I’ll just leave this here… One of the best outer limits episode, imho. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0667991/

“draining the swamp, eliminating the deep state”

Don’t give people your phone number. Afaik signal now works without it.

As a downside, you may find you are not as important for these other people as you think, people are under no obligation to accept you forcing your quirks on them.

As it’s always been, they cope with the horrible events with satirical, sarcastic humor. And, in the middle of that will be a well-reasoned, nuanced, and quite serious post.

Oh yes, they are so funny, misunderstood, thoughtful and nuanced thinkers.

F them and f you for defending them.

This ~1800 comment thread about whether lemm.ee should defederate with them is all you need for some eye opening, in case anyone needs that.

https://lemm.ee/post/4543536

Above screenshot is from said thread.

The comrade in it actually suggests that there is a time and place for such rhetoric, it is just not right here, right now. you have to think politically and wait for your moment!