“Liberal opposition figures have frequently reproduced Kremlin-style narratives about migrants, Muslims, and other racialised people. For example, the late opposition leader Alexey Navalny referred to migrants from the Caucasus as ‘cockroaches’ and ‘flies’ in a 2007 video on ‘How to fight insects’.”

Proud of you, Brett! Can't wait to read what you're cooking

Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts

Bigotry is not a result of mental ill health, to suggest so is ableist. Do better.

And a Joey, demonstrating a possible restoration pose.

A F8 worse than death,,

Print ("Nope")

This is THE bad GBA OST track for all time for me, apart from the game itself being a fever dream clone of the original GTA www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWds...

The US loves the John Newton story because it's fiction, it offers the comforting fantasy that evil people can become good people, overnight.

And it does not like thinking about the implications of John Brown's story.

John Brown's story doesn't have a redemption arc. He was 100% anti-slave from the go, being a slaver wasn't on his resume.

He *didn't need* a tearful moment of mystical revelation to see that slavery was evil, or feel the need to write a song about it.

It's always been a grift, but I don't expect an apology from cis ppl even if/when this fascist bulwark is dispersed.
They can have their penance when wealth and the nuclear family are thrown in the bin

Additionally, genuine threats of violence, while not always, have a tendency to get sexual. Especially when the person doing the threatening feels a marginalized person has more power (in some form) than them.

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