Simon 𐕣he 🪨 Johnson

Everyone’s libing out hard over this. I’ve seen this my entire fucking life.

Watch any municipal or state town hall where it’s an issue with real stakes where the cops have shot someone, where there’s an unequal land deal with developer money behind it, or literally just like be black in America.

The only difference here is that your status as Mr. Senator no longer protects you. These types of arrests and laws have existed in America and have always been used this way. This is why disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and and vagrancy laws are often only criminally enforced on those who cannot afford good lawyers or plead out. These cases get dropped upon challenge because most applications of these laws won’t pass a smell test, and the jurisdictions don’t want to lose them.

Likewise most courts won’t per se strike down these laws because this kind of stuff is really where the rubber meets the road with liberal legalism.

These laws are basically what makes that cop saying “you can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride” possible.

From my perspective making software, it’s improved. Prior to 2016, I had to be the one pushing WCAG standards. After 2016 it’s been explicit customer facing criteria managed by product managers.

REI is not a workers coop. It’s a consumer coop. It’s not even the same thing. The fact that it’s so difficult to even find a workers coop that is a national retailer shows you exactly why competing as a coop on the capitalist market is difficult.

1/7 people who solicit a grifter want a refund.

Timothy Snyder’s definition of “fascism” is laughable.

Any time the op-ed class uses that word they should be forced to define it.

• Janitor
• Babysitter
• Contortionist

The chilling effect this causes will make communities even more like echo-chambers, as dissent will be pre-emptively squashed.

If only there was a tool that allowed you to host an instance on a federated network that allowed you to make your own community and control how the rest of the network can interact with it. Why has nobody built this???