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Just Ben @justanotherben.bsky.social · 14m

David Pakman’s refusal to engage with truth is a reminder that libs are basically just embarrassed fascists perfectly willing to engage in the same alternate realities as MAGA if it reinforces their wider worldview.

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 16h

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 4m

uncritically presenting the systemic reduction of the individual into an easily exploitable set of qualifications and marketing demographics as facilitating individual liberties is little more than liberal propaganda.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 30m

"bourgeois, the product of... the freedom of the individual"

See, this is part of why I dislike how people talk about 'liberal individualism,' people get weird ideas like 'freedom and autonomy to choose how you live your life are bourgeois'

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 11h

given how incredibly consistent this all is, Violet really must think that people have the attention spans and pattern recognition skills of guppies.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 11h

literally every two months or so she makes a new anon account to harass cass with, blocks all of cass' mutuals to try to prevent it receiving any support, and then makes up a new set of lies about cass- but each time we're supposed to believe this is a totally different person and not her.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 21h

A purge of 'toxic leftists' from Hasan's discord in 2021 and Hasan covering up his mod team running a transphobic harassment campaign in 2018 and 2019 aren't actually the same incident, so I don't know why you're acting like this is some relevant detail to anything I said.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 21h

Hasan's discord is still active, what are you even talking about?

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 21h

Now maybe I'm the odd one out here, but knowing Hasan was willing to deny, overlook, and cover up transphobic harassment is, in my opinion, something which leads me to a particular understanding of who he is.

Maybe him having a nice house is a better reason to distrust him.

But I don't think so.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 21h

- Hasan gave an IRL friend a position of authority in his community
- This IRL friend organized a semi-coordinated anti-trans harassment campaign
- When told what they were doing, Hasan denied it
- When presented evidence, he ignored it
- When that evidence was made public, he ran a cover up.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 22h

putting aside the fact that this is literally stealing a joke from another children's cartoon, I'm puzzled by the implication that you couldn't just, like, buy a labrys for yourself. does this setting not have metalworking? are the weapons all made from magic genital energy???

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 22h

I was gonna ask why I would need to turn off the setting more than once ever, and then I remembered- Microsoft.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

oh I mean they weren't leftists, they were just in charge of a 'leftist' discord.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

you think brassica being half the vegetables you eat is weird, wait until you learn about the forbidden brassica you can't buy from the store

another image of a head of Romanesco Broccoli

did you think this would be more Romanesco Broccoli?

well, you were right, but honestly, at this point it's just basic pattern recognition.

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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social · 2d

If my life
Matters to you
Please reskeet

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

these should be the imgur dumps of the leaks, if you want to look through them; biexiaole/jungy/julian is Hasan's friend who was the head moderator of his discord

imgur.com/a/D9LMU2Z
imgur.com/a/Q7B5eWW
imgur.com/a/yP2caJ9

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Based on what I heard at that time, Mr. Mouton basically told Hasan to act like nothing had happened on his channel, while quietly cycling out the mod team on his discord; this is what Hasan did, and it was pretty much successful at stopping all of what happened from becoming any real issue to him.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

After talking with some people, we decided to release the logs on Vaush' discord (it was still early 2019 at that point, so Vaush was still starting out) and so I posted them there.

Hasan's response was to bring on Mr. Mouton- a Destiny mod- and have him run damage control and cover shit up.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Hasan's response was basically to say 'I don't care', and then his friend- who was basically head mod- banned the only trans woman on the mod team, as well as the person who went undercover and got the logs; I know this because someone reached out to me with that information and some of the logs.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Hasan denied that any of this was happening when @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social called him out on it, but after a while someone managed to infiltrate the club and got logs of them talking about and coordinating harassment of people, Sophia included, which he gave to Hasan.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah so one of Hasan's original mods was an IRL friend of his who basically started a whole ass transphobic good old boys club in the mod team? It was a whole thing.

It was really obvious to me because they basically blacklisted and harassed an entire discord I was in and people were like 'wtf'.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

yes but also I'm still mad about how he covered up how his original discord mod team had a whole ass team of transphobes coordinating an entire no-shit systemic harassment campaign against pretty much every trans woman who joined the discord, and also how when the logs leaked, nobody gave a shit lol

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

the thing I find most irritating about discourse regarding Hasan is that 99% of his haters hate him for stupid reasons, unlike myself, who hates him for totally rational and good reasons

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, I'll concede that I've never followed the particulars of Puerto Rico's referendums on statehood very closely, so I was unaware that they were rigged or whatever? But I also don't see why people are treating this as a gotcha or whatever, because it doesn't really engage with my actual point.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

the twitterfication of bluesky proceeds as expected, I suppose

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

people are really mad that I said 'the Democrats would never make Puerto Rico or DC a state, but if they did, it wouldn't be a shocking overreach of power' in response to weird Republican scaremongering, not because they disagree, but because I didn't spend a week doing research before I posted lol

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