Joshua Crawford has moved @jlcrawf@librem.one
I have migrated my account to joshua@mbbc.us
Joined May 2019
@cyrilpedia @amymaxmen
In reality, when you get outside of leftwing thought bubbles, you will find that most Americans don't care about Covid all that much. It was at the beginning and remains a mild flu. It is entirely the government's response to covid and the media's lack of pushback against that response that American's are shaken by.
@rubinnaidu@thecanadian.social @canadaehx
Well, not really much of a grudge to hold. We lost that battle, but we won the war.
Happy New Year!!!!!
@malwaretech
Is that similar to the technique that liberal commentators use, where the call conservatives racist and liars just to get free boosts?
@Linux_in_a_Bit
The question is, is this post in the 50% of the time that are right or the 50% where you are wrong?
Merry Christmas one and all!!
@sj_zero @colinsmatt11
pi day still a couple of months away.
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As long as I've been alive, more poor people have died from the effects of obesity than starvation. Poor people have televisions, smart phones, electricity, running water, sewage. They can go to elementary school and high school and have a chance of going to college. As long as I've been alive, people haven't had to worry about agricultural output, they were going to eat. They didn't need to worry about how many houses were being built, they'd have a place to stay. they didn't need to worry about how much wood was being cut, they'd have enough heat for the winter. It doesn't matter how dry the well gets, they'd have enough water.
They're insulated from the reality of how their life is maintained. That's why they start to act as if they don't need to worry about a lack of food, where our grandparents had pantries packed with canned food. That's why they start to act as if work is just a nuisance that should be abolished rather than a mandatory contribution to the society that benefits them. That's why they start to act as if we can shut off the biggest forms of energy, rather than a genocidal and insane proposition.
They're insulated from the reality of how their life is maintained. That's why they start to act as if they don't need to worry about a lack of food, where our grandparents had pantries packed with canned food. That's why they start to act as if work is just a nuisance that should be abolished rather than a mandatory contribution to the society that benefits them. That's why they start to act as if we can shut off the biggest forms of energy, rather than a genocidal and insane proposition.
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"You want to support the right of others to speak because you want your right to speak protected as well. You might think that your ideas and what you have to say is completely innocuous and therefore only the bad guys should be silenced. The problem is, somebody else thinks you're the bad guy. If you don't support others right to speak then that person won't be there to support your right to speak. The only way we can protect our freedoms is together. So what does harming someone else's right to speak look like? Well often, this means going out of your way to cause someone harm for their words. At this moment in time, the biggest websites in the world are all going out of their way to find people who are saying things that they don't like and they are shutting that speech down. They're kicking people right off the websites for saying the wrong thing. In addition to that, even when they keep the people on the websites they are editing the posts and adding little things to them. I've never been kicked off of any social media site. Honestly, most of the opinions that they're going after aren't opinions that I hold. However, those people are our canaries. If the people saying things that we detest our band and go away then we are always next. We are always next. After the people that you disagree with are silenced, you are always next." - The Graysonian Ethic (first draft)
The Journalist class whining about freedom of speech after shutting it down and vilifying it for years didn't get the memo.
The Journalist class whining about freedom of speech after shutting it down and vilifying it for years didn't get the memo.
@malwaretech
You seem to accepting without issue that the FBI is seeking to censor American's speech.
You also seem to be accepting without issue that the "procressing fees" associated with said censoring is in the millions of dollars.
Therefore, this must be a QAnon deep state conspiracy?
@Sheril
The quote is completely wrong though. Because his focus was science, he saw people change their minds more often in science.
However, if you look, you will find stories of people who used to be Muslim but converted to Christianity, you will also find stories of people who used to be Christians but converted to Muslim or many other religions.
Also, in politics, people change parties all the time.
In both cases, it may not happen as often as it should, but they are human too.
@Secftblgirl
Haven't heard from you in a while. I hope you are ok!
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Since #phosh made lockscreen widgets a plugin, I actually found it is prettty easy to make one yourself! I have been playing around with one that displays emergency info and emergency contacts.
Is there anything obvious I am missing from it? I got these from Android. Note that a user can add/remove/edit Emergency Contacts as they wish. (My hope is to merge this back into Phosh proper).
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Notorious lickspittle Lindsey Graham doesn't seem to understand that we don't license expression in this country, and the reason for that is made plain by his suggestion: it would be used to punish expression that upsets the government.
@malwaretech
It is funny to me everytime I hear someone refer to something as a "dog whistle". A dog whistle is something that only dogs can hear. In every case that I have seen someone refer to something as a dog whistle for something, they seem to be the only one's that can hear it.
@malwaretech
I heard once that the difference between the British and Americans is that the British think that 100 miles is a long distance but Americans do not. Meanwhile, Americans think that 100 years is a long time, but the British do not.
I have migrated my account to joshua@mbbc.us
Joined May 2019
