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Harding was also a sex predator.

We can't know if Trump is the worst or not because we literally don't know what we don't know about Harding.

The one who wrote long pornographic letters from the POV of his penis.

Both appear to have been pedophiles.

Worst of 21st century.

A win! A federal judge has instructed the Interior Department to restore signage and video exhibits at George Washington’s former Philadelphia residence that explain his ownership of enslaved people.

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"Senator Ellingsworth makes left turn at Albuquerque."

I swear to you, it was not on purpose.

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This is a hint.

It's one of 3-4 moments that makes him a dangerous politician to the status quo, which is important for the novel, which is really about a sidhe incursion.
But I need to tell you the headline used by the detractors to call him a meaningless liberal.

He explicitly talks about how there is a right way and wrong way of resource extraction, and makes a viral moment when he then states that the youth not voting is one of the reasons one of the protesters feels that it didn't matter because the majority party would overrule it.

So, in the second tale of the Piper, Robin ends up the junior senator for New Mexico.

He interrupts some protesters at a mining panel in New Mexico's largest city, pointing out that while the environment is not negotiable from his POV... The mining companies pay for things and do have a say...

And I see it happening to others, and I want to say that you're allowed to exist and I support you but sometimes the despair at not being treated fairly makes it hard to be as supportive as I'd like.
I guess I wanted people to know I try, and I do understand some of the BS you're encountering.

I try to meet everyone where they are, regardless of who or what they are, and presume good will.
I'd like the same, but lately I feel like just interacting with other humans is too much hassle if I have to reestablish my right to exist every time.

I'm trying super hard to not mention the site or context because I'm not trying to drag folk from one place to another to escalate it, I'm just blowing off steam, but I guess I wanted to say that if anyone feels I was mean to them I probably wasn't. My brain doesn't work like that.

The idea that "The customer is always right" has been weaponized into "because some customers weren't right once, we have to presume every customer is wrong" and it is increasingly really hurtful to me.

It doesn't matter what minority you are being associated with... It doesn't matter what you actually said. You're being actively taken out of context BECAUSE of who you are, or even because of things they say you are but you aren't. If you fight, it hurts. If you don't, it hurts.

I genuinely don't think most men understand that every woman (in particular) has experienced this multiple times in their lives. Other people are allowed to be fully human in their expression, but many of us get pressured to act more like "a lady."

And I can see it, and anyone who knows me can see it, and the people at the other end of the moderation loop can see it. But still, I feel like *not* escalating it to keep myself sane (just going 'well, bye') is letting a bully win, and its not fair to the next victim.

I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT SUBTLE EDGE CASES. I'm literally talking about when you're held to a different standard than others and can prove it numerically.
This person wants to prosecute any time I wasn't polite while others can be actively bigoted or destructive.

It always leaves me furious inside for a few weeks. Being presumed to be a bad actor despite no evidence indicating that you're a bad actor causes me a gigantic moral injury that makes me spiral and I always, always, always seem to go about a week before I can see where it's sexism (or homophobia)

I seem to encounter such a person once every decade or so, and the end result is never me going "well, I won't use the word stabby ever again."
By the 2nd overturned ban, it exhausts my good will for the product or service and I just go "and... I'm out."

I'm just not usually the one being singled out, and I forgot over the years how mentally destabilizing it is to have someone trolling through your back catalog of words looking for the one day you say "ooh that makes me stabby!" so they can say you're inciting violence.

That's not precisely what's occurring but I'm using a parallel example.

I'm currently the victim of a deranged mod on a site I like to hang out on. Without detail, I've attracted the wrath of one of those mods that digs through every word you've said for years and issues moderation strikes for heck and frick from 3 years back while others are allowed to swear.

Yeah. That tracks. As I said, I was a very weird kid, with a very specific interest set that it crossed into. It's definitely a case of how much you know about monuments and such. And I was not perfect, I thought maybe Atlantis was the cause.

ALSO...I am **ABSOLUTELY** not saying anyone who likes it is racist, I'm just saying that since I was a little kid who absorbed so much ancient monument stuff, it felt *so* selective to me.
But I also had a weird upbringing.

You didn't find it racist? I'm not faulting you, I just found it super racist when I read it as a kid in the 1980s.

I know not everyone gets that vibe, but I picked it up really strongly.

I'd thought it was more 1938 than 1968 because of that. Really.

The "AI boom" isn't fuelling the creation of data farms. The so-called "streaming revolution" is.
Programs and data that exist on server farms instead of on your computer are the problem. Music and videos that you rent, not own.
Half your processing power being not on your device is the problem.

While I agree with you in spirit, the vast, vast, vast majority of server farms are being used for STREAMING and for things like this social media site.
This is like opposing Burger King because of techniques used in farming sesame seeds.
Really.

Ted Lieu is right. Bondi lied under oath. Can people please remind me what Bill Clinton's charge was that got him impeached by a bipartisan house vote?

#USDemocracy

Bondi Blasted for Putting Long-Dead Celebs on Epstein Email List — The Daily Beast The DOJ’s list containing deceased celebrities did not put the Epstein scandal to rest.

Bondi’s big “Epstein transparency” stunt? She must think people are stupid.

A DOJ list that includes Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Janis Joplin…all long dead. Monroe died when Epstein was 9.

Not disclosure. Distraction.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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... Real trials of charges against Bondi and Noem and Vance and Trump. With real evidence and witnesses.

Make clear to that jury of 100 that the world will forever remember their votes and whether they were faithful to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.