Richard Manzo

@manzo
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Quaker. Gen Z. Elected member of the Goffstown, NH budget committee and trust fund trustees.
Richard ManzoJun 23, 2023

Public school writing curricula, for the most part, require students at some point to identify a position and then go find sources to back it up.

Confirmation bias is literally baked in to American education, and we wonder why people constantly fall for obvious satire.

Show threadRichard ManzoDec 19, 2022
Clearly I spoke too soon.
Richard ManzoDec 18, 2022
I'll probably just let my Twitter account die when the new outbound link policy starts being retroactively enforced.
Richard ManzoDec 16, 2022
Show threadSanta ClausDec 16, 2022

Due to #ElonMusk having a little meltdown and blocking Mastodon links, I have created a redirect:

https://santaclaus.iscomingto.town

If you are active on #Twitter, please do share the link there!

I couldn't do an immediate redirect - Twitter worked that trick out right away. It has a 2 second delay.

Now I just hope I don't get sued for that domain 🤔

Santa Claus

Come follow me on the social media network that we can't name here after it was taken over by a giant billionaire man-baby! HO HO HO!

Richard ManzoDec 16, 2022
I've never claimed to be against content moderation.
I've never claimed to be against legally protected speech.
But I do oppose any implication that the two are at odds.
What I do take issue with is an egotistic billionaire declaring himself a philosophically pure absolutist on free speech developing a moderation policy that protects only his own comfort while constantly stating that he will only remove speech that isn't legally protected.
Richard ManzoDec 13, 2022
Ken WhiteDec 13, 2022
It’s bracing and inspiring, like a brisk walk on an icy day with a view, to be hated by a large number of shitty people.
Richard ManzoDec 13, 2022
Nicholas SarwarkDec 13, 2022

Choosing to call a person something other than what they prefer to be called is rude.

People who choose rudeness are telling you something about themselves.

Be grateful for the warning.

Richard ManzoDec 13, 2022
Ken WhiteDec 12, 2022

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.