this doesn’t answer the question.

if you don’t think fascists should be shot, what do you think should be done with them? or cops?

there is definitely a civility problem. the solution is temporary bans that get longer if the incivility is refrequented.

I don’t believe in permabans for anything except stuff that would get the admins arrested, and even some of that maybe not.

bacteria, fungus, plants, protozoa, and (arguably) viruses are all alive, too. bed bugs. rattlesnakes. being alive isn’t actually that special, nor a reason, in itself, to refrain from eating or killing that thing.

you shouldn’t treat animals like smartphones, either. you treat different things differently.

they weren’t things. treating them like things is part of what made that wrong.

and treating animals like people is also wrong.

every human being is actually something and not someone

no, and this makes no sense

didn’t you try the directory I linked?

https://matrixrooms.info/

yea. I don’t use fluffy chat, I just use element, but it’s definitely searchable. there’s also a directory… let me dig it up

https://matrix.to/#%2F!GPQBPHOaOHUswTPQla%3Amatrix.org%3Fvia=mozilla.org&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de

we use matrix

great.

the same people trying to kill section 230

I think a lot of people stopped listening to the rad libs like Maddow and became disaffected from the Democrats since then. those folks are (at least around me) engaging in more radical acts of resistance than the marching-and-shouting that dominated the public actions of that time. so while buttegieg probably hasn’t shifted much, and might think he’s still talking to those same people, many of them are no longer listening.

I think his audience has shifted

2018 was a different time

just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s worthless, and charging for content doesn’t make it valuable

nobody is going to want to create new content when they get paid nothing or almost nothing for doing so.

that’s a lie

my mistake. carry on.

people are giving you way too much grief about other things, but you are most definitely monetizing the site.