Paradox of tolerance is resolved when you view tolerance as a treaty. If one side breaks it, they no longer benefit from it.

If two factions are fighting and call a truce, and then one side starts fighting again, it’s nonsense to tell the first side not to fight back because there’s a treaty. The treaty has been broken.

There’s a Sartre quote about that.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

I think a root cause is conservative emotion driven decisions. Some people will look at facts and from them draw conclusions. Conservatives prefer feeling things and from them deciding what to do. Cities feel scary and alien to them so they must be full of crime and danger.

It’s probably not a coincidence that religion, the kind that prioritizes feelings and faith, is also popular among the right.

They’re shitty people by most reasonable metrics.

They don’t care about what words mean. They will say anything, anything, to try to secure power. They are bad people. They are bad people.

Kirk doesn’t deserve a minute of silence. He was a scum bag. His ideas were trash. He got what he was due.

Workers should unite and tell management to get fucked.

Capriciously applied rules is a terrible system. We hold up ideals like “rule of law” and “democracy” but as soon as capital is involved it’s right back to “I am the law” and tyranny.

right? they could’ve just said nothing

Oh that’s a neat library. Type annotations in python are really nice, and you don’t have to add tooling like when you switch from JS to TS.

“Man covered in blood sick of being asked about blood soaked knives in locked cabinet in home” ?

That looks like one of the windows default background images. Is that the joke?

Anti-american sentiment is largely justified. There’s concentration camps and masked men kidnapping people off the street. People are proudly wearing the maga-hat symbols of trumpism.

Interesting. I’m not that knowledgeable about Linux desktop environments (despite running popos on my desktop and mint on an old laptop). I feel like gnome has a lot of tweaks and widget-y things. Is that kind of ecosystem going to crop up here? I didn’t tweak much- just turned off edge tiling and added a big date/time widget to the desktop.

Also what’s the upgrade path going to look like? I just installed with the defaults so /home isn’t on its own partition.

It bothers me when christians are like “god sent a plague because you’re gay” but not “oh wow there was a global pandemic after we elected one of the worst humans on earth”

Suozzi should eat shit and die. Guess we can’t all get what we want

Inspiring

People were saying “but if you arrest the Republicans for crimes, they’ll put you in camps when they get power back!”. Now we have camps.

They’re going to be evil no matter what. Might as well try to break their spine while you can.

I guess it’s only a few highly visible billionaires who seem colossally stupid.

I’m pretty sure Wikipedia isn’t a government entity and thus not subject to whatever their fever dream is. Republicans are the worst, and many of them are quite stupid as well

Too many people are class traitors and useful idiots