Don’t be so sure, I can carry a lot of meat.

ah, my mistake.

Part time construction? Fence building. Don’t need to talk much, or have much skill.

I’ll bet she couldn’t carry as much meat as a man tho.

That’s so ageist.

Super hero. 100%

You are saying “fuck you” like 3 times there. I can see how you might feel cynical.

What you are saying is that we are all children and we are governed best with children’s rules.

I’m gonna go ahead and disagree with your initial premise there.

See, now you are saying “fuck you”, and framing it all snarky, “You’ll sure show us, won’t you!”. That’s actually worse than “fuck you”.

I think that the problem might actually be bullshit. There’s a ton of “fuck you” going around but it’s disguised, so it can’t be rationally addressed, but we still feel it, the awfulness, so to escape the awfulness we subconsciously slide into these safe conversations, where conflict and the invisible yet toxic fallout don’t exist. But the safe conversations are not very satisfying.

Most of the people that I’ve met who habitually reach for “fuck you”, frame it as a question or an argument. Which is arguably worse. And somewhat common. Well, common in the conversations that I like to have.

I’m repairing a chain link fence. It’s low on my list of favorite jobs. Finishing tomorrow. That’ll be nice. Get paid too.

Sometimes it is. It depends.

It’s implied. Nobody wants assholes.

The idea is to have freedom of expression AND to exercise it intelligently. It isn’t an either-or. Or it shouldn’t be.

Being told how to express yourself under threat of having the power to express yourself taken away appeals only to the cretins.

Because it feels right. What’s your guiding principal?

Well you can hate plenty without saying “fuck off”. You can stalk them and report anything they say that plausibly crosses the line. You can play passive-aggressive games. You can downvote. You can argue in poor faith.

Plenty of hateful ways to express yourself within the bounds of the rules. It’s arguably the path to success.

hey you’re being upvoted. What do you suppose that means?

It’s messed up that you’re being downvoted. It’s strange to think that most of us never cross the lines established by the censors. They like having a daddy-cop to tell everybody how to talk.

Debian with Mate is perfect as far as I can tell.