I haven’t seen any proof he did do it either. If we’re weighing the circumstantial evidence available? There’s much more pointing towards that dog being treated well than poorly.

I have also seen a lot of proof that there is a targetted smear campaign against him, which leads me to be a lot more critical of all the info presented by both sides.

A perfectly reasonable take! I tend to have opinions on public figures because I do think accountability of some kind is more important for them than others. I’m not a fan of ‘cancel culture’, but the inverse of it, which allows a felon as president, is not desirable either.

Just to combat misinfo, Hasan clearly did not shock that dog

It’s such a minor part of the video that I didn’t put too much thought into it, but ironically the point of the video is that we shouldn’t overlook small ‘glitches’, so you’re quite right to look into it critically I think!

The video is more focused on the history of Israel, and computation’s role in that. With that in mind, I think you’re right. It’s almost definitely some sensationalism up top to warm the crowd.

Too late Netty. It’s already pretty obvious even to the dumbest of us.

I love how many of us are so down for Cascadia. How do we get this in a vote?

Nothing will

Well said!

Fuck yeah! Cascadia! Let us stop funding this awful government and actually put our taxes towards improving people’s lives

I wish there was a convenient place to get these

That’s horrifying. What the fuck is wrong with people? I cannot imagine being complicit with any part of the chain of monsters required to construct a profit from this.

Yes, correct, that is what I just said.

I do respect your optimism, but realistically, I doubt they’re forfeiting anything. Fox News broadcasts blatant lies daily. All they had to do was a behind the scenes rebranding.

Seems inevitable 😮‍💨

Oh hell yeah 😎

Then they haven’t had enough.

This is some cyberpunk shit.

Luigi save us

A government official known for performing a nazi salute just broadcast an ableist slur.

Cool cool cool

Honestly on board with this. 196 took up more of Blahaj than I liked and always had a weirdly dissonant feel to the rest of the instance. I’m not really a fan of 196 personally, though, so my opinion is colored by that.

Nothing they said there seems unreasonable. They/them seems like a perfectly normal (and more importantly neutral) default way of referring to people. If I was in person with someone, and they started throwing a fit because I defaulted to they/them for them (which I usually do), I would assume they were a bigot who doesn’t understand pronouns.

Not saying that’s the case with these other people, but I believe there’s a reasonable limitation on how much you can expect strangers to assume/understand on first meeting.