yeahiknow3 @ yeahiknow3 @lemmings.world

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It’s not hard to encrypt messages ffs.

It is if you’re a boomer in charge of the government and apparently news websites. The internet is a series of tubes.

I wish you were right, but you’re not. Internet providers have monopolies because the cost of laying fiber or launching satellites is so high. That’s precisely what the argument over net neutrality has been about.

The podcaster is a brainless douchebag who interviews everyone and expresses no opinion. When I say brainless, I mean he might actually have been lobotomized. Lex has no character, personality, or principles. Just a goofy smile and lots of money.

No one deserves to be stripped of the right to exist.

for some crimes, death penalty is too mild...

So… death penalty is wrong, but evil people deserve to be tortured?

I have to say, this is the most unphilosophical and internally contradictory view on this topic I’ve heard so far. Well done.

Do you have any idea how eagerly AT&T and Comcast would block half the internet if they had the tiniest profit motive to do so? I wonder how long left wing websites would remain online if it weren’t illegal for multinational corporations to block them.

That’s an arbitrary metric. What about internet across oceans, or across forests? Blocking content is a question of why and what. Shouldn’t we be able to block child exploitation websites? That is to say, of course we can, and it’s very easy. The only question is whether you want that kind of censorship to be up to your service provider or your government.

There is absolutely no deontological duty to pander to identitarians and cry-bullies.

Yeah, that’s a lie.

Any defense of human rights is a defense of trans rights. I’m not sure why you find this confusing. Maybe you want these rights to be enumerated for pandering purposes?

Trans rights are literally human rights. I’m fairly certain the Democratic platform is to protect human rights. How would it benefit us to focus on one particular niche right among the others, many of which are way more important?

• the right to clean air
• the right to clean water
• the right to medical care
• the right to free speech
• the right to choose your own gender
• the right to remain silent
• the right to eat pizza in the shower
• the right to affordable housing
• the right to education
• the right to stick things in your butt
• the right to listen to music
• the right to eat random debris
• the right to have cats
• the right to own blankets
• etcetera

So, to be clear, your claim is that I didn't say what I literally said?

Here, maybe an analogy will help. Suppose I run for office to fight corporate monopolies. How do I get people to vote for me?

1. “My fellow Americans, a strong antitrust policy will save you money at the grocery store by preventing price gouging.”
2. “My fellow Americans, a strong antitrust policy will save you money on Pokémon cards by preventing price gouging.”

Even though Pokémon cards will be cheaper under a good antitrust policy, that’s not a fact that will motivate average Americans to vote. They don’t hate Pokémon, you understand. They just have their own problems, living paycheck to paycheck, etc.

Hope that helps!

If that’s what you got from my comment the Republicans have radicalized you.

Yes, and the vast majority of Americans have no interest in voting for what they consider niche culture issues. Defeating fascists will protect everyone’s rights.

The fact that this needs to be said is a testament to the efficacy of Republican culture war bullshit. Instead of discussing the numerous unprecedented existential threats to human civilization, everything from pollution to the end of democracy, we’re focused on… trans rights.

Right, not if they want to win the presidency.

It’s hilarious that Harris gets attacked from the right because she wants to ban fracking while simultaneously getting attacked from the left because she doesn’t want to ban fracking.

Let’s use our brains for a minute as we speculate whether a progressive senator wants to poison our water supply to procure the fossil fuels that her administration is desperately trying to phase out.