For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
I dont know about yall, but Ive never been had a Muslim threaten to beat me to death. Its all christians.
she doesn't have dms open so i can't ask her abt it but this is where my brain goes when i hear about a telegenic ex-evangelical mega church pastor gaining attention through frankly-stupid issues related to sharing my marginalized identity lol
Weird Alex@jackalpants.bsky.social · 13h agoIf you were a notable neo-Nazi, and you are trying to do better, that is good; but if you do not understand that "I will no longer seek power over anyone other than myself" is an essential part of that redemption you are not redeemed at all. You're still a fucking Nazi.
If you were a notable neo-Nazi, and you are trying to do better, that is good; but if you do not understand that "I will no longer seek power over anyone other than myself" is an essential part of that redemption you are not redeemed at all. You're still a fucking Nazi.
appeasing the easily-manipulated is transitive acquiescence to the malevolent
Fascists aren't gay. Fascism frames sexuality as an exercise of power, not attraction. They don't care about gender; they hate queers because we engage in consensual activity among equals rather than engaging in predation and humiliation rituals. None of this is hard to understand if you try.
What you have to know folks, while you think idiot & moron are just cool convenient insults for people you can discard as your intellectual inferiors, these terms actually come from eugenics! They are what evil doctors used to do horrible things to folks with conditions like Downs Syndrome & autism!
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
I remain genuinely shocked that the American public saw what USA Gymnastics did for over a decade and then let a bunch of people persuade them that all school level sports k-12 should be under the same rules as the U.S. Olympic ecosystem because trans people asked to play on teams where they’d fit.
Speaking as an estranged member of an LDS family, this is the inevitable outcome of assuming that a white Mormon is capable of seeing minorities as human
Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d agoThis may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.
So much energy is put into people who do bad and we pretend it’s not libidinal Because if you actually get into it.. into cults, abuse etc… we see all over how much work has to be done by abusers to circumvent goodness Why aren’t we asking how to support those who do good ?
Okay so this is the Black kid pepper-spraying machine, right?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Schools in at least three states will be equipped with drones this year that can zoom through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. The drones are capable of reaching a shooter within 15 seconds.
There are so many things wrong here but at what point is anyone gonna care enough to ban plenary adoption Every goddamn time one of these family annihilators is profiled, they inevitably have a huge family with some quantity of kids they trafficked from overseas Never did a bigger red flag exist
Chad Livengood@chadlivengood.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: Husband killed his wife, six kids before taking his own life in west Michigan, police say www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
We should rid our ranks of all impotent thinking. All views that overestimate the strength of the enemy and underestimate the strength of the people are wrong.
TRUE and also: "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human," from Count Zero, is a line I keep coming back to in this current moment
Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 2w agoFor a while there was a worry that you couldn’t adapt Neuromancer because the concepts behind it are anachronistic but the counter to that is that science fiction is fake as hell and nobody cares if it looks sick.
Get this. Black folks know this & why we actually pity y'all. White supremacy as a system is oppressing everyone, even white people. It attacks us by different vectors. Black folks get the greatest brute force, white folks serve elite interests & their own oppression keeping us down for elites.
nature has produced basically 2 animals out of a bazillion that can actually stand to hang out with us we should do everything in our power to make sure they never get old and die.
jessica jonestown@newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 2w agowhat if we all got together and we put aside our differences and we worked really hard on figuring out how to make it so cats and dogs never die? like what if we just agreed like, no one's cat or dog should ever die and we just did that and then got back to being horrible to each other?
I think journalists should recuse themselves from commenting on the feds coming after the NYT because their identity as journalists makes them too close to the story to be objective, sorry but that’s how fact work
Corinne Green@ket.bsky.social · 2w agoftr you have my permission to enjoy the failing new york times getting harassed by the feds. journos will tell you it's bad for any journos to get harassed by the feds but of course they'd say that. they can act aghast at you but they can't actually make you give a shit about nyt staff. fuck 'em.
I am mad & I don't have a problem with it because it's not a problem. If it's bad to you that I'm mad, it's because you carry society's hate for people like me. So fix that. We mad people accept ourselves. Learn to accept us. @anondeplume.bsky.social @coolhand.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
as a black person especially, I won't let anyone tell me to my face that we need to handle things "peacefully" we got our rights in the first place by physically fighting for it. I hope every other minority understands.
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NO ONE IS COMPETENT THE WORLD IS BURNING THE CHRISTO-FASCIST WANT THIS THEY THINK IT WILL BRING THE SCEOND COMING THEY ARE IN POWER they're also stupid as fuck lmao oppose them deny them these doomsday freaks rule us but they are living in a fantasy
Ex-military guys in particular talking about "woke 2" and "reconstruction" are fucking hilarious. Either you're willing to get down and dirty with that M4 training and do some Stalinist denazification, or you're talking shit. Sorry. That would be your role and your penance.
Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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