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  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNews@lemmy.world•A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
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    28 days ago

    Witness this right wing authoritarian whining about getting ratio’d for spouting Moral-Fear-Propaganda openly dehumanizing one group of people under another, crying about it.

    Fascism is a virus all of it’s own, a weird evil in a bad way, the only kinds of degenerates with the only kind of kinks society must stop. Their bloodlust is the poison. This White-Supermacist, Eugenicist Cancer asks you to turn your neighbor in and destroys every nation that obliges.

    So reader, Solidarity Forever. Ill promise you, you promise me, to never sell each other out to these murderous theives. I’ll call you on your shit, please call me on mine. We’ll work together, and our grass will be the greener in time. ❤️‍🔥

    (Obvs wont be replying, will be mute-block-deleting any interactions from bigots)

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•How can we return to techno-optimism?English
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    2 months ago

    Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely – being fed up with the state of the industry – but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here’s what’s kept me optimistic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

    Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to “reject isms/be your own ism”

    Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

    I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule
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    3 months ago

    Heh, foresaw you getting hung up on “liberation”

    It’s not complicated nor is it this profound thing: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16007006

    It’s commisseration, really Can you just let some traumatized autisitic transfems (and others) have that?

    No? Yes? Doesnt matter. Thats the point of the video, it’s not about you. Thats also part of the point of parody’ing incels (which as an aside: the concept of invcel was originally coined by a woman and was meant to be a supportive, all-gender, friendly place – before the right co-opted it.

    No, i’m posting this for the next tranzqueer who comes along, who might [like I had] be unaware of these things and tend to gravitate to the Narrative of the Johns without reminders that there is so, so much more nuance, and meaning to be found in the world, beyond the limits of what is scripted, shot, edited, produced and published for the target audience composed of Stanleys & Johns.

    So thanks for reading. I did not expect you to watch that whole video, but since you did, I hope your life will be enriched by the appreciation that creations, be they AAA titles or shitty memes, dont need to make sense to your perspective in order for them to have great value, both to marginalized audiences who benefit from seeing themselves humanized, but also to the rest, because in order to dehumanize someone else you first demhumanize a tiny part of yourself – and art can heal that, too.