Natanael

Told you that you should’ve asked someone to explain

So you’re admitting you didn’t read any of my comments, and that you don’t understand that only very narrow types of lies are criminalized while the vast majority are not

Hint: read my first comment again

And then again

And then again, and notice the parentheses this time. Then ask somebody to explain it to you.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

This is starting because Trump himself also don’t know how tariffs works

Also see the damn water reservoir thing because he doesn’t even understand how water works

And see the Colombia thing

Nanoraptor’s photoshop

Removing sanctions, allowing the biggest bombs to be sent to Israel again, starting deportations of pro-palestine protestors

You have to be lying or must be blind if you don’t think that’s worse

But lack of turnout did

Tell me where scientists are prosecuted for having got a theory wrong

Tell me where meteorologists routinely are prosecuted

I already mentioned the obvious exceptions (lying to cause certain types of harm) but few western countries allow penalties for anything outside those exceptions

Tell me where fiction is illegal to publish

In legal terms it is (with the obvious exceptions for impersonation, defamation, etc)

But in private forums? Mods can be however strict they want

Absolutely not you dimwit.

I run a security related subreddit (cryptography). A false sense of security from wrong answers can literally kill

When I open search, select explore instance, open a forum on the instance, then open a post, I can’t back out of the post, because the app freezes and then crashes

It’s tribalism plus brainwashing. They believe the right way to show empathy to the in-group is to attack anyone in the out-group. Driven by zero-sum thinking and beliefs around “natural social hierarchy” being necessary.

49% of voters, about a 3rd of eligible voters