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Post Ironic said:
State senator in the Arizona Chamber leading a “prayer group” before the Supreme Court. The GOP has gone batshit insane. :lol2:
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Why is that guy giving that chipmunk CPR in the middle of the senate floor?

IliveForJuve said:
Idk and idc if Elon Musk is really about free speech but I'd much rather have a platform where censorship/moderation is kept at a minimum.
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It's double-edged.

Moderation has its place, IMO. If you let it all run free, it seems every forum turns to extremist, toxic soup with people competing with each other to be the most offensive for attention. It's a race to the bottom, leaving the only option left for the sane people to just troll everyone else as "haha we're all gonna die" fatalists as a survival mechanism.

Nature even published research backing that up, regardless of platform:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07229-y

It pretty much suggests that once people start sh*tting in the river, everyone ends up doing it and nobody wants to live in rivers of sh*t eventually.

The only reason Reddit, which I've always called a magnet for troglodytes, has any public market valuation is due to its relatively successful self-moderation.

But the other side is moderation that becomes the fun police. You can't even joke about things without being taken for a fundamentalist weirdo or bigot, turning the whole arena into a football match where the ref is handing our ejections to everyone. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nuremberg_(2006_FIFA_World_Cup)

People moan all the time, whadabboutism becomes rampant, people disappear for random streaks of time killing any consistency, and the whole thing feels like an overly monitored birthday party for five-year-olds.
 
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AFL_ITALIA said:
Separate aid packages for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan will come to a vote in the House on Friday. I'm hoping that even through all the disfunction, we make the right decisions as a nation here.
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Spirits are down on the Mayorkas auto-da-fé. So a bunch of people are going to need something to show their taxpayers for sending them there besides the thumbs up their tailpipes. So don't be surprised if someone grandstands on any one of them as the hill to die on.
 
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Bjerknes said:
I'm cool with giving some money to Ukraine.

Taiwan? They have all those microprocessors and shit, they're fine.

Israel? I wouldn't give them a dime.
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In fact at this rate, Israel should probably be paying us.

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swag said:
Spirits are down on the Mayorkas auto-da-fé. So a bunch of people are going to need something to show their taxpayers for sending them there besides the thumbs up their tailpipes. So don't be surprised if someone grandstands on any one of them as the hill to die on.
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I would assume the Taiwan bill is almost a guaranteed pass though.
 
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