I love reddit screenshots of a twitter post.
I love the fact that twitter screenshots are still racially segregated on reddit
I still can’t believe they wanted people to send pictures of their arms to prove they are a person of color before posting/commenting. Okay, maybe I can believe that. What I can’t believe is that anyone defended it
It was only like that for popular posts, I assume for mods to have some time to clean. You didn’t have to prove shit to post or comment
I mean, I blocked the sub after they asked me to send a picture to comment. I have no idea what their actual policy was, just what my experience was
We need to go deeper
It’s…
Beautiful 🥹
Now it just needs some jpeg
It’s not a screenshot, reddit changes their images so if you try the old right click save as they can tell you aren’t in their app and add the frame around it for free advertising. If things get embedded then they are still getting their recognition. Not a bad idea for Lemmy tbh…
Voyager has an option to do just that. The Voyager watermark is also optional.
Neat!
So… It’s still a reddit post about a twitter post, posted on lemmy.
Yeah, because only one side cares about language and the words we use. The other side is a bunch of disengenous fuck bags with zero beliefs outside of economics
bunch of disengenous fuck bags with zero beliefs outside of economics
I feel “economice” is too wide of a phrase to be used with these cunts.
They don’t believe in economics, they believe in self service, control, and grifting as much as they can.
It’s not economics, it’s taking advantage of the mentally disabled half of the population.
Yeah, I used the term loosely to represent Money. No American government has displayed sound economic policy in terms of their populace. Economics itself is a broken fake science that does not factor in real world costs like human lives, environmental damage, etc…
Conservative economics are not actually good economics. I hate that even liberals like to concede to the “economics” brand that conservatives talk about.
As someone who has actually taken whole assed courses on economics… What economics?
Whether conservative or liberal, politicians don’t make economic decisions, they make political decisions.
I have yet to see any politician who consistently made, or even publicly recognised, the better economic decision.
Economically, a well trained, and healthy population is a good thing. So providing relief for the costs of being healthy through something like a healthcare program, is in everyone’s best interest. Ensuring that people can get the training they need to be the most efficient they can be, is in everyone’s best interest. These things are good for the economy.
Conservatives make it seem like they’re making choices that are good for the economy, and they certainly make statements that try to convince everyone that’s the case, but bluntly, they make capitalistic decisions. Decisions that help capitalists. If they can rob, steal, kill, or maim someone to bump profits, they’ll do it, and their friends in government will help them do it, and get protection for doing it.
They’re not interested in the economy, they’re interested in their pocketbook, and whatever make it fatter. Even if the cost is future economic downturn, they’ll do it if it bumps profits this quarter.
… Like firing an entire department to save on the wages of the people that they fired, when those people are still needed, and now you’ll need to spend more money to hire replacements for almost all of them, but this quarters numbers will look amazing, and the CEO, and his buddies in the c-suite will get their bonuses, and the shareholders will get a few dollars more per share in dividends this quarter.
They wouldn’t know good economics if they were surrounded by it. They can’t see that far.
Oh I know. I took a few courses on economics in college too. It’s absolutely insane and seems so obvious to me that this should be seen as bad economic policy. It’s wild that a commonly held belief by a lot of people is that conservative politicians are good for the economy, they just lack social morality or some shit. Their economics are absolutely idiotic and horrible.
To be fair, the “other side” isn’t really any better.
I’ve kind of seen left/right as socialistic/capitalistic respectively. Personally, I’m bigger on social/community/common (for everyone) services, like universal healthcare, than I am for capitalism in general.
There absolutely cannot be consolidation of power, making any government more like an authoritarian regime, regardless of social/communal views or objectives, but at the same time, it is theoretically possible to have a healthy amount of socialism in a democracy. Many EU nations have struck a good balance of these things already, and my country, Canada, isn’t super far behind them. America is still stuck in cave-man, aggressive capitalism times.
Selling off state assets and cutting taxes for the rich isn’t really good economics. Its selling the future of your children to the future trillionaires.
Yeah, because only one side cares about language and the words we use.
That’s a weird of saying having an executive board that is weak as fuck & won’t stand behind their commentators.
Yeah, because only one side cares about language and the words we use.
People across the political spectrum care. But views vary significantly around what words and language should be encouraged and what should be censored.
Nobody with an ounce of authority is actually against censorship of one degree or another. FFS, some of the biggest modern media censors are the wanna-be libertarian scalds of the Obama administration (Bari Weiss being an obvious example). Censorship is a method of shaping public perception and encouraging civil actions of one sort or another. The irony of Kirk’s death is that he repeatedly extolled the virtues of political violence only to eat shit when one of his own Groyper buddies went off the reservation. Hell, his final breath was expended snarkily deflecting the threat of mass shootings onto “gang violence”.
Anyone who says they don’t care about the political use of language is either nakedly naive or blowing smoke up your ass. And you can often tell one from the other by asking whether they’re old enough to buy their own beer.
Fuck man. We are at peak stupid right now. Kirk was a piece of shit, the people leading the us are pieces of shit. Ceo’s and leaders of racist/ fascist movements are getting shot in the streets.
The people are pissed, we are entering a tipping point
Tipping point USA?
CEOs: yes, but can I market this as increasing shareholder value somehow?
That’s basically the playbook.
The right cries free speech, but demands everyone else’s free speech be removed.
Fear of retribution by the current president is why.
Donald Trump has taken cancel culture too far.
It’s not like democratic presidents do shit about it
But, they shouldn’t do shit about it? The president shouldn’t be penalizing the media for saying things he didn’t like.
I’m not complaining that the Democrat presidents let the media act like assholes, I complain that this administration tries to control the media and the media goes for it.
Source?
Did Biden’s FBI director declare war on anyone who cheered on Paul Pelosi’s attacker?
No, and that’s a good thing. They were douches but that’s none of the president’s official business.
Both sides are held to their own standards – but only one side actually has standards.
If you have zero standards, as does the right, what is there to hold anyone to?
Worse, when you’ve swaddled yourself in fanatic Christianity, where the only one who can judge you is a god, and he’ll forgive all your sins if you accept some guy into your heart, and the way to do that is to say you have, you can do literally anything and be accepted.
The rest of us hold each other accountable. As we should.
Don’t pine for the blind acceptance of sociopaths – it’s infernal for all of us.
Cowardice is a standard?
Depends on how you define cowardice, I guess. Care to enlighten me?
A company not standing behind its commentators who didn’t even say anything false for fear of lawsuit from orange man or mob outrage.
Companies aren’t actually people and therefore cannot experience cowardice.
(e: nor the shame or stigma that accompanies it, thus their actions, and why actual cowards hide behind them.)
No shit, they have boards of executives who are cowards & just looking to maximize stock returns. Editorial freedom? Stand up to right-wing pressure & tell them to go suck a dick? Nah, sacrifice integrity & cave like bitchasses.
Sounds like a bunch of snowflakes enacting their cancel culture.
Слава Україні, Cлава Палестині.
I sure wouldn’t say no if they got rid of Stephen Crowder, since he’s the one in this meme.
Crowder is so far on the outs with the mainstream right-wing piggy bank that he would probably accept taking a bullet wound to recover his reputation.
Damn I made the same mistake earlier
The right is almost entirely made up of interchangable white dudes. It’s an easy mistake to make
what does “Слава” mean btw?
Long live/ Glory To
There is some notable discrepancy between how USA citizens describe their (theoretical & practical) “free speech” vs how the rest of the world sees their “free speech” in the same regard.
It’s def a complex subject but I don’t think a lot of people think USA is at the forefront of this.
(But it is extensively marketed - most countries/cultures/regimes have such tidbits, which differ a lot.)Free speech is to allow the multi-billionaire companies to advertise their products to the masses. It isn’t free speech so much as a right to advertise. It helps billionaire companies much more than anyone else.
The media is captured by the right.
That’s a VERY, VERY bad sign for our nation and democracy in general, and, historically, that’s an indication that things about about to get REAL dark.
We should start printing flyers expressing views like the views this guy was fired for and posting them up all over our cities. We can’t rely on the media to be able to express truth anymore. And posting said views on here or other, more censored, social media isn’t going to cut it anymore. Doesn’t reach enough people, and not the right people. The people on the fence. The people on the middle. The people that will end up being captured by the right because they control the media.
Our police force is largely capture by the right too. I’d honestly be afraid of getting caught by cops if I was putting up flyers with left-leaning information.
The BBC was able to report on his controversy easier
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend. Metallica taught me that in 1988.
Freedom with their exception.
Being fired from your job over things you said has nothing to do with the right to free speech. That right means the government won’t punish you. It does not stop anyone else from punishing you.
But you can easily make the argument MSNBC is suppressing there own “journalists” speech to not face backlash from the government. Just because the government isn’t directly coming after an individual doesn’t mean that they aren’t at least attempting to suppress speech.
We’ve plenty of examples of Trump ignoring outlets he doesn’t favor. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s outright banned some from attending press events.
What if the government is putting pressure on the organization.
Then it becomes a free speech issue.
You mean like back in 2020-21, when the Biden admin was putting pressure on Twitter to ban anyone who was critical of their COVID policies, and they even ended up deplatforming the guy who pioneered mRNA vaccines?
Yup, that is classic suppression. Of course you could argue that is was for the benefit of public health as opposed to a witch hunt to get a bunch of people fired for not worshipping an alt-right propagandist.
You don’t think celebrating the murder of a political enemy on national TV isn’t setting a dangerous precedent to encourage more political violence from both sides? Do you really want to live in a world where people just get shot for having a different opinion from yours?
First of all no one did this on national TV. Perhaps you referring to edge lords on the Internet making snide or rude comments. This is nothing to worry about. I heard people talk about hanging or shooting Obama for several years when I lived in Idaho. Celebrating and fantasizing about killing the President did absolutely nothing.
Second, we already live in a society where the right wing is constantly calling for violence. They have been openly talking about killing people from the Democratic party for decades. Rush Limbaugh was particularly found of this and he received the Medal of Freedom.
Let’s be clear here, a couple of edgy people have celebrated his death. A lot of people recognize he was a piece of shit and are not upset at all other than to say no one should have to die this way.
The violent rhetoric comes regularly from the conservatives. Even the president of the United States sent a message he was bringing the Department of War to Chicago to enact an apocalypse. Kind of blows a few edge lords cheering on Kirk’s death out of the motherfucking water.
Constitutional right to free speech? Yes. The overall philosophical concept of free speech? Less so.
It’s just that only one side gets punished for it.
Unless you think we were endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights.
In which case the law is only there to enforce what we already own. And the concept of “Free Speech” goes past just laws.
Yes, some people misunderstand it. And others are too quick to “correct” them, even when their target is off.
Nobody is saying firing him was illegal.
Thank you! Seems like very few people understand the concept of free speech.
It doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want with no consequences, which is seeming what a lot of people believe
No, you are conflating the first amendment, a limited protection of free speech, with free speech itself.
It is very much a violation of free speech, its just not illegal. It still is immoral.
EDIT: fixed second amendment to first amendment
*first amendment
Though some do conflate guns with free speech as well…
Thanks for the correction, my bad
I guess I misunderstood something here.
I just don’t think you should be able to say whatever you want without any consequences. Eg. Call someone a slur, get punched in the face. I don’t think that’s a violation of free speech
I also agree you should not be able to call people slurs. You should be punished but not by your employer.
But neither divisive nor hateful is a slur, neither are they inaccurate statements about Kirk. NBC most likely did not take the decision to fire the guy based on ethics.
Now let’s say another news anchor grows some balls and says “Israel is committing genocide” and their channel fires them. Do you also think it’s not a violation of free speech? That they should face consequences?
I am talking about free speech, not the second amendment, morality and ethics not US law.
Problem is there’s a big undertone of the administration penalizing news organizations that day things that are unwelcome. Interfering with their business dealings, limiting their access to information they need to provide coverage, bending things a bit to help out “news” outlets that are treating him well.
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