you don't get the benefit of the doubt on quote-posting a Nazi account when you had a totenkopf tattoo this guy is bad, actually

"Videogames cause gun violence" was the excuse used to distract from the facts the Columbine shooters were neonazis, and here we are pulling the old Jack Thompson special again, because of course...

Hey, so we got a trojan horse ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

If this sounds unlikely to you, I want you to know that some of the same people and groups in the US pushing this shit against trans people have also been, for decades now, talking about how much they want to ban birth control when they speak at their conventions. It's always been on their list.

Reconstruction and Nazi Germany are both instructive historical examples because they are both instances of a society actively (re-)introducing segregation after a period of increased integration

And to do so by exploiting and scapegoating a Disabled man?

This was the most shocking part to me. They cut so many things from his mic prior to the n-word, giving him the impression that he couldn't be heard and he and everyone else was safe from his tics hurting anyone How do we interpret this as anything but a setup by the BBC to attack Black luminaries?

anyone who reads a post about antisemitism and immediately treats it as an implicit defense of Israel needs to try shutting the fuck up

This is annoying, but I at least understand how it is hard to design an algorithm in a way that recognizes similarity in games. What is more baffling to me is how "More like this" will show me games I set to "ignore" on Steam. Not even grayed out, like they how show up in searches.

This is a complex convo for me because I studied ethnobotany and herbal medicine in college. I still use herbs for a lot of things because they work better than synthetics for me. But the supplement industry is not ethical and even if the shit contains what it says, it likely is useless.

Every other item in those aisles, touting all kinds of benefits, has no FDA regulation. It could be, and tests keep showing they do, entirely lie about ingredients Like, it's basically a coin flip whether the thing actually contains the thing it says it does. www.sciencealert.com/40-of-sports...

In the US, every pharmacy has whole aisles of supplements of various kinds. Not a *single item* of which is FDA regulated except for any OTC pre-natal vitamins. This is because the snake oil industry is 4x larger than the whole pharmaceutical industry.

Ugh that whole "but I'm a good person so if someone says something I did was harmful, they're being mean to me" thing. It's so exhausting to deal with people who are fundamentally opposed to accepting their capacity to harm.

The broadcast was on a 2-hour delay and one of the winner’s speeches was edited down when they ended it with “Free Palestine,” but they left this in? The producers did everyone dirty with that.

Access in this case does not mean just putting a disabled person in public full stop and just sorta telling everyone else to deal. For involuntary tics like this, it's often extremely embarrassing for the person with the tics. So accommodations must account for that, too.

There was absolutely more that the producers here could've done, especially since it is very well known that Davidson's particular version of Tourette's takes this form. Access here minimizes embarrassment for *Davidson*, too, so putting him in that situation without guardrails was *wrong*.

And they chose to put every Black person in that room through that, while also - apparently - not creating a means of accommodation that balanced needs. The Tourette's Association of America, for example, recommends private box seats/'cry rooms' for theater settings: tourette.org/about-touret...

The man in question - John Davidson - has been famous in the UK for humanizing the struggle with Tourette's for the last forty years. So I also want to point out the ways in which the production put *him* at risk here. They invited him to the show knowing such an outburst was possible.

I think @chanda.blacksky.app absolutely has the correct read on this, that in cases like this, we need to take into account the white supremacy that says two Black men have to endure hearing violence hurled at them in the name of disability access.

I'm following the lead of the most impacted by this when I say this: Black people should not have to endure having racial slurs screamed at them on an international stage. With an intersectional lens toward disability justice, it is important to recognize the impact that outburst has on those men.

This is just the exact same homophobic conspiracy theory that's been peddled about Hollywood since long before I was born, and I'm in my forties. And with the same exact "proof" too: predatory cishet guys imagining that gay men in their industry are treating them like they treat women.

[Nazi makes multiple blood and soil arguments to resuscitate conspiracies about "Jewish imposters," challenges Jews to take DNA test] ["Leftists"]: Wow!! You gotta hand it to this guy! I might not agree with everything the Nazi says, but here he Speaks the Truth!

A fight between the openly antisemitic right-wing anti-Zionism of Tucker Carlson and the superficially philosemitic Christian Zionism of Mike Huckabee truly is a fight where I want both sides to somehow lose.

No, leftists do not in fact have to hand it to fascists who happen to hate Jews more than they hate Palestinians.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.

I’m loathe how folks report this now. Because they kind of leave out the part where… folks mocked suppositions of that because It was Black people And whenever voting comes up The response to Black peoples concerns is “Vote harder”

I, on the other hand, urge broadcasters to start each broadcast day with 'John Brown's Body' or 'Tear The Fascists Down'.

Honestly, one of the key things in radicalizing me was repeatedly hearing people, especially conservatives but not exclusively them, openly talk about how they see life this way, and people around them just nod along as if this was some obvious truth rather than something monstrous.

Am I being absurd in thinking that people in the replies wouldn't be as ready to say stuff like "Phil did a good job" if it wasn't for the fact that the new CEO is a woman of color? Didn't people hate Phil Spencer and blame him for Microsoft's failures until now?

I lot of things about the world economy and politics make more sense if you realize that wealthy investors are always looking for something they can use to maximize profit in the short to mid term, and are also very very bad at recognizing scams.

I lack words vile enough to accurately communicate how disgusting it is to call sea lions "Corolla-sized vermin" and embark on an eradication campaign against them, in order to solve a problem that is actually caused by dams, pollution, and overfishing.

Mayor Frey refused to support a unanimous call from the city council to ask Gov. Walz for an eviction moratorium to support our most vulnerable neighbors and now everyone's having to crowdfund rent.

"The Epstein files proved them right!" No they fucking didn't. You can't describe a conspiracy whose major actors are a secret elite composed mostly of marginalized people that doesn't actually exist, then suddenly declare you were right because a completely different conspiracy was uncovered.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

It's worse than the headline makes out: Finji has all the A\I options turned off & confirmed this They can't edit or delete the ads as they aren't actually tied to Finji's account The support responses all look generated & they never got a real answer. There's 0 indication this will stop.

The crushing of humanity is the point. Venture capital (reducing it to "tech" acts like workers and bosses are the same) wants to cause the collapse of several economic classes that it considers vulnerable to what they're describing as "the great disembowelment".

Everyone has an AI section but almost none have a DEI section , or a commitment to the arts or hard level securing of voting rights and reinstatement of civil liberties

Reminder that this is the government cited as direct ideological inspiration by most of the American right, especially JD Vance.

Neo-Nazis marched in Budapest last weekend, as they do each year in February. But this year, for the first time, there was no anti-fascist counter-demonstration, because the Hungarian government banned "antifa" demonstrations - while allowing Nazi ones. www.errc.org/news/budapes...

I wish more people understood the utter power, in any system with institutional inertia, of the magic words, "Fuck you, make me."

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

this is all just fear and anxiety. every time this shit pops up is just people trying to silence their fears for a little longer. none of this even helps dems win, not even the shitbag no principle centrist ones. get offline and get involved locally for said party if you want to feel better.

years, decades. from queers to arabs to immigrants to many more, any fears and anxieties from these groups were at best given "we'll get to you later", much more often just blown off, or even actively demeaned, insulted. but when fear and anxieties come for the larger groups? oh now it's important.

i empathize with the fear, i understand how and why it makes people act the way people do. though i am also, admittedly, a bit resentful. because these kinds of people, for years, always waving off the fears and anxieites of the groups they're telling NOW to promise a vote to relieve THEIR fear.

amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"

the technology is poisonous either way but you can at least make more 'sense' out of 'i want to get cored like an apple by bugs bunny in drag and finding a roleplay partner for this specific thing is a pain' as a desire than 'i need a pie recipe that's wrong and a slightly different email reply'

always weird seeing this when you just know the people speaking like this about AI aren't doing anything even mildly creative with it. like are you using it as a replacement f-list for extremely niche porn roleplay where a musclegut anthro b-2 bomber is your boss? no, you're writing email openers

Funny, I was already thinking that self-checkout was an excellent example of why you shouldn't be buying the hype of AI. I remember people insisting to me in the late 90's that in a few years we'd ONLY have self-checkout, yet they've only gotten it barely usable recently.