Old enough to remember the days when I was explaining Great Replacement theory to people as a weird, obscure Nazi thing.
As opposed to what it is now: a weird, thoroughly mainstreamed Nazi thing.
Old enough to remember the days when I was explaining Great Replacement theory to people as a weird, obscure Nazi thing.
As opposed to what it is now: a weird, thoroughly mainstreamed Nazi thing.
Eternal reminder: misogyny is not incidental to Nazism and fascism. It is a core component of these ideologies.
That's especially true for the contemporary online far right, which is why MRA and incel culture is such a fertile recruitment ground for capital-N Nazis.
https://www.mediamatters.org/manosphere/misogynistic-manosphere-influencers-embrace-nazism?s=09
Siri, show me a headline that perfectly encapsulates our present digital dystopia
Zeynep is to evidence-based public health policy what Ross was to Rachel
I have an op-ed out in the Philly Inquirer today about the Democratic party establishment's contempt for younger voters, our issues, and our role within the party.
I mean, hell, the fact that I'm pushing 40 and widely considered a younger voter still is a symptom in and of itself.
I for one applaud the Republicans for doing their part to advance the vitally important work of blocking xenophobic legislation.
We pink-haired, radical leftists should all be doing our part to make sure that GOP voters know that Trump wants to abolish borders
The saving grace with fascists is that absent clear strongman orders, they can't organize their way out of a paper bag.
They despise and distrust everyone, even each other. Sow a little paranoia in their chats, and they melt down quickly and predictably.
https://www.wired.com/story/day-one-take-our-border-back-convoy-texas/
It's such a strange feeling seeing the mainstream media taking SWATting seriously.
Would have been nice during the years that it was under-resourced antifascists and marginalized people getting targeted, but, nah.
Is he.. is he there to represent the pro-antisemitism perspective?
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-set-attend-anti-221626109.html
And like, I want to be very clear that antisemitic speech has been present and real on the left in ways that are unacceptable prior to and especially after 10-7.
But it is not antisemitic to call for ceasefire or an end to the state of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Period.
See, this is why it's so infuriating that ADL is journalists' go-to source for comment every time there's a Nazi incident in Philly.
They can't be trusted to differentiate between antisemitic speech and pro-Palestinian speech.
So, after an an uneventful and healthy pregnancy, I still almost bled out and died in labor with an undiagnosed placenta accreta.
Eternal reminder that pregnancy and birth can be disabling and even deadly (in my case, even with the best care, it came very close).
For all the rosy pictures our culture presents of pregnancy and birth as wholly safe and sweet, the risks are real.
Forced birth can mean forced death, and we can never forget that.
Moms for Liberty exists in large part as a means to sneak violent white supremacist extremists into school government settings under the guise of protecting white womanhood, and that threat persists.
At the same time, it's a huge relief to see their efforts at takeover failing so spectacularly.
He's just straight up announcing his plans to be a dictator, and the frog of democracy is so fully boiled at this point that most folks are just shrugging and tuning it out.
It's a terrifying time to be alive in large part because not enough people are terrified
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/06/is-hiding-his-fascist-plans-in-plain-sight/
Congratulations to the deepest bowels of hell on their newly acquired resident
Ffs
https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/fbi-labels-anti-fascists-and-anti-racists-as-violent-extremists/
Far right "groomer" rhetoric about queer folks and the left is projection and deflection, part one billion
Most people radically underestimate the role that misogyny played and plays in online far right radicalization, and Gamergate was *the* critical turning point for the far right using online misogynist culture as an on-ramp into the far right.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgwmdz/paul-pelosi-attacker-gamergate
We were very hesitant to use Alexa for our home, but ended up doing so mostly as a tool for ADHD management.
As Amazon aggressively kills off/degrades the "skills" and third party integrations I rely on to make my brain work, I'm thinking a lot about @pluralistic's theory of enshittification and what it means for those of us with disabilities that rely on tech to make our disabled brains and/or bodies function acceptably under capitalism.
I will say as I always do, we don't vote to elect saviors.
We vote to elect targets, targets we can organize and win pressure campaigns against.
(And to keep the fash away from levers of power.)
Go vote in some targets today!
"A very powerful ANTIFA woman who is followed by Barack Obama on Twitter" -Jody Della Barba.Antifascist, organizer, writer. She/they.
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