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Swing Swung

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AroAce. Childfree. Cis woman. Liberal. Ex-Christian UU Deist. Citizen of California. Expect a lot of angry rants.

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Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Jan 25

Why I rant here: most of my online friends group is non-Christian (a mix of atheists, Jews, other religions and my deist self), queer women - all depressed by the situation. They have to deal with enough shit without me adding to the negativity in our shared spaces.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 12d

The people who get the subsidy the Republicans want to eliminate are legal residents - either citizens or people who are authorized to live in this country via visas. Not illegals. What do Republicans have against legal, law-abiding immigrants and people who don't otherwise have health care? (2/2)

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 12d

What the right likes to peddle as "undocumented immigrants getting free health care" is basically that they can go to the emergency room if they have to; the same courtesy extended to a homeless American or a tourist from England. That is the extent of the "free health care" they get. (1/2)

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Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 13d

Fascists are propagandists that love the gullible. They know that the gullible can be easily directed to act against their own best interests. And those gullible can be highly-educated, otherwise intelligent people; I work with mostly college-educated MAGA with Security+ certs.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 15d

I've heard several people say "cut everybody who voted for Trump out of your life - even if you work with them!". That is impossible for me. I work with MAGAs. I have to get along to get my work done. This doesn't mean I'm friends or hang out with them, but I know when to pick my battles.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 16d

Women are slowly realizing what a shit deal so-called "traditional American families" are for them. Why would you enter into a deal where you give up all your agency to labor endlessly for a man who can cheat on you at any time and suddenly cast you out onto the street?

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 20d

Aaaaand... the "Department of War" has de-emphasized cybersecurity training. As someone who is involved in cybersecurity awareness training, I can only be horrified. Cyberattacks are a form of warfare! But of course they're a war department, nothing to worried about, right?

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 20d

I still get TSA daily digest bulletins. This one came in today. Of course the J6ers and people who endangered others are "innocent" and should not have been "harassed". 🙄

A screenshot of a TSA press announcement, condemning what they consider persecution of J6 rioters and people who wouldn't obey mask mandates and alleging that Biden etc didn't go after protesters protesting the George Floyd incident.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 20d

Trump's DOJ on liberal journalists being arrested: Let's arrest more of them!
Trump's DOJ on a single conservative journalist in a liberal city getting arrested for disorderly conduct: FULL investigation!

I f'ing hate this timeline.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 22d

Divine revelation (which Evangelical Christians/Christian Nationalists use as a club) is something Deists reject - we share that in common with atheists (even if we disagree about the existence of a god). Guess that means that all us Deists are potential terrorists now? O.O

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 23d

The Christian God loves the stupid and the poorly educated too. I realized this when I was rereading the beginning of Genesis - if Adam and Eve don't know good from evil, then they're going to believe everything God tells them. Couple that with a God who isn't as benevolent as he seems, and...

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · 27d

So, apparently some folks on the right think it's awful that the famously anti-fascist Indiana Jones mentions he doesn't like fascists. Also, that him saying that celebrates the death of CK. What the effing hell on that last part.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 24

MAGA folk hate everything that makes America great - immigrants, POC, women. They want the mid 20th century where women and minorities 'knew their place', and white men reigned supreme. But when people who aren't WASP straight men get a chance, they make America truly great.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 23

Sigh. Antifa itself is a decentralized entity. Anti-fascism however... I am anti-fascist by the sheer fact that I think fascist governments are shitty. Of course, this whole thing is to designate any left-wing protestors as "antifa" and therefore terrorists.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 17

I've seen the texts as given in the charging document for the shooter, and I believe the government is likely falsifying evidence. The way he's texting is the way I text, with long sentences and good grammar. But I'm a woman that's over 40, my nieces and nephews do not text like I do.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 16

The whole "you must mourn for CK" reminds me of what I've heard about the death of Kim Jung Un's father in which if you were not appropriately mournful for him, you could be punished.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 16

We liberals want to make things better for everyone, but the oligarchs behind the right-wing movement hate that because rights get in the way of profit. Thus they convince their base to fear us and hate us because otherwise, they'd figure out that they're being played for fools. (3/3)

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 16

I think the closest to violence I've seen on the left-wing side is a) setting fire to Teslas, and b) blockading ICE agents to keep them from disappearing people. No death threats to right-wing folks, no threats to jobs, no nothing. Liberals don't do that on general principle. (2/3)

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 16

To follow up from earlier: it's funny (and not in the 'haha' way) that left-wing/liberal folks get threats against them for daring to say anything negative about CK or similar figures; on the other hand, right-wingers face no consequences, no violent threats, no nothing when they do the same. (1/3)

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 14

I looked at the "let's get everybody who remotely said what could be construed as celebrating CK's murder" website and it reinforced what I've known for ages - be careful what you post online, especially on a profile linked to your offline identity. Because there are assholes out there.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 14

So, I zapped my last message because I just was so pissed off I wasn't thinking. That being said, I'm tired of right wing hypocrisy where they can celebrate left wing folk being hurt but go nuclear when left wing folk do anywhere close to the same.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Sep 6

ICE only allowing members of congress to visit with an appointment reminds me of the Nazis' Theresienstadt ghetto. That was the site that the Nazis used to convince the American Red Cross and others that no, they weren't exterminating Jews or mistreating them - see the model ghetto!

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Aug 20

I don't like Gavin Newsom. I think he's in the pocket of a ton of commercial interests. I would only vote for him as a presidential candidate if the only other viable choice was a republican.

That being said, I am greatly enjoying him troll Trump and Trump supporters.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Jul 26

I f*ing hate Collective Shout. They're not really in there to prevent sexual exploitation of women. They're related to evangelical christianity, who likes "purity". Censorship is always a slippery slope; you give censors one inch and they want one mile.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Jul 13

I've come to the conclusion that a very large amount of conservatives support book bans because books cause them to do what their leaders tell them they should never do: look critically at what their leaders are doing and saying.

Swing Swung @swingswung.bsky.social · Jun 23

When talking about for-profit prisons, I completely forgot about CoreCivic. Their CEO should be treated the same as GEO Group - arrested for what they do.

I apologize for leaving them out of my previous rant on the issue.