RedCyberPandaz

18+ amberage, 3 days ago to random

THE HYPOCRISY. IS. THE POINT.

I need people to understand this. Modern-day right-wing has no integrity. No rules. They don't believe in rules, concepts, cohesive ideologies.

They want to do what they want to do, when they want to do it, how they want to do it, to whom they want to do it.

The thought of being beholden to any rules or restrictions is abhorrent to them. Even and especially ones they themselves laid down. The law, this is their core belief, is something they make for other people to obey.

Being required to act on things they previously said, having to resolve inconsistencies between their positions, having to uphold things they ostensibly believe in, is oppression in their eyes.

This is why any and all "haha you contradicted yourself, gotcha" will not work. Never has, never will.

Ultimate freedom, as far as they're concerned, is the freedom from your own words. Freedom from accountability.

Freedom from truth, logic, facts, consistency, integrity.

They want to live in the moment. They want to say "the constitution guarantees me the right to not be background checked for a firearm because that's government overreach" today and demand that the government build gas chambers for undesireables tomorrow. Today they love the police for arresting the homeless, tomorrow they're outraged if the police arrests a nazi terrorist.

And ultimately, they want no government. They believe they don't need one. They believe "we", the "normal" people, the only "the people", meaning white men (straight, abled, christian, yadda yadda) can run the world without needing a government. They believe they can enforce their rights with a gun. They dream of the wild west 2.0 where normal people (people who believe the same as them) live by common sense (their shared racism and other assorted bigotries), where a man rules his woman and keeps his neighbourhood free of black and queer people with violence. There will be no police in their utopia, because every man can just kill burglars, black people, gay sons, and unfaithful wives himself.

They believe what they want at any given moment is the right thing, even and especially if it contradicts yesterday's right thing.

Government is a tool for them, to destroy the law and then abolish itself. Every ruling SCOTUS hands down represents not what Republicans believe, but whatever line of reasoning is most convenient for them in the moment. Every constitutional belief they claim to espouse is simply the weapon of choice to destroy another regulation, another institution.

The hypocrisy is the point.

#SCOTUS

dolphin, 3 days ago to random

The wait is over.

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2024/07/02/dolphin-releases-announcement/

simon, 3 days ago to random

The new Ladybird initiative is exciting: a new US non-profit initially backed by $1m to support development of Ladybird, an open source web browser that isn't based on a fork of something older and that doesn't depend on Google for funding! https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/1/the-ladybird-browser-initiative/

cadeybunny, 4 days ago to random

One of my game dev friends was frustrated that people were finding one of the strongest weapon types in their game very weak. So, they released a patch that said it buffed that weapon type. Then, all they did was double the size of the hit impact effect. The damage was unchanged.

People loved it and were praising the buff left and right.

18+ puppygirlhornypost, 5 days ago to random

my brain when i try to lay down to go to bed because i have something important tomorrow to attend to

#shitpost

puppygirlhornypost, 5 days ago to random

In my shenanigans I lost my phone in the crack of the couch, I grabbed my other phone to dial my first phone. I spent like 5+ minutes digging through the couch because my phone was on silent but I could still hear it vibrate

davidaugust, 6 days ago to random

The Gish gallop is a bad faith rhetorical technique that overwhelms opponents with numerous false weak arguments.

Wikipedia can be a starting point for ideas on how to counter it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

#election #debate #rhetoric

ashten, 6 days ago to random

A Singlet's Guide to Plurality

Download (PDF):
https://assets.woem.men/files/singlets-guide-plurality.pdf

if there's questions, ask them here, and i (or others) will answer. if i need to make corrections, ill also add them here, and potentially make a v2

rachaelspooky, 8 days ago to random

OH RIGHT

while yall are investgating alternate browsers, STAY AWAY FROM BRAVE

• run by homopobe and financial backer of other homophobes Brendan Eich

• crypto is all over the fucking thing. they drip feed users tiny amounts of crypto for unblocking certain ads and fill the home screen with crypto trackers and shit

• they "block ads" but inject their own affiliate links into sites you view

this is not the browser youre looking for

Bard, 10 days ago to random

Transbians are great of course, I love you all, but there's something so cute and heartwarming about seeing trans girls in straight relationships gushing over their boyfriends. The most wholesome heterosexual activity there is. Your boyfriends are lucky guys ​:neocat_heart:​

natty, 10 days ago to random

Drew Xenia ​:neofox_floof:​

Wear sunscreen

Bard, 12 days ago to random

Grown ass creature tries children's ride at the village fête; regrets it instantly. More at 11.

Bard slowly starting to go down the slide, holding on for dear life
Bard lying face down on the grass far away, having fallen off the board

yassie_j, 12 days ago to random

Sometimes I think about that ⅓-pound burger some US food chain served, but nobody bought it because customers thought that it was smaller than a regular ¼-pound burger.

chloe, 13 days ago to random

You know what? Yeah. Sure. I don't care

tevruden, 14 days ago to random

sometimes this is how work in #infosec feels

video/mp4

1, 14 days ago to random

source: https://www.tumblr.com/lytefoot/751922600218886144/listen-that-is-a-mandatory-safety-feature-this

miah, 14 days ago to random

Remember kids:

IRC is free.
IRC is a open standard.
You can run your own IRC server.
IRC doesn't collect data on you and sell it.
You can still moderate your channels via invite, voice, and ban modes.
You can run a server on a 486.
IRC doesn't try to up sell you on "nitro".
IRC doesn't need to make money to make some VC happy.

18+ keilajec, 15 days ago to random

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6746682/

aetios, 15 days ago to random

this is what i see in bed at night when i close my eyes (i cannot fall asleep)

mothmoon, 16 days ago to random

what does amen mean is it like slay

terraboops, 17 days ago to random

the answer to every debate in tech is always "it depends on what tradeoffs apply to the particular situation"

but that answer isn't fun for tech bros because they cant go to war over "it depends" and bros love to go to war

internetarchive, 17 days ago to random

More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚 Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change.

Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead

👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

yassie_j, 17 days ago to random

How I sleep knowing that I am funny on the Fediverse to a consistent audience of, like, 5-6 people

ashleyspencer, 17 days ago to random

I feel this is true for all the people here on the fediverse in our autistic and ND communities. :RedHearts:

#ActuallyAutistic
#ADHD
#neurodivergent

puppygirlhornypost, 18 days ago to random

pro tip make sure to reaffirm the mod teams you are under that they’re doing a good job and that you appreciate them