Voroxpete

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

They're wrong. See my comment above.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Jessie what the fuck are you on about?

The audio clip in that source is just flat out wrong (and I'm pretty sure it's either AI generated or an American trying to do a British accent. Source: Am British). If you look at the phonetic symbols you'll see that they're identical for both pronunciations, and every other source agrees that the pronunciations are the same for UK and US.

Here's one with audio that isn't fucked - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-pronunciations/ensign

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Seconding this. Itzg's server is so easy, I taught my 15 year old niece to run one.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 days ago

"It is a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, very similar to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure," said Trump.

So you're saying he's guilty too?

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the comments section of another, a TikTok user responded to a thread outlining the current administration's anti-LGBTQ actions by saying, "None of that has anything to do with us being gay."

Compliance will not save you, you craven fucking cowards. They have never been quiet about how much they hate gay people, and the fact that they're focused so heavily on attacking trans people right now is only because they want to pick off the weakest of the herd first.

Bigotry is the enemy of all people. None of us is free until all of us are free.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Being a country singer from Burlington is so fucking funny to me. Like, that is the most middle class, suburban place you could possibly live. The entire city is just an endless sea of overpriced chain restaurants. This man has never smelled manure in his life.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

I'm genuinely struggling to believe that you're being anything other than intentionally disingenuous here, because it's hard to imagine how anyone operating in good faith could manage to miss a point so completely and utterly.

But on the off chance that you're serious; the logic is that purpose has far more moral weight to it than means. Punching out a Nazi to save the black man he was trying to beat to death in the gutter is a morally good thing to do. Punching out a trans person because you're a hateful bigot is a morally bad thing to do. Do I need to elaborate on that? I feel like I shouldn't have to, but then it feels like I shouldn't have to be explaining any of this.

If you were in a sealed room with a thousand starving children, a padlocked shipping container full of food labelled "Property of Jeff Bezos", and a set of bolt-cutters, what would you do? Because if the answer is anything other than "Break the lock open", your entire moral system is completely and utterly fucked, and I do not know how to explain it to you any more plainly than that. If you actually believe that property rights are more important than human lives, then I honestly think you might need serious and extensive therapy to undo whatever damage has been done to you.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm all for pro-Palestine activism; fully support this cause, and I have no moral objections to destroying some property to do it. Human lives are more important than inanimate objects. But I really wish they could have come up with a version of this plan that didn't involve fucking over Ukraine.

Unfortunately I suspect a lot of these people may be of the stripe of Leftist that treats anything relating to war - including arming the victims of unprovoked territorial aggression - as morally wrong, meaning they likely saw this as killing two birds with one stone.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes. People are more important than property. If your reaction to vandalism in service of protesting a genocide is to be upset about the vandalism, you need to sit back and really think about whether your moral compass needs some recalibration.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ah, the Jordan Peterson defense. "That depends on your definition of 'have', 'used', 'a', and 'computer'."

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago

What we've seen very clearly with fair use is that you end up being forced to defend it, as opposed to it being presumed. That means it's very easy for a rightsholder with money to go after every use, fair or not, and force the user to spend time and money defending themselves (and also probably face a preliminary injunction that takes the image down until the case is over, which will often be after its newsworthy).

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