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Let’s Go Bomb Tel-Aviv

Where does Super Smash Bros go in this?

It can be, kind of. If the EC margin is less than the EC votes of your state and Trump wins your state by one vote.

Anyway if Trump wins my state by one vote and my state's EC votes are enough to flip the election, I wouldn't even consider apologizing. I'd just laugh.

very unconditional-surrender-brained about this conflict

Considering the only actual usage of nuclear weapons so far was for that exact reason, it's not looking good.

I think you're misunderstanding the change here. The change is solely about a blocked user being able to read the posts of the person who blocked them. This has nothing to do with banning or stopping them from being able to reply.

That's not really how public posts work. If it can be seen by any arbitrary person you don't know and have never interacted with, it can been seen by anyone. To think otherwise is to misunderstand the nature of your post which can be dangerous.

Considering that's the exact moderation approach of the website were all on.

Except it literally isn't? You can't block someone from seeing your posts on here.

How does that make it "effectively useless"? That was the most useless and nonsensical part of the block feature. Blocking is about you not seeing their posts (including them not being able to reply to you), not the other way around.

That doesn't make it any harder for someone to harass you. They can't harass you if they can't interact with you.

And being worried about stalking is extremely counter to posting something publicly.

Someone seeing your public posts isn't you interacting with them. You are posting something for everyone to see. If you don't want someone seeing it, don't make a public post.

You could definitely already have someone respond to you then immediately block you and you'd still see their response in your notifications.

And the solution to that is to block them back, same as if they were hurling abuse at you normally.

Also "remove the current block button" is such an incorrect and sensationalist way to put it. The block button isn't being removed, it's still there and its main functionality is still there.