greenskye

This is the way

He doubled down when called out. Claimed ‘anyone else would do the same’ and threatened to sue anyone criticizing his actions. Zero remorse or reflection.

The right realized they could trick or entice certain segments of the left on censorship so long as they used the right language, usually appealing to certain segments of feminism, but also rallying people with pedo-panic as well.

Additionally, the right’s efforts on ‘free speech’ platforms that were used as misinformation has eroded the left’s interest in protecting free speech, resulting in both sides wanting to ban various things.

This has allowed their efforts to go a bit further than they usually make it, as they’re able to sometimes find bipartisan support for the bans.

Yeah, honestly I don’t think Trump raping kids is enough to take him down. Even if it fully came out, I think his supporters would just shrug. If that was all that was in the files then I don’t think they’d be fighting as hard.

I really think Trump was much more heavily involved. Not simply a client, but an active supplier and trafficker. That’s why they can’t release it.

I think America made critical missteps between 1930-1980 in terms of updating our government. Congress especially started to break down, with corruption heavily seeping in and things becoming more and more gridlocked until we get to today, where effectively nothing at all productive really happens in Congress.

Can anyone imagine any constitutional amendment happening these days, no matter how benign? I don’t think you could get them to agree water is wet.

Congress was the first branch to fall and rather than work to fix that, we’ve allowed the corruption to spread. Now the judicial branch is lost and the executive branch has taken supreme control.

America was founded on what is effectively an alpha version of democracy. Most other countries built upon that success and addressed obvious issues to varying degrees of success. Meanwhile America, instead of respecting the idea of a ‘living document’ instead venerated their constitution as a holy document and then calcified their government into total dead lock until it’s now about to collapse.

I think we’re far too comfortable with group punishment instead of actually punishing just the bad actors. I get that it’s not always possible or worth the effort, but I think the pendulum has swung way too far in favor of just taking away anything good that someone might abuse.

Somewhere along the way we built a system that doesn’t actually require you to do or make anything. And that’s been absolutely horrible.

Several adult friendly platforms have come and gone. Many of them very profitable and self sustaining. They all eventually get screwed by inability to process payments.

And when people try to create their own payment methods not subject to arbitrary morality rules, the full weight of the existing banking system comes down hard and strangles them in the cradle.

We could absolutely have safe, profitable, self sustaining adult friendly spaces, but the powers that be don’t want that to exist and work hard to undermine that from every possible angle.

It’s really no different than all those efforts to ban local fiber ISP coops or how abortion clinics get shut down by arbitrary full hospital regulations because they couldn’t ban them legally.

What if some of the locals want it taken away for protection, but the government wants it destroyed?

There’s no clear ‘owner’ in many cases. I think it places where it’s uncertain, then we should prioritize saving the artifacts over the ones that seek to destroy them.

What’s the opinion on certain high risk countries where there’s a high likelihood of the artifacts simply being destroyed? If I remember correctly ISIS and other similar organizations have burned or bombed several historical sites before.