It is a proper sociopolitical litmus test these days if you have at least one personal acquantance who'd be "quietly disappeared" by your local fascist party as soon as they seize any substantial amount of power,

or not.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from #magic.

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Any sufficiently sophisticated nonsense is indistinguishable from #philosophy.

Take #Heidegger for example.
If you remove anything that is in some way related to his confusing *techne* and *mechane*, and *aletheia* and *apokalupsis*, what remains?
Pretty little, except that Jewry sucks shit and must die (but not in a mechanized way because that makes you yourself part of the planetary cancerous being that ends all Beyng from the world).

Well this is not at all a valid philosphy, but merely same-old-same-old rural Southwest German Catholic #Antisemitism, ganished with a sprinkle of Neoromantic technophobia and well hidden within a graphomanic's word salad.

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Dass die #taz @taz_de ein verdammtes #Nazi-Problem hat, sind keine leeren Worte. #tazgate

Hier ein Beispiel, das es auf den Punkt bringt:

"alle [...] Riesenbogen [...] klar so zu benennen" ist ein ganz archetypischer #AfD-Dogwhistle von der "linksgrünversifften Islamisierungsverschwörung" die die "Meinungsfreiheit unterdrückt".

(Ja, man kann solchen Nazidreck melden. Nein, es bringt so gut wie nie etwas. Für euch getestet.
Diese beiden Kommentare wurden immerhin von der Moderation als wertvoll eingestuft. Sonst wären sie direkt in Ablage P gewandert.)

Ich schlage also vor, die taz ändert ihre "Netiquette" in:

"Wir akzeptieren:
• Beleidigungen und Diskriminierung
• Rassismus, Populismus, Häme und Hetze
• Verschwörungstheorien"

Denn dass sie es tun, ist eine selbstevidente und unumstößliche Tatsache.

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So here's the thing. TERFs - that's an easy one. Usually vatnikoids these days, stuck in a 100+yo suffragette #feminism that was highly appropriate when there still was a Kaiser in Germany, but hasn't since, because it has achieved its main aim.
Deal with them as with any other reactionary (the "R" in #TERF means REACTIONARY. There is nothing "#radical" about these rank and usually decrepit boomer booj.) and you're set.

BUT: what about individuals who claim to be #trans with a vengeance, only to rant and rail against the "#woke #genderism #conspiracy", and who even promote the views of the most extreme breed of religious right fanatics who call consciously #queer people "animals" that ought to be "culled" etc?

It's not a numerically significant problem, but these few people do have a toxic impact at the boundary of queer communities and the so-called "normal" people that is utterly without proportion to their numbers. They are the "good trans" the trans-haters leverage against queers.

How does one confront them? I am always tempted to #deadname them (since it seems highly likely they are not trans at all, just batshit insane - "cosplaying as trans" if you will)... but THAT is a road that does not look like it could lead to anything good.

ich habe jeds endlich mal geschafft, in megres "#anastasia"-reihe reinzuschauen (*hüstel* raubmordzukopieren *hüstel*) und AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH MY EYES it HURRRRRTS LIKE HELL make it STAHP PLZ

wenn du dein kleinkind von einem marder mit zerkautem marderfraß füttern lässt, dann kriegt das davon keine lichtseele - das kriegt DIE FUCKING TOLLWUT ey.

otoh... es sind vatniks, und: "the only good #vatnik..."