Anarcho-BolshevikWest German tabloids compared the IDF favourably to the Wehrmacht
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the flying spaghetti monster is real! ACAB
@inquiline how do we feel about language around prosecution & how do we measure sincerity there?
ocarina of typhpride month is coming up soon, so i want to make something very clear, especially for the younger queers and others who might not know the history.
in nearly all of america in the 50s-60s, being gay was considered both a mental illness and a crime punishable by prison time (up to and including a life sentence) and/or "experimental" psychiatric torture (electroshock therapy, lobotomies, and worse). you could lose your job for being suspected of homosexual behavior with no proof, and the fbi and post office spied on you if they knew you were queer. most gay bars were mafia-owned because no one else had the money or inclination to pay off the crooked police.
with that in mind: "stonewall," the event that we commemorate with pride parades today, was a violent riot incited by a police raid on a gay bar in manhattan. the fierce activism that has given us the basic personhood we enjoy today was built on a foundation of desperate physical struggle against unfair policing and stigma, the stakes of which were prison, death, or worse. gays, lesbians, trans folks and drag queens, dancers, kinksters, drinkers and teetotalers, all of them stuck together because nobody else had their backs. we can march peacefully today only because we had to fight for our lives before.
my point is this: there was no room in those days for means-testing who was a Real Respectable Gay, and there's no room for it now either, especially as our rights are eroding again. we have to stick together with people we think are gross but who haven't actually hurt anybody, because the same weapons you use to oust those you don't like will be turned on you in a heartbeat.
now more than ever, don't be a fucking cop.
@mcc its all a good cop/bad cop routine, and its backfiring as more people learn about ACAB.
@woe2you @majorlinux same, i've quite literally changed religions easier than the habit of having 34 tabs open.
@darkuncle " Compared to this, there is certainly a kind of pleasure in the fantasy materials: puzzles actually are puzzles, they are supposed to be puzzles & there is no officious person who will show up to lecture you on how this is all perfectly transparent & simple & there’s obviously something wrong with you for not having immediately figured it out."
@darkuncle not to be facetious or ableistic, but genuinely thats how living with OCPD feels like to me. also reminds me of the good place when they are doing the bit on how to tally whether an action was good or not. further reminds me of david graebers utopia of rules.
Scott Francis“The test: does dealing with you lower the load in someone's head, or add to it? If it adds, you're part of the noise.
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The internet's current default setting is actively hostile to sustained attention. Everything asks for a decision, wants a preference, requests a subscription, a rating, a login, a notification permission, a plan, a personalised feed, an upsell, a dashboard, a profile, a follow, a like, a reaction, a review. The strongest customer experience on offer might soon come down to three words: we handled it.”
Zack WhittakerCondé Nast shit the bed so hard when it fired four journalists last year that it's now settled with the union and given three out of the four reporters "two years’ pay and furnished [them] with positive letters of recommendation."
UNIONS, PEOPLE. UNIONS!
Stuart 
@blogdiva The Luddites were active around where I live. I've always felt it was deliberate propaganda by the elite to reframe them as being "against technology". As has often been the case in British history, the elite saw everyday people's pushback against exploitation and brought in the military, executed people, and transported people to prisons in other countries. Seems too familiar.