🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@saitei

In his defense he doesnt live in the USA and relies largely on main stream media to form opinions. Needless to say he wont form very accurate opinions with that being his source.

@pthenq1

@pthenq1 For most of Trump's president the "blue ones" were busy burning down cities across america. For weeks the sky was so dark from the car and city fires they started it was impossible to ignore.

I have never seen violence in my lifetime ever approaching the size or magnitude of what the democrats did during Trumps presidency.

That said, I dont disagree with your take on the Trump/Republican supporters either.

@tripu nvm just checked. while it said the quote was muted I dont have him blocked at all. Seems he has **me** blocked for some reason. Again dont really remember any interaction with him though.

@tripu I will never judge a person on their stance on issues, and I certainly didnt mute him for simply disagreeing on politics, and of course support his stance on surveillance and free software.

I only mute someone if they are unhinged, angry, and disrespectful in the extreme, usually when racist slurs are the main form of attack So I am sure he did one of those at some point.

That said I cant recall the exact incident so take it with a grain of salt.

@pthenq1 Car seatbelt mandates dont make sense either, so you've shot yourself in the foot with that comparison in my eyes. Forcing a a medical treatment and drug on a person, no matter how much i might support said drug, is never something I will acccept.

Bodily autonomy is sacred and there is no situation where it can be overlooked IMO.

@pthenq1 Not anytime soon. All indications is that both parties are spiraling towards ever increasing extremism and violence.

@tripu Apparently I have whoever this is muted. Meaning he/she almost certainly engages in racist rants and is unstable (I'm pretty reluctant to mute people).

@jmc464 He says as he judges people :)

@PaulaToThePeople

I'm very sorry there are people this cruel in the world. You have my respect and appreciation.

@fediblock

Have you heard of Bruce Lee's Irish cousin? His name was Broccoli.

@arh no problem. Always happy to help.

@arh Fair enough :)

@arh yup, its a problem that is easily solved. I am just pointing out eventually if you dont block anything you will come across some vile and prolific racism on here is all.

If you cant afford amazingly delicious Scott Salmon try buying Scottish Salmon, it is almost the same thing.

@arh give it time.. poa.st once they get you in their sites is pretty much exclusively racists for example. They are almost proud of it.

@twotwenty

Very well said, I agree with everything you said.

The thing is swiley's stated goals/concerns (the hate of biden and vaccine mandates) are ones I share. I do understand why it has driven him to an emotional, and thus wreckless, response. But I do agree with what he is mad at.

I just dont like seeing anyone being self-destructive of their own goals, especially not when those goals agree with my own.

I dont dislike swiley, I dont think he is a bad person, I dont disagree with his **intent**. But I do find it counter-productive and obnoxious the way he argues for it.

Its important to also point out, this is a STEM instance first, free speech is secondary as a necessity to STEM. He has stated before he knows he is shit posting, he knows it is wrong, but is doing it out of anger at how bad things have gotten... Thats all well and good but a STEM instance is not the place to come and post anti-factual statements and sell it as true, especially when you know that is the case. Why is he on a STEM instance at all when he doesnt care about truth, where the means justify the ends and the first thing to get chucked is truthfulness/honesty.

@swiley