Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
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POLLS ARE BULLSHIT. Pollsters are bullshitters. Reporters who report polls report bullshit. The only polls that matter are the ones that come on election day. Anything else preempts democracy.
#USPOL
I was assuming this #election would be disappointing since only old people typically vote on odd years.
But the authoritarian populist right has really riled us normals and I AM HERE FOR IT!!
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@DemocracyMattersALot I'd put good money on the bet that there is significant overlap between the people who want Musk's brain chip and the people who refuse to get the COVID vaccine because they believe it has a mind control chip.
@DemocracyMattersALot I'd put good money on the bet that there is significant overlap between the people who want Musk's brain chip and the people who refuse to get the COVID vaccine because they believe it has a mind control chip.
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A 16 year old Black minor, David Sparks, served 15 years in prison because he called 911 when he saw a Philadelphia shooting in 2006.
Pennsylvania Judge Scott DiClaudio reversed his and FIVE OTHER murder convictions in a three-day period. “That’s gotta be a world record.”
Why?
#Philadelphia PD and DA withheld EXTENSIVE evidence and/or the detective was corrupt. The current DA has compared their behavior to “war crimes.”
SUE THEIR PANTS OFF.
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“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
― Bertolt Brecht
#Trump is arguing in his NY civil case that he surpassed #NetWorth minimum requirements on his loans because his "#brand" was worth so much.
In that vein, I'd like to make the following value announcements affecting my net worth:
My hopes and dreams: $363 million
My capacity for logic: $3.2 billion
My sense of humor: $1.7 billion
My integrity: $2.1 billion
My work ethic: $50
I expect all creditors to recognize my new net worth of $7.4 billion, thank you very much.
Dear modern #web designers:
You do not have to waste two inches on the left and right sides of my monitor.
The pixels there work just fine. Please use them.
@andrew Or they'd just turn around and quickly reply "because I'm already the most proud I can be."
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Trump is already talking about using the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, if he is reelected, to put down any civil protests. I can’t stress this enough. No matter what you think of Biden, his age, his policies, he is no dictator. He believes in democracy. We cannot let Trump anywhere near the White House again.
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This is just gross.
#MikeJohnson is a corrupt and terrible person.
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A Dangerous Conflation: Open letter from Jewish writers, artists, and activists:
"WE ARE JEWISH WRITERS, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic. Israel and its defenders have long used this rhetorical tactic to shield Israel from accountability, dignify the US’s multibillion-dollar investment in Israel’s military, obscure the deadly reality of occupation, and deny Palestinian sovereignty. Now, this insidious gagging of free speech is being used to justify Israel’s ongoing military bombardment of Gaza and to silence criticism from the international community.
We condemn the recent attacks on Israeli and Palestinian civilians and mourn such harrowing loss of life. In our grief, we are horrified to see the fight against antisemitism weaponized as a pretext for war crimes with stated genocidal intent."
#FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation #StopGenocide #Gaza #antisemitism #WarCrimes #HumanRights #PalestineSolidarity #FreeSpeech #racism #Israel
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Texas retiree takes her First Amendment fight to the Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4289995-texas-retiree-takes-her-first-amendment-fight-to-the-supreme-court/
The case will hinge on a simple principle: Freedom to criticize the government is at the core of the First Amendment...
Prosecutors recognized the arrest was bogus and dismissed the case. But Gonzalez still got handcuffed, frisked, and sent to jail, where she spent hours on a cold metal bench, wearing an orange jail shirt and avoiding the restroom, which had no doors...
US Politics, Discussion of House Speaker Sending Pornographic Material to Minors
@maleandroids @mentallyalex I think, based on how the article is written, that the "accountability reports" that get sent don't have the alleged material in them, so hopefully it wasn't that egregious, but with these folks, who the hell knows?
Discussion of Nazis
@mentallyalex @maleandroids Also in name. There were literal nazi rallies here a few months ago.
@ellie @charlotteclymer I'm all for getting some more diversity in the office, but that ticket would be handing Trump the presidency on a silver platter. That's a worse suggestion than "run Hillary again."
@kcanales02 @charlotteclymer So what? That's like saying a burger joint isn't popular because it doesn't sell many carrots. It's simply not the metric that was agreed upon before the vote.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite It may have been in response to a single thing, but it was about a wider trend.
Also, that's Mastodon's fault for not giving us universally-compatible Quote Toots, which are the ideal vector for such comments to be made in context.
@charlotteclymer I was certain that there was no way America would be dumb enough to nominate, much less elect, Trump in 2016, so there's a lot of doubt in my mind now.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
