@SarcasmKid Basically yes. The difference is that one country was made of prisoners and gave them more freedom. The other took free people and made them slaves.
"One of my arguments for anonymous commenting is the tendency of people to avoid giving honest negative feedback unless they can do it without negative social consequences to themselves. (Okay, that's my guess about why people don't want to say negative things to their friends. Maybe there are other things going on in…"
Random #ServiceDog Story. On Saturday, random non-parishioner woman wanders into church with Akita-type dog. Plops down on a couch in the sanctuary annex, unplugs lamp, plugs in her phone charger, pets her dog while it chews one of our doorstops to pieces on the carpet.
Well, I dunno. Maybe it has to do with the fact certain people keep fetishising Nazi uniforms? That a large site *finally* decided to ban self-proclaimed Nazis over their hate speech?
There's also the recent laws passed that leave some of us wondering how long our deviant but consensual interests will even remain legal to express on the internet.
If you feel safe complaining about the politics think about why others don't.
I generally scoff at proposals to make people have real names on the soc-nets, but try and create a Twitter account under your real name and only tweet things you'd want publicly associated with you.
To all the GnuPG donors: We already made it from 41€ to 206€ within just 36 hours. This is pretty insane, and most of the donors were inspired by this Mastodon campaign.
Please contribute if you can, and let's at least try to surpass the April amount of 342€ 🤗 We can do better than that!
If you can't contribute directly, please boost this as much as you can 🎈