Yes, I’m aware I can curse on the internet - it’s not my first day here. I use the exact words I mean to use, and I’m more a fan of the precision F-strike than indiscriminately carpet-bombing the place with “fucks”. Stop word-policing me (and others).

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Yeah, this went over about as well as expected. And the irony and hypocrisy of the free speech absolutists coming out of the woodwork to tell us all what we can and can’t say is not lost on me.

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    14 hours ago

    Exactly, but it erks me that it has moved into irl interaction. Perhaps I’m just an old man, (I am) and I get that even speaking in public sometimes requires self censorship on the simple grounds that it’s polite, but using corporate approved verbage on every day conversation fills.me with rage and regret