Also, if the next president is republican, then Tuberville’s military blockade will evaporate, and a big chunk of the military leadership will be immediately filled with people willing to support a republican coup.

If you’re supporting the side indiscriminately starving millions, you need to take a very long look in the mirror. This fight is villains vs villains, and civilians are taking the brunt of the brutality from both sides.

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Unfortunately, in “BPA Free” plastic, BPA has usually been replaced with very similar chemicals, which probably cause the same problems.

Neat how you blithely ignore that aside from Blumenthal, a 75 year-old who has been trying to eliminate the open internet for ages, the other author is Marsha Blackburn, a racist tea party republican who kept asking for Obama’s birth certificate and doesn’t believe in climate change… yep no issues there.

JFC, the tech companies, especially Google and Meta, would love to have a government ID for all their users, they don’t make their money on content, they make their money selling advertising, and tracking their users across the internet is a big part of that.

If you’re this lost in the woods, and refuse to believe the overwhelming consensus of legal experts regarding the consequences of this legislation, or even the GOP’s open admission of their intent to misuse the bill, then yes, I guess there’s no getting through to you. Good luck with those critical thinking skills.

Do you think that’s safe to say? Here’s what some of the experts say about the rewrite. Spoiler alert: the problems were not addressed.

It’s really hard to take you seriously when you’re very optimistic about the bill’s authors, but very doubtful about all the first amendment lawyers explaining the legal consequences of the bill.

Lol, ok, I’m sorry it’s so difficult. Anyway, it’s included in the link I provided above, but the ACLU, EFF, GLAAD and over 90 organizations have sent an open letter to congress outlining the dangers in this bill, so those ‘claims’ shouldn’t be too hard to verify.

Again, I think you are being very naive about the language in this bill, and attempting to apply a common use interpretation, rather than a legal interpretation. It doesn’t matter what the bill says to you, it matters what the bill means for the legal system.

Why do you think that so many legal & tech professionals are up in arms about this bill? Here is more information about the GOP plans to use this bill to censor LGBTQIA+ content.

I think the conversation should be preventing abuse of laws in general.

How do you expect this to happen in the real world? The GOP is very open about their plans to abuse this law, how do you expect to stop them?

You are definitely not a lawyer, and the people backing these bills intentionally use language that creates a specious justification for the erosion of privacy and freedom online.

This bill will require everyone to start using their government ID to post just about anything online, while allowing state AGs to censor basically anything they want in bad faith.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing hate group, has already made clear that they will use this to censor any/all LGBTQIA+ material.

Here is a lawyer providing a more detailed thread explaining the issues with this bill.

Funny how the right wing never cares about free speech & censorship when their side is abusing it.

Anyway loser, this was posted by a voter.

More simply, a republic is a form of democracy. The people who say ‘we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic’ are basically saying ‘that’s not a dog, that’s a golden retriever’.

I’m not the person you replied to, but I use Matrix for this, and it works very well for my purposes.

Considerably more than half of Millennials and Zoomers, and Gen X isn’t far behind.

I’ve actually seen a right-wing Christian pundit arguing, “why worry about climate change, when heaven is real?”

They’re super unconcerned about killing us all.

Yeah, it mostly seems like a publicity piece for Threads. I think Threads is available in the UK though, but not the EU.

They’ve also been on Mastodon since Dec '22

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

Awesome, thank you! Just wanted to add, the link for kbin 404s, I think it needs to be tweaked a little:

https://kbin.social/m/skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works

instead of

https://kbin.social/c/skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works

And as we know, you should always trust a scorpion when they tell you they won’t sting…

No worries, I was just trying to clear up any confusion! Mostly because those two instances have a really similar name, and are easy to mix up.

I think there were a lot of rumors about stux, because he runs a couple big servers, & wouldn’t sign that anit-meta pact, but I know he denies going to the nda meeting, & he announced blocking Meta today, after a big poll.

In my experience, Mastodon is much, much less toxic than twitter!

It’s mostly polite, friendly, community-minded folks, & the moderation is a million times more effective than corporate social media, because the mods care about keeping the community healthy, instead of focusing on driving hostile engagement to increase advertising views.