She’s been duly briefed 😁🥰

Sure thing on the first part, but I’m not sure which report you’re referring to… One by the always fabulous Rachel Bloom, I hope 😁

He’s even "under fire“! Such unendurable hardship for the unrepentantly fascist clown!

Do they have billboards saying “reluctantly voting Harris out of necessity”?

They should. The overwhelming majority of Biden voters voted against Trump more than for Biden and I’d bet the farm that, while probably to a significantly lesser degree, Harris is going to win in the same way.

The Dem leadership hasn’t updated the pillars of their electoral and policymaking strategy since 1992 and it really shows.

Even when Harris or Walz say something truly based that gets the Left hopeful for real change in the right direction (which has happened a few times), some apparatchik always takes pains to point out that it’s “not part of the platform” 😮‍💨

Notice how neither the OP, nor anyone else asked for your unnecessary objection. So it’s very much you forcing yourself and your unwanted opinions wherever you feel like.

Says the person who injected themself into the conversation over 24h later when everyone else had moved on 🙄

You don’t bring anything to the discussion on this forum. You instead change the topic to nitpick on someone’s wording, completely disrespecting their argument.

Again, my stance against self-censorship is well-funded and thoroughly explained. It’s not just a completely subjective pet peeve of mine that I’ve decided to foist on anyone, much less nitpicking, try as you might to make it appear so.

As for “completely disrespecting their argument”, not every argument deserves respect, and “I’m gonna mangle a perfectly good word due to the not at all certain possibility of external censorship” is barely a justification, much less a valid argument for the necessity of such a mangling.

It’s also ironic how you seemingly argue for freedom of expression, yet can’t fathom that someone wants to use language in a way that differs from you.

Yeah, because saying that censorship getting in the way of free expression is bad is censorship! Give me a fucking break 🤦

I’d recommend working on your impulse control. Though it feels like you just like to hear yourself talk.

Again with the projection.

I’m not the one who inserted myself into a conversation that was already over. That was you.

I’m also not the one who has nothing to say except “I don’t like your perspective” and I haven’t tried to forbid anyone from anything. That’s also you.

Doesn’t it get exhausting in the long run to be such a tryhard hypocrite protector of the unvictimized?

That’s not comparable

It very much is. Just saying “nuh-uh” doesn’t make it any less so.

If you prefer, though, you can think of it as a craftsman refusing to use a tool because his mom told him not to, even if that tool is the best one for specific parts of the job.

On the contrary, I’d argue overly relying on swear words (…)

Of course. Just like overly relying on playing ONLY the G string would make your guitar playing suck even more than if you only used the other 5.

That’s not a valid argument for avoiding words that are perfectly useful when deployed well, though. Especially not when it leads to the mangling almost beyond recognition of a perfectly descriptive and well-known neologism such as enshittification.

(as is the case in today’s society)

…how fucking old and stuck in your ways are you??

I’m in my 40s and I haven’t met anyone who’s not either my parents’ age or older, or ridiculously conservative who thinks “the kids today swear too much” lol.

If anything, people self-censor much MORE than they did a decade or two ago when social media and people trying to promote themselves while desperately avoiding offending anyone’s delicate sensibilities wasn’t so ubiquitous.

significantly reduces the richness of your vocabulary.

On the contrary, people who swear have consistently been shown to have much larger vocabularies of not just swears, but all other words too.

In any case, nobody is forcing you to self-censer, so why impose your opinion onto others?

Nobody’s forcing you to object to my objection to unnecessary and linguistically ruinous censorship, so why impose YOUR opinion on ME?

Maybe because Lemmy is, amongst other things, a collection of discussion forums where sharing your opinions and discussing them with others is the POINT? That’s my reason, anyway.

That and because I sometimes have poor impulse control when someone is wrong on the internet

Because censoring yourself needlessly like that constrains language, making it narrower and less useful for no good reason.

It’s the equivalent of playing the guitar using only 5 strings because some authority figure told you that the G string is “dirty” or whatever.

You gotta put two in the head to make sure

He’s so toxic, he won’t even will be able to score a spot on Newsmax.

Fixed that for you. For the likes of Newsmax, the more toxic the better.

I know for a fact that this community doesn’t ban saying shit, so I guess his instance must suck big floppy donkey dick 🤷

If you think that all white people are supposed to be on the same team against everyone else and that not subscribing to your sick ideology is hatred, please remove all of you from the planet.

Enshatterfied™

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(I’m avoiding a swearing word).

But WHY are you? Are you afraid your mom will ground you or your parish priest will frown at you if they found out that you don’t needlessly self-censor?

Your armband is showing…

Just as violent but much more authoritarian and much less fun to watch.

with many comments too graphic to share.

Do it, you cowards!

The more interesting question is why various stodgy bankers gave him the other 28B.

Because that’s how the system works.

If you have $5,000 and owe 15,000, you’re in debt and most likely have to work a shitload of hours in a dead end job for the rest of your life in a futile attempt to make ends meet.

If you have 3 billion dollars and owe 30 billion, you’re a billionaire and get to do whatever you want consequence free, including breaking all of the laws.

Nah, at a certain point you don’t need any more money and it’s just pathological hoarding.

As a hectomillionaire three times over, she probably passed that point before she even released that particular song.

And the entire Hindu nationalist fascist movement he rode in on

As it is now, employees carry a hell of a lot more risk than founders of a business and get none of the gain from its success.

Sure, the founders risk their capital investment if the business fails completely, but the vast majority of them will still have plenty of resources left to live off of and/or able to get loans or debt forgiveness to cover at least some of the loss.

Workers, though? They’re constantly one bad quarter from the risk of losing their only means of income and most aren’t even making ends meet as it is and have no savings.

When the company’s doing well, workers don’t benefit from it and STILL risk being laid off because some MBAsshole wants to show everybody how “lean” (read: barebones) the company can be.

With worker ownership, the risks and rewards are for everyone and everyone is motivated to make the company successful.

Yesterday I found out that, far beyond being aware of the phenomenon (because how could she or anyone in the US NOT?), she actively celebrates it!

She calls this time “Mariah szn” 🤮