TBH I was going to say something similar, but it strikes me that using non-corporate open source social media doesn't in any way protect you from people at a restaurant laughing filming and uploading your tragedy
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Where I live, recording someone without their consent -- even in public -- is a crime.
I have personally argued both sides on this. Over time I have come to favor it.
EDIT: some background
oh jfc tell me you're not a free-stater
It's mindblowing how early in the game Windows became enshittified
"OMG you got a new CPU and harddrive, maybe this is a pirated copy...."
Thanks you just sent me down a rabbit hole.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1293&context=ilj
Summary: yeah, major governments legit do warfare by meme
"Challenge me" is actually very very good... as long as you enter into it in good faith and with an open mind.
As opposed to being a grifter and doing it to score points and look good on YouTube for people who agree with you because that drives clicks and money
I think this is a Winnie-the-Pooh-in-China situation.
Plenty of people are willing to honestly or sarcastically put aside their feelings about groypers and MAGA, and show their support for one who is in their eyes Redeemed.
But doing so is literally like begging for the Party to come visit you. So you have to do something just oblique enough. Like carrying an umbrella "in case it rains"
So I'm looking up "Tyler Robinson" and Etsy has only MAGA. Nothing like the St Luigi which is what I want.
Normally I would use Grok to do a face swap but somehow I think that would get me a personal visit with Tulsi Gabbard that I do not want.
So I'm searching around and I find this: Replicas of Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson's T-shirt On Sale
This shirt appears to have come from the Disabled Veterans National Foundation (DVNF), the Guardian reported.
One shirt on needshirt, for sale at $17.49, is described as a "funny political T-shirt."
One listing on Etsy showed a shirt with the description "Land of the Free Home of the Brave Shirt Bald Eagle USA Flag Tee Patriotic American T-shirt Charlie Kirk Shooters Shirt, Kirk Shooter Shirt."
Can anybody find a link to someone selling Tyler Robinson swag? Or get ballsy and sell some yourself?
EDIT: Found some on Ebay , they are selling like hotcakes
Christopher Hitchens was IMO one of the greatest orators of the 20th century.
"Our responsibility is to hate our enemies, and to destroy them before they destroy us"
He was referencing militant religions (or as he put it elsewhere, "people who actually believe the words in their Bronze Age religious texts")
Some of us are even more niche than that