Blue report: this morning when it was spoons-o-clock, he decided he wanted to get in on it. Sometimes he's the biggest spoon, sometimes he's the littlest, today he decided to be the middle spoon and it was a solid smushy time.
Of course Trump is pushing to attack Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - some of the few social safety nets people still have access too.
Bannon and other far-Right ideologues have been calling for the destruction of the 'administrative state' for years.
Trumpism sells itself as a massive redistribution of violence against people of color, refugees, and the Left - but at its heart its just a repackaging of mass inequality for the benefit of wealthy elites as 'populism.'
ok but aren't we, also, attacking the state? obviously, we want to dismantle it in a different order, and these moves will disproportionately impact already marginalized people, but like... isn't the right response to build mutual aid networks and assume the neoliberal/fascist state is not going to help us anyway?
"At a Wednesday Conservative Political Action Conference event, Posobiec welcomed the audience as a panel session began with former White House strategist Steve Bannon.
"All right, welcome, welcome, I just wanted to say welcome to the end of democracy," he announced. "We're here to overthrow it completely, we didn't get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here, we'll replace it with this right here."
Posobiec held up what appeared to be a necklace with a Christian cross pendant."
I blocked the entire kolectiva.social domain because it’s full of nothing but antidemocratic, pro-Russian, annoying as fuck socialist and communist fuckwads.
It feels good. Try it. Let them stew and cook down to nothing all by themselves, out of sight and out of mind.
Deprive them of the attention that is the currency in which they deal. #fediblock I say.
Protip: Showing up in people's mentions who you don't follow and who don't follow you in order to give them "advice" when they have not asked for it is almost always hostile behavior and will be read as such.
Especially if your "advice" assumes they don't know what they are doing.
You aren't entitled to their time or attention and you shouldn't act surprised when you encounter hostility as a result.
and in the spirit of oscillating between criticism and agreement, let me also say unsolicited advice is rarely received well.
my main objection is to anyone writing off anything but glowing praise as somehow objectively and egregiously offensive. I know this is hyperbole in most cases, but please bear with me. I remember when I got on mastodon, having previously avoided Twitter for no real reason, I was immediately greeted by a subculture that talked poorly of "reply guys".
id say digg, reddit, and forums are the vast majority of my experience with strangers online, and those all encourage replies and comments, even argument. and when I saw people on mastodon objecting to what I think of as very normal behavior, I made a pinned post that essentially says "learn about your privacy settings if you don't like who replies" AND WHILE I STILL FEEL THAT WAY, I can recognize that the asshole who gave you a drive-by and blocked you was probably in the wrong.
Hi there, if you don’t want me to hit you, please carry this sign that says “please don’t hit me” with you always. Otherwise, I can’t possibly be held responsible if I hit you. Because it’s in my nature to hit you. I can’t live without hitting people. It’s just who I am and what I do. Thank you for your understanding in this delicate matter.
Hello Thunderbird family, and welcome back to a long-overdue episode of the #ThunderCast!
@ryanleesipes, @alecaddd and @killyourfm talk about the new features and improvements in Thunderbird 115 "Supernova." But they also share WHY those features were developed, and what's being worked on right now.
Plus, Ryan shares some breaking news about the future of the Thunderbird Project! It's a casual, informative, behind-the-scenes chat.