How people can see laws like this and then scoff at hearing “the cruelty is the point” is beyond me.

Because they have not experienced the cruelty of what they are supporting. . . yet. The moment they do, they’ll cry and whine that it’s affecting them.

See Florida stopping permanent alimony and the blow back from Republicans that are shocked it’s affecting them.

I just left two massive comments over on that thread explaining why the Florida law is problematic despite parts of it sounding common sensical.

I've been online way too much over the past couple days, and I haven't even come across any posts about that. Was that here on the fediverse? If so, apparently I need to find some more communities.

It's on !politics

Thanks.

Quickly adding that !politics is a different place than /m/politics, which is on kbin.social. /m/politics is not very active, and I recently created a post to generate interest in finding moderators because there are 2 major alt-right assholes over there who are posting frequently and are like 30% of all the threads created there.

I could probably manage to be a temporary moderator with how much I'm online lately. I certainly like to report alt right assholes, so blocking them or removing their content isn't far off.

Don't know that I can say I can do it long-term, however. Especially if it becomes very big.

I'm realizing that I myself am probably going to end up being a moderator ... Ugh

I used to mod on reddit back in like 2012 and I knew how much time it took and I got way too consumed with it, but I think the priority isn't that moderators are vigilant 24 hours a day, but that users who harm the community are actively removed within a reasonable amount of time. Also the sub I used to mod went from like 6k to 10k users while I was there. There are maybe 25 people max on !politics 🤣🤣

Go leave a comment on the thread and I'll sort of wrap it up tonight with a proposal for 3 of us to approach Ernest about adding us as mods.