Florida Ted

@florida_ted@friendica.myportal.social
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Dreaming of a world at peace

You can write a perfect article.

Check every source. Nail every fact.

But if it doesn’t make the feed, it doesn’t make a dent.

Distribution is reality now.

I will never understand the fear of “overreacting” to Nazism. You’re worried about being too alert to genocidal ideology? That’s like worrying the fire alarm is being rude to the flames.

Trans rights affects everyone
https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/trans-rights-affect-everyone-273065

We're enduring a multi-decade ultraconservative libertarian/Christian right billionaire-funded push toward a white Christofascist theocracy
* zero social programs
* strict M/F sex binary
* thought/behavior tightly scripted/controlled
* no 2SLGBTQIA+ rights
* women subservient to men; no reproductive rights/right to vote

Critically-required reading
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113437776461706493

#TransRights #transgenocide #HumanRights #Christofascism #theocracy

How the trans rights struggle affects everyone | Xtra Magazine

OPINION: Precedents set by anti-trans movements are driven by the idea that the government and private institutions should have the power to police us all

Xtra Magazine
Gardening is like growing your own money.

The US Constitution says...

The grift is ON

Well, here we are. It's happening.

"The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." (1/2)

I was on my way out of college when the Obama years hit, and I vividly remember the weird feeling of foreboding I had as all of the capital-L liberal orgs were so happy that we were entering a "post-racial" world.

"No need to worry, y'all! We've won!" Just like that, a lot of the valuable infrastructure of the civil rights era was folded up and put aside.

I lost friends over thinking that was bullshit back then. I really wish I'd been wrong, but I wasn't.

1/9

If you really believe your religion is true, it should be able to withstand scrutiny.

https://friendica.myportal.social/display/e65e1095-8868-017e-bf68-236068926487

If you really believe your religion is true, it should be able to withstand scrutiny.