Notices by Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social), page 2

The KOSA bill just passed the Senate 91-3. This is a censorship bill that is worse for queer people generally than anything just done by the GOP, it was proposed and supported by the Democrats. It's a bad mistake to view the US turn towards fascism as a single party activity.

Subtoot: why is it that US liberals seem to have to construct wholly unfounded narratives about how Biden chose to step down for the good of the country? He did no such thing. Power brokers in the party forced him out.

It's a good thing that Biden is gone because he supported genocide. But please stop trying to change reality into a more pleasant form where you can reassure yourself that people who you supported were good people. They never were.

@CedarTea

Lists on Bluesky are used exclusively to badmouth people you've blocked, because there is a site called clearsky where you can look up who has put you on a list.

I don't think lists here really would work well, either by user ID or by hashtag. By user ID -> there are too many people (myself included) who just post about everything. By hashtag -> you either find nothing or spend half your time wishing people didn't pollute the hashtag

@inquiline @foolishowl

I'm not watching Netanyahu's speech to the US congress but many people on Bluesky are and seeing bits about it is unavoidable. Apparently he introduced a soldier who lost a hand and is going back to combat: this is the same scene as in Starship Troopers where the veteran instructor who lost a leg says "Everybody fights!" and goes into battle. Fascists love that stuff because it emphasizes that disabled people are only worthwhile if they really aren't.

Remember how Trump let Erdogan's security detail beat up protestors? America is going to let every right wing regime do some home style repression as a treat when they visit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna163502

Me: "The whole concept of 'rule of law' is bullshit, the law does not constrain the President and would fail the first time people tried to use it."

(people try to use it)

Supreme Court: "The law does not constrain the President in their official acts".

Liberals: "How dare that anarchist talk that way about the rule of law."

It is an absolute necessity for neoliberalism to fall. It is a zombie ideology that used to be defended by economists and now is not, yet it still exists with no one believing in it and its backers being the ultra-wealthy and no one else. The conditions that it creates and its obvious vacancy feed fascism all over the world.

The last remaining elected neoliberals, all over the Western industrialized countries, are doing what liberals always do in this case -- throwing the state to fascism.

the sickest burns are also completely accurate

@julieofthespirits

wtf really???

@futurebird

I would find and dust off my "why LLMs are horrible for librarians" thread, but there are too many catastrophes these days.

@wmd @alexwild

@inquiline

It's pretty clear that Covid stimulus payments to individuals were the most effective anti-poverty measure ever tried in recent decades. Biden could not wait to get rid of it, including by not paying people $600 of the $2000 he'd explicitly run on.

@beadsland

Also (writing this on my phone so can’t see all thread context, sorry) liberals have been taught that the final clash is a vote so they all think of the vote as the end. “Enjoy the camps” means they don’t imagine resistance after a vote where Trump wins.

Holocaust survivor removed as speaker at Holocaust museum for protesting genocide in Gaza

https://forward.com/news/618082/holocaust-survivor-cut-museum-protest-gaza/

@futurebird @jonquass @ehproque @moira

I'm not going to vote, and most anarchists do not vote. We oppose the state, not just one bad politician.

Voting in the next election, assuming that anyone reading this would vote for Biden, is not an expression of fealty but it is an approval of genocide. Biden is now officially a genocide supporter and a vote for him means that you think that this is not disqualifying.

@abolisyonista

I respect your views and I don't want a big argument about it but I think that all such vanguards were deluding themselves or others and were fundamentally self-asserting control of a struggle

@abolisyonista

I'm not into vanguards, but hasn't every historical vanguard declared themselves to be a vanguard? It's not like they are chosen by a community or something like that.