@cheetah_spottycat The irony of using AI to make this image isn't lost on me.

@skinnylatte I do see a lot of gendered insults when it comes to people like Bondi, we have so much more things to critique and be funny about with their deeds and words, what their flesh bodies do, sound like and look like aren't relevant. Evil actions, you can take pot shots at those all day. You can harshly insult their words but not the voice that's saying them.

@Erased_Citizen And also who they answer to, who they're actually running things for. If it's not benefiting those at the bottom then it'll be those at the top because if there's one thing they know, they can't come after those with the ability to fight back.

@petergleick Which'd only get rid of the current fascists, it wouldn't take the fascists out of power altogether. You're looking for a much more fundamental stripping down here, this is the black mould in the framework.

@lareineZenobie @martinus Curse this AI! Though this just seems sped up I get where the assumption comes from.

@vicgrinberg People really did get upto interesting things during the lockdown, a fascinating period of time in terms of creativity.

@stefan My objection isn't towards implementing it's a big issue for those who want it and people have their reasons for having the option to control who can interact with their toots besides harassment like just not wanting a reply to a recent toot they made or limiting it to their mutuals. I just feel like it could work in tandem with stronger moderation as read-only toots make me feel despondent, like people don't feel safe but it is just one tool after all.

@stefan Choice is not bad, just seems a very blunt instrument.

@stefan I'll take limiting who can reply over denying replies outright, just feels a bit like you want a shortform blog with comments turned off in that case. Could work with some stuff but then it's basically an RSS feed so maybe not much use for a read-only experience on something that encourages read-write like Mastodon.

@jollysea@chaos.social Depends when you're asking me but overall the old internet is "cute but not something I want to return to" regardless of when it was.

@HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6 Depending where you're located, yes. There's a reason that ICE rolled into places that don't have a high gun ownership level, they are not going where there's a high chance they will be fired at.

@HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6 If it does then initially it won't be a civil war, war does require both sides to be active combatants. This'll be more like a massacre.

@ChrisMayLA6 The potential of a civil war has been one of the key aspects to the architects of Project 2025, think of it as the fully metastasised form of the "culture war" ongoing in the US. The core purpose is to purge what they see as liberal bastions of the country corrupting their pure ways, to make the white homogenous Christian patriarchal society they want a reality. There's also ego, bloodthirst and revenge involved but generally the idea is to punish and kill those who oppose them.

@masek Thing about getting rid of an autocrat is that the power structure has to want to prosecute them. If those in power but below the autocrat are with the autocrat then it'll never happen as long as they're around, becomes more a "root and branch" removal at that point which is considerably more difficult.

@terminaltilt Rentier class need stringing up. Or strapped down, eitherway heads must roll.

@futurebird When the computer doesn't do the thing when it's supposed to it can be like "why isn't the machine doing what I say?", they're not the source of the issue but the computer can be. When you're the computer, you only have yourself to fix the problem.