jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

Republicans value in-group loyalty more than anything else. That usually is part of conservatism.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

The average transaction price for a new car now sits around $50,000.

I could ride a NYC subway or bus 16,666 times for that, assuming I never do more than 12 rides in a week to trip the "rest of the week is free" condition.

"Make cars cheaper" is a stupid solution that won't scale well. Cars do tremendous damage to the environment and our society. But I expect everyone subscribed to "Fuck Cars" already knows that.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Make a new space with your own rules

That's what's happening here and you're whining about it. Follow your own advice.

My big problem with censorship is that it dulls the mind. Safe spaces do the same thing. If your thoughts and beliefs are never questioned, you can never grow as a person. Echo chambers are breeding grounds for ignorance. Our world is not tolerant of ignorance. Being unable to react appropriately to emotionally inflammatory bait makes us all weaker on an emotional level.

Also this is nonsense. Some topics don't need to be relitigated. No one benefits from giving "maybe {racist trope} is real" a platform and legitimacy.

Furthermore, allowing stuff like Nazi ideas is corrosive to the community. Like the anecdote about the Nazi bar posted elsewhere, if you let that stuff in then you end up with all the other people leaving.

You are wrong and your ideas are counter productive for maintaining a vibrant community. Many left wing spaces ban Nazi apologia, and have no shortage of debate and competing thought.

Claiming your opponents are just emotionally weak is also laughable. You sound like a real sad sack neo-nazi incel projecting his own shortcomings.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So the individuals running a forum cannot moderate the forum. It must be open to any and all content. Otherwise that is censorship, and bad.

Well, I infer from your tone you think censorship is always bad. Maybe you're just splitting a hair about how in a sense content moderation is censorship.

because the community can’t regulate their own emotions is censorship.

The biggest eyeroll

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 21 points 2 months ago

If it was that easy to get to trump, I assume someone would have door-dash'd him something lethal already.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Nobody is obligated but the community is obligated?

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Will you write "I'm an idiot" on your forehead for me? If not, am I being censored? Why or why not? Should you be obligated to carry my message anywhere I desire?

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (15 children)

There are many comics in the world. Banning a handful of horrible creators won't starve the community for content. It will create space for non-horrible artists.

Allowing the "nice" comics by horrible people just creates a funnel for people to click though and be exposed to hateful ideas.

If in several months the ban list has grown monstrous in size, we could revisit, but that seems unlikely.

It's not book burning or censorship. The horrible creators remain entitled to host their own websites or their own instances.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if he does, that’s pretty much ww3

So I don't want to like die in nuclear fire but if a foreign power toppled the US government and tried+convicted all the Republicans of crimes against humanity, that doesn't sound so bad.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago

If they won't use signal or similar then they're kind of shitty, but sometimes with friends and family that's how it is.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

prohibits gatherings of more than 20 people on open land where the music played consists wholly or predominantly of “a succession of repetitive beats”

This is a monstrous law and everyone involved in its passage should be barred from politics and positions with decision making power.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 108 points 2 months ago (12 children)

People should stop using Facebook products.

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