joeyvazquez.bsky.social
founded a nonprofit to support other complex trauma survivors... realized 1 org wasn't enough... created the next evolution in social impact theory: Incubated Collective Impact... became a social entrepreneur to build it. Oh, I make hot sauce, too. He/him
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By the way, holding MAGA voters responsible for the full impact of their votes is not mutually exclusive of the reality that we need an information ecosystem to counter what the Republicans have done.
The only reason I see to argue they are mutually exclusive is to run cover for MAGA voters.
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Just pathetic to apologize for Trump voters.
They're grown adults and absolutely responsible for the media and information they choose to consume.
So, yes, your racist pawpaw and anti-vaxxer Aunt Karen really did vote for all this - and, no, willful ignorance and bigoted stupidity are not excuses.
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Relax, potential candidates living in IL-9 are welcome to compete against Kat.
If being from here really matters like Blue MAGA troll claims, Kat will lose.
But not even the troll believes being from here is more important than issues - otherwise it wouldn't bother trying to undermine her, right?
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From a personal standpoint, you're absolutely correct, and I genuinely appreciate your advice and compliment!
Yet I'm engaging with certain account categories for professional reasons. Happy to explain via DM if you're interested.
Let's just say I very much look forward to no longer doing that.
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But you seem to know what response would be engendered by "take 30 seconds and look things up before you talk. Are you a conspiracy theorist or something?"
BTW, it's classic covert narcissism to passive-aggressively lash out as a set-up to smear the target for returning fire in kind.
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I'm often an asshole in response to folks coming at me like one. It's proven over and over again on my tl. I'm just not passive-aggressively covert about it like you.
Maybe next time don't lash out from the jump if you can't handle the clap-back?
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Did they also narcissistically self-reference 3 times in just 18 total words like that poster did?
If so, then your family, Girl Scout troop, and company also appeared to not really be interested in raising money for others as much as raising profile and status for self.
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Yeah, it's fairly typical of Abrahamic believers to either lash out or run away when confronted with uncomfy truths about how their fundamentally bigoted religion impacts the rest of the world.
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Anyway, you're clearly unable to engage in good faith despite all the opportunities, so it's time to ignore you now.
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Didn't forget because I never knew, but it's weird to frame that as a counter-argument to anything I've said.
And I would ask if it's your position to be intellectually dishonest when needing to reject reality to promote your religion but it'd be rhetorical so - much like your reply - why bother?
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Thing is, you're beyond tedious and have provided exactly nothing of value except as a nice example of how fundamentally bigoted and intellectually dishonest the main Abrahamic religions are.
So it's time to put you in time out but, hey, your fragile, hateful ego gets the last word it craves.
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So you're not only a raging anti-Christian bigot, you don't have a baseline of information about the "secular" non-profit you clearly believe to know everything about.
Of course, bigots are always beset by pathological levels of Dunning-Kruger and a fragile ego that abjectly refuses self-awareness
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Target has been added to the cucumber recall, according to an update buried at the end of an FDA email.
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10 years ago a bathroom bill was enough to get the NCAA to boycott an entire state. Now such laws are mainstream.
What happened is Republicans kept hammering the issue and Democrats did absolutely nothing to push back.
And now here we are.
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I wonder what that progressive Rabbi thinks about your "You're a Christian" slur?
How about the Christian preacher who's the executive director of that non-profit that the Rabbi was promoting above?
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I also believe that women have rights, too - so let's hear how much you and your god hates me for that.
And - whew, you're going to lose your itty bitty bigoted little mind with this one - I think the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is bad, so that makes me anti-Semitic to you, right?
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I went to a Baha'i temple a couple times in high school and I'm sure you have something super prejudicial about them that you can use.
I also was the only kid from my school in Augusta who attended the bar mitzvah services of my progressive Jewish friend, so want to hit me with your hate for them?
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And there's that bigotry inherent in all 3 main Abrahamic religions.
Want to somehow frame me as a Muslim, too?
I meditate, too, so it's a perfect opportunity to use your Buddhist slurs.
I once celebrated Diwali with a friend's family, so why not run with your Hindu hate while you're at it?
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Whew, even your tedious, adolescent-level psychological projection is all-but indistinguishable from that of a MAGA religious zealot.
It's just unfortunate you religious zealots are so hateful and aggressive to folks who don't believe in your god, but y'all are bigots by definition so it's expected
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But, sure, "nothing religious about it" and "not associated with any religious organization."
And I'm the ignoramus talking out my behind while y'all are fully informed about who you're giving your money to and what they're doing with it, right?
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But what if I told you it was founded in a North Carolina church?
And it's executive director is a Christian preacher being paid $110k a year by the nonprofit - in addition to their clergy pay?
Or that openly religious folks outnumber non-religious folks on the board of directors by 2:1?
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Think about it: do you really believe that, with how the 3 main Abrahamic religions treat lgbtq folks, that a Christian/Jewish/Muslim non-profit serving lgbtq folks would have much of a chance at success?
So, yeah, it's designed so that "as far as you can tell" there's nothing religious about it.
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That's why I said it's on me and that I should have known better than to believe religious clergy of any type would genuinely promote non-religious anything.
But I really did think she was different and genuinely believed that there are answers to problems in this world that don't involve religion.
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"MY synagogue is"
"WE'RE less than"
"OUR goal"
3 references about the synagogue and its members in just 18 total words.
But, hey, I'm open to hearing about how it's absolutely not about promoting the religion, synagogue, and self.
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And?
Is your synagogue not a religious non-profit?
Did the person not serve their religion's interests first and foremost by beginning with "my synagogue" and immediately making it primarily about their house of worship and relegating the rest after the fact - you know, like a side quest?
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Also, synagogues are religious nonprofits, right?
So, again... you really should think for 30 seconds before talking.
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If religion had absolutely nothing to do with it and they weren't trying to make themselves and their house of worship look good, then why frame it all with "my synagogue is raising money" instead of "let's raise money" or the like?
Maybe you should take 30 seconds to think before you talk.
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Regardless, you clearly understood how weak your previous replies were and positions are, which is why you felt the need to go digging through my social media to conjure up attack vectors like maga fascists and theocrats are doing to international students, right?
How's it feel to be like them?
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Or maybe you realized I was right about secular nonprofits vs religious "nonprofits" but couldn't frame a rational counter so you - speaking of Christian-coded - personally attacked me to distract from your failure.
Well, you know your echo chamber compatriots because they sure enjoyed that.
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It came off as self-serving to you because... wait, you never did say why you believe that - just threw it out there for the echo chamber clicks with the usual religious belief that all non-believers are selfish and ungodly by definition.
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Ah, so there it is... starting secular nonprofits is suspicious and self-serving.
But it would be fine if I started it in a North Carolina church, hired clergy as executive director, and ensured 60% of the board members were openly believers, right?
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Looking a bit deeper... thar doesn't make rational sense.
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Religious Jews don't believe the Abrahamic god exists?
And two... well, that's getting ahead of ourselves until you figure out the first thing