If you genuinely don’t see the issue with what’s happening here then I’m not going to waste any more energy arguing with you. What they’re doing here is dangerous, even if you’re too blind to see it.

You are focusing way to much on the fact that “oh well the rest isn’t too bad, it’s just one bad part.” and you don’t seem to understand the issues with the bad part.

It doesn’t matter if the rest is inoffensive. None of it was offensive before. You think they’re going to start with this one change? Do you really not see how this is just their foot in the door? They’re rubbing their hands together salivating over people like you because you’re the stepping stone they’re looking for to gain leverage for future changes. You’re the hot water they want to use to slowly boil all the frogs in the pot.

And the slaves DID NOT BENEFIT FROM SLAVERY. Even the implication is disgusting. I don’t understand how anyone could honestly believe that. Think about it, for one goddamn moment. They did not learn these skills BECAUSE of slavery. Did white people need to be slaves to learn the same skills? Obviously not. Imagine how many black people could have learned and applied these skills, like blacksmithing and so on, if they’d been given the freedom to CHOOSE to do so on their own terms for their OWN sake, not for the sake of the people with bloody whips in their hands. My god dude, actually think about what the fuck you’re saying.

These aren’t proposed changes, these are already enacted changes. Do you have a preferred source? Nvm, I’ll just provide several for you to choose from.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/24/kamala-harris/do-Florida-school-standards-say-enslaved-people/

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/20/us/florida-black-history-education-standards-reaj/index.html

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article277539723.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/floridas-new-education-standards-says-slavery-had-personal-benefits/

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna95358

https://people.com/ron-desantis-defends-florida-curriculum-slavery-benefit-7564521#:~:text=According to the newly approved,%2C blacksmithing%2C transportation).%22

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna95418

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/florida-black-history-teaching-standards-00107067

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi4rujWza2AAxV6BDQIHXltCbw4ChAWegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw2LNXUD4UuTz95iT0SYmdly

That last one is a copy of the standards from the Florida department of education itself. You can check page 6 to verify it yourself.

Hope that provides enough info.

There are no laws stating that we have to watch or see ads, so forcing us to watch them feels like a huge overstep. Companies shouldn’t be able to have this much control over a public service.

Bro the “blacks benefitted from slavery” thing is literally being made into the new standard for teaching in Florida by the board of education, something that was made possible by Desantis’s stupid “stop woke act”, you know, actual policy and legislation. This clearly isn’t just a meme to conservatives, and it’s not a strawman if it’s based on real things people are saying and teaching and putting into law. Idk about the holocaust thing since I haven’t heard about whatever that’s referencing yet, but the “black people benefiting from slavery thing” is very much a real issue born from actual policies, and not just a meme.

I don’t remember if it always did every time from the beginning, but it did last time.

Just because you want to vent about an ex with friends that doesn’t mean you have to send your ex money. Even if you write “you suck” on the bills, you’re still doing them a favour.

Oda is heavily involved, so I’m going to give it a try for him.

I’d suggest just pirating the movie via a torrent site.

I don’t think any particular kindle needs to be cracked or modded, you just have to pirate the files and make them compatible with software like calibre then put them on your kindle that way. Same with stuff like kobo. I downloaded a bunch of stuff into my kobo glow to read on planes or during long trips when I don’t wanna drain my phone battery.

Even if there are alternative ways to see the content of the comments, making it more difficult to access that content still does something and isn’t pointless. The average person isn’t going to go through the trouble of checking the wayback machine or some other external archive, or download any add-ons or what have you to undelete or unedit comments. Not unless they already know that the comment said something they’re interested in enough to put in that extra effort, which is going to be a pretty small selection of people who might but probably won’t look into your comments unprompted to begin with anyway.