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@realcaseyrollins @freemo @a7
That's close enough to LA.

Looks like Nick Hanauer's pitchforks have come ... for the very company that catapulted him into the caste of bazillionaires.
politico.com/magazine/story/20

wonders whether refugees will arrive at qoto.org, while social networks of the people, for the people, and by the people shall perish from Mr. Zuk-zuk's empire.

@Phaedrus Watching the Dragon approach to the ISS livestream, of course.
Still not a fan of Elon Musk by any stretch of the imagination.

@freemo My corollary to Godwin's Law applies.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

@freemo
So far, the problem that has replaced government of, by, and for the people still successfully deflects attacks against itself.
@dsfgs

@freemo How do I get a non-zero video quota on video.qoto.org?

@Lyudmila ¡Este contenido es MUCHO demasiado importante para esconderse detrás de una advertencia de contenido!

@freemo Now the thing that frustrates me to no end is that when I show them my Mother Of All Godwin's Law Violations,
which I would like to think is hilariously funny,
they just don't get the joke, because the context of
1st of September 1939
never occurs to them.

twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/

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@freemo I attribute the apparent dumbing down to the fragmentation of social media graphs into unconnected discursive bubbles, inside which different discursive contexts are no longer perceived to even exist.

Case in point:
A certain USAmerican is accusing me of "decontextualizing" Bret Stephens's OpEd article about
A Day That Lives In Infamy,
namely, 1st of September 1939.

But for that certain USAmerican (consider who he is and what he's infamous for),
The Day That Lives In Infamy
is 7th of December 1941.

twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status

@freemo Unfortunately,
Godwin's Law¹ is leaking from online to "real" world conversations.
I don't notice it that much because in times of Social Distancing, I hardly have "real" world (offline) conversations any more.

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%2

@freemo, I had a little conversation with a USAmerican who I (still) believe to be sort of a role model for intelligent online conversation and a leading authority about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,
that left me firmly convinced that The Medium Is The Message,
i.e., that the social dynamics of conversations in Social Media make even the best of us overlook the most obvious facts in all the incessant partisan bickering.

We got into a bit of a dispute about the proper context of Bret Stephens's New York Times OpEd article,
80 years after 1 September 1939.
At some point the USAmerican got annoyed and blocked me,
which prompted me to shoot back at around 05:45 his local time, immediately before boarding the plane for an extended USA trip.

Long thread, and twitter tries very hard to censor the thread for hate speech (which is technically correct) just short of blocking it,
but maybe worth the read precisely because of that:

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In a case of ridiculously unlikely serendipity, I met the guy, immediately before boarding the plane for the return trip from LAX to Germany:

twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status
"You remind me of Hitler." — "Very funny."

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