It’ll be painful. But it will end. And then it will happen again, because human beings have been doing this shit to themselves over and over again for the entirety of our existence.

He’s a hero for testing it.

Looks more like a puppet from where I’m standing.

Journalism is in peril.

You only know what’s wrong because of free speech. And that’s what you’re willing to give up.

Free Speech is the first thing to protect. When that’s lost, everything else follows.

But go ahead and give up. Others are still fighting.

So you wait for the roof to collapse before you fix the leak?

I would argue it is not an exaggeration. The bans always start small, because they can get away with the small things. And then it becomes normalized and it always escalates if left unchecked.

A small fight over a few books is a much easier fight to win before it becomes the systematic norm.

And yes, libraries have a ton of other services… for now. Do you think these same lunatics are going to leave the library alone after they’ve gotten rid of the books they don’t agree with? After the book bans, will they still be offering free internet that isn’t censored? Will they still have information for outreach programs that help homeless people, LBGTQ+ folks, people with mental health problems, and assistance for other vulnerable minority groups?

If they are allowed to have their way, they’ll gut all of the services people use, then when nobody is going to the library, they’ll have the excuse they’ve wanted all along to shut it down entirely.

This isn’t hypothetical what-if-ism. It’s happened before.

Even if the only books they’re allowed to curate are the Bible, The Art of The Deal and Mein Kampf? They’re likely to quit on their own anyway.

So am I to infer from this statement that silence and submission is the answer?

Guess we should just roll over for the Nazis, because putting up a fight is too inconvenient.

You gain a big brother if you activate.

Am I to infer from this statement that the answer to harassment is silence and submission?

They should just put the banned books on the shelves regardless. It’s not like the illiterate morons who ban books ever set foot in libraries.

A licensed interior designer is just someone who printed a business card with fancy font.

Cops are notoriously violent.

If it weren’t for Windows 11, I may have never installed Linux. So I think it’s the best Windows yet.

CEOs aren’t interested in making and selling things that people actually want. They’re just parasites trying to pump and dump the stock. Every decision makes sense when you see it as just trying to impress investors.

The trailer for that just made me want to play the original instead.

Has more intrinsic value too.

Some examples?