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Jupiter ♃ (@tempestarubida.bsky.social):

I think I would be happier if I interacted with people less.

Jupiter ♃ (@tempestarubida.bsky.social):

Ironically my respite from listening to people on twitter say slurs in a leftist way is to listen to billie joe armstrong say slurs to be edgy

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

F-bombs away is your punishment

Jupiter ♃ (@tempestarubida.bsky.social):

Maybe I'm just overjoyed.

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Cliston Brown (@cbpolitics.bsky.social):

A key difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans let people be who they are and Democrats are always pestering or shaming people to change or improve.

Which approach do you think works better?

We have become a party of scolds and snobs, and we lose more ground every day.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Republicans let people be who they are*

  • As long as those people are rich, straight, men.

Women, LGBTQ people, poor folks, N8vs - the GOP ain't havin' it

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

You're an analyst but you've never read the Republican Party Platform? Or Project 2025? Or learned about the Southern Strategy? Did you sleep through the $$$$$$$$ of transphobic Republican adverts this campaign?

More importantly, why do people pay you? And who pays you?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

If yours is the opinion of the Democratic party core, it deserves to collapse. No more than the GOP does, but it still deserves to go away and never come back.

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Take Me Back to Eden (@chromesthesia.bsky.social):

They should pay me instead. I actually need money and I'm sure I have better takes.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I would just print out Martin Luther King Jr's Letter From a Birmingham Jail, highlight every place he refers to White Moderates, and then have a one-question quiz at the end, "Would you say you are a White Moderate? Why or Why Not?"

This dude would call MLK Jr a scold

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

OK so, I want to talk for a moment about positive knowledge, information, ignorance, and being uninformed.

To do this, I want to use a concrete example.

Let's say that someone randomly tells me that:

John Q Smith lives at 100 Main Street Anytown Kansas 22222

This is information.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

No matter how many times this is repeated by the stranger to people around me, no matter how many times they then repeat it, it's still just information.

Let's say I get a database record from an authority that says that JQS lives at that address.

This is knowledge.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Let's say that the person who told me & 200 of the people around me that JQS lives at that address, deliberately misinformed all of us, and that address is in fact a police sting, and the information being repeated by many and sundry is mis/disinformation.

This is complex —

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

To all of us, the address / name combo is misinformation.

The originator deployed disinformation.

The originator gained knowledge from this - that everyone who repeated that JQS lives at that address, has a specific motive to repeat it.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

And to a grand jury, a jury, a judge, the press, etc etc etc — because this combination of information isn't knowledge, but a memetic signature connected to a specific coordinated effort to inform people that JQS lives at that address — it's more likely they will see it as evidence of a conspiracy.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

(IANAL IANYL ATINLA - it's just things that cross my mind)

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The incoming federal government is thirsty to manufacture a dangerous boogeyman that is a domestic terror threat that isn't their fricking neonazi stormtroopers, and thry tried with the protestors at the first inauguration and they literally manufactured "ANTIFA" as their domestic boogeyman.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

So what I'm saying is this:

Think really, really hard about the things people tell you, and ask yourself, "Is this something KNOWN, or is this someone who wandered around the corner and is asking me to hold this here bag real quicklike, they'll brb"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Historians / political scientists have an excellent hypothesis / thesis that shame was a major aspect of the radicalisation of Nazi Germany. Fascism is always a cult obsessed with shame and vengeance for perceived ego wounds

Jeff Sharlet (@jeffsharlet.bsky.social):

Shame isn't a functional political tool. It should be, but it's not. Nine years into the Trumpocene, continuing to invoke it is willful ignorance—& avoidance of the very hard work of finding & making new narratives that might have some power.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

This hypothesis informs an understanding of their rampant transphobia; they all view being a woman as something lesser, something shameful — & therefore view trans women as men who have betrayed the fundamental misogynistic principle they themselves cannot disavow without social death

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

These are violations of autonomy, of self-determination, of boundaries; they are arrogations of authority.

The salonfahige transphobe who casually misgenders a trans woman will also genocide all trans people; only a matter of time, degree, $. They have declared what they are, & are soliciting bids.

Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social):

A point that I have heard Judith Butler articulate several times is that there is no grand distinction between attacking a group's material status and legal rights and attacking its members' dignity by refusing to use forms of address they find tolerable. Both are on a spectrum of disrespect.

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

It used to be "people in [subreddit] are already soreading false rumours that [shooter] is trans", and before that it was "…4chan…". And they never recant, never drop it.

The goal is to incite stochastic terrorism against transgender people.

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

This is potentially the twitter account of the shooter in the Wisconsin school shooting. She followed groyper and white nationalist accounts. She also made a white nationalist hand symbol in the picture. People on Twitter are already spreading false rumors she's trans.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

www.them.us/story/conspi...

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Conspiracy Theorists Are Now Claiming the YouTube Shooter Is Transgender

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I grew up in Italy during the Years of Lead; my family had to keep go-bag suitcases packed and in the entry closet because of the Brigate Rossi. That's my calibration for "too far left".

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

America has never seen a significant mass political leftist movement in its entire history, not even once. There are no far left politicians here. Anyone who gets elected to US Congress is a moderate and popular centrist to populist extreme right.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Fox News has cooked many thousands of pounds of human brain matter in vivo

Stuart John Atkinson (@stuartjatkinson.bsky.social):

Ah always great to find people with this sort of experience. What do you think to the anarchist idea that left/right describe hierarchy, that Marxist/Lenonists doing that means they're just auth-right with another group at the top?

How much of "I'm left wing" can be true if the result is the same?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I never liked a 2 axis 2-d political compass, as an oversimplification. I tend to think that a more important axis is "tolerance <-> violence", and ML's are fairly far towards the violent end on that. I don't think they're auth or right; I think they're never emerging from a violent revolution phase

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

In theory, Communism could be anti authoritarian and highly collectivist, it's merely a fact that beyond certain scales of delegation, accountability breaks down, no matter the governmental ideal organisation, and we don't have a way to grapple with that effectively yet

Stuart John Atkinson (@stuartjatkinson.bsky.social):

I agree. For me anarchism needs a better naming convention when you look at first principles all states require monopoly of violence it's about balancing enough of the authority and heirarchy that the threat removes the concept of it being an individuals option without needing to actually use it.

Stuart John Atkinson (@stuartjatkinson.bsky.social):

I think technocracy is the way forward. Look at the reception of surgical doctors, literally the act of cutting people open for the purpose of healing is the best example of how there is no such thing as a deontological "good" way to do things. There are limited controlled harms in most things.

Stuart John Atkinson (@stuartjatkinson.bsky.social):

So society needs to be structured such that people who know enough about the world devolve collected power to the people actually affected by it. Systems of healthcare, farming, supply chains all have these elements post-industrialisation but career politicians or mobs pretend to have those skills

Stuart John Atkinson (@stuartjatkinson.bsky.social):

Although this can lead to the libertarian free market free speech arguments which also need to be handled more like scalpels but instead we're at a stage where they're used like trepanning.

Stuart John Atkinson (@stuartjatkinson.bsky.social):

But yeah to stop rambling I agree with what you said it's absurd to be in an era of so little movement except a lazy drift to repeating right wing everything from last century people are talking as if there are huge waves of revolution. The construction of the overton window in America is crazy.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Far from rambling! I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social):

No doubt generational changes in leadership are important & necessary at appropriate time.

But this choice isn't only abt generational change, it is abt ideological. AOC is too far left, which contributed to 2024 Democrat loss. That requires reflection, not reward.

We need politics to moderate.

Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com):

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 35, is running for a top committee job, presenting a test of Democrats' appetite for generational change after bruising election results

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

AOC is too far left

Oh, so you're the kind of person whose parents were genetically scarred by Joseph McCarthy

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Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

poppies 🤝 men in bad erotica

  "potent seed"

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Baleful oracles descending upon the meme

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"Portents - Eat!"

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Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.

6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.

Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.

Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.

Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.

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