#ScottBaugh is an #OrangeCounty , #California #BananaRepublican who is trying to whip-up a #CultureWar over undefined #Wokism , caused by the #WokeMindVirus which he says is a bigger threat to American liberty than #WorldWar2. 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scott-baugh-wokism-threat-california-gop-congress-candidate_n_64f25ae2e4b04f9a01e8e2f1

Closer inspection reveals he represents #RWNJs in #HuntingtonBeach and was ‘educated’ at #Liberty ‘#University ‘, of #JerryFalwellJr ‘s pool boy fame. 🤷🏻‍♂️

More hypocrisy from right-wing nut jobs, aka Florida "lawmakers." They're promoting lies and enabling violence.

GOP lawmakers take aim at LGBTQ+ 'safe places' program in small Florida town

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/gop-lawmakers-take-aim-at-lgbtq-safe-places-program-in-small-florida-town/

#homophobia #Politics #flpol #ChristoFascism #LGBTQ+ #Transphobia #Republicans #GOPHate #RepublicanHate #VoteBlue #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica #SafePlaces #Orlando #FreeSpeech #Violence #Law #Legislature #Tallahassee #flleg #rainbow #RWNJs #PoliticalViolence #terrorism #terrorists

Are YouTube algorithms hindering racists trying to spread potentially violent disinformation? Good.

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Study suggests most people watching extremist videos on YouTube already hold extremist views

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-people-extremist-videos-youtube-views.html

#Sociology #racism #antisemitism #misogyny #violence #socialmedia #algorithms #RWNJs #RightWingNutJobs #videos #Fascism #Fascists #Nazis #Republicans #GOP #sexists #sexism #Democracy #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda #politics

Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get some of longest sentences in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

Note: Miami's Enrique Tarrio, who was the Proud Boys’ national chairman, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday (Sept. 5). His sentencing was rescheduled after U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said he was sick on Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-proud-boys-sentencing-seditious-conspiracy-5c8bf8a8e5dc6381e7387e31e554cee6

#terrorism #terrorists #Jan6 #GOP #Trump #Republicans #insurrection #CoupAttempt #Violence #TrumpThugs #RWNJs #ProudBoys #Fascism #Fascists #Elections #VoteBlue

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/28/arthurs-birthday-childrens-book-ban-florida These have got to be the most innocuous books imaginable
Seriously we have to be aware of what the rwnj are likely to inflict on us. #BookBans #RWNJs #florida

"The Supreme Court has a procedure to seek a rehearing, so to say, 'Hey Supreme Court, there's a new fact that emerged and we need you to revisit your ruling,' so that's possible," he explained. "The Supreme Court can also on its own ask for a briefing on this new question on whether this case is made up."

https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-lgbtq/

Still begs the question what do we do with #RWNJs?

#VoteBlue

As one, i know what it is to be #Transwoman. I know we have #Transmen. In our richness we also have #Transfem & #Transmasc.

I am, however, looking askance in befuddlement at parts of our umbrella i'd not previously realised, like:

Translate
Transatlantic
Transportation
Planes Trans & Automobiles

Golly, no wonder the hideous #RWNJs are so worried... we're just EVERYWHERE!

#Whimsy

#Conjecture.

If fewer babies were dropped on their heads seven times in a row, in post-natal hospital wards around the world, would 20 years later the world have far fewer #RWNJs, & thence 42 years hence, have NO #RWNJs?

🤷‍♀️ 😜

#FsckRWNJs

The Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison governments were self serving corrupt administrations. We must never allow this to happen in Australia again #fascists #corruptconservatives #RWNJs

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-29/labor-led-committee-slams-coalition-grants-program/102543002

@sotolf Well, rather than religious per se, it's been mostly, so far, overt #ConspiracyTheory intrigues & mysteries, interspersed with "monster of the week" episodes. It's just that, so much of Merka is hopelessly religious, so the eps seem to often walk a tightrope between *possible* alien evidence vs "divine intervention" 🤮

Tbh, much of my now decades-late viewing of #TheXFiles has been uncomfortable, coz we're living now in a dramatically different world since it was made in the 90s... pre Y2K, pre-9/11, pre-Iraq & Afghanistan, & ofc nowadays with Conspiracy Theory #RWNJs everywhere.

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/looming-fire-ant-invasion-worse-than-cane-toads-20230621-p5didj.html

What with these horrendous invasive #FireAnts, the similarly horrific #YellowCrazyAnts, our now unstoppable #ClimateCrisis & #environmental destruction, the rise & rise & rise of #ChristoFascist #RWNJs with their escalating war of hate & violence against #women & #LGBTQI peeps, & our enduring #racism against our #FirstNations citizens & #Refugees + #AsylumSeekers ... #WeAreTotallyFscked

#Misanthropy

13 minute video. Interesting, calm, thoughtful ... aka, something else to enrage the hateful #Homophobia #Transphobia #RWNJs 👍

https://bigthink.com/series/legends/gender-theory/

>Sex, gender, and the debate over identity explained by Berkeley professor Judith Butler.

>What if gender wasn’t a predetermined reality, but a fluid construct formed by culture, history, and individual identity? This is a question that drives the work of Judith Butler, a gender theorist and distinguished professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

>While acknowledging the biological realities of sex, Butler promotes the concept of gender as performative — something that is enacted and shaped through our actions and interactions. This view, although challenging to traditional perspectives, is instrumental in the discourse on queer, trans, and women’s rights. Butler encourages a shift in societal conversation to include diverse gender identities.

>This transformation, she believes, allows us to work toward a society where equality, freedom, and justice are at the forefront, reinforcing the foundations of our democratic society.

#Gender #GenderIdentity #GenderTheory

@Phangurl It's no wonder to me at all that various polls & surveys in several countries, eg, Straya, NZ, UK, USA, Canada?[tbc], show "#democracy" is falling out of favour with many younger peeps [& i posit, also a non-trivial activist "oldies" cohort]. More & more the legal systems in these once liberal democracies genuinely purported to be about protecting the common good. That concept now seems risible, given so many of these supposed democracies have drifted if not lurched severely rightwards [aka, wrongwards, ha!], & show an escalating trend to use repressive laws to outlaw the common good in favour of #FossilFool #RWNJs It's demoralising & deplorable.

#politics

@kentparkstreet

>being gay is punishable by death there are still gay people

What? Oh well then, looks like we'll need to kill 'em two or three times then. 🤪

Honest to dog, these disgusting #RWNJs #ChristoFascists #Homophobes #Transphobes ... in their deluded minds & stone hearts, what do they imagine the world looks like if they ever achieved their [ofc totally impossible] goal of eliminating all non cis het peeps? Would they then go after all those evil child-grooming left-handed peeps? Once they've eliminated all them too, which peeps then become the new despised group to target? Maybe peeps with dimples are Satan's spawn then? 🤦‍♀️

People who exist to hate, just seem to me to be fundamentally broken. 🤷‍♀️

@MediaActivist That's a really interesting piece to read; thoughtfully considered & written by its author. Ta for posting it.

I have so many thoughts, & so much sadness [+ frustration & anger] each time i contemplate this awful attitude of the #RWNJs & #ChristoFascists towards the #LGBTQI community, & especially we "monster du jour" #Trans peeps. For all the mentions in that [& similar] article/s of "conservative intellectuals", one glaring thought recurs to me...

HOW does a man loving a man, woman loving a woman, suppressed #Trans peep finally accepting their truth & deciding to emerge, hurt THEM [the conservatives]? Honest to dog, someone pls sit me down & explain to me in simple words coz clearly i'm too dumb, exactly specifically & precisely how *other* peeps finding *their* happiness, adversely impacts IN ANY WAY the daily lives of conservatives? 🤷‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️

If the only way they can defend their hatred & violence is religion-based, then they lose the argument [any defence predicated on fictitious bullshit is worth even less than the papyrus it's written on]. IMO there seems to be a strong correlation between #skyfairy delusions & anti-queer attitudes... yet another way that the invention of #religion has been & remains one of humans' most toxically destructive errors.

If they insist, as so many deceitfully do, that they're simply "protecting the children", then they need to explain & justify. Do they seriously intend to keep prosecuting a fatuous argument that "gayness" or "transness" might be caught by their kids like a cold... or like Covid19 😜 ?

Ofc, i entirely recognise the naivety & impotence of my position. There's not much good in winning an argument with logic empathy & decency, if the opposing side has the political numbers to marginalise, ostracise, & punish you, &/or the untrammelled violence & inhumanity to murder you.

@unix_discussions Pls don't forget this fairly obvious point. The marvellous DE that is #KDEPlasma, with its myriad wondrous tools functions & features, is agenda-neutral. The various 1s & 0s ofc have no idea if they're being used for good or ill. In other words, it's not just nice decent peeps who might use it... sadly, also the scum of the earth also can, eg, #Nazis, #Fascists, #RWNJs, #ChristoFascists, #Racists, #Misogynists, #Transphobes, #Homophobes, #FossilFools, #Dictators, et al. Tis sad, but unfortunately true. 😭

#Insiders this morn, AFR's Jacob Greber, says that the "wages price inflation spiral" is real coz thats what the employers & business groups to whom he's spoken, say.

Fsck me dead. 🤦‍♀️

Thanks, #Aunty, for continuing to freely platform voices of the capitalist #RWNJs, with their deceitful bullshit misinformation, disinformation, & outright fscken lies.

#AusPol

PS: To David fscken Speers: STOP interrupting peeps to just constantly speak over the top of them, damnit. 😱

@admin Hello.

>We're anarchists and a lot of non-anarchists are joining
>Really interested in hearing why people joined #Kolektiva

I'm only relatively new here, & in fact still only ~6months into having any active social media presence of any kind. It's my second #Masto #Instance. I moved here from the first one, a tech-based one, once someone pointed out to me that a lot of the topics i tend to post about were apparently against their rules, which shocked me.

I never really thought of whether i'm an anarchist or not, in fact i feel quite naive. I hope this post won't actually get me run out of town as some fraud here, or somehow some bad person.

All i know is that i care passionately about there being, in an ideal world, NO NONE ZERO ZILCH: #RWNJs, #Fascism, #Patriarchy, #Religion, #Poverty, #Cruelty, #Racism, #WhiteSupremacy, #ClimateCrisis, #CapitalistConsumerism, #Misogyny, #Homophobia, #Transphobia, #War, #Invasions, #Genocide, #Military, et al. My #Politics are stridently anti-rightwing & pro-leftwing, BUT always with a dominant pro-#Gaia priority.

However, i'm a geeky peep too, so i love participating in chats about #FOSS, #Linux, #Browsers et al. I love #Logic, #Whimsy, #WordPlay & #Literature.

Given all that, it seemed to me after investigation that #Kolektiva might be able to tolerate a peep like me. I hope i was not just being silly. 🤞

PS: I'd be a big liar if i pretended that the luxury of having a 10K-character limit in posts here, vs the miserly default 500 elsewhere, was not *also* a nice drawcard for me 😊

@stgreenie Excellent work! My feeble contribution...

What if the tree falls, & though nobody was there to see it [ergo, this was a totally silent event; 😜], it sadly fell onto a butterfly, which was so alarmed at its impending demise, flapped its wings so hard that it created a hurricane on the other side of the planet?

The hurricane was so severe, yet also so strategic, that it only took out all the #RWNJs, #Fascists, #Racists, #Misogynists, #Transphobes, #Homophobes, #ClimateDeniers, #Religions, #TelephoneSanitisers, #AdvertisingExecutives, & also #Gannets [coz they wet their nests].

I'd lionise that selfless tree & butterfly; erect statues of them everywhere.

Oh well, at least a gal can dream [of androids & electric sheep?].

#whimsy

MAGA woman grieves after finding out Chick-Fil-A is serving "woke chicken" (video) https://boingboing.net/2023/06/02/maga-woman-grieves-after-finding-out-chick-fil-a-is-serving-woke-chicken-video.html

LMAO. TBH, the lines around the building in the local one say most of those #RWNJs will still eat the pollo despierto (I know, a very literal translation for humor). Cue up the baby 🎻 .

#PartyOfStupid #Christofascists #ChampagneProblems