if we are to survive the current American authoritarian turn, then “actually learning when to shut the fuck up on the Internet” has to be among our TOP priorities on the left
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Faine Greenwood
A lot of people desperately need to learn that you don’t have to post on a 100% public social media website about *every single thing you do*, and indeed, you really, really shouldn’t
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Judge: I'm very old, so please clarify your client's defense in terms I can understand?
Defense: They're just a smol bean lol shitposter, your honor
Judge: …I can send you to jail too
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand
https://www.au.org/donate/
https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/
Just make sure you avoid standing too close to them when the po-po show up... )
(Rhetorical question with an unflattering real answer.)
Except they took it too seriously. And they refuse to re-examine their behavior