There’s a reason I don’t respond to your DMs. It’s because you are a relentless bad faith actor, who is only here to stir up pointless drama. You don’t want to resolve any conflicts, you only want to fuel them. I guess the camel’s back has finally been broken, maybe move on to another hobby?

If it walks like a troll, and talks like a troll, it is a troll. Not sure why you keep coming back here to stir up pointless drama? What is your purpose exactly?

Tone policing marginalized groups is about as bad as liberalism gets.

If you want to change the world then you’re gonna have to do hard work and explain what being transgender and the trans community is to actual transphobes and you’ll have to do it without telling jk Rowling to suck on a shotgun

Aka “If trans folk just explain themselves politely, the bigots will change their behavior”? What bizarre fantasy land are you living in? YDM.

The trouble is that it’s also an awfully convenient excuse for non-western authoritarian states to clamp down on so-called ‘color revolutions’, even when they are organic. And the fact this whole theory was concocted by Lydon LaRouche does not exactly add credibility. I acknowledge there have been obvious cases of this happening, but there’s also many examples of oppressive regimes blaming popular uprisings on “outside agitators”.

Underappreciated comment.

I agree with you to an extent, it’s hard to see how she could have been worse than Trump, who is literally deranged.

On the other hand, Harris will 100% be lining up to support a bailout for “too big too fail” AI companies when the bubble bursts, like all the rest of the “centrist” Dems. She’d also have kept supplying Israel no matter what they did, same as Biden, same as Trump, same as all the other Zionists. Would she have started a war with Iran? Probably not. But she might well have started a war with Russia or China to prove how “tough” she is - and that possibility has surely got to be in the double digits? The war machine must be fed, after all. I do agree she’d have perhaps been a little better on climate change policy and on social policy, at least wrt identity politics issues.

In any case, the policy of this community is to not shame people for being anti-electoralist. If someone wants to vote, go ahead. I also vote - because imo I might as well, it’s a low effort action. I just don’t expect it to lead to any big changes. But we don’t shame those who don’t want to vote, for whatever reason. If a political party genuinely wants to expand their voter base they are gonna have to make some meaningful policy changes, instead of just pointing a loaded gun at the electorate (aka Donald Trump) and declaring themselves to be somewhat less terrible on certain issues.

Do tell…

Happy pride month, mateys! Mwah, mwah.

Now do bibi.

But why the need to paint Christian states as somehow better? Isn’t it secularism that changed social attitudes? Christian churches were not supportive of equal rights for LGBT folks either (for the vast majority of churches, anyway). It’s still not safe to walk down the street holding hands with your gay partner in many supposedly civilised western countries.

The picture is not as black and white as you claim. And the reason many western countries eventually accepted LGBT folks wasn’t because Christianity is more accommodating of those views, it was because of the separation of church and state, and increasing secularization of those countries.

You are defending Islam against it’s homophobia and are grossly downplaying how it kills gay men, directly and indirectly.

Nobody denies that some muslims are homophobic, or that many muslim-majority states have homophobic laws and practices. They do.

The problem with your argument, though, is that many christian- and buddhist-majority countries also have similar homophobic laws and practices.

In fact, there are more christian-majority countries with homophobic laws than any other religion. Roughly illustrated above, yellow is christian-majority, orange is muslim-majority and green is buddhist majority.

By implying the problem is with islam in particular, rather than religion in general, you are behaving like an islamaphobe.

Hate crime and lynching that leads to murders of the LGBT community is not at all something rare in the muslim world.

This is also true of many non-muslim countries. If you have credible figures that demonstrate a higher murder rate of lgbtqi+ folks in muslim countries vs non-muslim countries then please provide at least some evidence, or withdraw your claim, because right now it seems to be based on nothing but anti-muslim vibes.

but [^some] muslims oppose the removal of those laws with religious outrage.

As do many modern day north american anglicans, basptists, church of christ, pentacostals, presbyterians, nazarenes, and evangelicals. Catholic / christian missionaries are also directly responsible for converting entire populations to be homophobic bigots across Africa and other former colonies.

And how many millions of Africans died over the past ~45 years due to the church opposing the promotion of condom use during the HIV/AIDS crisis?

I despise homophobia in all its forms, but it simply isn’t true that the muslim religion is somehow worse than all the others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

Didnt realise this meme was about voting

Update: Real-Debrid’s parent company, XT Network, responded shortly after we published this article. The company explained that the current situation is unrelated to the corporate restructuring. At the same time, it confirms that it indeed uses filters to block content. […]

The filtering actions it has taken are a response to keyword lists provided by trusted flaggers, which is in accordance with Article 16 of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Nah it looks like they just caved to the copyright mafia.

Apparently, so long as someone isn’t openly anti-AI, it’s ok to use bigoted language towards them. This is, sadly, pretty standard fare for the typical liberal, who is perfectly happy to descend into homophobia or transphobia if it means they can use it to mock their their political opponents.

To heap insult on top of injury, Rimu has now unilaterally, and without any notification (to anyone it would appear), chosen to silently suppress anarchist.nexus and quokk.au from appearing in the PieFed.Social instance chooser. So, just more of the same old trolling and drama farming from him that we have been getting for weeks now.

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