you targeted "communications", and that's not their intent at all
Except it is. Communication is a two-way street; what these lawmakers want—regardless of whether they’ll own up to it—is to turn the Internet into a broadcast network, especially if that broadcasts their specific brand of lies.
The lawmakers behind this bill want a less communications-friendly Internet. The language of the bill may not say as much, but the intent certainly does.
Y’know, I could go on and on with you…at great length, believe me…but one sentence in your post tells me all I need to know about you…
You have yet to show anything that happened in the trump administration that was negative to myself, my family, or my friends.
…and it tells me that you’re a selfish cunt.
I hate to sound like a bad parody of The Joker, but I have to say it: We live in a society. That society doesn’t cater exclusively to the whims of you and your loved ones—it exists outside of your desires and hopes and dreams. But the decisions you make in regard to who gets to govern society affects everyone in that society, for better or for worse.
The Trump administration actively worked to harm immigrants (legal or otherwise), Muslims, transgender people, the poor, people who live in cities/states that Trump didn’t win in 2016, and God knows how many other groups of people. The effects of the Trump administration may not have reached you, but plenty of other people felt them acutely and directly. (Not that you give a fuck, apparently.)
The administration, as well as the GOP in general, spent four-plus years reveling in lies, damn lies, and hatred. They spent four-plus years hiding in an echo chamber of falsehoods and “alternative facts”, and in doing so, they helped tear at the fabric of American society. Our politics are more divided than ever because Republicans have turned increasingly radical to win elections—they have embraced open bigotry and conspiracy theorism, lied to their voting base to make them paranoid, fought against expanding (and protecting) the franchise that is voting rights, and done everything they can to avoid addressing a simple fact: They have no plans for governance that can win majority support in the United States.
And your selfishness helped all of this happen. You voted in your own best interests while refusing to think about what your vote could do to American society. To this day, you still refuse to look at the bigger picture of what Trump, Trumpism, and the Republicans have done to American society—to address, even only with yourself, how your vote for an elderly narcissistic bigot with authoritarian tendencies gave license to the vilest possible behavior from his supporters both within and outside of government. I’d ask why you avoid that introspection, but you’ve already provided the answer: The only people that matter to you are “myself, my family, [and] my friends”—and if you weren’t personally victimized by the Trump administration, the fact that other people were victimized doesn’t matter to you.
Society works best when we can find compromise and seek to help one another live our best lives. The GOP—which is now the party of Trump and Trumpism, thanks to people like you—cares about society in the same way you do: as a means to live a life of relative comfort regardless of the personal suffering of those who aren’t themselves.
Your selfishness hurt other Americans—maybe not in ways you know (or care about), but it hurt them all the same. My decision to vote for Biden may lead to the Biden administration hurting other people, and I will feel remorse for my small role in helping cause that hurt. You, apparently, lack any remorse whatsoever for your small role in the significant amount of hurt that Trump caused.
No wonder you love him like you’re gay for him: You’re both selfish, shameless sociopaths.
I dunno why someone like Cawthon would be involved at all in this?
The model you ripped off came from his work. Did the person you licensed the model from have the right to use Cawthon’s work in that way? If not, by your “all copying is infringement” logic, you’re as much of a criminal as the person who licensed to you a work they didn’t have a right to license.
this is an abdication of its responsibility to uphold the rights of citizens and act as a check against the government's desire to see those rights curtailed
I don’t want to say this state of affairs exists because of the current 6–3 conservative majority, but they’re really not giving me much of a choice here.
In most states a level equality was already there for domestic partnerships.
No, it wasn’t. Legally, domestic partnerships were not the same thing as marriage, in that those in a partnership were given access to the same rights and privileges as those in a marriage.
ultimately the entire practice should be faded out of legal recognition
Your objections to the word “marriage” and its connections to religion are noted and dismissed.
I think we have too many protections in the first place.
Of course you do~.
Why should a catholic company be forced to hire a queer or a satanist?
Any company that wants to serve the general public shouldn’t have the right to discriminate based on religious belief or sexual orientation (among other factors). If a Catholic business owner wants to discriminate in hiring, they can go private.
How is it any different in a physical company not wanting to be associated with that?
A company that purports to serve the general public must also hire from the general public. It doesn’t (and shouldn’t) get to decide who makes up “the general public”. If a company doesn’t want to hire queer people, it can find ways around any law that says it can’t discriminate—but if it’s trying that hard to be queer-unfriendly, why the fuck would a queer person even want to work there.
Should a porn shop be forced to maintain employment of a pastor?
Forced? No. But if the pastor asks for a job there and does the exact job for which they were hired? Well, they shouldn’t be fired for their religious beliefs, that’s for damn sure.
Only a small number of republicans out right deny it. Most are on record saying it’s something that needs more, proper, research.
Denial by another name is still denial. The research has been done by scientists who know what they’re talking about; at this point, doing something about climate change means averting the worst-case scenario. That the research doesn’t make you feel all happy inside about the planet you’re leaving to the next generation (and the generation after that) is no excuse to deny its truth.
With thought out changes, not immediate over reactions.
Remember what I said about “averting the worst-case scenario”? The time for “thought-out changes” and incrementalism is over. At this point, the only actions we can really take to prevent the worst-case scenario for climate change are bold, extreme, and (relatively) immediate. That’s because conservative lawmakers have spent decades denying and decrying the science of climate change until even they could no longer fully ignore its effects. Major oil and energy companies bought their own science and did their best to hide their roles in climate change, but now even they can no longer reasonably deny that they are the biggest polluters in the world. Right now, the only solutions to averting the worst effects of climate change in our lifetimes—if we can even do that!—are going to be “extreme” in nature.
at the worst, we are only speeding the process of natural climate patterns. If man never burned a single piece of coal Florida would still eventually be underwater.
That doesn’t mean we have to “help” speed up that process by a few centuries-to-millennia.
attempts to break down the wall of separation between church and state? Where.
The Trump administration instituted rules that allowed federal contractors to discriminate against racial and religious minorities, women, and queer people in the name of protecting “religious liberty”. (Source)
Donald Trump himself vowed to dismantle the Johnson Amendment, though he only ever signed an executive order encouraging leniency on enforcement of the amendment. (Source)
The Trump administration released a mandate that said employers could cite religious objection as grounds to withhold free birth control from employee health care plans. (Source)
Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education during the Trump administration, funneled $180 million of pandemic relief funds intended for public education institutions to private and religious schools. (Source)
Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, said the following at a GOP primary debate held last month by the Center for Christian Virtue: “The secular left, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a lot of these Soros-funded organizations—they advance the argument that the separation of church and state exists, and, for that reason, you can’t teach kids about religion. My personal feeling is: There’s no such thing as separation of church and state.” (Source)
A Christian organization is suing Missouri over a law intended to provide simple base-level oversight over unlicensed faith-based schools—oversight that makes such schools do things like register with the state, conduct federal background checks on staffers and volunteers, and comply with fire/health/safety codes. (Source 1), (Source 2)
A Texas lawmaker filed a resolution earlier this year that, if passed, would designate the Bible (which one was never specified) as the official state book of Texas. (Source)
…I could go on, but goddamn, you literally have the entire fucking Internet at your disposal. Read something other than right-wing garbage.
I though you preferred affordable care act. Isn’t using Obama care surrender to the republicans?
I use them interchangably when I see fit. Don’t like it? Sue me.
It’s a bad act. It helped a few thousand families to the detriment of the majority of the country.
And yet, those “few thousand families” would’ve lost that help if the Republicans had managed to repeal the ACA. I mean, it’s not like they (or Trump) had a plan for replacing it—because if they did, they would’ve shown it off already.
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Even if I buy that this is a serious proposal that will actually happen, for what reason shouldn’t the U.S. government compensate people whose families were ripped apart by direct actions of U.S. government agents that were endorsed by the highest levels of said government?
I don’t personally downplay domestics.
…says the guy who continues to push the lie that the insurrection of January 6th was a peaceful protest against (non-existent) voter fraud.
Antifa with their tentacles in dem PACs
ahahahahahahahaha what the fuck are you talking about
I continue to support the party least likely to do the most harm to my bubble of existence.
You’re a queer atheist. Proclaim your love for Trump all you want; the Republican lawmakers and conservative voters who want Christian fascism to rule America will slaughter you even if you tell them you’re one of “the good f⸻s”.
You refer to tightly controlled media where only what the ruling party agrees with is run?
Trump tried to punish outlets critical of him, up to and including a threat to have the broadcast licenses of certain networks “looked at” (read: revoked).
Or barring of dissenting speech?
See above. The conservative-led book banning spree taking place across the country right now—a crusade against books that question the conservative image of America as a “post-racism” nation and confer a sense of humanity upon queer people—also qualifies.
Or advancements and grants and offerings based only on one’s race?
I’m sure some “very fine people” received some very fine “donations” from Trump and his acolytes.
Where education is solely and directed ties not to exploring but to a set of fine points a leader chose?
Donald Trump created the 1776 Commission with the expressed goal of countering both use of The 1619 Project in schools and any teaching of American history that focused on how slavery and racism shaped American society. He did this under the guise of instilling “patriotic education” into schools—regardless of whether such “education” was historically accurate.
Where wealth and power are redistributed and not earned?
Jeff Bezos is worth more money than 99% of the planet combined. He sure as shit didn’t “earn” that money by doing backbreaking physical labor.
Sounds a lot like the progressive platform to me.
Except it isn’t—it’s the Trumpian platform, and it’s the one you supported twice. You’re a fascist; your “me first, fuck everyone else” mindset proves as much.
Did they have the rights to use Cawthon’s work? If not, you still ripped off Scott Cawthon and you’re as much a criminal as everyone you want to fine/jail/execute for infringement.
No, it doesn’t. But hey, you keep telling yourself that a 6-year-old kid who traces a Disney character out of a coloring book or a YouTuber who makes a movie review using clips from the movie itself needs to be punished with massive life-destroying fines and/or jail sentences. Ain’t like you can make your reputation any worse, after all.
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Except it is. Communication is a two-way street; what these lawmakers want—regardless of whether they’ll own up to it—is to turn the Internet into a broadcast network, especially if that broadcasts their specific brand of lies.
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The lawmakers behind this bill want a less communications-friendly Internet. The language of the bill may not say as much, but the intent certainly does.
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Facebook is the Boston Strangler of social media? Shit, don’t give the media any more ideas.
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It wasn’t, and you’re still a criminal under your “all copying is infringement” logic.
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I bet you’d kill a kid for tracing Mickey Mouse out of a coloring book.
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What do you mean, “your type”?
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At this point, I’m inclined to believe anyone pirating these particular GTA games are pirating the original releases.
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Only in San Andreas, though. At least there, you can swim to shore.
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ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS PROPERLY REMASTER THE GAMES, CJ!
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Y’know, I could go on and on with you…at great length, believe me…but one sentence in your post tells me all I need to know about you…
…and it tells me that you’re a selfish cunt.
I hate to sound like a bad parody of The Joker, but I have to say it: We live in a society. That society doesn’t cater exclusively to the whims of you and your loved ones—it exists outside of your desires and hopes and dreams. But the decisions you make in regard to who gets to govern society affects everyone in that society, for better or for worse.
The Trump administration actively worked to harm immigrants (legal or otherwise), Muslims, transgender people, the poor, people who live in cities/states that Trump didn’t win in 2016, and God knows how many other groups of people. The effects of the Trump administration may not have reached you, but plenty of other people felt them acutely and directly. (Not that you give a fuck, apparently.)
The administration, as well as the GOP in general, spent four-plus years reveling in lies, damn lies, and hatred. They spent four-plus years hiding in an echo chamber of falsehoods and “alternative facts”, and in doing so, they helped tear at the fabric of American society. Our politics are more divided than ever because Republicans have turned increasingly radical to win elections—they have embraced open bigotry and conspiracy theorism, lied to their voting base to make them paranoid, fought against expanding (and protecting) the franchise that is voting rights, and done everything they can to avoid addressing a simple fact: They have no plans for governance that can win majority support in the United States.
And your selfishness helped all of this happen. You voted in your own best interests while refusing to think about what your vote could do to American society. To this day, you still refuse to look at the bigger picture of what Trump, Trumpism, and the Republicans have done to American society—to address, even only with yourself, how your vote for an elderly narcissistic bigot with authoritarian tendencies gave license to the vilest possible behavior from his supporters both within and outside of government. I’d ask why you avoid that introspection, but you’ve already provided the answer: The only people that matter to you are “myself, my family, [and] my friends”—and if you weren’t personally victimized by the Trump administration, the fact that other people were victimized doesn’t matter to you.
Society works best when we can find compromise and seek to help one another live our best lives. The GOP—which is now the party of Trump and Trumpism, thanks to people like you—cares about society in the same way you do: as a means to live a life of relative comfort regardless of the personal suffering of those who aren’t themselves.
Your selfishness hurt other Americans—maybe not in ways you know (or care about), but it hurt them all the same. My decision to vote for Biden may lead to the Biden administration hurting other people, and I will feel remorse for my small role in helping cause that hurt. You, apparently, lack any remorse whatsoever for your small role in the significant amount of hurt that Trump caused.
No wonder you love him like you’re gay for him: You’re both selfish, shameless sociopaths.
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The model you ripped off came from his work. Did the person you licensed the model from have the right to use Cawthon’s work in that way? If not, by your “all copying is infringement” logic, you’re as much of a criminal as the person who licensed to you a work they didn’t have a right to license.
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I don’t want to say this state of affairs exists because of the current 6–3 conservative majority, but they’re really not giving me much of a choice here.
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For what reason should we be helping that process play out faster?
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No, it wasn’t. Legally, domestic partnerships were not the same thing as marriage, in that those in a partnership were given access to the same rights and privileges as those in a marriage.
Your objections to the word “marriage” and its connections to religion are noted and dismissed.
Of course you do~.
Any company that wants to serve the general public shouldn’t have the right to discriminate based on religious belief or sexual orientation (among other factors). If a Catholic business owner wants to discriminate in hiring, they can go private.
A company that purports to serve the general public must also hire from the general public. It doesn’t (and shouldn’t) get to decide who makes up “the general public”. If a company doesn’t want to hire queer people, it can find ways around any law that says it can’t discriminate—but if it’s trying that hard to be queer-unfriendly, why the fuck would a queer person even want to work there.
Forced? No. But if the pastor asks for a job there and does the exact job for which they were hired? Well, they shouldn’t be fired for their religious beliefs, that’s for damn sure.
Denial by another name is still denial. The research has been done by scientists who know what they’re talking about; at this point, doing something about climate change means averting the worst-case scenario. That the research doesn’t make you feel all happy inside about the planet you’re leaving to the next generation (and the generation after that) is no excuse to deny its truth.
Remember what I said about “averting the worst-case scenario”? The time for “thought-out changes” and incrementalism is over. At this point, the only actions we can really take to prevent the worst-case scenario for climate change are bold, extreme, and (relatively) immediate. That’s because conservative lawmakers have spent decades denying and decrying the science of climate change until even they could no longer fully ignore its effects. Major oil and energy companies bought their own science and did their best to hide their roles in climate change, but now even they can no longer reasonably deny that they are the biggest polluters in the world. Right now, the only solutions to averting the worst effects of climate change in our lifetimes—if we can even do that!—are going to be “extreme” in nature.
That doesn’t mean we have to “help” speed up that process by a few centuries-to-millennia.
The Trump administration instituted rules that allowed federal contractors to discriminate against racial and religious minorities, women, and queer people in the name of protecting “religious liberty”. (Source)
Donald Trump himself vowed to dismantle the Johnson Amendment, though he only ever signed an executive order encouraging leniency on enforcement of the amendment. (Source)
The Trump administration released a mandate that said employers could cite religious objection as grounds to withhold free birth control from employee health care plans. (Source)
Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education during the Trump administration, funneled $180 million of pandemic relief funds intended for public education institutions to private and religious schools. (Source)
Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, said the following at a GOP primary debate held last month by the Center for Christian Virtue: “The secular left, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a lot of these Soros-funded organizations—they advance the argument that the separation of church and state exists, and, for that reason, you can’t teach kids about religion. My personal feeling is: There’s no such thing as separation of church and state.” (Source)
A Christian organization is suing Missouri over a law intended to provide simple base-level oversight over unlicensed faith-based schools—oversight that makes such schools do things like register with the state, conduct federal background checks on staffers and volunteers, and comply with fire/health/safety codes. (Source 1), (Source 2)
A Texas lawmaker filed a resolution earlier this year that, if passed, would designate the Bible (which one was never specified) as the official state book of Texas. (Source)
…I could go on, but goddamn, you literally have the entire fucking Internet at your disposal. Read something other than right-wing garbage.
I use them interchangably when I see fit. Don’t like it? Sue me.
And yet, those “few thousand families” would’ve lost that help if the Republicans had managed to repeal the ACA. I mean, it’s not like they (or Trump) had a plan for replacing it—because if they did, they would’ve shown it off already.
Even if I buy that this is a serious proposal that will actually happen, for what reason shouldn’t the U.S. government compensate people whose families were ripped apart by direct actions of U.S. government agents that were endorsed by the highest levels of said government?
…says the guy who continues to push the lie that the insurrection of January 6th was a peaceful protest against (non-existent) voter fraud.
ahahahahahahahaha what the fuck are you talking about
You’re a queer atheist. Proclaim your love for Trump all you want; the Republican lawmakers and conservative voters who want Christian fascism to rule America will slaughter you even if you tell them you’re one of “the good f⸻s”.
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Trump tried to punish outlets critical of him, up to and including a threat to have the broadcast licenses of certain networks “looked at” (read: revoked).
See above. The conservative-led book banning spree taking place across the country right now—a crusade against books that question the conservative image of America as a “post-racism” nation and confer a sense of humanity upon queer people—also qualifies.
I’m sure some “very fine people” received some very fine “donations” from Trump and his acolytes.
Donald Trump created the 1776 Commission with the expressed goal of countering both use of The 1619 Project in schools and any teaching of American history that focused on how slavery and racism shaped American society. He did this under the guise of instilling “patriotic education” into schools—regardless of whether such “education” was historically accurate.
Jeff Bezos is worth more money than 99% of the planet combined. He sure as shit didn’t “earn” that money by doing backbreaking physical labor.
Except it isn’t—it’s the Trumpian platform, and it’s the one you supported twice. You’re a fascist; your “me first, fuck everyone else” mindset proves as much.
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Did they have the rights to use Cawthon’s work? If not, you still ripped off Scott Cawthon and you’re as much a criminal as everyone you want to fine/jail/execute for infringement.
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The specificity of that Madonna reference leads me to believe it’s more an admission of your own “guilt” than anything else.
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No, it doesn’t. But hey, you keep telling yourself that a 6-year-old kid who traces a Disney character out of a coloring book or a YouTuber who makes a movie review using clips from the movie itself needs to be punished with massive life-destroying fines and/or jail sentences. Ain’t like you can make your reputation any worse, after all.
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Only if you think all copying is a criminal act that needs to be punished harshly. (Which you do.)
Speaking of copying and criminal acts: Didn’t you rip off Scott Cawthon once?
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…except the millions of people who are using those programs instead of yours.
Yes or no: Can you show us anything made by your program that wasn’t made by you?
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