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2024-01-07 03:24:23

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@npub1d82…3zk2
USA link 404s. Guessing you meant this one https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/move-your-money/

2023-12-21 04:48:25

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@npub1hyk…3p33
assuming you meant "from you", not "for you"

2023-12-20 19:12:21

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@npub1hyk…3p33
it's the same people who shilled NFTs
They're utterly uninterested in the actual things they claim to be making outside of their potential ability to make a line go up

2023-08-06 16:26:18

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@npub1hyk…3p33
My vasectomy was a Ulysses pact

2023-07-18 18:34:49

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@npub1cfm…mm05 @npub1hyk…3p33
Unfortunately there aren't a whole lot of ex-fascists (especially not of the current online/alt-right strain of cryptofascism (yet)) so the rest of us still have to find something else to do
And, of course, the deradicalizations of ex-fascists can be incomplete. Peter Cytanovic (the screaming guy from that one photo everyone uses of the Charlottesville Unite The Right rally) eventually befriended a Muslim woman who did calmly talk him down, but, while he's no longer a white nationalist, he's still (as of 2019) "a deep, deep Catholic," "a socially conservative person," and he's still not fond of "the whole transgender thing", so it's understandable that diverse/leftist communities might still not want him around.

2023-07-18 18:04:12

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@npub1cfm…mm05 @npub1hyk…3p33
Elaborate your point then? Because it really sounds like you're saying organizing against fascists ("indoctrinated working class white men"), and thereby defending the communities they target, just plays into the hands of capitalist power (rather than being an extant vector of the fight against capitalist power), and so we shouldn't bother trying to protect said communities (which are already made more vulnerable by capitalism)

2023-07-16 17:48:11

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@npub1cfm…mm05 @npub1hyk…3p33
And it was certainly a good thing that you did, but you have to realize that you probably had an easier time doing that due to your proximity than a rando on the internet would have.
Again, we cannot trust that everyone who's staked themselves in fascist ideas can be calmly and rationally led out, and (and this is the important bit) our goal should be to minimize the harm they do to their targets.
This is a fight on many fronts, and deradicalization is one of them — but it is only one, so please keep it in perspective. It sends an awful message when we spend more time trying to get bigots back on our side than we do the people they are bigoted against.
—Ian Danskin, The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g)

2023-07-16 17:26:15

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@npub1cfm…mm05 @npub1hyk…3p33
"antifascist action helps corporations actually" is not a take I was expecting here
Preventing fascists from recruiting and spreading fear, hate, and violence toward vulnerable people is more important than just trusting that every member of the working class will be on board with ending capitalism. How are we gonna do that if we keep telling the fascists' biggest targets that their struggles don't matter?

2023-07-14 01:05:57

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@npub1trd…ussx @npub1cfm…mm05 @npub1hyk…3p33
Attempting to deradicalize members of the far-right is certainly a noble goal and a viable strategy; my intent was not to deny that. However, it cannot be the only strategy.
The point is that our primary goal should be to defeat fascism, not to convince fascists. The latter can certainly be helpful (in certain situations) for achieving the former, but we need to accept that there will always be people who we will never convince (perhaps because they're high enough on the desired fascist hierarchy that they'd have some meaningful amount of power over many others and they understand the value proposition of having other people's shit)

2023-07-13 17:30:51

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@npub1hyk…3p33
But there is, perhaps, an over-willingness to treat them as harmless cranks, as though we can start from their shared frustrations with the world and just gently nudge them in a more sensible direction.
These common anxieties are a shared coordinate that is, I think, far more superficial than we would want it to be, because, while we're all worried and skeptical [about] what people in power are doing, Flat Earthers have very, very different ideas about who's in power and what they're trying to do with it.
Flat Earthers are not otherwise empty vessels who believe one kooky thing; they believe that thing because it suits their purposes.
Flat Earthers have an agenda.
—Dan Olson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

2023-06-16 20:02:26

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@npub1rfy…ww26
something something "owning things company that wants people to think it's a making things company" (@npub1hyk…3p33)