Why does “Cross = 1, Skull = 3”? I did my best to google it but every result is comments from posts made within the last day.

What I did find was this quote in https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-posts-image-kilmar-abrego-175852020.html :

“The four symbols – “Marijuana,” “Smiley,” “Cross” and “Skull” – have not been found in any law enforcement guidelines or manuals to stand in for MS-13 gang identification.”

hur, hur, you said VAG

Two failed bids is not even close to statistically significant when you consider the huge number of other factors at play in an election.

Sexism and racism seems like an obvious answer and one that it’s easy to find evidence for the existence of. But if you break it down a bit further, sexists and racists vote Republican anyway.

umm guys this isn’t a news article, it’s a Black Mirror episode

There’s been a hell of a lot of “we’re not at the stage…” in the last four months, that we then very much found ourselves at the stage of.

There’s mischaracterisations, and then there’s just flat-out lies. You’re telling the latter.

(also, the sheer fucking irony of naming yourself “libertyforever” while cheerleading a system of life imprisonment without trial)

Yeah. Fascist criminals like Yaxley-Lennon in the UK cry about their free speech, and when you look at the cases it’s stuff like trying to intimidate juries, or inciting crowds to set fire to buildings containing asylum seekers.

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I googled the author, he’s a Tech Bro pretending to be a media critic. Shame on The Guardian for publishing this moronic clickbait guff.

I would say the guy clearly doesn’t understand the most basic concepts of fiction, except I suspect he probably does but is ignoring them in order to push his agenda.

That was the opposite of nuance. It was pedantry that deliberately missed the point.

When an influential group of powerful people make hate speech a part of their standard rhetoric, is EXACTLY when you MUST block it on your platform, not a signal that it’s time to start letting it slide, you fucking pricks.