virtuistic.bsky.social
Advocate. Bi. Genderqueer. Green thumb.
Disabled. Vaxxed. Boosted. Masked.
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Love to see it.
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Whew! I feel this. I don't have cowards monitoring my social media to scold me about spicy opinions anymore, so might as well say and do more rad stuff!
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This is so disgusting.
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Here's hoping Midjourney *doesn't* survive this. 🤞🏼
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Thank you for the work you do. As a fellow journo and COVID Cassandra, I so appreciate the accountability journalism you have done and continue to do. It's so vital in these difficult times.
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I think their official position is that anyone who works for them should be muzzled to avoid lawsuits from the guy who literally made hate his whole brand.
ABC: "Our staff don't get free speech in their off hours because the egomaniac in the Oval Office will get mad, and we can't have that!"
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Update: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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I agree, and further, I tend to assume that anyone with a podcast is probably doing it bc they couldn't hack it at a publication or station with standards. Logically, I know that isn't universally true, but I'm sorry, I will never be able to take inaccessible, pre-recorded e-radio babble seriously.
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Well, basically anybody who would see a Mexican flag and incorrectly infer that it's somehow not communicating a desire for democracy seems like a scared little baby with a facile understanding of history and the world...
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You don't think that "not 'We want democracy'" had negative connotations in your framing or lends credence to the fear-based right wing narrative about seeing flags of neighboring states and what they mean?
I see you aren't USian, so I'll admit I think it's clear you're defensive + over your head.
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It's all directly related to you saying that "It is basically giving the vibes of "We want to be Mexican" not "We want Democracy".
Hope that helps.
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You definitely did say things about vibes, and misidentified what the flag would signify due to "optics."
I did read what you said and responded directly to it. You just didn't like the feedback. So no thanks, not "starting over" with someone who isn't willing to be accountable to what they say.
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So much of this is just respectability politics for discomfort management instead of solidarity. To me, it feels a little silly to be quibbling about optics when our political opponents are gullible AF and guzzling Gen AI disinfo rather than watching real footage or staying in collective reality...
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You are tho, by acting like Mexican Americans waving a flag is bad vibes and suggesting it's legitimate for conservatives to feel scared seeing it.
I think it's racist and wrong to tell targeted people they can only bring part of their identity or history to their political actions. White nonsense.
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You're arguing in favor of exclusionary nationalist optics to appease people who are already disconnected from reality and trying to force us into an authoritarian one.
Dude, a lot of Americans ARE Mexican. CA *was* Mexico. Mexico is a democracy. They are also our neighbors. Stop scaremongering.
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Y'all keep saying this as if the flag isn't a symbol of violent military imperialism and colonialism to many people who are inclined to protest fascism. 🙄 NGL, I'd prob assume anybody flying the US flag at a protest is either an undercover fed trying to infiltrate or a nationalist accelerationist.
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Grow up.
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Oh, I'm saving it for a special occasion, alright...
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Yup! So thin skinned that they block as soon as someone points out their impulse to keep an online debate going ad nauseam (while losing in public) is weird. 🤭
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Lol, okay debate pervert
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Bud, we've *been* living fascism. Y'all were just too cowardly to recognize it and call it what it is. You still don't understand that centrists are and have been opening the door to fascism all the while. I don't feel good about any of it, but it's only pointless bc y'all refuse to listen/learn.
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Except confrontation and criticism aren't abuse or bullying. Y'all just think BlueSky denizens are big ol' meanies because we have the temerity to tell you that your strategies are bad, and we would like it if you learned something instead of caping for crybabies with crappy, half-baked politics.
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Oh my! It's like usage has never ebbed in summer before. 😱
Honestly, this is a skill issue. The folks who actually stand by and live their values are having a grand time while a bunch of loud centrists and their defense squad keep whining about their lil number go up popularity goals or something!