no fucking way

The antivaxxer finally got his shot

he died doing what he loved: owning the libs

on a real note: what kind of life was that? doomed to debate college students with bad faith arguments for a living, riling up masses against marginalized groups for your own profit and claiming to be a servant of christ...

one must imagine kirk happy, dying on the stage that bound him to this sad existence, a catch-22 of his own design

If only there had been good guys with guns around, sadly there were only Republicans present

some people have been discovering their empathy for all beings (selectively applied to pro-Trump Republicans only) and i think that's so beautiful ️

danke, julian reichelt

far right german newspapers are seething over me not being super duper sad about kirk's passing

Beethoven was only 29 when he composed his first symphony, Yuri Gagarin was only 27 years old when he became the first man in space, Marey Shelly was only 18 years old when she wrote Frankenstein, and Tyler Robinson was only 22 when

Huge respect to the father of Tyler Robinson for trying to consult with a pastor on what to do, but instead of giving advice or something the pastor immediately ratted them out to the cops.

Given the fact there's now good reasons to believe the (alleged, but himself confessed) assassin of Charlie Kirk was a right wing gun nut, to whom Kirk was not right wing enough, makes me feel more valid in my cynical criticism of Kirk and his passing.

He died not just as a result of the world he created, but specifically through the hands of a person he radicalized, utilizing gun “rights” Kirk defended day and night.

If life was a screenplay, this would be an on the nose plot point that the writers inserted to spread their own political beliefs. Yet it isn't, this is real life, and these are the real consequences of your words.

Before 1933 the Nazi's only official crime was speech. Afterwards, they legalized anything that speech justified. Remember that.

A far right media outlet told people to mass report my posts on Instagram, many of them were removed without any notice or ability to appeal.

When a story of mine was deleted and Instagram notified me so I could appeal, it was almost immediately reinstated.

Whatever you think of my posts, I should at least be told they were wrong or against the community guidelines. Instagram happily told me that. If a post on Mastodon is moderated, a user on Mastodon is immediately notified and can appeal. This process can sometimes be intransparent depending on the moderator, but it's a hell of a lot better than having some AI algorithm delete your posts for being mass reported and then gaslighting you that they never existed.

I've been told by a couple of big accounts it sometimes takes days or weeks for you to be able to appeal a decision and there doesn't seem to be any reason for why this happens. Certain AI automated decisions cannot be appealed.

Now that the assassin is confirmed to be a Nick Fuentes fan right winger, nobody cares about Kirk anymore and the golden age of newly discovered Republican empathy has abruptly come to an end.

we need to tackle white on white gang violence for everyone's safety in our nation

Free speech is back

No more cancelation due to being too woke for the conservative elites

On a real note, though: Instagram didn't notify me of my post's deletion up until one hour ago where they told me they reviewed it and allowed it back online. This makes me believe one thing: it was automatically taken down, due to the number of reports or something of that kind, and a special system activated where an Instagram employee needed to confirm it going back online. Automated, or third party. Something that isn't Instagram or one of its representatives / employees per se. An automated algorithm. Very very thankful for Mastodon automatically telling you when something happened. The work of our moderators can be intransparent, yes! However, never so intransparent that the platform doesn't even have control over what post is deleted. #PissGate

remember how they told us that North Korea was such a horrible dictatorship for if the people didn't mourn some random guy's death correctly they'd face consequences? yeah...