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@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @issdeinschnitzel @alex @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @realcaseyrollins

Internet connectivity is not free. Somebody has to lay cable or put up radio towers. Somebody has to route the traffic through data centers. All of that costs money. Hence, somebody has to pay for it. Higher bandwidth costs more money, hence different provider/consumer links have wildly different cost. And it's a big system, much more than ANY centralized organization can possibly manage. That's what markets are about. And price drives markets. The net neutrality crowd thinks they can just forget about all that and make everybody equal.

Read Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, or watch the film that was made of it. Equality of opportunity is a noble goal. Equality of outcome is impossible, and evil.

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @issdeinschnitzel @alex @death@husk.site @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @billstclair Look if you're just gonna sit here and assume I have the worst motive, and say I am opposed to life I'm done with this conversation. You don't really know my motives and don't even care enough to ask.

For your part, I'm sure your motives are pure and it really seems like your heart is in the right place; it's just that you're a little misguided and the policies you support are counterintuitive to your goal, although you cannot see that just yet, and that's understandable.

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @billstclair @dsfgs @SandiaMesa @niggaflamebuttholeaids @death@husk.site @alex @issdeinschnitzel That only matters if you can go back in time and prevent shootings, because such stats cannot reliably tell us whether or not any particular individual will use a weapon for good or ill. Statistics can say in general, schizos kill people with gun, and that's fine. But that does not tell us if any given schizo will magically become murderous once given a gun.

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @issdeinschnitzel @alex @death@husk.site @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @billstclair Yeah, because all people with any given mental condition have the same level of competence with safe gun handling.

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @billstclair @dsfgs @SandiaMesa @niggaflamebuttholeaids @death@husk.site @alex @issdeinschnitzel Okay and who is "safe" lol

That's entirely subjective.

Let's say I run the country and have gun control. I think homosexuality is a mental illness, and let's say the scientists go back to supporting this view. So we just strip guns away from all the gays? That's ludicrous, and a monstrous destruction of human rights.

@trending The reason why "Pleroma" and "Mastodon" don't show up is because they are words in the dictionaries I'm using.

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Severe radiation poisoning, the sort of dose that will kill you in a day or a few days, has got to be the absolute worst way to go...

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @issdeinschnitzel @alex @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @realcaseyrollins

Ah. So since I don't want tax money to pay for something, I don't want it at all? That does not compute.

I can at least understand the anti-abortion position. Those people believe that a fetus is a human being, with rights, hence abortion is murder. I, and you, disagree, but that doesn't make their opinion invalid, only different.

Those who don't believe in public funding for certain activities usually have no problem with those activities being done, they just don't want tax money to be used to pay for it. They usually encourage real charity.

I consider victim disarmament (the pro-gun rhetoric for "gun control") to be anti-life. And anti-liberty.

The #coronavirus lockdown is not at all a black-and-white issue. I've seen credible evidence, from likely true experts, that the lockdown is absolutely necessary, and that it is counterproductive. I don't know who to believe. But it's becoming clear that the Swedish model works pretty well: protect the elderly and immune compromised, tell others to stay home when sick, which they should be doing anyway, and encourage everyone else to go about their lives.

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @billstclair @dsfgs @SandiaMesa @niggaflamebuttholeaids @death@husk.site @alex @issdeinschnitzel I agree that healthcare for all is pro life, but of course by "healthcare for all" you mean "nationalized healthcare coverage plans", don't you? 🙂

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @issdeinschnitzel @alex @death@husk.site @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @billstclair Not really. Gun control is about limited rights to those the government deems worthy of them. Self defense is actually pro-life, not ant-life. That's not too hard for most people to figure out.

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