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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 1d

*Lenin

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 2d

This. By a spoon straight out of jar

Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 5d

What we could give from army stockpiles we gave 3 years ago, so maybe little less money for UA refugees, which is abhorrent but not a game changer. Ammo initiative is organized by CZ, but funded mostly by others and no one is going to cancel orders to Czech (or other) ammo factories 🤷‍♂️

Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 5d

He's not exactly pro-trump anything more than he just wants a photo of himself with current master of the oval office. Essentially just a money embezzling populist with no real political agenda of his own. Sucks for us, buf no big deal for the rest of the world.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 5d

Babiš is not right-wing. He is a populist EU-subsidies sucking agriculture tycoon with no opinion of his own. And also a former commie secret service agent.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 8d

And Americans love it. They don't even do some kind of mass protests, meaningful civil movement or, gods forbid, general strike. Even students rather spend their time scrolling algorithmically presented bullshit for cheap dopamine instead of organizing 🥰

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 16d

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

Some people think you should give special pass to some thoughts or thought systems it they have idea of gods in them...

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

Yep that's him. He's also consistently pro-trump, from what i saw.

Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

All of these three people are assholes I despise but keep beating that straw man

Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

This encapsulates it the best for the context of this discussion...
www.secularism.org.uk/what-is-secu...

But the Wikipedia article is also guide good.

Secularism explained

Equal treatment and freedom of belief for all.

www.secularism.org.uk

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

Lot of people in this thread seem to not distinguish between not being secular and being religious. Being religious is normal and perfectly ok, being secular means you are not imposing your religious beliefs on others. That is not ok and is a big part of why USA is in such a deep shit right now.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

Theres a lot of Palestinian Christians and atheists, too! But I wasn't talking about religious people or Muslims or whatever else. I was talking about secularism, that is not imposing your personal religious beliefs on others. If somebody is doing that, he's a bad person

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

For me it's refreshing to kind of not have racists in my life or give them free pass for their racism just because the might be related to me.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

People who are not secular are making the world worse by not being secular. That is by imposing their personal religious beliefs on the society as a whole. You can see this for example in the USA, if you look close enough.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

I don't care. Issue is not being christian, atheist or whatever else one pleases. I talked about being secular which means you are not imposing your beliefs on others.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

People of faith is not the same as not being secular aka imposing your religious beliefs on others.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

Quite a diverse and big bunch of people

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 25d

No you don't.its very humane and beneficial to society to hate Nazis, homophobes and others. These people don't believe in reason, you cannot talk them out of being etc. Nazi. But you, as a society, can make being a Nazi or homophobe too costly to be feasible for most people. That's ostracization

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 25d

... And it ends up with people, who deserve the worst (homophobes, misogynists, racists, those who are not strictly secular and other assholes in general) not receiving enough hate just because they are related to someone. They deserve hate and ostracization, not free pass for their iliberal bs.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 25d

How? You simply tell them to fuck if they are homophobic, transphobic or aren't secular. It's easy and refreshing.

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 25d

Also a system where the ultimate arbiters are lifetime appointees generated by deeply partisan system is not democratic by its very nature

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Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 25d

And where were the rest of Americans? Paris. Athens, Kiyv or any of dozens more European capitals would literally burn if someone tried to do like 1% of what GOP is doing. You still don't have even a general strike.or some other peaceful coordinated action.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 25d

Orwell hated the theatre of moral absolutes that let people excuse cruelty as duty.

“They are only doing their duty” was his warning about bureaucratised violence of the kind being carried about by ICE in the USA and often cheered on by Musk.

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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 25d

My granddad's cousin went to Spain in early '37 to fight the fascists and kept a diary of his experience. One entry read that he'd been shown how to clean his rifle by another, more experienced, Englishman by the name of Eric Blair. So yeah, I think we all know what Orwell would think.

Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 25d

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"

So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

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