This is all a fun mob justice idea. But you know who isn’t on the no-fly list? Murderers. Rapists. Jan. 6 coup participants. Drunk drivers who killed people. Michael Flynn. Bernie Madoff (dead, I know). Deadbeat dads. The list goes on.

“This is all a fun mob justice idea. But you know who isn’t on the no-fly list? Murderers. Rapists. Jan. 6 coup participants. Drunk drivers who killed people. Michael Flynn. Bernie Madoff (dead, I know). Deadbeat dads. The list goes on.”

If this shit had gone down in the early Post-9/11 Aughts, these fuckwhomps would have been bum-rushed and stomped to within an inch of their lives.

Given the context, it’s hard to imagine how anything she says at this point could be taken at face value. She’s in an authoritarian state, and presumably she’s going to say what she has to in order to survive.

In a Monday press conference, IOC spokesperson Mark Adams confirmed to reporters that the IOC keeps in touch with Peng, but said he doesn’t think the situation is “for us to be able to to judge, in one way, just as it’s not for you to judge either.”

It should be this way anyway.

The masks aren’t just for the wearer; they protect those around them. Cloth masks especially, favoured early in the pandemic due to supply issues, are incredibly asymmetric in whom they protect.

A certain segment of the population needs to get over this infantile “you’re not the boss of me” attitude about living in a modern society. When you are patronizing a private, highly regulated business in which mistakes can result in many people dying, it is entirely reasonable to require you to abide by certain…

“he doesn’t think the situation is “for us to be able to to judge, in one way, just as it’s not for you to judge either.””

No, I think it very much is, and now let’s judge him for this cowardice as well.

This would be fine if we had proof of vaccination to fly, but otherwise it’s one half of a solution. My opinion is that if your freedoms prevent you from receiving the vaccine, then you’re free to use your car and experience America’s many miles of beautiful roadways.

Another way to deal is to mandate vaccines for flights and eliminate the mask requirement. That way these schmucks never make it on the manifest in the first place.

Terrifying. She is being disappeared in plain sight 

Free speech is not freedom from criticism or consequences (unless it’s the government punishing you, which is the ONLY thing that isn’t allowed).

Free speech doesn’t protect you from the consequences of said speech.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

Choosing not to pay a bigot $100 million isn’t canceling him, it’s deciding not to have a business relationship with an unashamed racist conspiracy theorist. Jesus christ.

Freedom of association is important. Dude continually drops the N-word? Well, that’s not someone I really want my streaming company to have a $100m contract with. So I cancelled it. Let others make their choice to hire whatever racist losers they want, just as we can fire whatever racist losers we want, since “does rac…

“I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer.”

Ek can’t change the spot Spotify finds itself in with corporate doublespeak and running from their exclusive product that they paid a bunch of money for.

I don’t really understand the problem, but my shareholders are angry. I’m just going to flail wildly until this blows over or I resign to spend time with my family.