Cris

Part of attacking an enemy is making sure innocents are in the clear first. Just sayin’.

Yeah, this sounds right. BOS has stated that their goal is to make sure no one gets hurt. This applies to these people, and especially their kid. I participated in the vote, and in hindsight, hell even just in normal sight, I realized we couldn’t judge t…[Read more]

You support an organisation that thinks doing this to their employees is an acceptable business practice… So am I going to cry myself to sleep because you are “grossed out” by the comparison I made? Nope. Will I shed tears because a child got caught up in this? Probably. Look at what your beloved OSDM and Sabrina are doing before you try to sit…[Read more]

@nothenrygale I’m sure their kid Mackenzie is really feeling you on the nobility of your struggle.

Real question: If you had known your vote would potentially result in the death of children — who are inherently innocent because they’re, yaknow, children — would you have gone through with it? Not trolling; this is a legitimate moral quand…[Read more]

@bcbishop Reposting something I put up in the BOS slack channel:

“Collateral damage I think would be people being harmed as a direct result of our actions. When it’s OSDM doing this shit because they didn’t like what we did, that’s not collateral damage, that’s them continuing to be fucking evil”

We don’t want to see people hurt any more. Morgan…[Read more]

This will probably get clarified when the email comes in, but could this not also be Sabrina talking about reductions within the OSDM, rather than the BOS or the community?

In her call to @nothenrygale, Sabrina seemed to reprimand him for voting without worrying about the people it would actually impact. Perhaps that’s who is the target of The…[Read more]

The email will probably clarify things (at least a little bit), but my first guess about this was that it was referring to BOS. I’m not totally sold on that though. While there are a good number of BOS supporters, the group isn’t particularly large. “The Reduction” makes it seem like it’s something on a much larger scale.

@coryphella So basically if you want a resistance, a resistance becomes reality. If you want an actual cult, an actual cult becomes reality?

I’m with you @nothenrygale

Bring on the consequences…

One of the things I’m keenly aware of is that we really don’t know much about what’s happening. Hindsight is 20/20 and fear is fucking contagious. @nothenrygale took the reigns, made a decision and the consequences that will happen will affect us all.

That’s fucking awesome. Isn’t that…[Read more]

I’m with Bryan, as well. Reading the “Silence” definition now, I can see what you mean, @nothenrygale. But at the time of voting, it seemed ambiguous and still felt like a vote against the OSDM, which put the abstainers off. It was too much like a one-party election.

@nothenrygale Totally respect your and @blondie‘s position on this, but we’ll have to respectfully agree to disagree. In my mind, voting “Silence” would still have been participating in, and therefore condoning, the MyChild / Resistance / BOS action. I was never on board with it, and think I’ve made my positions with regard to OSDM quite clear…[Read more]

@addisonborn I take full responsibility for my part, my vote, whatever. By turning it around, I’m just trying to highlight that the blame game within the community isn’t helpful and is probably completely intentional on their part. But then I guess pro-OSDMers would be down with that, hence the finger pointing. It’s dumb. What’s done is done.…[Read more]

Nobody knew what was going to come from MyChild, yes. We all knew that no matter the outcome, things would be changed forever. It was a drastic move.

I see your point @blondie. By not voting, but also not actively taking measures to stop the voting from happening, there is some responsibility. Responsibility from not taking action. Sure. However…[Read more]

@bcbishop Exactly my point. You guys could have stood your ground. You acquiesed. If I had thought it was a bad idea, you can be damn sure I would have been screaming until my lungs gave out, not “I’m abstaining, laters…”

While yes, it was a community discussion and decision.. you were the one to post the topic. You rallied votes. you spearheaded the project.

Yes, the responsibility is on all that voted, and all that stood by watching. But even though you weren’t the one to pull the trigger and you weren’t the sole operator in choosing a target, you procured the…[Read more]

Not to bring politics into this, but last year’s election encapsulates this quote. None of the battles, debates, or parts of the campaign mattered because several ideas took hold so strongly that they ended up basically determining the outcome (I realize there’s a degree or two of oversimplification there).

So now it’s seeing whose ideas are…[Read more]

I got a No Caller ID call at 12:16pm pst. I’m 99% sure it was the same exact call as everyone else, it was extremely garbled and by the time I got a voice recorder up and running for transcript, I missed the repeat option 🙁

I’m so confused as to why mine came through blocked.. like, they would’ve had to do that specifically.

Find a link to the audio from the callback number HERE

I find the juxtaposition of the words and image interesting. One is saying that only our present reality affects us, and the other is questioning reality itself. It sends my brain into a loop.