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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · Aug 19

If trans people aren't safe from you, you're not safe from me.

Rick @calder12.bsky.social · Aug 18

I am going to take it a step further. Everywhere should be safe for a trans person!.

Pass it on.

NameChangeForSafety (he/him) @fourthlinemagic.bsky.social · Aug 18

Social media should be safe for trans people.

Pass it on.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 12m

I see both sides of this.

On one hand yes, everything ⬇️

On the other, it's important to say "yes things were bad, but now they're worse." It's important to say so when it's happening.

Were they fascists before?

Yes.

Were they comfortable saying so or even thinking that before?

No.

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 24m

Why are people trying to draw a nuanced distinction between the racism of Bush and Trump Republicans? Why does that shit matter, unless it's to point out that all of the Bush Republicans became Dems, and that's who you told people to vote for in 2024?

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c🎃rey @prole-lite.bsky.social · 33m

1,000 Oct 7ths are needed

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 41m

Parent here. No it isn't.

You also took away our carbon tax rebate.

Austerity in the face of increased suffering isn't the right thing to do.

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 1h

Lol

Darryl Moore 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 ⸸ @tuxit.bsky.social · 11h

Is that how Americans behave? And this article bemoans us for being anti-american! LOL. There is no difference between America Russia or China. Why should be show a preference for any of them?

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 2h

No, I'm speaking facts. You're proud in your ignorance.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 4h

It continues to amaze and confound me how whiteness plays out for white adult men in the US and beyond. "Young boys," who are over the age of 30, are given the benefit of the doubt. While BIPOC (i know people don't like this term) children (or even adults), never have that privilege.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 3h

Neither country is communist. The same way Americans were never the most free country, nor united. China is a planned economy.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 4h

No, it isn't.

You've just leaned on nonsensical propaganda as a gotchya instead of being interested in learning facts.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 4h

Bro, nobody is buying what you're selling.

Capitalism requires losers to sit at the bottom so people can be above them. It's an abusive system. You're not changing minds here.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 4h

Then continue being criticized for your needless ignorance and poor choices that harm vulnerable people.

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 4h

Then I suggest keeping Hamas out of your mouth in the future.

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 5h

False. Third party and non voters did no such thing.

I wouldn't stop looking there. Democrats walked so Nazis could run. Capitalism creates an ecosphere ripe to abuse people, and that's why there's so many vulnerable people in the US, ripe for being stupefied and propagandized.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 5h

I don't want shitty people here, no. Shitty people can stay in their shitty spaces.

Scold Website, lol. Maybe don't be morally mediocre, and ya won't get scolded.

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 5h

China's behavior? Nicer than most of Canada's.

China's rise to global power is a blessing, and the planet is better for it.

What kind of dogshit poll is this?

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 6h

Someone else already explained it to you.

Your beliefs about China are from western media that lie to you about a country they're ideologically opposed to.

Hence, western ignorance.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 6h

Yea, the fact is our governments had all the power to stop this and decided to sacrifice the Palestinian people instead.

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 7h

No, I don't. I'm talking about the conservative government calling themselves Liberal.

You're welcome to add Ford's govt if you want.

🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 7h

Then I suggest you read up on standpoint theory.

You shit on your moral responsibility by demonizing the only group standing up to Israeli genocide. Hamas is made up of victims, widows, orphans of Israeli brutality.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 9h

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

From: davidgraeber.org/articles/tur...

"In the case of slave mode of production,
the exploiters directly own the primary
producers; in feudalism, both have complex
relations to the land, but the lords use direct
jural-political means to extract a surplus; in
capitalism, the exploiters own the means of
production and the primary producers are
thus reduced to selling their labor power.
The state, in each case, is essentially an
apparatus of coercion that backs up these
property rights by force."
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- David Graeber

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 7h

What we actually need is a guaranteed basic income.

Ireland is locking down basic income for artists. Could Canada follow suit? | CBC Radio

Ireland has made permanent its three-year pilot program that gave monthly income payments to thousands of artists. Canadian artists are hoping to use that program's success to build momentum for guara...

www.cbc.ca

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 7h

This is needed desperately @mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social .

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. Just do it.

Ireland is locking down basic income for artists. Could Canada follow suit? | CBC Radio

www.cbc.ca

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 7h

White folk in the west don't get to make that argument, Palestinians do.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 7h

Biden armed genocide, and that is no lie.

Trump didn't end any war, because it's an invasion and a genocide, not a war. Trump didn't stop the killing.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 8h

You've been fed a false idea of China, and it shows your western ignorance.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 8h

Agreed, but our government isn't decent enough to do this.