Hell, according to them you’re probably already a rapist for writing the word “penis” without getting consent from everyone in the thread.

Ok. Whatever you have to tell yourself.

It actually is nearly always that way until parents come in to those spaces and start deliberately misinterpreting things and claiming the straw men they’ve built are saying hateful things about kids. Most parents see hate in any refusal to glaze them for their choice to become parents. And they nearly all see hate in not being impressed by or wanting to coo over their little vacation souvenirs.

spreading rape apologia whether you know it or not.

Kinda rich coming from someone whose definition of sexual assault is so broad (and thereby so cheapened) that it includes sending cartoon dicks to politicians.

Dicks are irrelevant. If you can genuinely look at the picture in that article and call it “porn” you’re even weirder than the fascist piece of shit it was sent to mock.

It damn sure wouldn’t meet any legal definition.

For someone who started off their diatribe by accusing everyone else of lacking critical thinking skills, you damn sure have t bothered to address any of the counterpoints or analysis anyone else has brought up. It’s almost like you lack critical thinking skills and are just reacting to vibes.

No, this is constitutionally protected political speech, as any court in the country will find when this winds up in front of them.

Sending people porn non-consentually is sexual harassment.

Questionable, but even granting that, public figures like politicians are a legally distinct kind of people who have to meet a much higher bar to claim communication is harassment, and this is a huge nothingburger. Larry Flynt is laughing from his grave.

It was never ok. It was tolerable, but I resented losing the keyboard before I got to.the second generation of phones that didn’t have one.

I’d happily pay the absolutely stupid prices they want to charge for the stupid foldy phones to get something with modern flagship specs and the form factor of the G1.

No. It should be integrated into the phone, impossible to leave somewhere and incapable of having connection issues.

The fact that most smartphone users are illiterate and would rather watch a video and send voice notes than actually write anything worth reading isn’t an excuse to make the phone useless to anyone capable of forming complete sentences.

Nah. The worst possible thing they could be is the second worst thing.

The worst thing to happen to smarohones was when Androids stopped coming with slide-out physical keyboards.

Fuck Apple for many reasons, but the onscreen keyboard is the most egregious and unforgivable of those reasons.

And your expectations are totally in line with the average dumbfuck in the world today who is incapable of understanding the difference between “everyone does this” and “doing this is ok”.

If the average person is negatively affected in any way by rules meant to keep pedestrians safe, then the average person is one of those assholes and they aren’t all that few.

All laws are “extremely authoritarian”. I find it a lot more authoritarian that regular, non-ecocoidally-narcissistic people have to cross the street only when it doesn’t inconvenience carholes very much than it would be to take action to stop carholes from speeding.

No, you miss the point.

The problem is cars existing at all as personal transportation. The solution is to make driving as miserable a fucking experience as possible until the ecocidal narcissists finally give up. They’ll never choose the right thing over their own convenience, so the wrong thing needs to be made far more inconvenient.

I’m in favor of absolutely anything that forces drivers to follow traffic laws, even when they could otherwise get away with not doing so, because it will piss off the worst people on the world and also save pedestrian and cyclist lives.

the number of cars is a given,

No the number of cars is a policy choice.

Nobody is forcing cities and counties to only build for the carbrained, they do that on their own. If they’d make driving less convenient and transit more convenient, the number of cars would decrease significantly.

Yeah, we get it. You think any limit on you doing exactly as you please at all times irrespective of the consequences to others is somehow a massive violation of your human rights.

That’s what roads are for. Roads belong outside of town for that reason. Inside the city, the streets are for living, and should not be made unsafe for pedestrians just because going faster is preferred by carholes.

Power tripping murderpigs and ecocidal narcissists with their two-ton pollution powered people crushers are basically equivalent evils, anything that pits them against each other without adding any risk to pedestrians is a win.

Nothing that involves the phrase “more cars” is more efficient. Cars are massively inefficient monuments to toxic individualism and ecocidal narcissism.

No, I’m advocating for absolutely anything that will reign in the ecocidal narcissists in their pollution powered people crushers.

Of course, if you’re the kind of toxic individualist who sees that as authoritarianism, then naturally you’d see that as scary, it might make you actually follow traffic laws when should all know how important and special you are and how going the speed limit is just too much to ask of you.

Of course you will. Toxic individualists always put their own convenience above the safety of others.

Nah. The trick to stop speeding drivers is to stop listening to drivers whine about the solutions to speeding.

Put a speed camera on every block, and have automated tickets put points on your license like any other ticket. Start revoking habitual speeders’ licenses and word will get around.

Or just put a GPS linked governor on energy car on the road as a condition of keeping its registration active, and use that to make speeding actually impossible.

Whole worlds of options open up when you stop caring that it will make the ecocidal narcissists sad.