maybe: The social media company pays the politicians or acquiesces to removal of critical posts?

sorry this is a problem too american for the rest of us to sympathize about.

that’s not nice if you have kids and a wife. Again, you’re arguing from a single person’s perspective. I agree it might sound like a good time to you… it sure as hell isn’t practical for anybody with any sort of social commitment. you gotta understand that.

of course they will never come out and say it. Are you incredibly naive?

what your original argument was suggesting was to buy the expensive first class tickets and pitch a tent in the middle of a quarry and hunt squirrels for food at your dream destination. Might as well not book the flight in that case.

What sort of parent will say no to popcorn at the movies? Especially if their kids ask and its supposed to be a fun night out?

You don’t seem to understand that you can’t always say no or you might ruin the day for somebody else and in extension… yourself

That just tells me you’re single. There’s never any scenario in which you spend 0 at the theatre if you have family, even more so if you have kids.

those who voted blue are also kind of assholes. You guys should get real democracy going: Ranked Choice Voting. Burn the current senate, congress and Supreme court down. Build them back properly.

was about to furiously reply with the same retort… but yeah. I LOVE green spaces

self hosting is anti-capitalist, so is being against urban brutalism.

the Democrats refused to get anything done that could actually stop Trump. You remember how Biden fumbled his presidential run but wouldn’t let go of the race to Harris? Do you also remember Harris courting evil right wingers in an attempt to “reach across the aile”?

Do you also remember how they snubbed Sanders with fucking Hillary?

as opposed to the party demanding what THEY want?

maybe that was what he was implying in the first place: “A profit seeking entity made this?”

you deleted your comment saying “you’re saying exactly what i am saying with different words”

I want you to think about it like this. Some folk don’t throw out their old stuff even if they could afford a new one. It’s called “not being wasteful”.

things are not black and white for crooks who can’t think selflessly. I don’t accept the premise that things are complex from assholes, if the only thing complicating things is their desire to punish others for their fragile ego or the need for power. Their arguments are just gaslighting for honest folk of this green earth.

hey the definition of criminal is set by fallible people so don’t pretend it’s the be all end all!

“criminal” is such an encompassing term that seems to put murderers, rapists, drug peddlers who sell to children vs. some weed smokers, falsely accused people, white collar criminals, petty criminals including shoplifters, jaywalkers, etc.

You can’t seriously think someone who steals an apple from a shop needs the same treatment as a violent unrepentant murderer?

ignoring evidence is apparently adulthood now

you can’t find anything recent?

we can spot from space, the africa sized hole in your shitty counter argument

So we counter extreme bahvior with more extreme behavior? That’s the world you want to live in?

Violence is not to be repaid in kind if rich people inflict it with the help of the government?

You’re naive if you think any kind of reasonable change can happen without bloodshed. The peace and stability you have grown up with and come to love was gotten with a lot of bloodshed.

That’s the world that’s created for us. That seems to be the only kind of action that’s moving the needle. Working within the system is an idea sold to chumps so they obstruct real change.

Putting a bullet into a bastard scares the rest of them so they at least slow down in their unquenchable lust for power and money.