@threalist @YoungBlood Sometimes wars are made to prevent total annihilation.
I would like to point out the fact that even if we do manage to get out of hostilities with Iran and get oil moving through the strait again, that doesn’t make it any less foolish or morally questionable to have started the mess to begin with.
That you for your attention to this matter.
Hot take: The crusades were significantly more justified than the eighty years war, or the thirty years war.
Pretty sure this is what Washington was worried about when he warned against foreign entanglements..
The problem has always been that the definition of who is "right" shifts in any culture (hence the "overton window") and in creating gates you will eventually find yourself on the wrong side of the gate you created.
"Are we going to palliate and excuse a palpable and flagrant outrage on the right of speech, by implying that only a particular description of persons should exercise that right?
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
- A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860), Frederick Douglass
so don't follow them. you're not going to see their posts based on who you follow. my question is why do we have to block servers cause people like your "family" is on there? why do we have to make sure someone on your server can't see what they post?
not federating means deciding for many others who can communicate, when having no algos does so much of this work. we browse freely and avoid shitty sites without our browser having such limits. decentralization works.