After Argentina’s disgraceful, imperialist sign and knowing the piece of shit they put in office: good, fuck 'em.

“France, Germany vow to compete in torment nexus market”

“I can excuse seditious disinformation, but I draw the line at author credit in comic strips.”

Your moral compass could use some Adderall.

Take responsibility for directly linking to the unfiltered words of one of the main people who tried to overturn the 2020 US presidential election and who would have literally every reason to publish this right now with Trump loudly trying to blame the CCP for his 2020 election loss?

Quoting The Kansas City Star’s editorial board:

No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.

You can quit playing dumb.

“US senator” is not an honorary title, it’s a job.

What an odd response to calling out the fact that Josh Hawley cannot be trusted for even the most insignificant claim.

You’re the one who decided to directly link to a press release from Hawley right as Trump and his gaggle of election deniers are trying to claim that the CCP rigged the 2020 election for Joe Biden; the least you can do is take some responsibility.

You could’ve linked to The Guardian even to soften the blow, but you decided “Nah, Josh Hawley unfiltered is fine” and then got defensive about it.

Save you some time: “US senator” is disinformation peddler and election denier Josh Hawley, and his word for literally anything is as good as dirt; he’s actively nefarious. We should be looking at other sources (ones, of course, that aren’t reliant on him), and if other sources don’t exist, then it isn’t worth spreading here to begin with.

Beep, you should know better.

While we lack a rule against reposts and thus this isn’t a moderative action, I still have to say I’m a bit befuddled at the crosspost of a crosspost that leads back to a popular post from… this community three months ago.

And that you’ve done this exact thing two times in the last two hours.

My first thought when reading your previous reply is that you’re someone who likes to argue for the sake of arguing.

Bbbbbbbbbbb wrote: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

GreenBeard responded to this totally innocuous, non-argumentative statement with: “That’s like embellishing a prison camp number with a fun design. That’s not self-expression that’s morbid.” Then went on to call the practice “gross” and “tacky” and the people who get custom plates under a “sad illusion” and “letting themselves be tricked”.

Again, in response to just an extremely benign and normal statement: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

Truly I’m the one who likes arguing for the sake of an argument here – not the person who started and perpetuated this abject, comically combative nonsense.

You resent other people having values you don’t share.

As you sit here saying those who have values you don’t share are participating in something “gross”, under a “sad illusion”, and “letting themselves be tricked” into doing something that’s “morbid”, “tacky at best”, and akin to “embellishing their prison camp number”. lmao okay

So are you a Mercator or a Robinson kind of guy?

If you think the magnitude of information gained is even worth considering for either (or frankly any) party, you’re grossly misunderstanding the scale of the surveillance state or just have really terrible ideas for custom plates. Your plate is inherently already a 100% unique identifier; if you’re worried enough that like six characters of custom text or a chosen design will in any way further government or corporate surveillance, then – and I say this as someone who frequents privacy communities, hates defeatism, and thinks people (myself included) need better privacy hygiene – have fun pissing on a forest fire.

You think it’s snobby to not waste money on a stylized government ID?

If you could read, you’d know I think that it’s fine one way or another and that what’s snobby is your obnoxious attitude toward people who do get one. The difference between you and I is that I see it as a waste of money for me and leave it at that because I don’t pretend to be superior and enlightened when my level of insight that the unwashed masses surely lack is “um, didn’t you know that license plates are tracking IDs?? by the government??? Fucking idiot, Sandra, with your stupid fucking ‘museums are for everyone’ plate with Snoopy on it.”

I don’t see the point in paying extra to have an ID on my car that tells The Man more about me than I think they need to know

Literally what on Earth are you doing to your license plate that tells The Man more about you in a way that realistically matters? You don’t need your Ashley Madison credentials to create a custom plate.

If you’re worried about dragnet surveillance, I guess it’ll help them when they divide the prison camps by baseball team. If you’re worried about automated surveillance like by ALPRs then, uh, pretty sure the model whose literal entire purpose is to create its own features for classification will find abundant other ways to uniquely fingerprint and extract actual, pertinent information about you. And if you’re worried about targeted surveillance by humans scrutinizing you down to what your custom plate says about you, then god help you, and viva México.

I’m just saying a licence plate is intended as a vehicle tracking ID

Everyone here and everyone who gets them knows and understands that.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be registering cars

I didn’t say or even imply you were, and the fact you clarified that anyway is bizarre – because it’d be completely batshit.

letting them trick your brain into pretending that they belong to you and are an extension of your “self” by adding fancy designs is kind of gross.

Brother, my god, it is a fucking identifier plate on your car; no one’s getting “tricked”, and I don’t know if you can believe this, but people can enjoy making objects into extensions of themselves without becoming slaves to The Man – if you can apprehend that someone in Kentucky who pays $25/year or some shit to signal that they’re into amateur radio isn’t offering up their soul in a plate-shaped vessel on the altar of Rebecca Goodman.

Even if you want to bring ALPRs into this, custom plates existed long, long before we had the technology to turn plates into mass-surveillance tools.

This is so goddamn snobby that it’s painful.

1. What the actual fuck is this comparison? I’m extremely anti-car, and even I’m wondering what has to be wrong with you.

2. Incidentally got a chuckle out of me that you’re saying this about what’s often effectively a social green-beard (e.g. plates for sports teams, hobbies, causes, etc.).

Oh, their comment was upvoted 6:4 and rising before I wrote that. Not one upvote afterward, so I think some people needed it pointed out.

pardoning

What the fuck fucking seat in government do you think Zohran Mamdani currently occupies?

Literally no one was there when France landed there, so you can either a) ask France and Spain for their thoughts, b) resurrect the Fuegians who visited and let them have it, forcibly deporting the people who’ve lived there for centuries, or c) disregard pragmatism and say they aren’t part of any country – either way, you can stop obnoxiously trying to defend Argentina’s baseless colonialist claim under the guise of “anticolonialism”.

To the extent it belongs to anyone, it obviously belongs to the UK far more than it does to the asshurt losers who flaccidly tried and utterly failed to assert sovereignty over it.

Ah, yes, the fact that prehistoric Fuegians may have visited the Falklands surely means they’re the birthright of Argentina. Airtight anti-colonialist explanation.

RAGGLE FRAGGLE!

Aaaaah! Somebody help meeee!