Referring to LGBT+ people as "mentally ill" or "abnormal" is not "a discussion."
It's not "an opinion."
It's not "free speech."
It's not "debate."

It's hatemongering, with the clear and obvious intent to mark a minority out for subjugation, torture and violence.

Presidents can’t create departments so Elon’s new thing is technically going to be an Office of Government Efficiency. Very sorry to say this, but…OOGE.

looks like I picked a bad time to go looking for starter packs

I'm in Canberra. It's unusually warm.
#rstats

It's gotta be so demoralizing working for the New York Times. You spend days diligently re-reporting a week-old regionally published article you're pretending doesn't already exist only to open the op-ed section and see "Mongrel Sterilization Is in the Constitution" by Trevor M. Swastika.

You're telling me that the think tank funded by a Nazi memorabilia collector which hired a eugenics guy who wrote for White Supremacist websites has a program aimed to foster the study of Ayn Rand? And this isn't an episode of The Simpsons?

We had a good ten years where a bunch of nobodies like us could report on power centers and structural inequality and abuses of power and citizens from government, employers and their surrogates. The end of Twitter as that vehicle really was the end of that, which was obviously the point.