more people I can pass my ideals onto -- why would more people decrease that ability, and why would getting a vasectomy stop it, either?

Do you believe in your ideals? Do you want them to be passed on to another generation? If the answer to these questions is no, then I fully support your decision to remove yourselves from the gene pool.

What if your answer is yes, and you want to pass on your ideals to the next generation. Why does having a vasectomy change that? Can someone not pass their ideas on to their adopted children, or their nieces and nephews? Did Martin Luther King Jr. only pass his ideals onto his children, or did he spread his message to the people of both the US and the world? What does people getting vasectomies and people moving to their country change their ability to have ideals and show them to the world? I didn't teach my kids to be kind to others, or to treat people with respect, by telling them: I did it by showing them those actions, and others see those as well, and it spreads.

Again, how does a vasectomy change your ability to pass on ideals?

Okay, so what does that have to do with people getting vasectomies? If someone doesn't want to have children, what does it matter to them if someone else chooses to, specifically if they're not from the same country?

Okay, but where do the people from other places come from?

You’re not thinking this all the way through.

I want to hear you say where. Please, in your own time.

Hell, look at Germany that struggles with immigrants as far as I know.

The only struggles Germany has with immigrants at large is racist government officials using them as scapegoats.

Then you must be in quite a conundrum with who was killed here; if you want justice for the CEO by finding the killer of the CEO, you're supporting a murderer; if you support the killer of the CEO, you're supporting a killer.

Tough moral quandary.

It’s not hyperbole to say that this is exactly why the 2nd Amendment exists.

The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Sir William Blackstone described this right as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense and resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state.[12] While both James Monroe and John Adams supported the Constitution being ratified, its most influential framer was James Madison. In Federalist No. 46, Madison wrote how a federal army could be kept in check by the militia, "a standing army ... would be opposed [by] militia." He argued that State governments "would be able to repel the danger" of a federal army, "It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops." He contrasted the federal government of the United States to the European kingdoms, which he described as "afraid to trust the people with arms", and assured that "the existence of subordinate governments ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition".

I'm willing to let him risk it.

Okay goddamn that guy is hot.

And in the pictures, too.

It must be hard to be so alone, and then go online and be alone there, too. I'm sorry your parents were so awful to you, and that you haven't had people support you. I hope one day you find the strength to be the best person you can be, and then as your early 20's ease into your 30's, you look back on this time with mild embarrassment, but happiness that you grew out of it.

Why are you lying so much? Were you never thought to never lie?

I'm just going to assume this is a bot at this point.

You know Windows is exactly the same right?

Cool whataboutism; I was told 'you never need the command line' and then the installation instructions for Mint have you using the command line. Plus you regularly need it in Linux, and you don't in Windows. That's the point.

Windows is just too difficult for normies to use. All that command line stuff, PowerShell, registry stuff.

Do you actually think, sigh, 'normies' use the command line, powershell, or registry in Windows? The whole point is you can use it but don't have to. On linux you're forced to use it at times.

I’ve been really pissing off the libs since they lost the US election by being insufferable

(Coming from the left)

I don't speak German, but it sounds like what happened is that a lawyer pointed out that liking that post could be illegal under new laws, and is trying to get it struck down. So yes 'could' is carrying a lot of weight in this case.

And to be clear I'm as left as possible and anti-authoritarian, I just fail to see how being a massive racist and calling for people to be killed (and how to hide your identity, in posts following it) and then forwarding those messages to the police is somehow a Big Brother situation.

He also said "every man and his dog should smash [the] f*** out of Britannia hotel (in Leeds)", then he took his posts and:

After being warned by another Twitter user that he could be jailed, Kay tweeted: “I can categorically tell you now, I will not be arrested by Northants Police.”

During the posts, Kay said he was a Reform voter, accused police of two-tier policing and told someone who said the screenshot and posts could land him in jail that they were delusional.

He also copied Northamptonshire Police into one of the messages after being warned he could face court action by another user.

He didn't just go to jail for a couple posts, he made a bunch of them and then after being warned they were illegal forwarded them to the police.

This guy is a dangerous if moronic racist, and really only has himself to blame.

You're talking about being 'silenced' as if it's being done by some monolithic organization; it's not a government action, they can make whatever rules they want. You are free to make your own instance with your own rules.

thin line. many people got sent to jail in England for celebrating too enthusiastically online during the anti-immigrant riots.

The only thing I ever saw about people online being sent to jail were these two .

Parlour, of Seacroft, Leeds, who called for an attack on a hotel housing refugees and asylum seekers on Facebook, became the first person to be jailed for stirring up racial hatred during the disorder.

Kay was convicted after he used social media to call for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight.

So if you consider that 'too enthusiastic' I uh... have a different definition of that.

Ultimately, I don’t think it’s acknowledged enough that it requires a vast amount of privilege to have the time and energy to devote to such endeavors such as learning how Linux, the command line, and Computer Systems more broadly, work.

This is an incredibly thoughtful and well said point, thank you for making it. It's important to remember to empathize with users because we didn't all start in the same place, or have the same time or money, and so on. The comments about the privilege to have time and energy to learn it are spot on.

So again, thank you :)