@aral *raises hand* what if I live in the FSA and want to get out but due to countries with actual healthcare not wanting people with disabilities to immigrate my only option is Israel, which, uhh, *has some issues*? asking for...honestly pretty much every disabled jew in the FS right now.
@aral Well, yes. But presumably that system was designed before Erdogan.
Question, since I assume from the frequency of these postings you follow Turkish politics more than I do: do you know if this autocracy came top-down -- i.e., Erdogan first, then at a more local level -- or bottom-up -- i.e., democracy was already nonexistent or quite weak at the local level and Erdogan reflects that?
@aral Honestly I'd say not fascist is the baseline? Like not murdering. That's not a low bar, that's basic humanity. You do not get a cookie for basic humanity.
@dansup I'm sorry for you and your family's loss, and I hope that somehow, in some weird ethereal non-scientifically-shown way, you get to see him again alive.
@Gargron Seriously, Germany. You know what happens when you elect these guys, and you've seen what we've descended into -- they haven't changed. Don't mess this up.
@quinn there's also bad stuff going on in afghanistan, burkina faso, burundi, the central african republic, chad, china, the drc, eritrea, ethiopia, haiti, iran, madagascar, mauritania, myanmar, niger, somalia, south sudan, ukraine, and yemen. some of those are genocides. but also, equally periodic reminder that stuff does not need to be a genocide to be horrific and worthy of being stopped!
@Gargron And just so we're clear, Jill Stein is not who to vote for. Jill Stein will not win. Even if you despise Harris, pinch your nose and vote for her, because if you vote Harris you'll be able to vote again in 2028, and on all the issues that matter her stance is closer to correct than Trump's. If you vote Trump you won't necessarily. If you vote Stein...well, in 2016, Russia meddled in favor of Stein, which should tell you enough to know not to vote for her (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166).
@pavsmith@bontchev it's a bit weird looking at taylor lorenz' post on how bluesky is awful (as i write this at the top of 'explore' on mastodon.social) and then this.
Jewish. AuDHD. Digressive. Alexithymic.They don't want you to hope, so hope. Don't surrender to the fascists. That's how they won--silence.Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.~ John Stuart MillThe opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference.~Elie Wiesel