Just what we need, more market share for Meta…

Is there actual evidence it’s dying? For a while it seemed like the momentum was there but now I don’t hear much about mastodon or even bluesky from normies.

Me, if I’m being honest.

Get wrecked

The prohibition on nudity is enforced through the state violence we call policing. So when we’re talking about the decriminalization of nudity, the question is less whether we want people to be nude or not, but rather whether we want this violence to continue. It is an incredible triumph of propaganda that this routine violence has somehow been obfuscated from most people. Your puzzled response is exactly why I needed to bring it up.

Once we see the question with the proper framing, I think the answer is fairly straightforward. Threatening people with violence for not following our fashion rules is ridiculous.

Damn I didn’t consider that but it makes some sense. What a fucking monster.

No. They’ve all been trash.

The reason is for people’s psychological comfort. The risk of ass to ass disease transmission is negligible. Far lower than say, a handshake or breathing near someone.

Yes. I mean that’s very insane but frankly not even as insane as nuking a populated area. Let alone an intangible concept like a market.

They are exactly two sides of the same coin. We just think it’s different because we’re indoctrinated into thinking so. Just like people in Islamic countries think the question of whether a woman wears a hijab is way different from whether she wears, say, gloves.

They both were rooted in xenophobia since historically many cultures did not share the same norms around covering body parts as western people did. However, our ethical and fashion norms have been so widely imposed by colonialism that there’s hardly any cultures left who do things differently.

If you read older texts you can see how Europeans saw such cultures. They were widely regarded as animalistic savages. And to the extent that some few indigenous groups still practice their own traditions around body adornment, many people still view them that way today.

Not really though. But since many people think this it’s probably best practice to just bring something to sit on until people get used to the idea.

I don’t like the way some people dress as is. But it’s none of my business and trying to ask the government to violently enforce my preferences on other people would be unhinged.

Doubtful since they decrease appetite, which will decrease carbon emissions far more than the tiny amount your body releases.

This is insane even for Trump. What would a military intervention in the bond market even mean?

My guess is this is just dementia related word salad.

Hmmm. I could see a stunted one looking like this though. Hard to say.

Then that might qualify as protecting a life, depending on how serious he was and his ability to execute. But most threats wouldn’t qualify.

None of that legally justifies shooting someone. There is only one justifiable reason to shoot someone and that is the save your own or another’s life. And if that is what they meant by “provoke” why not say that?

You may want to shoot someone for all kinds of reasons but we don’t need our media normalizing those kinds of deranged ideas.

And that’s why guns should be in communal armories, not the hands of volatile individuals.

In 2023, Spitze provoked his mother’s boyfriend into shooting him inside their home, prosecutors said.

Very weird framing that seems to imply if you just annoy someone too much they have no choice but to shoot you?