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There are many different sides to the "Dave Debate" Should people named Dave exist? Should they have rights? Are they people at all? I'm not anti-Dave, in fact I am a great supporter of Daves. I just think we need to ask some questions. But if you ask these questions people get so mad. Shouldn't we at least have a sober reasonable discussion? What's wrong with that?

Republicans come up with all kinds of red herrings to distract attention from the obvious fact that guns are the problem. Mental illness, too soon, thoughts and prayers - the list goes on. “Illegal immigrant” now from Greg Abbott, as if that somehow mitigates the deaths of 5 people and doesn’t even appear to be true. But this is who the GOP are. Only 50% of registered Texas voters voted in 2022. Thinking that your vote doesn’t matter because you live in a red county/state? What if it would?

Attached: 2 images Texas's decision to let anyone walk around with rifles, w/o permit or background check, continues to go as well as you'd expect. What a horrifying fucking dystopia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/

One thing that #bluesky has made very obvious is how easy it is to abuse the "quote post" system, especially since the developers didn't think to implement any moderation tools before opening it up to people. I can understand why Masto devs are so reluctant to implement this now.

Attached: 1 image DeSantis blew up quicker and sprayed more debris than one of Elon's rockets

We’re at the “first they came for the transgender people, but I wasn’t transgender so…” stage of fascism. Believe me, there have already been canaries in the coal mine that been checked off Fascists’ lists (POC, those with disabilities, assorted other Useless Eaters). They’re ticking down the list, and your whiteness or wealth will not protect you. Fight now.

It’s funny how precious conservatives are acting over pronouns when misgendering cis people is a huge social taboo and always has been. Here’s a fun game: try calling your Republican dad or uncle or cousin “she” and see what color they turn.

I'm sticking with my theory that #ElonMusk bought #Twitter to dismantle it. Despite its many problems, Twitter had become a powerful tool for common people to educate and organize—two things the right absolutely cannot have. Losing over 20 billion of value in mere months is beyond disastrous. I can't imagine a metric that shines a positive light on this acquisition—unless the goal is to silence people. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/04/24/the-twitter-blue-apocalypse-is-nigh

Working Families Party (@WorkingFamilies@mastodon.social) by WBH Staff (Mastodon)

Attached: 1 image ICYMI on Friday, students from over 300 Florida high schools and colleges: - walked out of their classrooms - taught each other DeSantis-banned Black and LGBTQ+ history lessons - AND checked their voter registration statuses Gen Z isn’t playing. https://www.inquirer.com/education/florida-walkout-2-learn-student-protest-education-20230421.html

Attached: 1 image Why me arbitrarily giving verification to notable Twitter users is good, but the last regime arbitrarily giving verification to notable Twitter users was bad, by Elon Musk https://newsthump.com/2023/04/24/why-me-arbitrarily-giving-verification-to-notable-twitter-users-is-good-but-the-last-regime-arbitrarily-giving-verification-to-notable-twitter-users-was-bad-by-elon-musk/

So far this week, teens have been shot for:
1. Pulling into the wrong driveway
2. Ringing the wrong doorbell
3. Opening the wrong car door.
All mistakes, none threatening people or property. Doesn't feel like freedom. https://t.co/aVlyI1YldV

— MegLavDC (@MegLavDC) April 19, 2023

Attached: 1 image After adding a whopping $8 trillion to the national debt, the GOP is back for another Deficits Matter™ tour! All the hits! They'll be here all week. Try the veal! HAHA YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE VEAL AND NEXT TIME THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR MEDICARE, YOU FRICKING PEASANT. #politics #debt

Next time a conservative says they don't believe in pronouns, try calling God "she."

Watching Junior and Fox frantically try and stop the MAGA boycott of Budweiser after he got the call that Anh-Busch is a mega-donor to the Republican Party, then watching MAGA trash him as a sellout, was one of the most MAGA things ever.

Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female. - So, if biological sex can't be changed, - And if life starts at conception, - Then all men are trans. Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.

We aren't as humans meant to be in a state of hyper vigilance. We rotate lifeguards every 30 minutes for exactly this reason. AND YET, If you conceal-carry, that's what you're doing to yourself. My observation of people I've known who CC'd is that it becomes their personality and not in a positive way. The gun is a radioactive isotope. You are exposing yourself to its cancer every time you carry it on your person. It seeps into your brain and bones. You are raising the chances you're going to do something inexcusable because you have set yourself up for it. You're not a "wolf" protecting the "sheep". You're just a poison victim who convinced yourself that the thing you poisoned yourself with was good, actually.