Well, this is not surprising, but unfortunate. With the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to be debated in a Congressional hearing on Thursday, the White House had President Joe Biden come out and give…
Can’t argue with that, but it’s a bit like saying that the surface of the Sun and a day at the beach are both hot. Like, I can’t argue with you because of how you stated it, but there are matters of degrees in both cases.
And I’m sure that’s true to your personal experience. But I hope you’ll accept that for millions of Americans, we feel like one side wants to criminalize our very existence and way of life, and one side does not. Corruption aside, which I can agree is rampant across the spectrum, one side is openly questioning whether entire groups of people should be allowed to live out their lives enjoying the same freedoms as the rest of us, and that, for me, is important.
one side wants to criminalize our very existence and way of life, and the other side will do nothing to stop them. I mean they’ll make some mouth noises but when push comes to shove you’ll find at their hands are always tied…
And for another subset of millions of Americans, both sides have criminalized us and profited off it since the failure of Reconstruction; so that’s a bird that’s not going to fly around me. I’m not going to take away the fact that there absolutely is a faction gunning for you; but if you’re going to play that card, you’re gonna have to zoom out and look at it from a more macro point of view and realize there’s historically-backed reasons that other people absofuckinglutely do not trust the people you call ‘savior’.
Can’t argue with that, but it’s a bit like saying that the surface of the Sun and a day at the beach are both hot. Like, I can’t argue with you because of how you stated it, but there are matters of degrees in both cases.
That’s fair. I simply believe the degree of separation is in the low single digits.
And I’m sure that’s true to your personal experience. But I hope you’ll accept that for millions of Americans, we feel like one side wants to criminalize our very existence and way of life, and one side does not. Corruption aside, which I can agree is rampant across the spectrum, one side is openly questioning whether entire groups of people should be allowed to live out their lives enjoying the same freedoms as the rest of us, and that, for me, is important.
one side wants to criminalize our very existence and way of life, and the other side will do nothing to stop them. I mean they’ll make some mouth noises but when push comes to shove you’ll find at their hands are always tied…
And for another subset of millions of Americans, both sides have criminalized us and profited off it since the failure of Reconstruction; so that’s a bird that’s not going to fly around me. I’m not going to take away the fact that there absolutely is a faction gunning for you; but if you’re going to play that card, you’re gonna have to zoom out and look at it from a more macro point of view and realize there’s historically-backed reasons that other people absofuckinglutely do not trust the people you call ‘savior’.
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