Hylactor

@Hylactor@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Land of the free, home of the brave, indeed. This attack on free speech will continue to get worse. The farther we let it go, the longer it will take to claw back any sort of legitimate freedom. Criticism should not be illegal, and designing and selling shirts like this is supposed to be an example of American freedom. We’re about to have a new red scare (or are perhaps witnessing the first signs of the one we already have), this time with decades of social media content to scrape, facial recognition, and god knows what proprietary marketing “fingerprinting” data associated with our names/identity. The man who owns Tesla has made it clear he desires tyranny, and every one of those cars is festooned with cameras, roving, or sitting idle. Let alone operations like Waymo, driving around to wherever dispatched. Internet connected cameras on every street, our phones tracking our movements in real time, the internet of things, the privatization of legally protected security forces with no badging or oversight, arresting protestors, journalists, students, LEGAL CITIZENS. Make no mistake, they’ve raised the stakes already and this is not a game we can afford to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  During the last go around with that hideous pustule with the awful hair, major league soccer and it’s fans got into a rather messy and protracted row over banning “antifa” iconography, signs, chants, etc. It seems to be back on the back burner now though because I’m seeing antifa flag again in the supporter sections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way for Elon to remove the parasite class? 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were a purse snatcher, and your victim gave chase. And you were shouting “Stop! Stop them!” The people on the street would be at least as confused enough to let you get away, as you’d both be shouting. It’s weaponized projection. Double speak. It’s no more unintentional than using a Nazi salute and claiming it to be a gesture of endearment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House says it ‘will determine’ which news outlets cover Trump, rotating traditional ones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well he’s captured the judicial, the legislative, and the executive, already. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that the next target is the forth branch/estate. What could possibly go wrong by allowing someone to hand select their own oversight/accountability? Republicans sure seem unconcerned about the unilateral consolidation of unchecked power by one man. Isn’t opposition to tyranny supposed to be, like, our entire raison d’être?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True love⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for reference, thats like a $200K watch. Patek Nautilus, ref 5980.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just made me mad by helping me realize that the Trump bros are going to break water by removing fluoride long before they fix water by removing lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Historically I still “lose” these types of arguments as my willfully ignorant interlocutor spams potential strawman and ad hominem “arguments” until they feel sufficiently convinced that my pesky facts and I are safe to ignore.

  In my experience there are very few people worth arguing with, as there are very few people willing to argue in good faith. Most people see arguing as a battle to be won or lost rather than a mechanism by which to vet assumptions. How can you expect to argue with a person who is unable to argue with themselves?