Perfect, that is so fair. Please do not tell me which park or how to recognize you. It wouldn’t be sporting otherwise!

Thank you for introducing me to the term ‘thundercunt’. It has me thinking of cosplay ideas.

However, Siri and notifications volume is controlled separately from media volume on iOS. You can just turn it down.

You can also set a repeating reminder to call Apple a bunch of throbbing thundercunts, perhaps weekly? Which is still a very important thing to do.

Grogu is a MacGuffin, not an actual character.

Fight me.

sticks and stones, I guess

I have to agree here. Injecting ‘nuance’ is an easy way to derail a discussion so that the obvious harms of a thing get obscured. The discussion devolves into emotional reactions to some aspect of the ‘nuance’ and the original point is lost. And nothing changes, which suits the powers that be just fine.

Nuance is a powerful tool for maintaining the status quo by disrupting the conversation. Leave the nuance to the academics.

Effective messaging campaigns require message discipline and dead simple provocative points repeated endlessly for a generation or two to effect change, usually.

I credit them with the fact we are talking about them.

You have given up before even trying.

We do not need to change human nature. We need to figure out more effective ways of countering the relentless skullduggery of rich shitheads.

You are repeating a lazy old trope that encourages inaction and creates the current situation. Human nature is just fine. We all have good parts and bad parts in our nature. Society is defined by how it encourages the better parts and how it manages the worst parts.

We need to figure out how to counter the age old practice of entrenched rich interests using shitty underhanded tactics to undermine effective efforts for marginalized and poverty stricken people to organize and help themselves.

If you look at the history of movements that attempt to build mutual aid networks and actually provide for themselves, you will also find wealthy individuals sowing seeds of destruction. Media and whisper campaigns, using entrenched political advantages, intimidation, and outright assassination are all commonly used methods.

The reason the Black Panthers were so frightening to the powers that be was not because of the armed members that were the only ones shown on TV. The media was careful to avoid mentioning that BP were also working with community groups to provide breakfast programs for school age kids and other community support programs.

The Black Panthers were frightening to the powers that be because they were forming an actual ad hoc government that was intended to meet the needs of the local people the official government would not. This same pattern has been repeated in every situation in recorded history where a marginalized group organized themselves and became a threat through their unity and coordination.