unintentionally very funny sentence at the end of this paragraph in A Fire Upon the Deep

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Yes they do and creating a nebulous category of ppl who have no rights is the exact opposite of how we reconsolidate this democracy. This is a justification for mass repression when what we need is a mixture of targeted prosecutions and wide-ranging reforms that rip up MAGA power by the roots.

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The counterpoint of all the startups that people denigrated as "tech bros just want to replace their moms" is that those startups found their primary market among working moms who wanted to pay someone to take some work off their hands.

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Part of recognizing that the work that moms do is real work is allowing that work to be done for money, instead of assuming that it is too minimal for anyone but a child to find to be a burden.

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Well, I'm sorry to hear that, and I'm not trying to argue about your specific case, which I know nothing about. I think Sky is dead-on about vibes-based truth on this website and in politics more generally. I will take your word for it that they chose a bad set of posts to demonstrate it.

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