• TangoNoir@lemm.ee
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    2 hours ago

    No. I don’t care what people think of me but they should have to adhere to a certain level of social decorum and keep their opinions to themselves.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    20 hours ago

    I’ve said it before but Trump’s second term seems to mark a shift. A real and probably enduring shift. After all they’ve had DEI and other -washing type initiatives since at least the 90s and they’ve picked up steam in the decades since, something like that isn’t necessarily discarded quickly without a thought so there’s some thought here on this shift. It’s capital in the west deciding that maybe you know trans people in the CIA and rainbow imperialism isn’t going to be enough, that maybe they need loyal soldiers in the core and to get them they need to shift to embracing the reactionary side of the culture war fully and trying to push America into a new age of reaction.

    Time will tell but I predict that liberal/left-leaning shows and messaging are going to be strangled increasingly, censored, re-written, plain canceled as they push this into the wider culture much as happened in say the 50s with the second red scare.

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      I think pinkwashing just outlived its usefulness. You can see how a lot of color revolutions gets denounced by people pointing to the visibly queer people and rainbow flags within the crowd. A lot of Western NGOs gets flagged as Western NGOs because they also engage in pinkwashing. There’s probably going to be a revamp in messaging as the previous pinkwashing gets jettisoned for the sake of making the Western NGOs more easily blend into the crowd and operate incognito, even if it means adopting queerphobic talking points.

      The queer people in those countries were set up for failure by those NGOs and now they will pay the price by queerphobic reactionaries within those countries.

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    20 hours ago

    queers are gonna be the targeted demographic for this wave of fascism in the us. be safe.

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      I’m kinda just surprised they’re doing stuff like this when all it’ll do is drive some liberals and leftwingers away from the service. Were chuds boycotting Amazon because it was too woke for having an LGBTQ+ rights section in some corporate policy that nobody ever reads?

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    What’s funny to me is that the whole pinkwashing/rainbow washing/not racist (not anti-racist! Just not racist!) performance is basically cheap as hell. A token hire. An online ad rollout. Some lip service. Even self-serving like “donations” to a “charity” their spouse works at. They already gamed the system. It was inexpensive.

    But still the moment they can their nascent Hitler particles go critical and kick the hate reactor into overdrive.

    No amount of being bullied online by SJWs or “I didn’t leave the left the left left me!” excuses can explain the speed and severity of this kind of heel turn. No. This is the true self unmasked. This was always their deep down. Good job on capitalism for creating a system where the most powerful people in that system are a bunch of huckster sociopaths. Nice.

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      It’s terrifying but not unprecedented. I suppose that makes it scarier, knowing exactly how far these people will go. After all, they’re the same species of human as Ford and all the other CEO’s who cozied up to Nazis.

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    24 hours ago

    Finally this full blown fascist turn might make some libs wake the fuck up and realize the severity of the situation and that nothing can be done from their couch or a voting booth. The people must prepare now before the Reich runs on full steam.