Ask nicely.

Gotta tell you, coming to the Midwest and being exposed to the gas stations here like Quiktrip and Casey’s was a revelation. All we had on the west coast was AM/PM, and those guys are hot garbage.

Yeah, except in this case it’s the megacorp sticking the stick in the spokes and the workers at the studio getting thrown off.

I think most people are fine with it as long as you’re genuinely trying to make the effort to be better.

It’s when your age becomes an excuse to not bother that it becomes a problem.

No, you’re not against bigots and fascist assholes. You’re just trying to coopt that language and try to draw a parallel between community moderators moderating their community and bigoted, fascist assholes literally oppressing people. I wasn’t born yesterday.

So all of the groups in the comic have actual legislators passing laws against their ability to express themselves and control their own bodies and relationships, and you’re mad some moderator of some online community somewhere told you to go be an asshole somewhere else.

Touch grass.

Who’s doing that?

Who’s trying to take that right away?

It’s the latter that really seals it, IMHO. The Cybertruck is the most purely Elon vehicle to come out of Tesla, and the first since Elon went full mask-off. Buying it, at great personal expense, and driving it around is basically saying you approve of everything he’s doing.

OK, but what the hell was it actually?

They spent six figures on a truck that looks like ass, drives like ass, can’t actually do truck things, falls apart in the rain and is the brainchild of the world’s biggest douchebag.

Yeah, Mythbusters is fun and interesting, but don’t mistake it for a scientific study. IIRC, Adam Savage himself has said they couldn’t really apply the level of scientific rigor it would take to actually prove things due to the format of the show.

Still, it is food for thought.

Are we talking just contemporary people? Because John Brown, as a historical figure, is a great inspiration for me.

Yeah, most people in history say amazing things and then turn out to be fucking monsters. Especially in American history.

But just because they’re awful fucking hypocrites doesn’t mean what they said has no value.

Unfortunately, you are far too right about far too many people.

I would disagree. How you dress, how you present, how you act, these are all things that speak without words. I would call those speech.

Truthfully, though, if I were coining the phrase, I would have said “freedom of expression” and “freedom of thought” instead of “freedom of speech” and “freedom of worship”. Both of those are broader categories that encapsulate the concepts FDR articulated. After all, what is worship but conceptualizing the deep thoughts about where the universe came from, and finding a community of like minded folks?

Personally, I kinda roll Freedom of Expression into Freedom of Speech. Because any form of expression is essentially speech, even if it doesn’t use words to speak.

I mean, for me, it means both. I’m a big believer in FDR’s concept of four freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

That. It’s funny, but I get in a lot of disagreements online, and very rarely does someone call me Hitler or a Nazi or what not.

As the saying goes, if five people call you an ass, buy a saddle.

Ah, OK. Sorry for reading sarcasm in where none was intended.

Seems like every time people bring up the postal service, it’s to shit on them, and I’m just here like, they’re pretty fucking rad all things considered.