Looking at the bigger picture should have been enough, and they simply refused to do that.

I said it last summer that we were going to single-issue our way to authoritarianism, and yep, here we are.

Lazy, entitled, and just…not even living in the same reality it seems.

Like, instead of compromising ever so slightly to get 80% of what they want, they refuse to budge and get 0% of what they want. Worse, even, because now we’re losing what we already had.

Thanks for letting me vent lol.

How fucking entitled, and spoiled are you, that you let perfect be the enemy of good? Get out of your privileged bubble, and actually pull the fucking dog sled with everyone, instead of standing off to the side preaching about how you’d do it better.

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My favorite excuse I’ve heard is “Well, Trump getting elected isn’t my fault. I didn’t vote, which means I didn’t vote for him”.

If the technology existed for me to punch someone via the internet, I would have used it. And I’m a pretty peaceful guy lol.

Yep. All or nothing, perfect or bust, nothing is ever fucking good enough. They’ll screech for that last 20% (fair enough) but when they realize they might only get 80%, they’ll sit on their ass on election day or vote 3rd party to “teach them a lesson”.

I agree with them on pretty much most things, but my god, they’re fucking insufferable.

I mean, yeah, I got that lol. My suggestion was to add vegeta’s “I did that” image next to the tariff price (like they display the badge for Prime price).

If Amazon had any balls, they’d display the cost without tariffs, then the costs with tariffs and use your “I did that” image pointing to the tariffed price.

Hell, every retailer and business should do that.

“I’m sorry, Mr. ICE person, but I don’t agree with your lifestyle choices and cannot serve you.”

That’s definitely weird. At least it seems like it’s just a UI glitch on that end and hasn’t empowered everyone who interacts with mod abilities lol.

Maybe check with the voyager community? Seems like a bug or something is out of sync. I’m not familiar enough with it to offer much more than that, unfortunately.

This one? https://lemmy.ca/c/timetravellerguide

I loaded it, and I’m only seeing you as a mod (no one else in the comments has the badge).

Are you using the default interface or another app? Maybe clear cache/cookies and see if that fixes it?

The paradox of tolerance doesn’t apply here, and you’re presenting it out of context. No one is saying we should tolerate Musk or his actions.

A civilization is allowed to respond to this information.

Yes, it is. We agree there. Where we disagree is how society responds. Refuse to do new business? Refuse to renew contracts/agreements? Sure. That’s fine. No argument from me, and I do the same thing. Hell, I still won’t fill up from BP because of how they tried to shirk responsibility for lubricating the Gulf of Mexico almost 20 years ago. That is to say I’m no stranger to “voting with my wallet” or “punishing” companies by refusing to do business with them.

But to arbitrarily revoke agreements with local businesses or legislate against one particular individual when their actions are not directly related to the legislation being drafted is not how a healthy society should handle things. “But we’re clearly not a healthy society” is the response I always get when pointing out hypocritical takes. Well, society’s not going to get any better if both sides are down in the mud.

What you’re basically saying with your argument is “A little fascism is okay when it’s my side doing it” and I say that is not okay.

You do not normalize Nazis.

Take a look in the mirror - that’s literally what you’re doing here whether you realize it or not; you’re advocating for their methods of arbitrary punishment but giving it a pass because it’s your side doing it.

As OC stated, “The shops haven’t done anything to warrant revoking their licenses and rat’s [Musk’s] activities are totally unrelated.”

Also, like OC said, I agree with the sentiment but not with the method being used here.

You seemed to have defeated OC with a simple but powerful weapon: the follow-up question lol.

TL;DR: Probably not illegal, but I doubt the post office would accept it.

Answering this off-the-cuff with no research, but probably not illegal per se (more of a dick move).

A slice of cheese, wrapped or not, definitely would not make it through the sorting equipment intact, would likely melt in the trucks, and would absolutely stink up the place for the postal workers.

Edit: That said, there are classes of items that are prohibited in the mail, and this may fall under one of those. Like I said, I’m answering w/o any research whatsoever and focusing more on the logistics of it.

TIL 4chan has an MBFC rating:

I mean, it is if I have no intention of mailing them a book lol.

Best they’ll get is a Word doc posted to Sharepoint or something.

I know, right? I’d be really good at it, too, except for not being able to actually allow myself to do it.

Edit: How’s this?

We mail letters to every registered R in the country. The letter tells them they’re one of the top Patriots in the US. We would love to include their name in the big Book of Patriots so everyone will know how much of a patriot they are. There is a processing fee of $60. But, we will waive that fee if they buy a copy of the book for $75. And why wouldn’t they want to buy a copy of a book they’re in? They’re also excellent gifts.

Sounds more like a scam to bilk their base out of even more money, which is on-point.

Reminds me of an old scam where you got a letter saying you were one of the smartest people in the country, and they wanted to include you in their book of smartest people. Except you had to pay and buy a copy of the book to be included.

(Something like that, anyway. If anyone recalls the details more clearly, please share).

Who knows? No one else is reporting that. I also don’t give established low-cred, highly sensationalized, highly-biased sources the time of day. Mondoweiss is Fox News’s counterpart on the other end of the spectrum – i.e. it’s Fox News for lefties. Just as bad, just different flavor.