Kamala Harris did not lose because she’s not a white man and perpetuating that myth is not helping.

She lost because she didn’t speak to the working class.

She didn’t lay out any plans nor promise any relief to the millions of people struggling.

She said she wouldn’t do anything different than Biden with Palestine.

She parading around a Republican and tried to draw in the non-existent middle voter.

She promised more of the same when “the same” already wasn’t good enough.

Was she the better choice? Absolutely. Did she lose because she’s not a white man? FUCK NO and parroting that bullshit excuse is just distracting from the issues that actually need fixing.

As someone who would have preferred Mastodon become the more popular service, I completely agree.

Look at mastodon.social and bluesky.app without logging in. Which site seems more interesting to the general public?

Now make an account. If you don’t have a bunch of specific people you want to follow, which has the better new user experience for the general public?

Mastodon looks like it was made by nerds, for nerds, and is populated exclusively by nerds. It’s not nearly as welcoming.

How will kids be able to look up to Mike Tyson after this??

Talking about dignity when it’s a sport where adult men punching each other in the face for entertainment

You’re right, no 13 year old autistic boy has ever made a serious threat! It’s always totally obvious if threatening words from a stranger should be taken seriously or not. Teachers are also always given the full background on every kid in their classroom without exceptions so they should have ignored protocol when hearing a kid say their backpack is going to blow up.

How could I forget that every single kid with malice in their heart fits the brooding edgelord mold from Columbine and that having autism totally precludes violent intentions?

Teachers DO NOT GET PAID ENOUGH for that. And even if they were paid fairly, their job isn’t to assess and handle bomb threats.

The teacher was 100% right to call the administrators. The administrators were 100% wrong to do anything more than gently educate him on his word choice.

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Do not leave letters in the neighbors’ mailboxes informing them that a neo Nazi lives by them. Do not elaborate on his history of violent rhetoric. Do not do anything that would make him feel like an outcast in his neighborhood.

Do not print this information along with his name, address, and photo and give it to every store, restaurant, and fast food place in a 20 mile radius. Especially avoid letting the underpaid staff know about any of this. We DO NOT want him to receive poor service wherever he goes. It would be BAD if he was scared to leave the house. It would be EVEN WORSE if his GrubHub driver crushed or shook his meal. I would HATE to hear that his address got blacklisted for delivery.

Do not go to his house in Berwyn, IL. You will not be able to find it on Google maps because it’s the only house on the block that’s blurred out.

Absolutely do not go to his house at all hours of the day and night. Do not look out for cops when you dont go to his house. Do not legally knock on his door.

And most of all, DO NOT make him feel the same fear that his words have brought to so many women.

I am saying the admins acted poorly but the teacher was justifiably scared.

The teacher, who had only known Ty for one day, called a school administrator

Every generation thinks they invented the things they appropriated

Sure but it wasn’t his autism that sparked fear

His autism didn’t spark fear…saying the school would blow up if anyone looked in his backpack sparked fear. He should not have been arrested but c’mon, if a kid I just met said that to me I’d call the front office, too.

he told his teacher he didn’t want anyone to look in his backpack […] When the teacher asked why, Ty responded, “Because the whole school will blow up,”

Arresting him was overreacting. Perceiving his words as a threat was not

I’m not sure what’s worse…implying that 99% of humans are insects or that the 1% is better than the rest

I feel like dragged predates slammed as slang but it definitely wasn’t popular headline material

Our legitimacy as a nation is being further tarnished by these fucks. And I’m perfectly OK with kids learning that people calling for violence against a group of people should be shown violence.

And again, we walked the high road for decades and it led us here. If all Nazis get are a slap on the wrist, they become emboldened. If they got punched in the head, a significant portion would roll over. There’s plenty of violent people in that crowd but plenty more just along for the ride.

Huge for what? Our feelings? Certainly not huge for progress since we’ve taken several steps backwards

Sorry dude, we’ve already tried the kid gloves. Look where that got us.

They get violent, everyone crosses their arms disapprovingly, and they come back with friends.

There’s some anime I’ve watched and loved but I had a revelation two years ago about why I was so put-off by the cutesier stuff. My niece was a toddler and we were goofing around with Snapchat filters. She was loving the anime filter and it dawned on me…

…Adult women in a lot of anime have the mannerisms of a literal children. And it certainly didn’t help the ick factor when I also realized these are the characters a lot of weebs want to fuck.

Ew ew ewwww. If an anime with an adult cast is described as kawaii, you cannot convince me to watch it.

For 2, I initially thought the same thing…but Trump is on board to “finish the job” in Palestine. I’m sure all the countries controlled by a corrupt Muslim government have SOME mixed feelings on the orange turd.

Either way, I’m glad it failed. Just imagine the Christ allegory his cult would spin out of it.

You’re right, the proper place to talk about committing crimes is up on stage.

I’m just saying that I wouldn’t mind if someone had to shoot through Elon Musk. Let’s put him with a rifle standing there will 9 barrels shooting at him, ok? Let’s see how he feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on his face.

Trump taught us we are allowed to say that stuff now.