I don’t like this argument.

You’re advising

Neither those people’s “understanding”, nor their amount of available means to mask their hate, really affects trans people’s freedom.

So seek the truth. Don’t appeal to the good nature of the oppressor.

Of course true, just a dream 🥲

Yeah, when you’re going 90km/h, it’s fucking idiotic. It’s way too fucking close, you’re going to kill someone. Random brake check incoming!

I mean, in an abstract sense your concern is valid, but, at least how I see this case, this racist dogwhistle is very fragile, in order to stay discreet, and the meme is very low-stake to use.

The “battle arena” is also the chaotic “meme market”, where there is much less top-down control too, and individual idea virality reigns king. That is to say, as long as you explain your idea well, as long as your meme “hits a nerve”, it will spread either way.

To be exact about what I think, I think we should do both: 1. Use the meme as a meme, because it’s fun and dilutes the use of the dogwhistle, and 2. Explain the dogwhistle when we get the chance, without telling people to not use the meme. The explanation helps expose the racists, the meme delivers the antidote.

There is no Firefox without people’s desire for privacy. There is no sufficient privacy without people removing the diseased fingerprint of multiple big companies.

There is no possibility of a big browser surviving, without caving to big companies, in the artificially hostile web created by Google’s monopoly.

And that last one is fundamentally unfair, beyond any accusation of “Derivative!” anyone can make.

I can’t, for the love of god, find the damned post and comment that talked about it, no matter how much I look for it.

But, like, this is how language works. If you normalize a different meaning to a word, that word loses its previous function. That’s what oppressive regimes and cultures do to the most useful linguistic tools of the oppressed.

So, it definitely works, and it should work better the more secretive the original meaning is.

CSM is a very, very worrying series of capitalized letters to read, not knowing their origin.

Something I recently read that makes 100% sense though is, such dogwhistles gain power if avoided.

You probably should make memes with it, to muddle its meaning, and make it useless for them to identify each other with.

Therefore, you are 50% female. That’s it. Nothing else.

…Cool sticker, awful opinion

Pain

I call this comment, the “58008’s Wild Ride”

After a short read, the case is specifically “Steam is prohibiting developers from selling their games to other platforms, at a price lower than that of steam, and then pockets the 30% platform cost, due to effective monopoly power”.

Which, if true, is super bullshit.

I’ve legitimately had these thoughts. Being raised amab and isolated af growing up, finally found people I legitimately trusted and loved, for the first time after I was 24. The emotional shock was large to say the least.

“Wow, this is what some other people’s every day life is? Truly being able to relax around loving people their whole life? That’s so much bullshit.”

Less memeable, but hey, that’s what we’ve got 😅

Me

My mental illness is a convenient side effect of society’s plan to literally weaken its populace for the sake of control and political stability 💕

(It’s the God one, just replacing God with the ruling class 🥰)

It’s better, because here the underlying pacing isn’t left ruined after the removal.

Removing the laugh track leaves behind (hilariously) awkward gaps.

…? Hardcore plumbing?

That’s every company though

That’s intentional. Variable reward schedule, just like every other algorithm.

I’m order to addict you better to scrolling.