Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

old: #copyright #cartel #streaming #renting #drm
https://djmag.com/news/streaming-accounted-75-music-industry-revenue-2018

men are so ungrateful smh
imagine NOT loving smelling a womans hair and holding her as she falls asleep
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Trump Slams Fox News over Planned Interviews with ‘Sleazebag’ James Comey, ‘Corrupt’ Adam Schiff https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/12/14/trump-slams-fox-news-over-planned-interviews-with-sleazebag-james-comey-corrupt-adam-schiff/ …

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little spoon is the orange kitty
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@realcaseyrollins ... for the 3 people that own Google voice devices instead of Alexa.

@arteteco @freemo @realcaseyrollins @design_RG @mngrif @Surasanji @evaristus

Arteteco used a red flag word -- harassment.🚩

My experience persuades me that the word "harassment" has no place in the vocabulary of a QOTO moderator. There are other words and phrases which can be used to make the same point with better precision.

For administrators of QOTO, one of the costs of doing business is -- or should be -- the loss of this shorthand label because it's a loaded term.

BENEFIT OF DOUBT. It's easy to grasp how the default benefit of doubt in most other contexts lies -- or should lie -- with the person who feels somehow harassed or bullied.

But I'm troubled when the President of the United States claims to be harassed, bullied, abused, treated unfairly. There is an asymmetric power relationship which skews my assessment of complains we have heard regularly from Donald Trump.

And I'm troubled when any Mastodon administrator posts any variant of the verb "to harass."🚩

To me clear, this isn't about specific facts or perceived factoids. It's about tactics.

UMBRAGE. As a rhetorical tactic, Presidential candidate Trump often found cause to feel umbrage. -- see Webster definition: "a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult."

As President, this Trumpian pattern continues.

Trump labels whatever annoys him as "harassment." And he repeats his complaint over and over -- dismissing, distracting and overwhelming all other topics.

The umbrage tactic works well for Trump in American politics. And I've observed that it works here in QOTO.

I'm troubled when any synonym of the noun "umbrage" is used as a tactic by any Mastodon administrator.🚩

BOTTOM LINE. I see no evidence of umbrage in the words of @arteteco; and I can't yet parse how this has happened in his prose.

I think his post is an example of what I want to see but I don't understand what I'm reading. This is a nuanced POV. I feel what I feel clearly, but I don't have words to explain my mpression that I'm seeing something good.
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QUESTION: Is QOTO flexible enough to embrace complaint and its opposite in the same post?
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?

@realcaseyrollins Not surprised. I knew about that site. And thought it to be insane for anyone running a service like that. I think there were 2 others similar to it. I would not be surprised if they shut them down or shut down on their own once they see that this one got taken down.

So many furries on the TRA side. I think if you have more furries on your side you lose.

Media allege Military and Naval Academy kids' use of OK sign was a "White Power" symbol

https://reclaimthenet.org/military-navy-media-white-power-ok-hand-sign/