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   `Da Elf (elfin@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 02:27:23 JST `Da Elf

   in reply to

   @technotenshi "Bribed Staff" is the Take-Away here.

   So, the people working for CoinBase can be bought. I wonder now about the staff of the other Coins. Just idle curiosity, mind you.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 08:02:15 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   in reply to

   @realcaseyrollins

   So short answer, he does exactly what every single person who picks a side in this debate (or any debate) and digs in tends to do... He uses every true thing he can say to his advantage, and completely denies every true thing that works against his pov as a lie (with little or no evidence to back it).

   A good test, did he have anything at **all** critical to say against his own argument? anything? nope?

   Now look at our past arguments, I clearly have picked a side out of the two. But do you see me trying to claim my side is perfect no. Look at the person arguing against him, does he admit wrong doing on both sides, or just the side he is against? That will always tell you more about who is at least being intellectually honest in any debate and it clearly isnt Dave here.

   So I will largely just reiterate my point ive made many many times before. The situation is, within the lifetime of a single person we have israel carrying out biological (infectious disease) warfare on the Palestinians in the first days of the war, they win that war, using the most vile and inappropriate of terrorism, on a scale that palestine has never came close to attempting themselves. This is accepted fact, even israel doesnt deny it. Everything else has followed from that act.

   @Murray_N

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   The Index (theindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 20:02:34 JST The Index

   MAGA has nothing left to offer except more of the same: more screaming, more outrage, more rot. It's all downhill from here.

   So what do we make of men like John Fetterman and Gavin Newsom, who now seem desperate to cozy up to it?
   https://www.theindex.media/this-is-the-dumbest-time-to-buy-into-maga/

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   carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 09:00:40 JST carl marks

   So I want to provide some elaboration on this fediblock post I made: https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/113891510610086508

   I want to remind you all of selection from of my pinned post on conflict with comrades, which I believe is relevant here.

   So, I have been rethinking how I interact with this space going forward to better protect myself but also to have a more robust and intentional framework for how to engage with conflicts. I've been learning about how revolutionaries in the past have handled conflict with each other while maintaining unity in their movement. Many of these practices existed within local orgs and communities, and therefore are not necessarily applicable or appropriate for a digital and public space like this. However, I think some lessons can still be taken. So, in light of that, HERE IS MY PROPOSAL: If I am engaging with you and I believe that while we are aligned in our goals for liberation, you are inadvertently causing harm with your words, I may ask you to self-crit. This is not an attack, but is an invitation to reconsider what you are saying. This will also mean that I am available to you, privately or publicly, to explain my thinking and have a dialogue about our disagreement.

   This policy is what I was drawing on when I engaged with the user I made a fediblock post about. As mentioned in my fediblock post, I chose to reach out privately to mention my concern and be able to explain my thinking in the hopes that I would be heard. This was a couple of days ago.

   The thing is, just as I mentioned in said pinned post that antiblackess destroys unity, ableism destroys unity too. Black disabled folks have been saying for YEARS on this and every other digital platform that they feel excluded from just about every single community space, on the left or otherwise. This is not new information by any means.

   Therefore, ESPECIALLY given that as our server's About section points out, 1 in 4 Black American adults are disabled, it is my responsibility as the admin of BQL to make sure that our space does not reproduce that same dynamic. If I want Black disabled people to feel like they can be in our community, I cannot allow ableism in our community. Full stop.

   As I feel like I keep repeating, this is something I take very seriously. And sometimes, despite my best efforts, attempts to convince people that they are doing harm are not going to be successful. That is what happened in this case. The person did not listen to me or anyone else who tried to convince her, including Black disabled people who were impacted by her words. She continued, over the course of the past two or three days, to double down, saying that racism is a mental illness. Then, she started defending using the R slur and blaming disabled people for Trump being elected, explicitly referencing alleged decreases in average IQ scores.

   When someone is repeatedly insistent on echoing eugenics ideology and Nazi talking points about intelligence, that is several steps past what is acceptable. To steal some language I got from communists, the contradiction between her deeply held beliefs and the presence and value of my disabled users was clearly antagonistic and not resolvable through dialogue.

   Sometimes, you have to do the hard thing. It wasn't pleasant, but guess what? That's the job. Do you think it was pleasant for me to suspend instances like tech.lgbt or aus.social where we had a lot of connections, cutting our users off from theirs? To make public posts about it before and after? No, it was extremely stressful and upsetting and brought a lot more harassment my way. But I did it anyway. Wasn't the first time, won't be the last.

   Oh, and it is worth mentioning that I have been accused of catering to the "white political gaze" by making my fediblock post, implying that I am doing so for the optics and because I care about getting accolades from white people more than I care about my fellow Black folks. It has been implied that this is all theater, and has no connection to any real beliefs on my part. To that, all I can say is that ableism is a bigger danger to Black folks than white people. White supremacy is inextricably tied to ableism, and I have referenced and boosted multiple works by Black disabled advocates and academics in the past two days who discuss that exact concept. In short, disability justice is not just for fucking white people.

   To close, I just want to restate that at the end of the day, ableism is a violation of rule #1 on BQL. Anyone who doesn't agree with the existence of that rule or who doesn't like it when we enforce it is no comrade of mine.

   Thanks for reading.

   #FediBlockMeta

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   bumi (bumi@kosmos.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 21:57:12 JST bumi

   in reply to

   @dalias
   I am the person who asked those questions. And I really wanted to understand. I care about events like FOSDEM and don’t know much about Dorsey and the problem here.

   So why do you call me a shithead?
   And please show me something “reportable” in my timeline where I post something unacceptable.

   When did we loose to have a conversation among people who don’t know each other?
   What do we expect when we insult people who we don’t know as “shithead”?

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 05:23:12 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   Again; lemme remind you okay - I am NEVER in these people's mentions spouting bullshit. I pretty much don't even hit the reply button unless you're in MY replies out here.

   So this is not "she isn't nice" because you fucking showed up and asked for this; ain't nobody made you pop into my replies to defend a corpse like Biden or argue that I can't say neoliberals running on a fascist platform are fascists.

   You CHOSE that. I would very much prefer you NOT choose that in the future.