@mivox @intothewestaway @dannotdaniel
Lovely bird, the Southern Redcap. Beautifully civil discussion.
Well, my brain goes
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Put the pizza in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the town...
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@intothewestaway @dannotdaniel
He is no more! He has ceased to be! He has expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! He has kicked the bucket, shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! HE IS AN EX-ARSEHOLE!
I hate that I have to say this.
Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism.
Anti-Israel is not Antisemitism.
Pro-Palestine is not Antisemitism.
Antisemitism is prejudice against Jews.
You can be critical of Israel's genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people without being antisemitic.
Solidarity with Palestine is a moral imperative. 🇵🇸
@Artsyevelyn Sorry for not responding sooner -- hit a bit of overwhelm today. I'll try to put together a full description tomorrow at the latest ^.^
That discussion started with me focusing in on the idea that to them, public policy (and hence politics) is just a sports match -- but the conversation itself has underscored for me how much of right-wing ideation is all about desperately clinging to beliefs you find comforting, doing absolutely anything to avoid confronting the idea that there are any problems at all with those beliefs.
All their energy goes into anything except actually trying to understand.
It's as if we were all on an airplane, and some terrorists broke into the flight deck and took over the controls, and we're trying to get together some of the passengers to stop the terrorist from crashing the plane into a skyscraper or something but then there's this guy in the airline's upper management and a couple of rich guys in first class and they're all protesting that we're panicking the passengers and we just want the airline to fail and we're jealous of how well it's being flown and why do we think we're any better than the terrorists anyway, they paid for their tickets and so they have as much right as we do to decide where the plane goes, and also we're just being antisemitic because one of the terrorists is wearing a "Likud" hat...
...any excuse to avoid discussing the actual problem or even admitting that there is one. We're the problem, because there wouldn't be a problem if we had just stayed in our seats and kept quiet.
I am full of rage and anxiety and I don't know what to do with it.
Is there a particular circle of hell that involves being in close proximity to two people, neither of whom can sing, listening to the same song but slightly out of sync with each other and singing along to what they're hearing and you can't hear what either of them is listening to?
Just wondering. It seems like the kind of thing they'd have there.
@EveHasWords Warren has apparently fallen for the careful politeness that fascists learn to perfect when they find themselves in certain roles. It's so reasonable to want to let down your defenses when someone is trying so hard to sound reasonable.
People in positions of authority on the not-right need to pay more attention to the politeness and civility of what's being said.🔥
@farah The moment when I first learned that menstruation is a thing was one of my childhood-ending, I'm-clearly-in-the-wrong-universe moments. It still feels deeply Wrong. ...for whatever that's worth.
I'm not sure how to confirm this, but I heard somewhere (super authoritative) that there's a deadline soon wherein if he's declared dead after it passes, they get to appoint someone to replace him -- whereas if it happens before, there has to be a special election.
They obviously want to avoid any elections they can possibly avoid (need time to put as many of the their anti-voting measures as possible in place -- deploy brute squads to the polling sites, detain anyone who looks like they might vote Democratic, etc), so they're trying to stall until the deadline [also] passes.
...but that's just a pat diagnosis conspiracy theory made without first obtaining your full medical history checking any facts.
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switched to Linux
no forced reboots
goodbye Windows™.
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@artsbypatrick Do you have standard rates that you charge? Do you have a portfolio anywhere?
My current idea is something like this (feel free to suggest changes):
Scene is outdoors. Guy in a MAGA hat is talking with other people who might be his family (woman, a kid or teen maybe wearing something that clearly signals LGBTQ+ affinity? maybe a younger kid has a friend who looks Hispanic), looking a little sad and bewildered (while also entitled, in the way MAGA-types can do). Off to one side are ICE agents in a cluster all facing towards each other and focused on something on the ground, unseen violence hinted at by their body-language.
The caption is something like "I don't understand why we can't all just get along!"
Possible alternative detail: the family is indoors, and the ICE agents are visible through their front window.
...is that the kind of thing you could work with? Thanks!
@EndlessMason There might be advantages to that, but I think it's probably best to have the UI draw a clear distinction.
Also, if they get the fedi-ID stuff working in Forgejo, then the admins wouldn't have to be on it as such -- we could just add their existing user-accounts to the "TootCat admin" (or whatever) project/team.
Nah, Vultures are on X-Twitter; chickens are on Facebook because they don't know any better.
