I'm really tired of the holier-than-you people on the Fediverse!
No, Threads is not full of trolls and evil people just because Meta is evil. Threads is full of people who are not terminally online like we are. This is idiotic to want to block Threads by default. If anything let's show them there is another way.
No, the big Mastodon instances are not full of trolls and evil people just because they're the big instances. They're full of people who are into the Fediverse but for reasons that are theirs have no time, energy, or interest to join smaller instances. This is idiotic to want to block such instances. If anything let's teach them about smaller instances.
And right now, I see people building bridges with BlueSKy and I see very negative reactions from some people about that. Well... No, BlueSky is not full of trolls and evil people.
I'm so fucking annoyed with this bullshit attitude.
Honestly, if your response is "don't federate" every single fucking time, have you thought for a second that maybe, just maybe, you are in the wrong place? Fedi fucking verse. It's in the name.
If you don't want to communicate with people who are different from you, you're honestly no different from the people you are calling names. Please go to your instance that's defederated from everyone else, or even better, go on a closed Discord or something.
Fuck, I barely finished my second coffee and I'm already annoyed.
Avery Jackson did a non-medical #transition at the age of four. At the time, they felt more comfortable as a #girl. As they grew up and their understanding of #gender evolved, they decided #nonbinary#transgender suited them better.
And now that they are 15, their family is moving out of Missouri because they fear the recent draconian anti-trans #laws.
"No longer identifies as a girl" does not mean they identify as a #boy. They are still #trans. They knew from the age of 4 that being a boy was not right for them.
I don't think they changed their mind. I think they just found a better understanding of who they were.
These #bigots know nothing about trans #people yet think they are qualified to criticize them.
And even if the kid did end up identifying as cis (and for simplicity's sake, let's say that they had only transitioned socially) there would be no actual harm done. Self exploration is essential for understanding one's #identity..."
"The faith-based approach... can turn off those it is intended to help and may be less effective than evidence-based secular treatment...
Some organizations discriminate, hiring only self-avowed #Christians (which faith-based organizations can legally do) while excluding #LGBTQ+ applicants regardless of qualifications; others refuse to treat #queer victims altogether."
By dividing #Jews between the 'good' conservative ones and the 'bad' liberal ones, #Trump is engaging a #trope that has always been utilized by #antiSemites. From the 'good' Jews who were willing to convert, or at least hide their Jewishness during the #Inquisition to the 'good' Jews who served as Kapos to the #Nazis, anti-#Jewish#bigots have always found examples of Jews they like. But only as a cudgel to use against the rest
"[A] great embarrassing fact ... haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft."
A Christian pastor whose show was dropped by a radio network for advising a grandmother to attend her grandchild’s LGBTQ+ wedding has refused to back down or apologise.
As the United States faces yet another showdown over the federal debt ceiling, we examine the roots of the conflict by looking at the "North/Paul Strategy," a decades-old plan to provoke a financial collapse and then seize power. Rooted in libertarian economic theory and Christian Reconstructionist doctrine, Gary North and Ron Paul's ideas laid the foundation for the Tea Party and later, January 6th.
Dave chats with James Scaminaci III, a scholar and expert on Fourth Generation Warfare, and Frederick Clarkson, who has been studying religious extremism for decades, and is an expert on the New Apostolic Reformation.
They look at why economic eschatology is a persistent feature of American political life, and how we might break the vicious "cycle of doom."
"The faith-based approach... can turn off those it is intended to help and may be less effective than evidence-based secular treatment...
Some organizations discriminate, hiring only self-avowed #Christians (which faith-based organizations can legally do) while excluding #LGBTQ+ applicants regardless of qualifications; others refuse to treat #queer victims altogether."
#rebeccamorris had children with someone that she knew had #groomed a #child to participate in a #violent stabbing, all while remaining peaceful, amazing work rebecca! congratulations! .~*
I bring that up only because many #fascists / #WhiteSupremacists really love to recruit #POC & exploit them to try to show public - we ain't #racist because we have #BIPOC people who support us.
Guess what folks? POC with massive #InternalizedRacism & #InternalizedMisogyny are easily recruited/exploited by #bigots for evil purposes. It's not new. It's been happening for a long time. It goes back to #colonialism & #imperialism divide/conquer tactics of Indigenous peoples genocides, globally.