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Yet again, more proof that capitalism was never about "freedom" or "small government".

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This year, on the 31 March, we lost Gilbert Baker, gay artist and creator of the gay pride flag. Today we would celebrate his 66th birthday. Let’s remember him as the wonderful person he was.

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MAGA Republicans don’t care and they’ll never care no matter how much harm Trump and the Republikkkans do to them. They will give up everything to hang on to their hatred, racism, and blind loyalty to an orange billionaire that despises them. Owning the libs is now the only thing they live for. They can not be reasoned with or convinced they are hurting themselves and their family. They are brainwashed cultists and have been since the advent of conservative talk radio and Fox News.

They can only be smashed at the ballot box or in the streets when they commence their apocalyptic race war. Stop engaging with them it is a lost cause. You have been arguing with MAGAts since 2016 and haven’t converted a single one of them. Blocking them cuts off their air and keeps them from spreading their gospel of hatred by using your posts against you to recruit new members. When they are isolated to their echo chambers they can’t recruit. They will pervert everything you post and argue for to sway people into their camps.

They are a cancer and must be excised. Even when they eventually lose power the resentment will grow and fester like it did in their beloved Confederacy. They have been reliving the Civil War every day for over a hundred years. They have added many of our once blue states to their despicable cause. The remains bastions of blue are in danger of turning red. Their strategy has been working while ours fails. Taking the high road was a disaster and made us look weak and they exploited that. Believing they have the right to free (hate) speech on your posts and pages just helps them spread their message and recruit. The gullible masses don’t want to be on the losing side. They want to be on the side that is having a blast and kicking our asses online and in the streets.

Wake up and start resisting. Soon you won’t have any free speech. They are already silencing outspoken social media resisters and news outlets into silence with lawsuits and executive orders. The liberal academics are fleeing the country and taking new jobs in Canada and elsewhere. There is nothing the right fears more than being silenced. Shut them down and keep up your own campaign of recruiting new members to our side. Expose them as fascists and crooked oligarchs and register as many as you can to vote. Millions of you were already dropped from the voter registration lists and your votes weren’t counted. That’s how orange Hitler went from the biggest loss in history to a resounding win in 2024.

You’ve been arguing with the same asshats for a decade. They are trolls given advice and support by the GOP daily. Don’t take their bait and engage with them. Tumblr is one of the few platforms where members still want to engage with them. On virtually all the other platforms they have been locked out of the conversation and left to wither in their echo chambers.

Start strategizing and stop reacting. If we don’t get our act together we’re lost. We’re already in a dictatorship and no longer a democracy and they are already coming for us group by group.

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crossposting here bc this tactic needs to spread like wildfire

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A Bug’s Life, 1998

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They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.

They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.

Keep talking about Luigi.

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Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

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On Wednesday, Citibank revealed in a court filing that it was told to freeze Habitat for Humanity’s bank accounts, at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the group is involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” Habitat for Humanity, you may recall, is the group that builds low-income houses in America’s communities. Jimmy Carter worked with them for decades. What did they do to earn the FBI’s ire? They received a climate grant from the Biden administration’s EPA. Other nonprofits also being targeted by the FBI for receiving climate grants include the Appalachian Community Capital Corporation, the Coalition for Green Capital, and the DC Green Bank. Yet these groups’ applications for government grants for environmental work were fully reviewed and accepted by the Biden administration’s EPA. This is not fraud. It’s targeted harassment. And it will be viewed that way by most Americans.

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“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

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Bro absolutely COOKED with this.