• @spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    by attacking the media structures and funding that manipulate them. (this is not a fix all solution. obviously. but it is taking action against the most materially funded arm of the propagation of conservative values. i hope it can be one of many tools leftists use to push for justice and dignity.)

    • Flying Squid
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      22 days ago

      Their parents manipulate them.

      The “media structures” aren’t the ones telling them to yell the F- word at queer people or just straight up murder them.

      • @spujb@lemmy.cafe
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        2 days ago

        in a crazy twist, both parents and conservative media exist. and what world do you live in? i see conservative media call for homophobia and homophobic violence all the fucking time.

        • Flying Squid
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          -22 days ago

          And those parents would still exist regardless.

          More to the point, these bigots exist right now.

          You want queer people and people of color to make up with people who would literally kill them because they’re both not rich. Do you think that’s what those bigots want? Do you think if a queer couple went over to some violent queerphobe’s home in a trailer park with a bouquet of flowers it would go well for them?

          Do you know how many queer people are murdered in the U.S. every year? Here’s a link to the 2024 list.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LGBTQ_people_in_the_United_States#2024

          It’s not the billionaires doing the murdering.

          • @spujb@lemmy.cafe
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            52 days ago

            I offered a systemic solution to one element of a systemic problem and now you are getting angry at me that my single-faceted solution doesn’t cover every minute facet of social change. I am sorry that you cannot accept a single marginal suggestion without going into full on rage mode. Ending the conversation here.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        32 days ago

        Do you think it’s a coincidence our media is full of low quality “Woke Shit” that pretends to be progressive but is just the “Worst of Rainbow Capitalism”

        That was those bastards manufacturing consent. “Sorry guys, we have to censor your media the gays made us do it!”

        • Flying Squid
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          Do you really think bigots would somehow disappear if the media disappeared?

          Bigotry has existed since the first proto-hominid caved in the head of the other proto-hominid on the other side of the hill because his fur was a different shade of brown.

          There’s not some magical point where everyone will live in harmony and unite against the rich.

          • Queen HawlSera
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            32 days ago

            Nope, but it wouldn’t be at THIS level. We somehow went from “Mainstream Trans Acceptance” to “Democrats thirst for Transblood because it’s THEIR fault Trump won! Because they were playing women’s sports while diddling people in the bathroom!” over-fucking-night.

            • Flying Squid
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              -12 days ago

              When did we have mainstream trans acceptance? I’d love to hear about that utopian era.

              • Queen HawlSera
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                32 days ago

                Two months ago when the media had to pretend that “Gender dysphoria doesn’t exist! They’re sending Sylvester Stallone in a fucking dress to your little girl’s soccer game!” was a fucking far right conspiracy theory no one took seriously, instead of a far right conspiracy theory loved by fucking everyone apparently.

                I hate everything

                • Flying Squid
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                  22 days ago

                  What are you even talking about now?

                  You said we had mainstream trans acceptance. We didn’t. That’s nonsense. There has never been such a time in America.

                  • Queen HawlSera
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                    22 days ago

                    Do you not remember in 2016 when even Trump was saying “Just let transgirls pee in the lady’s room?” and Pat McCory was laughed out of the state of NC over a bathroom ban that the whole country mocked?