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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · Jun 21
I wanted to put my thoughts down about "cancel culture" and similar issues:

Namely that at it's core, any time I see that, what I've noticed 90% of the time is what a person really means is, "I'm being criticized, don't like that I am, but cannot actually counter anything that person is saying."
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 4h
Also those types (the TERFs that is), like all bigots, use 'respect' to mean two different things:

They demand you respect them as an authority (to do as they want to you without consequence) or else they won't respect you as a person (who they will abuse anyways).
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 4h
'Civility' is always the language of the abuser and the authoritarian alike.

There is no 'getting along' when the abuser/authoritarian's only desire is to see you dead.

Also this is another example of centrists/libs will welcome fascism over siding with Leftists as well.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 4h
This kind of thing is not a mark of strength. This is weakness, it is floundering, it is fright.

When an authoritarian like Trump feels cornered, he lashes out. And how one lashes out is violence or implied violence, in an attempt to regain 'control'. It's also how abusers are as well.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 4h
We're not dealing with reasonable, level-headed people after all. We're dealing with immature, emotionally stunted manchildren who hate that people are daring to tell them 'no' and it is absolutely tearing them up inside.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 7h
It doesn't negate the awful shit they're doing at all, mind. But their 'strength' is a paper tiger. If anything all the awful shit is them trying to lock in as much of their bullshit as possible to maintain and hold onto power no matter how illegal or illegitimate it is.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 7h
I dunno, I'd argue it feels like they're being too try hard about it. They're putting up this 'we're invincible' front because they're not really that strong. People are hating more and more what they're doing and are (correctly) blaming them. Their bullshit isn't actually sticking.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 7h
Well I'd disagree on one point: The Nazis were always in office, for decades really.

It's just now they're *open* about it. The mask is off, the pretense is gone. They're open, glad, eager, and have a 'fuck you' attitude to anyone who calls them out for it.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 9h
Sorry Max, big disagree on #2 there.

They know exactly how to do capitalism: They gamble everyone else's money, then buyoff politicians to save them when their gambles fail, meanwhile the rest of us are left holding the (empty) bag.

That's just the end result of our corrupt system at play.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 9h
A lot of anti-democratic countries have "elections" let's not forget. They're just elections where the ruling party never actually is in fear of losing.

Republicans are 100% trying to set the same thing up here. And the moment they think they will lose... *then* they'll cancel elections.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 9h
This is the same kind of "The government needs to stop printing money" stuff that the 'fiscal' conservatives loved to pound the table over.

They were silent before when it was handing trillions to rich asswipes, and they're silent now when we hand money to rich asswipes (but indirectly).
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
They'll never say, "Nazis are good, actually" because they know that won't fly. Instead they'll just say "No no, actually this guy is totally normal and not a Nazi and has *completely* reasonable ideas about what we should do with 'undesirables', but he's not a Nazi, for realsies."
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
Sadly we need to tie this into the further RW-ification of the media. "Vibes based reporting" becoming more and more normalized. They'll never present anything factual, they'll just 'say' what they wanna say and *imply* they're being honest and truthful with you.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
Ok but a Debbie Downer skit with her talking to Congress sounds hilarious.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
Still seems like this is kinda undermining their point just so they can try and force another corporate-owned and way-too-old candidate down our throats.

But yes you're right it was the DNC.

Still wrong for them to be getting involved.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
Wasn't David Hogg fired for the same thing?

Not knocking David but sure seems like the establishment Dems are willing to do the exact same thing they accused him of.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
...the fascists whining and pissing and moaning because the thing we all clearly can see they're gonna do, yet they cry the moment you accuse them of it.

Never let them hide behind polite words, because "civility politics" is the realm of the fascist. They demand you be nice while they kill you.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
They want it to be 'civil' and 'polite' and 'nice'. They hate you and want you dead but don't you dare call them out for it.

It'd at least be honest if they were open about it. And they will, once there's no more repercussions for it. But they're so fucking gutless we have to put up with...
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
Arguably one of the most annoying things to me is how 'liberal' the fascists are acting.

Namely I hate that they're not being open about the shit they clearly wanna do. Namely: Genocide at home.

They're gonna *do* the genocide, mind, but they don't want it to *seem* like it's a genocide.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 1d
It was there for news headlines and positive press for Trump when it's been nothing but negatives.

Like everything else Trump says and does, the second it no longer serves it's purpose, it's tossed aside.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 2d
It's not an accident either. Trump's been talking about somehow having the authority and money to pay the troops anyways, and people know that if this bill happened that Dems made it happen. Ergo they want to make Trump as the 'hero' to maintain their "Dems are the cause of this" narrative.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 3d
15 years ago I was a frothing-at-the-mouth Ron Paul-Republican myself. Clearly the fault is also my own for not making my own Left-wing political party as well.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 3d
Gotta love the framing of that the 'trans lobby'. Nice little bit of dehumanization in and of itself.

Also "free speech" is always a laugh from these types. Because they're upset people aren't willing to just sit there and take their bigotry, so a lot of us just got away from that abuse.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 3d
Welfare programs in case you're wondering. They're gonna steal welfare money.

Fascism's first crime is always theft. They then commit mass murder to cover over their theft. Everyone remembers how many people the Nazis killed, everyone forgets how much they stole.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 3d
Ain't that how it always be? Blame Dems for GOP failures. Oh sure, plenty of things to critique the Dems over, but the gov. shutdown is not one of those things.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 3d
Tbh I do think we need to de-stigmatize the concept of blocking/being blocked.

Instead I'll just say: It says a lot about that person (presuming it's not a bot/troll) that all they focus on is "Lul here's people you can block" rather than countering anything you actually said.
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