People like this don’t feel remorse, they aren’t capable of it. Lying to placate the dumb masses is natural to them, because they assume that all other human beings can only feel either rage or greed like they do.

Let me just skip the implications and address your real meta point: no I am not a January 6 apologist or sympathizer.

I’m a liberal, I can field this one. The form of protest I find acceptable is destruction of government and corporate property, but not working-class peoples’ houses and mom-and-pop businesses. Is it really so much to ask to have rioting confined to productive activities, such as trashing city hall, looting Amazon DCs, destroying private jets and yachts, assaulting corrupt politicians, tarring and feathering billionaires, and burning down police stations? The establishment has successfully recuperated progressive protest by tricking people into associating it with low-level domestic terrorism, “we get what we want or maybe your houses burn down”; what we should be doing is repeatedly yanking the choke chain on the state and the 1% so hard their eyes pop out.

This is not the Katamari Damacy people, it’s the people who ported Katamari Damacy Reroll.

Right, assuming they’re not lying, which isn’t the kind of assumption you should ever make in the tech industry.

The extent of my American education on this matter, paraphrased:

“During President Eisenhower’s farewell address, he warned the American people against increasing social polarization and the dominance of the military-industrial complex, and then it happened anyway. Ain’t that some shit? Write a paper comparing the ways we ignored the warnings in Eisenhower’s farewell address against the ways we also ignored the warnings in George Washington’s farewell address.”

But I was told that closed-source is more secure, surely nobody lied when they said that

“I chose to view content from all federated instances and now I’m seeing content from all federated instances. How can this be happening to me???”

"Dear diary, "

Marketers should be rounded up and then loaded onto a rocket to the sun

How servile. A man, a free thinker, pisses and shits where he pleases with no warning. A man chooses, a slave obeys.

The sentence wasn’t necessarily unclear, you just have to have a good grasp on how the rules of English grammar establish the subject and object of the sentence, and you need a good sense for how context clues work, and enough cultural context to know what errors the writer is making so you can correct for them. As with many things, we can blame the French for this.

Only idiots thought that

🤓

Being this obnoxious is practiced and you’re clearly conversing in bad faith, that’s the only response you get

“muh fallacy”

I didn’t know this was reddit

I might have missed the actual point.

You deliberately missed the point, and seem to think I can’t tell you’re being deliberately obtuse.

You literally made up an argument no one made in this thread.

I literally was not confined to this thread, which is blatantly obvious if you know how context works.

The fact of the matter is that it is unwise to have both secure and insecure messaging side-by-side.

Skill issue. If it’s too hard for some people to pay attention to what they’re doing and use a tool correctly, they can buy a Vsmile. This is all ignoring the fact that no human being could possibly fuck it up on Signal unless they’re too illiterate to send text messages—or indeed use a cell phone—in the first place.

You want another beer?

Or at least it wasn’t four years ago

Question: are you missing the point deliberately, or is it genuine obliviousness?