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Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.

I miss the ad free web.

Indeed; ask them why they want to pause immigration and see how difficult it is for them to choke back the 14 words they can’t say in public.

Thank the pseudo intellectual billionaire patron club masquerading as serious thinkers.

This thread is more a reminder of how easy it will be to find people to man the gas chambers when Republicans turn their sights on the homeless. Some wretched dehumanizing of people here.

You know why

That bit of legalese is really important: it obscures intention, and adds layers of deniability to the rich and powerful putting their thumb on the scale. “I guess the socialists and egalitarians just lost in the totally free and fair marketplace of ideas! :shrug:”

I had an advisor really good at calling stuff like that out as "having an eye for the trivial." The advice helped me reframe my personal reading toward substantive engagement, rather than surface-level nitpicks like the order of words in the title.

What an oddly emotional response to a harmless suggestion.

China bad

These free speech warriors didn’t actually care about free speech. They just wanted to be able to say horrible things without consequences.