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@ squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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formerly /u/squirrelrampage on Reddit

  • Stop asking...

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  • Fun fact: The mouse was already invented in the 60s and was part of the famous "Mother of all Demos" which shaped modern computing like no other single event since then.

  • UK Supreme court rules legal definition of a woman excludes trans women

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  • Unfortunately, the UK does not need to import transphobia from anywhere. The UK's TERFs pioneered modern transphobia in many cases and they have been at it for a loooooong time. In many cases, it was the UK's TERFs who came up with a ton of the now common transphobic arguments which the US and other places adopted from them, rather than the other way around.

    Mind, they are 110% fascists and they love to sit down with the US' Heritage Foundation and other fascist US orgs in order to coordinate with them.

  • Any day now

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  • Underground tunnels are not part of the US' jurisdiction and thus the US government has no obligation to save them.

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    Why is it that every time a film, series or game has as its protagonist someone who is part of a minority, right-wingers try to problematize everything?

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  • As other people have already mentioned: No, you are not paranoid. The pattern that you recognise is fake outrage or ragebait.

    If you have some time to spare and are curiously about how the right-wing outrage machine works, I can highly recommend the video essay "Stellar Blade: The Fake Outrage" by Shaun. His videos can be a little dry, but he goes to great lengths to pick apart a single example (the video game Stellar Blade) and how the right-wing first embraced the game (in the name of their fight against "wokeism, DEI,..."), only to then do a full about-face when the game did not turn out exactly as they had envisioned (and claim that the game was full of "wokeism, DEI,...").

    It's a long video, but it does a very good job to expose the mix of unsubstantiated claims, copy-pasted accusations and ultimately fake outrage that underlies right-wing behavior these days.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsSguYNHpk

  • Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

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  • I am not a liberal, so I can totally be outraged about what the article is describing and point out the Guardian's contribution to that particular problem.

  • Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

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  • Here is some news coverage of what's going on in the Guardian. Mind, some of the articles are a little older, but the overall situation hasn't improved. The only thing that has changed is the normalization of the transphobic content the Guardian has put out over the years.

    The articles below contain links to various Guardian articles

  • Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

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  • And let's not forget that the Guardian has had no qualms to participate in transphobic witchhunting for years. No matter what hand-wringing they now do, they share a part of the responsibility for it coming this far and probably won't stop pushing transphobia either...

  • The future l̶i̶b̶e̶r̶a̶l̶s̶ lesbians want

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  • Say nothing more!

    (Yes, I know it's not the original, but cat girls feel more appropriate in this context.)

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  • I can't take articles such as this one seriously if they don't mention right-wing terrorists recruiting through the same channels and means. That has been a known problem for more than a decade.

    Treating online radicalisation solely as a problem of people with a migrant/non-European/Muslim/... background is very telling and borders on lying by omission.

  • This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

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  • The femcel experience

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  • Then we can be clueless together.

  • The femcel experience

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  • White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens

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  • Consider this headline from Bloomberg in this context:

    About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record

  • I can't do it myself

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  • *hires a third cat, just in case

  • I can't do it myself

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  • *hires a second cat in case the first one is distracted

  • I can't do it myself

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  • Subscribed!

  • I can't do it myself

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  • You won. 😿

  • I sometimes wish I were that dumb

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  • The problem is that it's not a question of intelligence.

    Trumpists and their ilk are living in echo chambers of "alternative facts", perpetuated by Fox News, Murdoch newspapers and an nearly endless amount of rightwing influencers (starting with Rogan at the top). They are not looking at what's happening, because they are surrounded in a very comforting bubble of disinfo and propaganda that confirms everything they wanted to hear: The illegals get deported, the queers get finally put in their place, the liberals are frothing with anger, finally men are back in charge who tell women where they belong and America is going to be "great" again any moment now.

    It's fascism and fascism has always been a "cult": The early pioneers of fascism (particularly D'Annunzio and later Mussolini) explicitly said their aim was to create a "secular religion" around the nation, the people and the leader. And you can only be a member of that religion if you accept its "truth" and reject everything that contradicts it.

    Very smart people can adhere to a religion for a variety of reasons and the most obvious one is (and always has been) because it promises them power over others.

  • Rule

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  • Hey, guess what! Your argument is so inane, even OpenAI is now convinced it was a really stupid idea too. But sure, go on pretending that freely available fan art by a single person is exactly the same as a paid service by a multi-billion dollar company.