maggiekat.bsky.social
I read obsessively. I read everything. Not in the hope of becoming an expert on anything, just hoping I come away understanding a little more than what I entered with
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My "Don't shit on disabled people, drug users and queers when you dunk on the most powerful evil men alive choosing to be evil with their power" thresd has people replying a lot of questions already answered by my thread.
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she went from “israel would never starve anyone” to “raping prisoners of war is necessary and justified” in exactly one post
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When you were at the point where the fascists secret police are breaking into congressional offices to arrest people who are opposing them you are well past the point where anything but mass resistance at all levels is going to stop them.
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takes to foment the longer it takes to try and wrestle back any semblance of a democracy or society that is functioning.We are running out of time to avoid the worst kind of kinetic upheaval And the further people normalize this the more likely it becomes that we do not rid ourselves of fascism ever
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We have passed many of the windows that can be seen as offramp to full authoritarian takeover and the domination of society by fascism, and the few we have remaining would not only up in the status quo for every American, but would upended the entirety of the global system and the longer Pushback
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It’s extremely upsetting as someone who has started the far right and spoken both professionally and academically on the threat it poses to watch it, consume every facet of peoples lives and their cognitive state less than a year. Americans are not coming back without a massive fight.
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The fascist goal is not just to take over the world, but to ethnically cleanse the planet.
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Most people in the United States still have not or will not wake up to the reality that democracy is dead. The constitution is a dream, and the Republicans are building the infrastructure of industrial death and genocide at a global scale and they intend to use it.
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She could have been silent for the last 15 years and gone down in history as the most beloved children’s author in modern history. But it was more important to spend these last several years trying to convince the world that her bigotry is “heroic.”
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The amount of effort behind the whole idea of "there are men dressed as women trying to undermine everything we women have worked for" is staggering. Like even if that's true, which it isn't, what a small amount compared to the men not dressed as women trying to do exactly what they're afraid of.
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