Stardust

@brightstardust
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US’ian. Voted for Harris. Salty.

Profile pic is a lineup of companions in the video game Dragon Age Inquisition: Cole, Dorian, The Iron Bull, Sera, and Solas.

Header image is the Ukrainian flag, because I support Ukraine in their fight for survival and freedom.

@wdlindsy This is precisely what those mass rallies are for. Not only an opportunity for people to show that they exist and that they are multitudes, and to create opportunities for community organizing; but also to shortcircuit the dysfunctional corporate media that are effectively part of the enemy now.

"Why do you call it a 'Duality Fallacy' when there are clearly *three* options here?!?" you may be thinking.

Yes, the "Centrist" option is fascinating, and in many ways is the entire point of the Duality cultural technology.

Just "right v left", without a "center", creates the very mobilization and activation that neofascism's reformations from paleofascism exist to defang.

Essentially, they recognized that if people are forced to choose, they'll choose the left.

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I feel like a trick the neofascists played was making everyone believe that all things exist as a triad on a line.

What this did is set up the idea that there's just a right and a left and a center (better!) and that all of human political history and thought can be derived through the "conflict" between liberty and tyranny, capitalism and communism, poverty and prosperity, and that each of these things has a clear definition and set of criteria that is correct! or incorrect!

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Rather than be openly aligned with Capital, the "center" would be the "heartbroken and powerless but wise and adult arbiters of an unfortunate reality" that just happened to be...neofascism.

"Why do the police murder Black people in their homes, in the street!!?" the people would cry out

"Because Blacks are violent monsters!" the militant wing would sneer.

In contrast,

"Because they need more training!" the Center would sob. "We are heartbroken. I assure you I have thots and praers."

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The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."

It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.

This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.

Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.

Bravo to whoever made this happen!

No Kings protesters are wiring a movement built to win

Six things the DC No Kings survey data β€” and the pivot to May Day β€” tell us about a resistance that keeps stepping up.

https://medium.com/@jasonsattler/no-kings-protesters-are-wiring-a-movement-built-to-win-1158cfaf811a

No Kings protesters are wiring a movement built to win

Six things the DC No Kings survey data β€” and the pivot to May Day β€” tell us about a resistance that keeps stepping up.

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On Palm Sunday it is tradition to beat obnoxious, nasty people with palm fronds. If you haven't any palm fronds, a shrub or large stick will do. I don't make the rules.🌴
Every nation should treat billionaires like a natural resource and mine them of their riches until exhausted, just like a nice thick seam of coal or a reservoir of oil, then make the spoils available to the nation's citizens. If they crop up again, mine them again.
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