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Wait, IS Ukraine being bombed by Iran? Nothing about it comes up on Google.

Russia is bombing Ukraine with Iranian-made drones, the same kind that they tried to attack Israel with the other day.

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Not only is this wrong (it *is* often "Israeli regime") this is a very specific time to be posting this when Ukraine (a country that is very specifically not the US or UK) is being bombed by Iran.

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this happened to me in a Certain fandom when literally all i did was exist in that fandom

is anyone else so famous in ther fandom that you get hate posts relates to you and get blocked by 99% of said fandom (even though all you did was post a fanfic or similar)

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i feel like i'm losing my mind why has the AI debate pivoted away from material/labor concerns back to debates about Real vs Fake Art. cannot express just how little i care about relitigating Art and high art and low art and skilled vs unskilled art. what i care about is the treatment and compensation of workers, the power corporations are exerting over intellectual property and creators, the continued extraction of resources, and the omnipresent glut of spam and disinformation with few or no regulations/resources that filter out the SEO AI generated nonsense

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Can't believe I have to say it again, but a queer jew existing, online and/or irl is not pinkwashing. Individuals cannot pinkwash by simply existing and talking about their experiences.

Just say you hate openly queer jews and move on. We all know what you mean

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still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

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So hey, when proshippers say that anti arguments about the evils of darkfic and how Enjoying Morally Bad Fiction Is As Morally Wrong As Whatever Crimes It Depicts is tantamount to Evangelical Puritanism in a gay hat? THIS IS WHY. I’ve seen so many antis claim angrily that it’s a straw argument to call theirs even remotely relates to Evangelical logic, but please, by all means explain to me how the Evangelical belief that thought and action are morally the same is different to the idea that reading or writing something bad is as bad as doing it.

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i hope y’all are noticing that “liberal zionist” is becoming a dogwhistle for “progressive/leftist (usually non zionist) jew that talks about progressive/leftist antisemitism”

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every couple months some tumblr user is like I need to ask Neil Gaiman to clarify his stance on censorship he wasn’t clear enough in the article he wrote 16 years ago or in the last 20 times he has had to reiterate he does still stand by it

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Hello, I saw your article entitled "WHY DEFEND FREEDOM OF ICKY SPEECH?" And I'd like to ask... Are you normalizing lolicon now? It's not just a made-up story where there's inappropriate content with children, where it's portrayed as something terrible. It's portrayed as something normal and sexy😦

This article?

As I point out in the article, I've not actually read any lolicon, and 16 years later, I still haven't. As I say in it:

Still, you seem to want lolicon banned, and people prosecuted for owning it, and I don't. You ask, What makes it worth defending? and the only answer I can give is this: Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is worth defending means you're going to have to stand up for stuff you don't believe is worth defending, even stuff you find actively distasteful, because laws are big blunt instruments that do not differentiate between what you like and what you don't, because prosecutors are humans and bear grudges and fight for re-election, because one person's obscenity is another person's art.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

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+ Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want you to vote either because he wants Trump. So does Hamas. Vote if you can. Help other people vote if you can't.

Anti-voting rhetoric will be the death of the left. Literally.

Not a single fucking Republican voted to protect roe. It was fucking overturned in the first place bc trump got three Supreme Court appointments.

Every fucking thing wrong in this country is almost certainly the result of Republicans being in power. In 2020, Texas cut half of the polling places in black neighborhoods, and doubled them in white ones, regardless of population. It was Republicans bitching about mail in voting, and constantly, constantly fearmonger about voter fraud. Literally, their platform is about making civil rights harder to practice.

Would you like to know why? It’s because Republican politicians know better than anyone that higher voter participation means higher republican loss.

But what do I see from the online left, champions of the oppressed?

“Voting doesn’t do anything, the parties are the same, the system is rigged, etc, etc”

Don’t sit here and tell me you give a fuck about marginalized people if you aren’t ready to march your ass to the voting booth and vote out the party actively stripping their rights away.

Protest, donate, community build, unionize, and vote, vote, vote.

By the time direct action is the only option, it will be too fucking late.

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Purity Politics

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The Russian spies post is KILLING me - it’s giving me flashbacks to when everyone was scrambling to say tumblr was run by TERFs and SO many of them were like, “remember when tumblr mass banned black bloggers claiming they were Russian spies?? :///“

I thought I literally lost my mind. Like I was somehow the only person who remembered the MULTIPLE NEWS ARTICLES CONFIRMING THEY WERE ACTUALLY RUSSIAN SPIES 😭

For the “you’re not immune to propaganda” website a lot of yall are real god damn susceptible to propaganda

The funny part is "Tumblr staff wasn't smart enough to figure it out!!" but it wasn't them!! It was found on Twitter by independent investigators and they cross referenced usernames on other platforms

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