The "why" is certainly that someone in the state beef industry gave him a pile of money.
Ironic that the thread is about men dying on average younger than women, and the majority of the responses are people completely ignoring that fact and instead just taking an opportunity to negatively stereotype men so they can shit on them collectively.
Well... except that "cis" is actually a shortened form of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term "cisgender," which is the opposite of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term "transgender."
And it has nothing at all to do with heterosexuality, or with sexual preference in any way, shape or form.
So he's not just wrong, but wrong in pretty much every way he could possibly have been.
Which seems to be pretty much par for the course for the world's richest middle-aged teenage edgelord.
Ah... the venerable old "make a 'loan' then forgive it" strategy for paying bribes.
At this point Thomas might as well have a tattoo across his forehead that says "I am corrupt."
If he had even a speck of integrity, he'd resign.
Yes - he must face whatever penalties are appropriate and justified.
Exactly as the Jan. 6 participants and organizers must face whatever penalties are appropriate and justifed.
Pleased (if surprised) to see that we're in agreement on that, Donny.
Even without any details concerning the cases, I can entirely confidently predict that they're going to fuck us over at every turn.
Neither Gosar nor Trump have served in the military.
That pretty much goes without saying, but bears repeating anyway.
It's to the point that he might actually have benefitted the UAW by doing this.
It might well have reached the point that he's so widely recognized as a shallow, childish, fatuous, vindictive douchebag that he's a sort of reverse bellwether - his opposition to someone or something actually leads to increased overall support and his support leads to increased overall opposition.
Makes sense.
Elon undoubtedly has folders full of cool images he's saved, so while he was still focused on the "X" idea, he rummaged around and found that one and thought, "Yeah! This is gonna be sick dude!"
Thus are decisions made by the world's richest teenage edgelord.
I agree completely.
I recently compared it to sitting in a comfortable little cafe that serves delicious food and looking around and saying, "Gee, I wish this was a McDonalds."
It just doesn't even begin to make sense to me.
And I'm with you - gatekeeping or no - anyone who wants Twitter or Reddit or Facebook content can already go to Twitter or Reddit or Facebook to get it, and that's exactly what they should do.
"Lemmy" can't handle anything. That's by design.
"Lemmy" is really just a piece of software that people can use to run forums that will federate with other forums and so forth and so on. There is no central "Lemmy" authority that could do anything, and that's by design, and a lot of the point. It means that there can never be a Lemmy spez or Musk or Zuckerberg, fucking things up for everyone.
The highest authorities are the individual instance owners, so it will fall on them to deal with illegal content as they see fit. Presumably they'll generally work to keep it off of their own instances through active moderation, and they'll block other instances that they have reason to believe do not maintain acceptable standards.
And like it or not, some share of responsibility will fall on individual users to manage their own activities in order to avoid problematic instances.
The trade-off for having no central authority that can fuck things up for everyone is that there's no big mommy/daddy to watch over you and protect you. The fediverse is better suited for people who are okay with that.
This shouldn't be an exception - it should be the rule.
At the very least, companies should be fined every single cent that they made off of something criminal, and really, they should be fined much more than they made.
If they're fined less than they made off of it, it's not even really a fine. It's just the government taking a cut of the action.