Laws only matter if they are enforced.

The right wing doesn’t care about law or consistency. They care about in-groups to protect and out groups to bind.

If “how do treat strangers” is a viable metric for assessing if someone is a good person or not, the the right wing are not good people.

Need more honey pots.

Put up ads saying there’s a measles party at a time and place. Anyone who shows up doesn’t leave and their kids are vaccinated.

This guy should be, at the very least, removed from office. I don’t care if it’s handcuffs or a body bag.

Fuck. I just want to thanos snap away all the republicans. The absolute worst people.

Everyone saying “they can evacuate” clearly doesn’t remember how bad the covid response was.

There will be anti-space conspiracy theorists. The ownership class would demand people continue working until the last possible minute (and beyond). It would be politicized, because some people are unbelievably stupid, cruel, and selfish, and enough people are so stupid they’ll buy in.

Now, if we could make the meteor fall on a location occupied solely by the people who don’t believe in science…

I’m reminded of a post from elsewhere: “You hate all the parts of capitalism separately, without realizing they’re all the same thing”

I don’t think we should be posting such pornographic fictions in this community.

I wonder if things get bad enough, Ukraine would take a shot at Trump. Back to the wall and all.

This is a good point. Seeing other people get onto the street can motivate people who weren’t feeling enthusiastic.

But I do worry that protests will fizzle out and be, as you say, an ending point. Maybe they won’t be.

“a peaceful movement”. Ok. Unilaterally disarming seems like a dubious move to me.

I don’t think protests where you just stand around and chant are especially effective. Maybe in 1950 when seeing people get firehosed was shocking, but the world is different today. Media is captured by the wealthy and most people don’t care.

One of the things that bugs me is this idea of “everyone is entitled to their opinion” has like metastasized into “no one is ever wrong about anything”, and “don’t ever make anyone feel bad about their ‘opinions’”.

Some ideas are wrong. If you’re a anti-vaxxer or flat-earther you have bad ideas and we shouldn’t be like well I guess that’s just fine. Let the kids die and another pandemic roll in

I don’t really want the state to be rolling around gagging anti-vaxxers willy-nilly because that can be a slippery slope, but there’s nothing stopping a private person from telling their peer they’re a fucking idiot. Peer pressure changes minds more than facts. And YouTube, a private org, could just… not host anti-vax content.

You’re an idiot that’s not engaging with my points. I hope you die alone, removed from everything you’ve ever loved.

I’m not going to do legal research or write a whole thesis for you.

Maybe start here for cases where freedom of speech is not absolute: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater

You can also consider that the NYT is not legally or morally obligated to publish every letter they receive. Are your first amendment rights being violated when they opt not to print your letter? No.

I don’t want to discuss with you. I don’t think you’re acting in good faith.

I mean really “sometimes laws are incorrect” -> “fascists say that” is like satire.

There are numerous cases showing that free speech is not absolute.

Law is also not necessarily correct.

And that doesn’t address that we’re talking about a private platform.

You’re still wrong, and you’re still wrong in a way that supports the absolute worst of humanity.

Paradox of tolerance comes to mind. If you just put up with people who want to do bad things, they’ll probably do bad things!

And it was considered before. There was a Holocaust. It was decided, via violence and other means, that naziism is not okay.

Also, Twitter is a private platform and is largely free to decide what goes on its platform.

You’re approaching fractally wrong, here.

Better question: what are people going to do in response?

Probably nothing. Disappointing.

Yeah. I think DUI and other laws are generally good ideas. I don’t care that much if someone wants to do coke, but I really don’t want drunk drivers or people nodding off on heroin operating heavy machinery.

There also should be a lot more social programs to help people quit when they want to. And probably more honest education about how yes, even you can get addicted.

I (a guy) think I still have a small plastic off-brand Lego in my desk. I spent a weekend with my high school crush and we found a bunch of them and had goofy fun with them.

Last I heard she’d moved away, married a woman, and had a successful career in science. I doubt she thinks of me, but I’m glad she did well.

Some of this behavior seems self destructive.

I knew a woman who would be like “I have too many matches it’s overwhelming”. I’d be like “ok well stop swiping and clear out what you have.” She’d be like “no, swiping is fun.” Well, ok, but you’re not making progress towards your stated goal, and you’re wasting the other people’s time.

I just don’t think spending 2 weeks texting without meeting is going to give useful, accurate, information. The chemistry you’re measuring there isn’t what you’ll have in real life.

A couple dinners before you find out they’re not what you thought? The same is achieved with just talking for a couple weeks

Strong disagreement here. The same is not achieved by texting and fundamentally cannot be achieved. There is too much stuff in body language, voice, and such that you’re just not going to reveal over text. Plus other stuff like seeing how they interact with other people. Are they rude to the bartender? Do they road rage? There are whole worlds of information you can’t get without spending time with someone in person.

We have different takes about “pen pals”. I don’t want to message someone for weeks before meeting up. I do like

• initial tailored message (eg: “Your profile says you love Kelly Link! Did you read her new novel? I really enjoyed it”)
• if they respond badly, exit (eg: “no”)
• one or two responses (eg: if they say “No! I’ve only read her short stories! Was it good?” then we can have a brief conversation about it)
• clear any dealbreakers (eg: if i had a kid, i’d ask something like “Just wanted to make sure you saw the thing on my blurb about my kid. Are you cool with dating a single parent?”)
• If that all goes well, ask something like “Do you want to have a date and see if we get along in person?”

That’s it. All done. Meeting up for a drink is low cost and low risk, but very information dense. I can get a better feel for if I want to invest in them after an hour in person than I can with a week of texting.

This is written from the perspective of a man who doesn’t date men. I can’t speak authoritatively about other experiences, but second hand none of my women friends have enjoyed prolonged texting without meeting.