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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm saying that your content directly endangers the lives of people in the United States. That's not at all a "disingenuous" correlation. It is an illuminating one.

I'm saying you would react differently if it was directly affecting your safety, in the same way that for example "El Salvador Blocks Sen. Van Hollen’s Visit with Deported Illegal Alien" directly endangers Garcia's safety by deliberately misleading people about his legal status (such that a lot of the US really can't tell up from down on that issue as well as many others, which will mute the effort to try to get him back before some really bad things happen to him if they have not already).

This kind of lying on the internet and in the press used to just be for fun and profit, but now it's really gotten developed to weapons-grade and become deadly serious. That's why people react so negatively when you host it. I'm not saying at all that anyone should host anything that endangers you personally. We should all be safe. I'm saying that your alarmed reaction at the idea of being doxxed should also apply to the idea of published professionally-crafted excuses for armed thugs wandering the streets of the US snatching people up and doing whatever they want with them.