It’s really fucking common in the internet wild. It’s even common offline.

“Just pack up your entire life and move out of here if you don’t like it here. No one is holding a gun to your head to stay.” smuglord

Oh, I did, but it took years of planning, preparation, savings, and an early retirement with the penalties that entailed. There was no gun, but I couldn’t whisk myself out of Bazinga Land in CA any faster than I could sell a flooded house to Aquaman.

That’s it. That’s the post. No one held a gun to my head to post this, but I did it anyway.

  • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    All legal constructs are an implicit threat of violence

    I’m a sapient corporate entity, there’s no threat to me

    Worse case scenario, I’ll have to phoenix myself