ikanreed

@prole @Teon

Unfortunately, one of the conservatives’ strategies at play here is they only give “right of conscience” to people with political power over other people.

They aren’t giving normal citizens the right to object to anything, they’re giving unelected officers the right to torment those beneath them.

And unless you’re willing to be as evil to innocent people as they are, you can’t fight that war.

In the end what they’re destroying here is the rule of law itself.

@SatanicNotMessianic can’t say any of that is wrong or unreasonable, but I still do find the expressed intent of the post more misogynistic than the use of the word female in context.

@SatanicNotMessianic @Deceptichum I think that’s somewhat fair, but linguistically “female” is an adjective and “women” is a noun. The noun in that sentence is “singer” and female is a classifying adjective.

The original post IS stupid and has sexist overtones, but I don’t think they come from word choice.

@Linkerbaan @gardylou The US is perfectly capable of multi-tasking doing unconscionable things.

@FlyingSquid future tense? you underestimate how savage this country is.

@protist @K1nsey6 I agree. Biden is not engaging in the behavioral pattern called projecting.

Biden is hypocritical as hell, though, because he hasn’t taken a goddamn stand for anything, save for starting new wars to defend an ongoing genocide.

@MicroWave yeah but the supreme court can easily threaten the constitution. That’s what 2/3rds of them were appointed to do in the first place.🤷‍♂️

@givesomefucks and, in fact, it is that willingness to betray that is why the right wing controls the democratic party.

@AllonzeeLV I think the basic logic is that if they’re as bad as us, they don’t make it past their own global environmental catastrophes.

@Sethayy the existence of people not offended by something prejudiced always seems to be dragged out as a justification for that prejudice.

If some people being offended isn’t reason enough not to say something, then it stands to reason that some people not being offended isn’t a reason why it’s okay.

If it is, then there are definitely people who are offended.

@Chozo @gAlienLifeform @spudwart
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7921707/NYPD-running-10million-forensics-lab-dedicated-cracking-iPhones.html

Sorry for the daily mail link, but:

New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance (pictured above) has been an outspoken critic of Apple’s end-to-end encryption policy, saying ‘they have taken away one of our best sources of information. Just because they say so.’

@DarkGamer There is a difference between promoting something and being the sole source of it. They used appropriate and clear language and you purposefully misunderstood them to make an asinine point.

@Telorand I’ll moralize any genocide denying evil fuck I want

@Telorand it’s one hundred percent black and white for me and your ambivalence on the matter disgusts me.

@Telorand I think he lost the “not fascism” vote by providing direct military support to an ongoing genocide

@Bebo There’s been evidence for a long time that pythagoras was more cult-leader than mathematician, and his cult falsely attributed lots of things to him.