Most major #media and #socialMedia in the #USA is now right wing controlled

[chemoelectric@masto.ai]

@benroyce @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

My retort would be ‘That’s not a question, it’s a buzzkill.’

But then I have just been reading from Pirkei Avot: “Shammai used to say: make your [study of the] Torah a fixed practice; speak little, but do much; and receive all men with a pleasant countenance.” https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1.15?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@chemoelectric @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

"speak little, but do much"

i would settle for

"speak at least coherently, and do the bare minimum"

because that's the measure we're currently failing on

[wjmaggos@liberal.city]

@benroyce @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

everybody being here or anywhere doesn't mean the bad people have power to fuck with us. that's the whole point of decentralization and no algos/ads or democratic government and enforcing laws.

the goal is to get them playing on our fair field, not the one they own. where we don't let the plutocrats have more power or let the bigots abuse anyone. but it has to be fair like that. today fedi is saying hang here till we decide you have bad ideas. then bye.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@wjmaggos @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

i agree we should grow the fediverse

and we should have more normies here

but there is a baseline of behavior:

no. bigotry.

you disagree?

that's fine. i do not fucking care. if you think your rationale is so superior, then you federate on that rationale, and you enjoy yourself and i look forward to the WilliamMaggosVerse being a stunning success

and i really mean that. no sarcasm. it's fine

but:

no. bigotry. *here*

accept that or fuck off

[wjmaggos@liberal.city]

@benroyce @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

right and you can have democracy where people keep not voting in primaries.

or we'll both keep making our cases. and maybe the fedi will change in ways you don't like but I do. maybe you'll change your mind.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@wjmaggos @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

you're honestly comparing voting in the primaries with letting bigots on the fediverse?

this is a real comparison you want to make and you think it is a coherent and valid comparison?

people participating in society, and hatebags ripping society apart?

you think you're going to make that comparison william and do anything other than make yourself out to be deeply cringe?

[wjmaggos@liberal.city]

@benroyce @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

why do you always end your post with an insult?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@wjmaggos @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

99% of people wouldn't even engage you on this bullshit "let bigots into the fediverse"

i'm not sure if you don't understand how out there you are, or you know but just don't care

either way, entertainment and amusement is why i'm here

i consider myself a connoisseur of fools trolls and quacks

insults will be the price you pay to continue a pointless thread beyond all reason. no coherent cognition can continue to engage your nuttery without going "wtf?"

[mason@partychickens.net]

@benroyce @Tofu_Golem @mistergibson If harm reduction requires genocide, then no. That's a trap to get people to support people who shouldn't be in power.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mason @Tofu_Golem @mistergibson

mason: gaza is experiencing a genocide. so that is what you must deal with. all you are really is saying is "i don't want to deal with reality"

well, you need to deal with it. make the choice for harm reduction

if someone has thrown up all over themselves are you helping them by saying "i ain't dealing with that" and walking away?

maybe you don't feel a need to help them

then, according to this analogy, you are saying you don't care about improving the world

[anniebuddy@thecanadian.social]

@Eetschrijver @benroyce @mistergibson

This is so true. If you want perfection, you're on the wrong planet.

[bluedot@left-bank.net]

@ElizabethEiler @mastodonmigration @benroyce

Right. It's not enough to put the fascists in prison, it's got to be impossible for this disaster to be repeated.

[chemoelectric@masto.ai]

@benroyce @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

I grok. If you follow my stuff more closely than anyone actually does, you know that coherence is precisely what I desire to receive and do not generally obtain unless I construct it for myself, if I can manage it.

(And I am running out of time and no one will listen. I suppose this is what William Blake felt like. Whatever the heck he was trying to say. )

[chemoelectric@masto.ai]

@benroyce @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson (Background on that is Blake was furiously drawing and writing his famous books on his deathbed, as if the future of Humanity depended on it.)

[paneerakbari@mas.to]

@ElizabethEiler @BlueDot @mastodonmigration @benroyce I'm quite afraid that Blanche already is the greater evil at DOJ
His dark legacy will make Bondi seem rational by comparison

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@chemoelectric @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

william blake. one cool bean

[chemoelectric@masto.ai]

@benroyce @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

Cool stuff. Wish I understood him.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@chemoelectric @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

who does?

[chemoelectric@masto.ai]

@benroyce @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

I mean DEEPLY understood him.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@chemoelectric @blotosmetek @Eetschrijver @mistergibson

all you have to do is marry heaven and hell