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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialtoLinus Tech Tips@lemmy.ml•Madison talks about her experience at LTT (CW: self-harm, sexual assault)
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    1 year ago

    You didn’t dismiss the accusation, yet you demanded more information, which again, we are not owed.

    It’s also incredibly damaging to trust everything someone says without some verification.

    The implication being that’s what I’m arguing? I don’t know you go from “It’s incredibly insensitive to treat sexual assault claims like any other subject and ask victims for details and verification, you should understand how these tactics have historically been used to intimidate and silence women victims of sexual assault and abuse”

    To “Believe any and all claims made by supposed victims like some kind of religious dogma”.

    That’s quite a leap. If you’re not going for a flimsy reductio ad absurdum, you should know (although I feel you already know) no one in this thread is arguing in favor of believing any and all claims of SA like a proof of faith.

    People lie.

    People do lie. The implication that women lie about SA is statistically false and has historically been a key tool of the patriarchy in silencing women.

  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialtoDank Memes@lemmy.world•RIP twitter
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, god forbid something stops Musk from effectively dismantling the one tool that was allowing the working people all over the world (Iran, HK, Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street) to coordinate and carry out demonstrations and protests against their governments and powerful capitalist oligarchs.

    Not that I think future examples of these movements won’t find another online space to exist. But Twitter was particularly suited for this task in that it provided real time global updates, same reason many found it an invaluable tool for getting live news.

    And given the current situation of political awareness and working class coordination, this gravitation will likely happen over a long time and may even splinter to different spaces, which I don’t think is a good situation.

  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Dresden Rule
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    1 year ago

    Bombing cities full of civilians, with lots of architectural landmarks and little to no military value, to own the Nazis.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for not holding back against Nazis. I’m always saying that we’re due for Barbara Pit pt. 2, but this one seems like a cut off your nose to spite your face situation. We all lost when Dresden was almost leveled to the ground, not just Germany.

  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialtoOut of the loop@lemmy.world•Whats with the Lemmygrad hate?
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    1 year ago

    I’m just so done with the topic. I don’t want to engage in lengthy internet debates that benefit no one and only serve to reinforce each person’s initial stance. I have no interest either in debating against or in favor of tankies.

    Although as far as my experience here on lemmy/kbin has been, the people who seem far more interested in making posts (not talking about this one) and constantly bring up the topic are anti-tankies. There seems to be a group of the community here that is fervently anti-tankie, and has to let everyone know at every chance how much they despise tankies and how evil tankies are and so on. These people are the most tiresome by far, at least in my experience, I have yet to come across any of the much dreaded tankie content. Maybe it’s because for some of the people in this group the mere fact (I don’t know how much of a fact is it and I honestly do not care) of the admins of lemmy.ml being tankies is enough to trigger their outrage and anger.

    I will say this, why are any of us placing so much focus (and for some, outrage) on some very niche groups of terminally online leftists, when there’s been a very scary rise of fascism worldwide, especially in Europe and US, that is currently getting worse? I can guarantee you this new wave of fascism enjoys far more popular support than Marxist-Leninists have, or ever have in western countries. Seems like worrying over the mosquito that’s biting your arm while there’s a polar bear mauling the other side of your body. (Before anyone tries the “but tankies support fascism” gotcha, you should know actual Marxist-Leninists outside of these terminally online spaces do not support the current Russian imperial oligarchy, maybe people should also get informed about the concept of critical support, which is still very debatable)

    I wish we had keyword filters on Kbin so I could be done with any and all content regarding the word “tankie”

    Edit: To the very nice people who felt the need, Reddit-style, of just downvoting me without even taking part in the conversation. This goes out to you all: https://youtu.be/8mpeixSXYVU