I 100% align with the message from Emma Bunton and Jamie Lee Curtis. I will fight against suppression of LBGTQ+ rights and will protect trans kids unconditionally.
If any of my follower spots any way however small that I can help support, PLEASE do let me know. (As a cisgender straight male I may not directly feel or be aware of attacks).
"Spice Girl Emma Bunton doubles down on her support for LGBTQ+ youth"
““Now that they’re trying to pass all these laws, it’s even more tortuous than when I was a kid,” Schultz said. “Kids know there’s an option. They know what the path forward is. For adults to keep that from them, to me, that’s the worst torture possible.””
“There are hopeful trends, and it’s essential for us – human rights supporters – to recognize them to understand how our work matters. Day to day, the job can be a horror show. Longer-term, we see the progress that sustains us.”
“There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
Seems the world is out to gather just by gravity
The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
Look my son the weather is changing”
If any racists/bigots/misogynists feel quite comfy revealing themselves to you - when you're not doing a secret expose asshats project/assignment - they're likely a fascist, racist, bigot/misogynist enabler & need to start checking your own choices in personal association a lot better. Anyone even lending ANY support to fascists - is a fucking cowardly fascist enabler. Still a fascist - no matter how many cowardice levels stripes earned (ALL fascists are fucking loser #COWARDS )
“no one writes (or reads) cyberpunk because they think it’s all gonna be fine.
And no one founds — or works for — an organization like the Electronic Frontier Foundation because they’re confident that technology can only be used for good.”
@kierkegaank Indeed, late-stage capitalism apparently leads to early-stage ochlochracy. If only they had been unified behind the idea of Human Rights instead of breaking Wall Street :/
That message might have been heard at that time.
Sadly, this country doesn’t currently teach human rights and we still haven’t ratified the main international treaty on cultural and social Human Rights.
Ratification of that Covenant will naturally lead to budget pressures on the oligarchs.
The European Union was founded on respect for democracy and #HumanRights.
The current leadership of the EU and its Member States spits on those ideals every single day.
They are deeply embedded in illegality. From the EU’s “let them die policy” in the Mediterranean, to several member states criminalizing saving lives at sea, to the EU’s complicity in torture in Libya.
Getting blocked by Democrats that either won’t listen to reason or don’t believe in using the core principles of strictly: UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international rule-of-law, and truth-seeking, to defeat fascism.
Apparently they would rather fight a civil war than defeat facism.
“Intelligentzia” as Einstein said, or “Aristocrats” as the stand-ups say.
“Thoughts and prayers” and its new variation “we must address mental health issues” really papers over the reality of a family of four going to the mall on a normal Saturday resulting in a six year old orphan after his parents and three year old sibling are randomly murdered. the rights of gun owners above all other, even young families in a “right to life” state https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/cindy-kyu-cho-james-william-allen-mall-shooting/
“Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,”
@kierkegaank@Susan_Larson_TN "And how long shall we have to wait before the rest of mankind become pacifists too? ... By what paths or by what side-tracks this will come about we cannot guess. But one thing we can say: whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war."
@Susan_Larson_TN For whatever it may be worth to you, I once listened to a speech by an Auschwitz survivor.
One of his main points was to remove the word "hate" from your dictionary.
Hence, I would propose focusing on a positive word like "human rights" and use it in a way like "inhumane speech" or "speech that violates human rights" or "undignified speech", etc.
Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa and husband. When he died of hyperthermia while building #Tesla’s Gigafactory, they didn't tell local officials. @gusbova brings us his last hours in this important new investigation into heat deaths on the job: https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
More on this story:
On a 96-degree day in 2021, Antelmo Ramirez died of hyperthermia while working on #Tesla’s Gigafactory construction site just southeast of #Austin—making him one of 1,306 Texas construction workers to perish between 2011 and 2021, which is more than California and Pennsylvania combined, reports @gusbova: https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
"And how long shall we have to wait before the rest of mankind become pacifists too? There is no telling. ... By what paths or by what side-tracks this will come about we cannot guess. But one thing we can say: whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war."
There were two domestic, right-wing terrorist attacks in Texas this weekend, and we are not talking enough about how the Republican Party has intentionally seeded this bloodshed.
“Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,”
Paragraph 1, Preamble, UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
After an initial surge of interest, I’ve found myself lacking a strong desire to participate on Mastodon.
I think I’ve come to just hate all social media. This is partly because it both reflects and shapes the world around us, which is increasingly dangerous, divisive, and fascistic. So while my Mastodon experience is significantly less hostile, the news shared is still largely about the decaying world, a recent mass shooting, or the newest fascist legislation signed into law.
I can’t run away from it, or lock myself in a filter bubble of joyful content. Because bubble or not, the world is still a mess.
No social media can fix this, federated or not. Until the world gets better, all social media will do is make me feel like shit either by making me experience tragedy upon tragedy, or making me feel like shit for turning the other way as it happens.
Human Rights are the only peaceful, non-violent ways to defeat the forces of hate and destructiveness.
If you question the effectiveness, though, just remember that every reasonable person that witnesses your fight for #humanrights will be that much more prepared by your quality argumentation.
One’s own mental health comes first, though, for sure.
You can also consider switching battlefields from Mastodon into more passive places like kbin or lemmy