Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@taur10 @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Looks like he got fired, yes.

I don't know about prison, she attacked him. In my opinion deadly force was not warranted, so I think he should go to prison or something.

@CAnxiolytic @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Nah, he shot her for macing him.

@kennykravitz I think they're blasé because most people have an ID and need to present it in a wide array of situations that all seem pretty reasonable, from the bank to getting pulled over in a car. Giving some evidence that you are who you say you are when you vote just *feels* reasonable. Normies really don't care.

In fact, by far most people want a voter id requirement. Most Democrats, most black people, most everyone wants it.

I don't think it does much good to have one, but doesn't seem to hurt in terms of turnout by race or party or anything.

@TCatInReality Voter ID doesn't work to suppress votes (turns out lefties can adult enough to get an id, who knew?).

Other accusations include things like making it harder to get a mail-in ballot, purging voter registrations (but again, lefties are adults too), gerrymandering (drawing districts funny so your team wins more of them), shenanigans to keep polling places open longer or closed earlier depending on which team that area goes for, voting age cutoff or not accepting student ids (young people lean left, I guess), not letting felons vote (do felons lean one way or another?) not making voting day a holiday (again with adulting), causing terrible weather on voting day, earlier voter registration deadlines (again the implication that lefties don't have their act together), not having enough polling places in big cities (urbanites lean left, I guess), disability access (do disabled people predominately vote one way or another?) not having ballots printed up in enough different languages, not accepting native american tribal ids (I don't know if Tories can use that trick), etc, etc, etc.

I don't think many of these work terribly well. It's pretty easy to vote.

@ChrisMayLA6 If it's about voter suppression then it's doubly bad: it's not just shady, but it's also stupidly incompetent, because turns out it doesn't even work.

@atomicpoet paywalls: How confident are we that RT is being boosted, and not just "not squelched anymore"?

@baslow well put, sounds about right.

@baslow It's quite the echo-chamber.

@Eamon1916 Heh beat me to it.

(Not that the problem with Crow is his commie/nazi collections, if there is anything wrong with him.)

@mmasnick Is it the Nazi Bar? Or is the point that it is inevitable and will be shortly?

@skroobler I think with almost anyone you're going to find some stuff off the rails and some stuff not, right? Unless you're truly in an echo chamber.

I follow Doctorow and am in emphatic agreement with about 50% of what he says, and emphatic disagreement with the rest. 😂

Taibbi's recent work is calling out corporate censorship, right? If you think corporations should "censor" more (hate speech, misinformation, extremism, etc) then you might think this is "off the rails". I think he makes a good argument, though: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/26/intv-n26.html

@pilhofer what happened? nothing? He's still calling out authoritarianism where he sees it, I guess. Maybe publishing on truth social helps him reach more people and shouldn't be seen as an endorsement of Trump, like, at all?

@voron Or maybe he's more nuanced: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/26/intv-n26.html

You might be falling for the idea a lot of conservatives fall for, that established-company censorship only impacts Alex-Jones–type nutjobs, and then concluding that if Taibbi is fighting it he must be a Nazi.

@ML2 Sort of similar in that they're both about tearing down institutions that he sees as defective. He talks a lot about authoritarianism, right – he's against over-powered govt'-propped financial institutions (as is Elizabeth Warren... and Tucker Carlson...) and also against the authoritarianism of the identity-left (i.e. what you see on mainline mastodon instances, so obviously he isn't popular here).

See also Justine Tunney. She's a populist, so simultaneously a hero of OWS and also a neo-reactionary Trump ~supporter.

@mmasnick I don't know, if I were him I'd be syndicating as many places as possible, too.

@freemo But then your point about painting them pink applies.

@freemo well, there are different definitions; I mean maybe people really like the way the CA assault rifle ban or the FAWB were written; if so this is a useful shorthand.

@trz4747@mstdn.social Not ones available to civilians, no – those are certainly not "quintessentially assault rifles". I feel like you aren't reading what I'm writing, I think this conversation isn't going anywhere, so this is likely my last post in this thread.

To answer your yes or no: no, I don't think I favor banning semiautomatic rifles generally, and I don't know of any characteristics AR-15s have on top of that that would make any difference. So "no", I guess.

all the best.