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  • For me, it’s because I invested 13 years into that website, as a mostly-apolitical, slightly left-of-center normie; and then one day they decided that saying “we need to be punching Nazis” or “fuck Elon” is somehow too extreme now, and something we don’t talk about anymore (even in hypotheticals or semi-jest - I mean most of us are just keyboard warriors ffs, and we ain’t out there punching anybody).

    Back in my day, saying “we should punch Nazis” was a good thing.

    So yeah, I harbor some resentment. I lost some connections with some nerdy, niche, non-political interests and hobbies of mine, just because I hate Fascism so, so very much, and I was willing to say so.

    So, fuck them.

  • Happened to me. I didn’t say anything too radical (something about punching Nazis), but discussing the temporary ban resulted in a permanent ban.

    They’re really clamping down on people saying not-very-radical anti-Fascist things.

    Good riddance.

  • Ugh, iRobot too. So now I’ve got to replace my Ring doorbell and get rid of my expensive robot vacuum and mop. Damnit.

    Oh well, I can vacuum and mop by hand.

    Fortunately, our Alexa devices are gone, Audible has been cancelled, our Kindles have been replaced, Amazon Prime, Amazon Kids, and Amazon Prime Video subscriptions are cancelled, and I just got my old photos copied down from Amazon Photos yesterday. So, I think I’m good to delete my Amazon account altogether.

    I didn’t see thriftbooks on the list, so that’s a relief.

  • My only problem with the “weird” verbiage is that it was far too soft.

    The GOP is far beyond “weird” and well into full-blown Fascist territory.

    But we wouldn’t want to “alienate” anybody by speaking facts!

  • Pretty much.

    I keep an ever-growing “shit list” now of companies with whom I no longer do any business (e.g., Amazon; but lots of brick ’n mortar businesses, too).

    It sucks. It makes me feel like a crazy person. But here we are.

    I’d always been a centrist shitlib normie (I liked watching The West Wing back in the day and found it inspiring, for example). But the Overton Window has been so thoroughly shitfucked lately, now I’m allying myself with the Socialists because they’re the only ones offering any real resistance to this Fascist oligarchy bullshit.

    I don’t know how things got here so fast, and why the Democrats are just rolling over for it all (actually, I do, their big corporate donors). The Democratic Party is effectively complicit in all this. If we ever manage to wrest our Republic back from The Fascists somehow, we need to then focus on punishing the Democratic Party as well.