@georgetakei wow a fox news propaganda writer/host is able to freestyle propaganda in front of live cameras?? SO IMPRESSIVE wow he must be telling the truth.
@steter its always like this. I make sure to listen to tracks on the monitors and also on my good mixing headphones at night when I usually make the most progress on music. Then I wake up the next day and listen to the exact same shit and I find something sounds off.
Your brain does this weird shit with creative expression, and it seems to work both ways. Sometimes shit sounds better in the morning! Haha
Right wing individuals are responsible for 99% of all mass shootings, and right wing values are responsible for mass gun proliferation, mass psychosis about LGBTQ people and leftists, paranoid-delusional fantasies about "invisible armies invading america", etc.
And yet. The fascists are trying to build a narrative that says "trans people" are that threat, despite the evidence we all have.
Will we offer any resistance to this narrative? Or will we let Hitler 2.0 launch himself from it?
Yes, lets watch as a fascist gameshow host, who has people read things to him because he cant read well, deploys the military and guard to illegally, unconstitutionally occupy american cities because people say mean things to him from those cities, and because he personally watches propaganda news networks that fill his mediocre brain with paranoid fantasy -- the same propaganda news whose hosts he hired to be in his government.
@aral "just like how it is in china" lmao sinophobic white imbeciles the world 'round.
Meanwhile the only country on earth qualified as a "tankie" nation is the US, who have been using armored vehicles and tanks against peaceful protestors since tanks and armored vehicles have existed. 😆
If a nation/state is going to have my data, Im going to wager that nations that have NOT terrorized the world for 100+ years for PROFIT are better off with it.
@neckspike@silver_huskey@majorlinux if you expect assumptions about everything that benefits your position, and refuse to provide even one fucking link to one fucking thread where all the hidden racism is, I am beginning to suspect you arent authentic.
@silver_huskey@majorlinux 30+ year tech worker, an I know mastodon very well. Its tiring explaining this to people, but this is my life lol.
I know how to access almost any masto instance, yes, which is whI was interested in th8e instances seeing waves of bullshit. I literally want to try to engage and fight fascists, as Ive been doing offline and online for decades of my life. I want to protect masto.
@silver_huskey@majorlinux speaking of believing people -- you are saying I must believe you even though there isnt any evidence of anything (its all private, hidden, deleted), and so therefore I should agree that mastodon is shit and racist without actually verifying that myself even though this SPECIFICALLY helps facebook and fascist twitter companies claw back users? Huh.
@majorlinux@silver_huskey weird. Why would they attack you, randomly like that? I mean I am very promiscuous, I run a blog, and Ive been a pretty aggressive antifascist and leftist voice online forever. Where are my attackers? lol why arent I getting hate DMs? This is my original account.
@silver_huskey@majorlinux understood. That may be true, but Im always looking for it -- I have numerous accounts and have no trouble accessing content on almost any instance.
So you are saying most of the hate speech and personal attacks are done privately, through DMs, and that's why nobody sees it?
Yeah I follow a few people who discuss leftist ideologies, which is what "anti black racism" is included within. Would love to see the threads with the actual racism in it so that I can engage.
@silver_huskey@majorlinux yeah, this. Im nb, a writer, tech worker, hard leftist, and I keep hearing (but not really seeing) this. Ive heard this identical thing for 8 years now, on and off, since the first large migration of users began, which threatened the large corporate networks who want ALL the data to train their "AI" with. That's right around the time when the "its too hard" and "its filled with racism" people showed up.
@silver_huskey@majorlinux Im not entirely sure about this. Im antifascist as fuck and I look for a fight with racists and people from that ideology every day that Im online (which is every day), but I dont see anywhere near as much of that here as on any of the other corporate, non-decentralized networks.
Also mastodon dot social is connected to threads, which is facebook, and can re-expose people to the standard racism and bigotry that exist there.
Ive been trying to get hate bombed here for literally 8 years, as Ive been doing online for the better part of 25 years. I go uninvited into large mainstream threads and write hard left politics, speak on the Israeli genocide of palestine, LGBTQ rights,m etc etc, but I get back 1/1000th the hate here as on any other network Ive used.
@majorlinux its weird, but since coming here in 2018 all Ive seen masto do is grow, all the while, since basically the start, people say "its not working/people are leaving/nobody cares."
Huh. But they are flocking BACK to regular old corporate trash social media? Ok.
"Everyone is equally responsible for wars we are involved with and sell arms into - both systemically impoverished, occupied, lynched indigenous people with no military who do desperate guerilla warfare, & massive western-backed, intentionally-built, nuclear armed Divide and Conquer projects who receive billions every year to do exactly this."
We sell white phosphorous to the Israelis and others, with the stipulation "only use it for signalling and smoke screens". 😠
@Mary625@msquebanh Im a bit afraid... and extremely sad. I just can't fathom taking either the side of the occupier, or the "safe" narrative that says Palestinian guerilla warfare against an occupier is just "terrorism".
On top of all of this, there is the propaganda! The propaganda is SO bad lately that you have to do your damn research before offering opinions! What about 70 years of settler violence, supported by the Israeli state, ON TOP of military violence??
Ive had 4 masto profiles. Instance admins tend to lean neoliberal or right-wing, and I havent found my "home" profile yet, so this will be it until I find something better. Medically vulnerable family here, sheltering in place for over 4 years so far. Science-literate, history and politics-literate, and not interested in "america first" propaganda.I'm also on Climatejustice.social and the mastodon dot social instance, for now. Just trying to find home.