Plus queer people are more likely to have international families due to the discrimination. Especially queer people from queerphobic countries like Saudi Arabia. This rule change is homophobic and racist.
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Gavin Dunne.
Whoever first said explaining a joke makes it less funny was a big liar
They're introducing new rules about being in the same country?? Fuck, this news gets worse and worse.
Today's sarcastic mimicry brought to you by someone who underestimated Poe's law
Today's opinion on voting is brought to you by somebody who doesn't understand how voting works
Risking someone's life in the event you don't have perfect attention aside, no matter what happens in the car you will PM10 dust pollution that gives little kids asthma, and if it's an ICE car you will release CO2 that brings all life on earth closer to extinction. It's one of the single most massively violent acts an average human is capable of.
Humans are really really good at separating themselves from their own violent actions. For example, many humans drive a car and eat meat.
What if you're in multiple families (polycules)?
The news used to be printed on paper, and back in those days every extra character would increase costs. These days it's partly tradition, and partly so the headline doesn't get cut off in embeds
Flat earthers are easily radicalised into right wing belief like "The world is controlled by Jewish lizards" and "the election was stolen from Trump" and "the vaccine contains a bill gates microchip that makes you gay". And right wing conspiracy theorists will willingly spend their life savings on Alex Jones dick engorgement supplements while generating culture war controversy to draw political attention away from actual issues like climate change and worker's rights that may harm big business interests.
Think of it this way: in the mediaeval age, you armed your peasants with shields and spears and had them protect your keep. In the information age, you arm your peasants with conspiracy theories and twitter accounts and have them protect your untaxed billions.