"We have to engage in this moment with the ruthless survival skills of an LGBTQ kid in Florida or in North Dakota who does not have the luxury of prioritizing purity and perfection over goodwill and good intentions."
he was mirroring her language, pointing out that the civil debate that she's promoting, protecting fascists, leads to actual negative consequences, not banning Nazis and serial harassers.
Can you seriously be this daft as to read it as a threat in that context?
anyone feel like the increases in insurance premiums are actually insurance companies putting their hand on the scale of politics because they just realized that Republicans are about to lose them money?
The most important thing here is that for him to invoke the insurrection act he isn't going to rely on anything that actually happened, just like everything else it's nonsense as pretext to the most authoritarian crackdown.
That was around when a bunch of former Twitter trust and safety people joining the team, and then Juni getting banned because her bot identified the head of trust and safety dropping a like on some barely legal goonerbait.
And the staff was seemingly quite pro trans with people like Paul bein more or less part of the Bsky community built by trans ppl.
It wasn't until around election time last year that things started to turn with Jesse Singal and the rules being changed for him and for his ban to be undone.
