I disagree. An email wouldn’t have captured the full scope of Hegseth’s immaturity and desperation. Now, all our military leaders have seen it first hand. Well done.

We’ll soon be back to monks transcribing at this rate.

Cowards will be cowards I say, but us simpletons don’t understand the high stakes and day to day pressures of a modern multinational corporate conglomerate. They have profit margins, investor boards, and mergers to consider. Heavens! What good is free speech if they don’t make more money this quarter than they made last quarter? Please, good people of the Fediverse, won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

‘Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.’

Nemik teaching us to chip away at the pillars which hold up fascism.

In addition to cancelling, which is the MOST important thing:

What about uninstalling their apps?

App providers can see the number of installations on the different platforms (Apple, Roku, Android, etc). That count falling will further raise their disquiet. Leaving an app installed or continuing to use the service before the cancellation is processed could send an unintentional message that maybe this is all just temporary and we’ll come back in a couple of weeks after the news cycle plays out.

Here’s one idea: consider reading 1984. The parallels are uncanny and reading it sharpens the mind.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre. … Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

Good for us both, we’ll get through this!

Want to turn the anger you’re feeling into something productive? Make this moment count and pay the price for free speech: cancel Disney, ESPN, Hulu, and ABC. They’re betting you’ll trade your free speech for entertainment. Tell them what your priorities are.

Timing is critical! Acting now sends the loudest message to these cowards. Make them more afraid of us than the clown.