Imagine how stupid we look to water dwellers with our methods of self propelled moving trough water.

I bet the water fauna doesn't consider it swimming either and probably would have some funny name for it if they used a universal language.

I seriously doubt appealing to the 80 year old, old money, white woman governor of Alabama who has a MAGA track record going as far as pushing the stolen election scam will bare any positive results.

And here I was thinking it's refreshing the man, while being offered safe harbor by Europe and the US, stays in the thick of things.

I can't even imagine how many times they've tried to kill him by now. And he sticks with the program.

You need to take some things into account.

Without any influence, Astarion is a lying manipulative asshat.

You catch Astarion on the second or third night sleeping with him in your camp, as far as I found, never on the first.

That fucker succeeded previously, It's just that THIS time you woke up.

And HR people can never be trusted to be on your side on any issue. Never, ever confide in an HR person, getting rid of you in some way is always the easiest solution to any problem.

Only when you first take outside council and then go to HR through them, do you have some sort of protection from getting swept under the rug.

Then go in and remove all Bibles, see how they like that.

But, yeah, they don't know what's in their bible as 99.99% of these fucks never read a book, let alone actually read the book they are ready to kill people over.

Holly shit.

I didn't read the title correctly and thought Philadelphia cops shot Eddie Izzard,

And somehow the full story turned out to be far worse.

These cops wanted to kill someone.

And they did.

It goes deeper than that imho.

They are OK with any level of criminality, as long as it's done to people they don't like and by default, they consider everyone outside their usually very small ingroups as people they don't like.

It's only when it happens to them directly, they want retribution against whomever they think slighted them. They don't care about justice and finding out who actually slighting them, they are entirely reactionary and will rather have someone they think did the crime punished ASAP, with extreme prejudice, than actual justice where we figure out whomever did the crime and punish them appropriately.

It's not about party, it's about the criminality itself.

They like the criminality because they want to be able to do that too.

There have been several instances in my life where in a religious debate, specifically right wing Christians would dead seriously use the line "if there is no god, what is keeping you from murdering, raping and stealing?", something left wing Christians would never even consider thinking or saying.

For me and everyone who isn't a fucking narcissistic sociopath, the answer to that would be "I killed and raped everyone I want to kill, nobody, and stole what I want to steal, nothing.

To them, it's a laundry list of people and things and they are fully aware there is no god and what is holding them back from doing these things is society and "the libs".

Bwah, plenty of them have alternative domains and hosting not in Russia.

He used to moderate jailbait.

So yeah, Christian or Mormon for sure.

There's also a whole lot of gaslighting responses that pretend everything is roses and sunshine and the mods are being bitches.

Two accounts I'm tracking appear to have been dormant for years (while existing for 10+ years) and only now joining into the fray to defend reddit and spaz.

Same here.

I've had it with Reddit.

They go all hamfisted in this situation, but when they should do something, they don't.

Besides that, I've been annoyed with the centralization of everything for decades. I grew up in a time BBS and newsgroups ruled the day, before the Internet.

Switching to the Internet then and finding that HALELUJAH, I can access whatever I want without having to rely on the BBS I pay for to pull in the content (same with usenet).

And then in the past 2 decades, motherfuckers started centralizing everything into one place again anyway.

And all this while I've been in IT for just as long and saw the possibility for federated systems being here, with the thing holding it back being the interest into interconnecting selfhosted systems was FAR FAR outweighed by everyone wanting to rule the internet.

So I'm glad we're now at a point most people are seeing what a mistake it was, the Facebooks, the Twitters, the Reddits.

Now lets move to federated systems where you can have some actual control on the content you consume and won't be forced to have a load of stuff shoved down your throat for every nibble of content you actually want to consume.