Oh, I totally agree. If they actually stood up for us, then I doubt the shift would be as across-the-board. And you’d hope it would actually make liberals and independents become more supportive of laws that protect us. But there are allegedly swing voters out there, so they gotta throw us under the bus to chase the mythical moderate Republican
Well, yeah, I’m hardly surprised. We’ve been the target of a massive, aggressive attack from a major political party. Propaganda works.
AFAIK, you are correct, Lemmy does not have karma. Piefed has some sort of karma/reputation by account, but I think it’s geared more toward easing moderation than providing a status symbol
I regularly say out loud to myself “cmon brain, work with me here”
I will be honest, that is not a subculture I’ve ever heard of before. Good to know, though, thanks!
It seems more like places like 4chan or wherever the fuck Groypers and those types hang out. Discord? Telegram? I dunno
He seemingly once dressed up as a Pepe meme for Halloween
I watched part of the press conference, and they said one of the bullet casings had “Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao” written on it, and another had something like “catch this, fascist” on it. Another said “notices bulges OWO”, and another said “if you’re reading this, you’re gay”. Or something like those, I only heard the guy read it once
In my unprofessional opinion, it sounds like the shooter was involved in online radical spaces, but hard to discern exactly what his motive was rn
EDIT: reporting from The Guardian - ‘On one of three unfired casings read “hey fascist! Catch!”, a second read “oh bella ciao” and a third one read: “If you read this, you are gay, LMAO”.’
I was not prepared for how graphic that was
How do you know the shooter was an old white guy? I haven’t seen it reported anywhere yet
Garrison is the host for both episodes, and Mia is on the first one, and there’s a different guest (AltWatcher?) for the NPS one. Was just listening to these this morning! The Cool Zone peeps do good work
It shouldn’t be, but for as long as it is, I’m grateful for the prominent cis allies that are standing up for us.
The lines between reality and satire get blurrier by the day
That do be how it is. Thank god for supportive friends!
Raw milk should be treated like ice cream - never let it get too warm, unless you’re pasteurizing or boiling it. Jesus Christ, these people.
I have multiple friends with dairy goats, and I end up with milk a lot of the time. They’ve always told me it was raw, and I never was too worried about it, because they’re small operations and I trust their hygiene practices. Hell, I’ve milked the goats myself! And I went on for a few years happily drinking raw milk and making raw goat cheese. And if I ever shared it, I would tell people it was raw, but I never thought much about it.
Somewhere along the way, over the past few years, I noticed that conservatives were getting more and more into raw milk - the same folks who were really into ivermectin and the anti-vax stuff. And you know what I did? I read more about the risks, learned how easy home pasteurization is, and started fucking pasteurizing my milk. It’s not hard, and it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Plus, I want to be the cool friend who knows how to make their own cheese, not the weird conspiracy theorist talking about how they’re oppressed by the FDA.
Free Cascadia!
The rest of her writing makes it clear she was severely mentally ill, and her video is very much in line with the shit going around on Terrorgram. The overwhelming majority of these shootings are perpetrated young white cis men and boys, not trans people, and anyone focusing on her gender identity is doing so to deflect from the far-right extremism.
Right? Zohran Mamdani did a fantastic ad about Sylvia Rivera and how he plans to support trans people as mayor last week. But it’s amazing to see how much the Democratic leadership hates him. It’s always the case - Bernie, AOC, Zohran, anyone with real moral clarity, gets actively worked against by the party that wants us to think they’re the “good guys”