She called trans issues (specifically Republicans trying to enact a bathroom ban) a distraction too. Pick me ass

Yes. They used multiple arguments that were straight up genocide denial (human shields, Hamas actually blew up those hospitals, etc)

I am personally very sad that the main line of argument that Democrats have taken against criminalizing trans women is “this will hurt cis women”, because who the fuck cares about trans women right??

I didn’t expect much & was still disappointed

The first half of that video is honestly not bad. If he cut it off there it would have been fine & pretty much true.

In my experience Firefox gives you more privacy than the mainstream browsers (chrome, edge, safari) & is a good way to move away from them, but it’s a non-profit in Silicon Valley so that comes with limitations. The new privacy policy is certainly concerning & I’m personally to the point where I’m ready to try something else.

College literally made me realize that just because one person belongs to a marginalized group doesn’t mean that they cant been huge assholes and liberals in other ways against other marginalized groups.

Yeah, this was what I learned making the switch from Twitter to open source social media a few years back. Twitter was becoming worse & worse specifically with harassment campaigns by white queers against Black queers so I ended up trying to find a better space that was more open to talking about racism. I thought I was fine if I found a specifically LGBTQ server but most of them have huge racism problems. The only corner I found is mostly Black & they are constantly being accused of shit, being called unreasonable or aggressive, etc by white queers. I also noticed they have a lot of ableism in those spaces. I usually see them parroting State Dept talking points too.

Local Discord banned me & called me a Nazi for defending Hamas lol. It’s everywhere.

What’s that quote about wrestling a pig in the mud?

Fedi is very liberal. Support for Ukraine is a foregone conclusion generally, & I also found out the server I was on (an LGBTQ server) was moderated by a zionist when I started talking about the genocide.

I did find a corner where disability justice, imperialism, & trans liberation were the baseline, but it took a while

Where is a good source that I can read about Navalny?

Can’t help but wonder how much tariffs & embargos sped this process up

24% vs 4% is by estimations about a 40m person difference. That seems like an incredibly important point to get across

I remember reading about the “true unemployment rate” a while back, I always go there to check the rate instead of that 4% number. So ridiculous.

True unemployment rate

EDIT: Looks like it’s from the author of that article! Anyways yeah it’s a running counter

Jackson Hinkle is that u

I never noticed but who’s the person on the screen?

Agreed. When I read about imperialism it seems to me like a lot of pressure is just constantly being put on these other countries through many forms (propaganda, finance capital, military presence, etc) - I wonder what will happen when this pressure is released even just a little bit by this chaos.

The propaganda network is currently being thrown into chaos, the world looks at the US very differently since the 2008 financially & it is stretched very thinly, the military was shown to be quite the paper tiger, such as when they went face to face with Yemen with nothing to show for it. The US is still very dangerous but it’s in such decay over the past generation, I don’t think anyone including the Dems have come to terms with it.

Oh my goodness that’s a hall of famer

There was a similar thing that happened that illustrates the same point.

Media has been silent about bird flu, many people telling me I’m overreacting as the supply chain has been getting slowly infected over the last 1-1.5 years. Now that Trump’s in office, Rachel Maddow covers it in a 10-minute long monologue & everyone’s like “have you heard about the bird flu?”

It’s like nothing exists until Trump does it

He has been on mastodon for a while at this point, which means a lot of the Mastodon community knows if him, & a lot of people have been bringing up his past & their interactions with him with all the new attention he’s getting. He’s been racist, transmisic, & has been pretty negligent about moderation.

https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/113822469270748843

Unfortunately, everyone on mastodon started comparing notes on their interactions with the founder of pixelfed/loops & he seems to simply be the open-source version of a tech billionaire