@JonChevreau @wdlindsy You damn right it is. People are too afraid to say one thing against their bosstator because he literally ran off of that happening to him.

Getting millions of people to vote for doing whatever your boss wants, is a really, really, dangerous and stupid idea.

I'd like to think we're more conscious than that. to respect someone at the individual level, for being who they really want to become, and not targeting them for things about them you aren't. Isn't that how civil society is supposed to go, without stirring up chaos based on other beliefs people might have?

Free Speech should mean at the workplace, you can have your say without running the risk, accept for when giving harmful/lawsuit prone advice to somebody, that you can still keep your job for having an opinion and expressing your voice in that capacity.

Should Americans even keep free speech if this is what comes of it? People can and will abuse the limits because it gives them the attention they'd otherwise not get for being a fringe group of people too afraid to speak what they think is obvious censorship, but what we think is not censored at all because they're not put in prison for being as organized as they already are.

But it's never enough right? And on both sides of the #political isle, this is going on.

Bosstator culture has destroyed more lives than ever before. And that is why I am the boss of me and me alone.

Yes, I pay for the privilege. But that's also why I'm on Mastodon using self hosting out of a necessity to know what I want, and why I want to be respected and embraced for it without fear.

I can't say the same for the entity that is a politician once they get into bed with the utter idea, that ignoring a budget will set you free.