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@sovereignbeast.bsky.social

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May my tongue drip with parasites that writhe through your mind, and take root in your heart. Let the flesh of mankind decompose and the monsters carve themselves free.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 14m

it's like the kind of person who builds a tarot deck out of MTG cards- it would almost be impressive if it weren't, like, so sad?

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1h

To be honest I don't know why we're debating the minutia of the Democrat platform here, when my point was that none of what is being fearmongered over is like, some massive overreach of power, even if we assumed they actually did these things (which they would never do).

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1h

I mean presumably the fearmongering is about how the perfidious democrats totally would have confirmed the results of the 2020 referendum, unlike the perfidious democrats who did not confirm those results? Or something?

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1h

we're talking about the Democrat Party doing stuff, not doing stuff democratically, though.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty sure he'd insist on playing Aragorn tbh.

Anyway... classic movies? Uhhhhh, The Addams Family as Gomez.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 8h

"um um what about self determination, why are you forcing statehood on them"

Puerto Rico has voted in favor of statehood multiple times IIRC, so like, this is the dumbest line of argument imaginable

Vman29397 @vman29397.bsky.social · 8h

Since when is forcing statehood on puerto rico instead of allowing self determination democracy

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 8h

Your politics is literally 'I am the Democracy Clown and I say voting is fun!' so like you might want to step away from the debate stage and go back to juggling or something dude

Disco Brian Davis @discobriandavis.bsky.social · 9h

Marxism reduces human life to class struggle and material production. I believe in a framework where spirit, freedom, and kindness count too.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 8h

character creation said 'you really thought, huh?'

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of none @osakanone.bsky.social · 5d

DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave)
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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

Like looking at things strategically, the main thing that any of us should be concerned with right now isn't fighting back, it's making sure we stay alive.

Theoretically, that's easier with an organized community, but y'know, takes two to tango and all that. If we don't actually organize, well...

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

Now, as for what 'we' do- well, we're still in the position where we're generally not organized or prepared to resist fascist violence against us, so either we actually do that organization or I guess we passively hope the fascists burn out with a fizzle before they actually start murdering us?

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

In other words, if the Democrats let Republicans hunt trans people for sport, and this destroys the Democrat base as a coherent voting bloc capable of electoral victory, the oil companies still don't have to worry about Democrats passing green legislation that costs them money.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

What we have to understand is that while the obvious motivation of having people focus on something other than themselves is a real and pressing motivation for these oil companies, if people 'see the trick' and 'refuse to engage,' they're also happy to let that splinter their opposition for them.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

Supporting anti-trans campaigns, therefore, gives you multiple benefits. The anti-trans campaigners are already on your side, but this ties them to you more closely; ties between the trans community and your opposition (leftists, anarchists, etc) means hurting trans people hurts the left; etc, etc.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

You ALSO have a major issue looming in the background, in the form of climate change. You know very well that it's going to be a problem, but addressing the problem is going to lose you money, so you don't want to- and you don't want to be pressured into having to address it, whatever that means.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

Well, look at it this way: You're an oil exec. You know that a lot of your most extreme opposition comes from political radicals on the left, and most of your support comes from conservatives.

Your fortunes, therefore, are dependent on keeping conservatives strong and 'the left' weak.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 22h

It takes time; you can probably cover the basics of a language in a day if you sit down and run through a codecademy course but the core part of coding isn't really the language so much as learning how to break apart problems and solve them, which seems to more or less be a matter of experience.

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g̷̼̈́l̵i̴t̵ςђ e̷r̴i̸s̶ 🌌 @glitcheris.xyz · 23h

Or what if we just normalized having zero respect for America

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 23h

clearly, Gamer Identity Extremists have all pavlov'd themselves into only getting it up for silicone dolls

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 23h

Similarly, this attempt to 'distract' the public is not just empty bluster. It is a real threat, and if it is not addressed it will harm countless people, and enable reactionary forces to further develop their position.

If you ignore the threat your enemy poses, they will act on your vulnerability.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 23h

If an enemy is threatening to take your knight, that threat to your knight isn't fake; you either address the vulnerability, or your knight gets captured. If addressing it creates another vulnerability that they can capitalize on, your enemy will do so- but that doesn't mean the threat wasn't real.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 23h

A concerning number of people are interpreting this as 'oh so identity politics IS a distraction!' and, to be quite blunt, each and every one of you need remedial chess lessons; something can be intended to draw attention away from something else, and also a real problem which needs to be addressed.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans trying to scaremonger about Democrats doing stuff that is more or less totally reasonable, but which Democrats would never do because it would make Republicans salty if they did, is always so weird to come across ngl lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 1d

this, fyi, is why we keep insisting that you can care about more than one thing.

Fight transphobia.

Don't stop fighting climate change.

Abolish ICE.

Be antiracist.

Support your community.

Demand safety for Palestinians.

We can and must fight for all of it.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 1d

what about those of us who wanted to go on a multiple year martial arts journey and returned with a 'curse' that turned us into a girl? there's probably at least three of us.