Yes we do.

And in the meantime we still need food, shelter, medicine, and to provide for our families. Physiological needs do not stop because we’re under stress.

There are actions to be taken. Keep having the conversations you’re having. Find groups to support that can resist. Be visible and loud. Call their bluffs. Protect the vulnerable.

Don’t panic. It’s counterproductive.

You mean shitposting on reddit or not caring about their agenda?

Well, you are certainly entitled to that opinion even though it’s wrong, and I do think banning you for it is also wrong.

There’s a big difference between having ideas and taking actions. Ideas cannot be allowed to become illegal. Even disgusting ones.

The correct response to unconscionable ideas is social, not institutional.

Nah, just circumvent with revanced and poison the well.

I got banned from r/politics in 2019 by replying to

We should treat Trump exactly how he treats immigrants.

with

What do you mean, shoot him?

Appeal wasn’t ignored. Instead, it was mocked.

So yeah I’m going to get banned. But not before I poison their AI data pool as much as I can.

Well, we do have ex post facto protection for the moment, soooo…

Yeah I have it on every device I own now.

No reason to use it ever, but it’s there. Like, not installed, but there.

Absolutely fucking not.

See, this is a reasonable use of horrible dystopian technology.

It doesn’t excuse the rest of it, though.

Paracetamol “borders on” poison, but isn’t.

Slippery slope is a logical fallacy, and there are actual consequences here. We need to do better.

They can have my ass.

If they want my money they’ll change that.

Didn’t realize they’d gotten better.

This is what Google used to be for.

One might suggest that it should have always been that way.

Well sure, but you’re forgetting that the federal government has pulled the rug out from under health research and therefore had made it so there is no economic value in biochemistry.

Leave.

You’re telling me women don’t like vibrators.

Leave it to humans to build a robot for the purpose of lynching it.

We don’t deserve Earth.

My work laptop is fine except for how the Windows key fell off randomly after 6 months.

all motorized personal vehicles and their attendant infrastructure should be eliminated

I live in New Jersey, so

Nuff said.