copying this to the local timeline...

A poster was criticizing COVID-19 vax policy and said, "Go back and read the founding documents of this country."

So I did. (nibble)

Yes. There it is. Right there in the old DOI:

“…He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has forced us to submit of the penetration to our flesh, the inoculant necessary to subdue the plague. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation…”

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)
#TruthBeTold #history #DeclarationOfIndependence (#DOI) #USA #COVID19 #vax #vaccine

I just blocked a racist who used the N-word.

@Pat Who was that?

@freemo

>"Who was that?"

I just blocked "seven" because he used the N-word. I don't have time for that.

@Pat oh I must have missed that. Did he use it offensively? I saw the use of "nigga" but it didnt seem to be used in an offensive way to me.

Or am I missing something. I usually block for offensive uses of the word myself. Blocked a few today already.

@freemo

Almost any use of the N-word is offensive. It's an epithet. By definition it is offensive.

Possibly the only exception is the way use just used it in a meta way and you couldn't use the alternate "N-word" because you were differentiating between two different forms of the word.

I don't have patience for racists.

@Pat understandable. For me it has to be used with racist /hateful/negative intent before its an issue, though at that point I will block. But to each their own, I cant understand your position as well.

@freemo

I assume those guys are opposed to classical liberalism and libertarian ideas in general and that they simply want to try to invoke negative feelings in anyone who expresses support for liberty.

Didn't work. :)