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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF98ii6r_gU pretty sure this is the one [from the series] your post made me think of.. My take away as relevant here is that it's not overcomplicated: If your a marginalized person and you know your rights, all the facts and appeals reason will be dismissed by those who buy into the fear-based moral panic propaganda about you, solely on your intrinsic traits.

That's not a two-way street.

Choosing not to engage with such people does not put me in an information silo in the same way that the population influenced by right-wing authoritarianism choose to stand on both sides of a contradiction and refuse to analyze the true root causes of their woes; that you can't class traitor yourself onto the side of the ultra-wealthy, and that their Supreme Leader will throw them under the bus at the first incentive.

A person who chooses to protect their energy from such a Facebook uncle, does not consitute a both-sides.

Not that I went looking for anyone pressing a "both-sides" angle...hoping we can leave it behind in terms of "information silos"

Machismo culture: Maim yourself and your familial property to own the libs. Now that's what I call husbandry 🇺🇸🫡🦅🎆🐢🏝

Thanks much for this. Frankly it's the Stochastiv Terrorism (buying twitter, banning accounts handpicked by the Andy Gno type, iirc, promoting anti-freedom-from/of-gender types, promoting zionists and anti-semites (but I repeat myself)...the general trend of amplifying danger for folks who whom the world is already primed to scapegoat or antagonize. It's harmed journalism and is moving the electoral overton window to the far-right.

Will every reader know that? Will every reader also know the finer nuances of the 3 downward arrows, one of them referring to Stalin's authoritarianism? I'm not here to score sick comebacks? 🤷‍♀️

Right, and that's the joke. All that talent and progress is tainted by Elon's actions.

Keep sayin it til we dont have to 🫶

Look up a video called "Tea and Consent".

Consent includes hugging.

So much of what popular media promoted in decades past (and still! Less but all the same) has failed to teach these lessons.

Take this seriously. Consensual touch is wonderful.

(No so funny after all)

In my 20's I was all for it. I understand where the techbros are coming from. Now with over a decade more experience, I see clearly we need to spend so much more of our energy healing from traumas on the societal level: To dispel imperial-colonialist mindsets. Im thinkin of Bo Burningham speaking about how the empires exhausted all physical territory, and then discovered Data, going on to colonize every waking moment of our attention.

We need to shed the subconcious conquistador, with all it's machismo, all it's tribalism (most agregiously white supremacist nationalism) and covetous paranoia. It is a poison which will prevent us from making the societal leap from which all tides would rise.

Until we do that, all we'll get for this tech will be:

• dystopic labor camp colonies on Mars
• advertisements when we are trying to dream
• Military tech developed under the guise of "medical 🌈 disabilities 🌈 quality 🌈 of 🌈 life 🌈 improvement 🌈 research" [1]

And we collectively deserve better

1: DeathPanel Podcast | Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline

I dont see whynanyone's surprised, anything Elon is touchung is tainted by association. It's not rocket science.

Too bad that Mark Zuckerberg coined it as a motto for Facebook then, huh?

Thanks. Vest advice I have to any person looking to help, is dont just be a passive ally. Step up as an accomplice. When there's a police protected parade of alt-right demonstrators, show them that they're outnumbered. The SRA does a good job of that, as one example.

The other advice is that whatever space you exist in, be proactive in showing bigots that there's no place at the table at your club.

To anyone reading: Just dont do nothing. You are as powerful as your solidarity.

Important to remind people that it's not theoretical when we talk about it. It's real human beings that are being scapegoated. It's real abusers that get a smokescreen.