I know we’re all enamored with the new Christmas tradition of blowing up an entire city block on Christmas Day, so I must join the chorus of concerned folks who worry that if we don’t provide a forum for people who want to blow up city blocks, a vital Xmas tradition will be lost.

If we don‘t let angry white men blow up city blocks, then we will lose so many other vital liberties. How can you connect with other people exploring gender, if your city blocks aren’t blowing up?
I’m here today to honor those dead in the latest Target mass shooting, a tragic but necessary cost of our freedoms, without their sacrifice we might not be able to express displeasure at our cable companies.
^ this is what y’all sound like
The digital freedom movement has not proposed a single solution for dealing with Nazi murder and has essentially decided that that is not its problem.
Meanwhile *every single* extremism researcher in *every single* threat domain has identified online radicalization as one of the key challenges and can clearly elaborate on the multifactorial challenges that one faces when addressing that
In other words, extremism research is a hell of a lot more thoughtful about intersectional digital freedom than digital freedom is about extremism.
You cannot study the historical consequences of violent fascism, fundamentalism, or authoritarianism without encountering the dynamics of the end state, but you can very easily talk in hypotheticals about speech online without ever having to give two shits about victims of terror
And rather than hear platitudes about “oh yeah well we get death threats, too”—setting aside the fact that I almost had a CAR DRIVEN INTO ME—it would be a lot nicer to just hear, “we don’t actually have a solution to the white dudes blowing up city blocks problem”
Here is a more thoughtful, less angry, more data driven look at this same thing: https://t.co/o94vpgjmDj

More from Emily of the State

Ok so there’s a conspiracy theory going around that this woman was faking her injury with an onion.

This is likely false. Onions are a folk remedy for pepper spray.


The theory, which has some merit, is that since onions make you cry, it helps flush the irritants from your eyes with natural tears.

However, this is not recommended as a treatment for pepper spray and is ultimately not very effective.

Pepper spray, tear gas, mace, CN, HC, and other agents are best removed with a flush of water or, if you have the proper mixture, saline. Nothing else.

We do not do chemistry in our eyeballs. We are not putting chemicals in our eyes. We are not putting produce in our eyes. We are removing the chemicals with safe, neutral water.

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So, as the #MegaMillions jackpot reaches a record $1.6B and #Powerball reaches $620M, here's my advice about how to spend the money in a way that will truly set you, your children and their kids up for life.

Ready?

Create a private foundation and give it all away. 1/

Let's stipulate first that lottery winners often have a hard time. Being publicly identified makes you a target for "friends" and "family" who want your money, as well as for non-family grifters and con men. 2/

The stress can be damaging, even deadly, and Uncle Sam takes his huge cut. Plus, having a big pool of disposable income can be irresistible to people not accustomed to managing wealth.
https://t.co/fiHsuJyZwz 3/

Meanwhile, the private foundation is as close as we come to Downton Abbey and the landed aristocracy in this country. It's a largely untaxed pot of money that grows significantly over time, and those who control them tend to entrench their own privileges and those of their kin. 4

Here's how it works for a big lotto winner:

1. Win the prize.
2. Announce that you are donating it to the YOUR NAME HERE Family Foundation.
3. Receive massive plaudits in the press. You will be a folk hero for this decision.
4. Appoint only trusted friends/family to board. 5/

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