🔞fitotelmata: It is also harder to understand what other folks are saying when you're panicking

if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."

what i am saying is "don't say dumb things on the public internet that could theoretically be used to give authorities an excuse to fuck with you"

Out of interest, I guess you don't mean "show support for abortion issues or like/share a trans positive post", right? Just because a LOT of people do things like that, and a truly fascist government might already see that as "bad enough". Yet we need to rally, organise, show support...

No, I’m saying “don’t make violent threats or describe plausible direct actions that might make the feds show up at your door.”

It has been a depressing exercise in gauging Bluesky's collective reading comprehension, watching the literal hundreds of ways in which people have misinterpreted what you're saying. This person was kind and genuine in asking 4 clarification, so we do have that going for us

And the people on this website are the people who are unusually good at reading comprehension as compared to others, I’d bet it makes you thinks

It is also harder to understand what other folks are saying when you're panicking

...&/or stressed, &/or distracted. I feel like many people would check All Of The Above these days

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