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Trans rights are human rights. None are free until all are free. The existence of billionaires is a failure of society. Free Palestine. Under the streets, the beach.

🇿🇦🇳🇿 but a long way from a patriot.

Climate pessimist. Revolution optimist. Lifelong pacifist but grappling with it recently. Data engineer by trade.

I try not to hornypost / kinkpost but I don't mind if you do.

Terfs, nazis, cops and landlords will be blocked.

If you want to follow me, be warned: I boost a lot of stuff.

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tofugolem, to random
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We know exactly what conservatives mean when they say “woke.”

In the name of “fighting wokeness,” Republicans banned award-winning books that criticized the Holocaust.

From this, we can infer that to Republicans, “woke” means “not a Nazi.”

And just like that, you understand why it makes them so angry.

passenger,
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@AtheistIntelligence @tofugolem

I started seeing it around 2010 - 2011. I think I didn't take it seriously enough at the time, in part because I didn't have the wider perspective to understand what I was seeing, and partly because I didn't want it to be true.

Were you involved in the atheist scene at the time? It was basically ground zero, I think.

passenger,
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@AtheistIntelligence @tofugolem

The struggle for liberation begins inside ourselves: you killed the fascist inside your head. Well done.

passenger,
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@tofugolem @AtheistIntelligence

4chan and places like that always had nazis in the "ha ha only joking unless it's okay to be serious in which case I'm serious" way. I definitely agree with you there.

However, movement atheism in 2011 saw the fash nerds arise who later led to gamergate and the Sad Puppies, which led to the alt-Right in general, which was basically the dry run for Trump. A lot of the same personalities were involved in that (Sargon, Milo, Andy) who crop up repeatedly later. As such, I think you can draw a direct lineage back to Elevatorgate in a way that you can't as easily draw back to 4chan, although there was an overlap of course.

IMHO this is because movement atheism in the late 2000s / early 2010s was a weird place, adjacent to both the online feministsphere and a lot of online chuds. As such, it was one of the places where the whole "woke SJWs cucks are stealing our culture and we have to take it back" thoughtlines first came into prominence among alienated white guys.

adamgreenfield, to random
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So here’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I live in the UK, where (as you may know) our National Health Service, the , is under severe strain. I believe a lot of that strain is intentional – designed to fracture the system so that it’s easy to privatize – but some of it is organic, and however it arises, it’s a real thing. With the need for access to care increasingly desperate, what I wonder is why people with healthcare skills are not setting up free clinics.

passenger,
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@adamgreenfield

This is an interesting question. My hypothesis - from my experience during the mutual aid movement, and what happened afterwards - is that British society spends enormous amounts of energy on denying the possibility of alternatives.

Healthcare is an example. Yes, the NHS is fracturing. But there isn't even a widespread cultural acceptance of private healthcare, let alone more radical alternatives. The possibility that something else might exist, whether good or bad, is a very fringe one and is often seen as dangerous.

I don't think this is done out of malice, by some sinister cabal of cackling plutocrats in a dark room. I think it's a side effect of the 1990s - 2010s, of the post-politics era, the overconfident attempt to persuade people that privatisation was the only way forward - and later the desperate attempt to persuade people that austerity was the only way forward. There are decades of propaganda to persuade people that there is no such thing as possibility, and that sort of propaganda will ultimately be successful, not least in persuading the leadership themselves.

I think this may also be part of why so many British movements that establish possibility end up turning to conspiracy theory or fascism.

passenger,
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@pete @adamgreenfield

Likewise!

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Yeah, all rideshare companies are literally middle men skimming off the top, except they're not skimming. They are taking the lion's share and telling us to go fuck ourselves.

passenger,
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@itsmeholland @SallyStrange @Steve @big_louse @Adam_Cadmon1 @ntnsndr

They've existed in a few places.

One of Uber's first acts when it started up was to drop its prices so low (and put its pay rates so high) that the taxi coops couldn't afford to compete, and went out of business. Then, once they were a monopolist, they could jack up the prices and lower the pay once more.

There's a certain irony to the fact that capitalism can't survive in a genuinely free market: it needs to exert power to destroy the market in order to flourish.

Stoned_Deva_, to random
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The previous tenants were rocket scientists, obviously.

passenger,
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@Stoned_Deva_

Oh hey you found where the SpaceX launch test rocket scientists used to live.

InternetEh, to random
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The white house press release on Arab American Heritage Month goes out of its way to mention Oct. 7 and Hamas. (Not April Fools)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-arab-american-heritage-month-2024/

passenger,
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@InternetEh @Mary625

I suspect they looked at it and said "well if we don't take the time out to insult the people whom Trump has promised to exterminate, we'll lose the moderate fascist vote."

meganL, to random
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I see stuff I'd boost except for the fact that it uses ableist framings like "insane" for capitalism, greed, etc.

Learn to call it what it is. The reason insanity is a legal defense is because it is a mental disability one does not choose that affects one's ability to judge.

That is not the case with what many "progressives" are labeling "insane". Find non-ableist and more accurate ways of labeling what billionaires are doing.

passenger,
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@pawsplay @meganL

I used 'evil' until a dude assumed that I was a theist because of it. That was a weird misunderstanding and not one I want to repeat.

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@meganL @DavidM_yeg @SallyStrange

Yeah, to clarify, I had called an activity "evil" and the dude had responded (he wasn't in the conversation at all but was just a passing replyguy caught on the wind) that I was being naive by attributing it to the supernatural malice of the devil rather than to simple human greed and callousness.

(I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember the exact thing.)

passenger,
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@libramoon @meganL

The definition you quoted is literally ableism. There cannot be a purer example of ableism (where applied to mental health) than that.

Cambridge dictionary bases its definition on usage: it's descriptivist rather than prescriptivist. Ergo, having an ableist definition in that dictionary suggests that the compilers of that dictionary think that the ableist usage of the term is a widely used one.

passenger,
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@libramoon @meganL

"Insane" comes from the Latin "sanus", literally "healthy." It's the same root as "sanitation" and "sanitarium." It has been a health word for longer than it has been an English word. (This is quite common for medical words, because doctors fucking love Latin.)

Since then, it has been used to mean "making bad or self-destructive decisions", but that's exactly the point here: the sentence "you're making such bad decisions that it's as if you're suffering from poor mental health" is turning a condition into an insult, which is the definition of ableism.

passenger,
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@libramoon @meganL

Again, the term for that would be "self-destructive." Many people are self-destructive who do not suffer from mental illness, and many people who suffer from mental illness are not self-destructive.

Look, I get that you're trying to justify your own use of bigoted language here.

What I'd like to understand is, are you doing this because you're a bigot yourself, or simply because you don't care who you hurt and want to continue being careless about it?

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Sorry, WHAT?!?
Whatever happened to "practice what you preach"?

#UKPolitics #Godders #HumanRights #WarCrimes

https://news.sky.com/story/archbishop-of-canterbury-to-say-church-is-not-party-political-amid-rwanda-plan-spat-13105149

passenger,
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@fkamiah17

He practises what he preaches: snivelling deference to power in the interests of middle-class respectability.

BigTittyBimbo, to random
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Praying for normal day of visibility so I can see normally

passenger,
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@BigTittyBimbo

How is it that you keep coming up with nonstop bangers?

BigJesusTrashcan, to random
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passenger,
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@BigJesusTrashcan

Fuck Nazis.

mikemccaffrey, to random
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Outrageous that .org posted an article (not linked since it should not get clicks) titled "RFK Jr. may have missed a major opportunity with his VP pick" as if he were a serious political candidate worthy of public consideration and not a wackjob.

Please please please, and editors, do your job of helping society actually function better instead of allowing everything to collapse into ruin.

passenger,
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@mikemccaffrey

Neutrality is a hell of a drug, it seems.

quietmarc, to random
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Blah. Feeling the good ol' general anxiety today. It's fun, feeling like a tiger is about to eat my face, but not seeing any tigers in my vicinity. But feeling them!

passenger,
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@quietmarc

❤️

angiebaby, to random
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Immortality sounds dreadful.

passenger,
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@angiebaby

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

passenger,
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@angiebaby

I like humans! We make cool art and write great novels, and some of us are funny, and some of us are pretty.

Sure, you may say "rocks aren't ever mean to me", but I bet rocks have never invited you to a board games party and made food for you either.

passenger,
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@angiebaby

Would you like to come to our next board games party?

Ellen, to random
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So I heard the Mediterranean diet is great for PCOS but I am so stressed about the idea of eating that way because I am TERRIBLE for letting food rot in the fridge (thanks ADHD) and I just can't face that shame. I feel so rotten and hormonal and deeply unhealthy...but also I have no energy for foraging in the kitchen. Can't even get in there for the trash right now.

passenger,
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@Ellen

All my support. I know what this feels like and it fucking sucks.

passenger,
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@Ellen

For me what's worst is that there's a voice inside my head which has the shitty attitude of "you know it's not hard, you can just get up and walk into that room."

And no, I can't, but that voice just snottily refuses to believe it.

Fuck that voice, tbh. I refuse to let my own internalised ableism get me down.

passenger,
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@Ellen

❤️

If you need to stay in bed, or skip out on plans, or eat carbs, or attack heaven to dethrone God and build a crown from His bones, then I understand. We shouldn't judge others' coping strategies. Do what you have to.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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🤔"Unions are better than DEI!" is a very confused statement. Because unions and DEI address completely different problems.

One important thing that effective DEI does, is address anti-Black racism. It makes the workplace tolerable for your Black coworkers (if you have any).

Most public school teachers in the US are in a union. And yet, Black teachers and Black students experience massive amounts of racism from those teachers. Because unions aren't a magical answer for anti-Black racism.

passenger,
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@philip_cardella @mekkaokereke

While I am proud, as an IWW member, that we were always a union with no race bar and gender bar, I am sad that that is something to be proud of.

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