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TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
TSG_Asmodeus (he, him) @ TSG_Asmodeus @lemmy.world
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  • Just poking fun at how everything and everyone is fascist now apparently

    Ahem.

    Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism,[4][5] fascism is placed on the far-right wing within the traditional left–right spectrum.

    Which of these don't fit the republican party exactly?

  • You shout like that, you’re a fascist.

    Nuh-uh, you are!

  • I’ve yet to see a good political discussion in this sub, all i see is news about red and blue and the names of the candidates well visible on the front page

  • Au Canada, le juron francais que j'entends est 'tabarnak', 'calice', 'ostie' au lieu de 'fuck.'

    (So I was surprised)

  • Remember, KDR is a flawed mechanic. I'd trade a 20-2 player who farms eco rounds for a 10-12 player who gets those essential kills that win the round/match/etc.

  • That's a great point, she does even say she doesn't want any association with him.

  • My point is their legitimizing his reasoning. They're saying this is the reason he did it. Let him say that. Never let him try to shy away from it, make it so if he's going to misgender/deadname/etc he's openly doing it.

    Think about it, the story title should go:

    "Elon Musks daughter speaks out about her fathers homophobia, bigotry, etc"

    Let him try to legitimize it and fail, don't give him the step up first. Make him look like the lunatic he is for raving about his 'dead son' or whatever, let him hang himself with his own rope. She even says:

    “I would like to emphasize one thing: I am an adult,” she said, according to NBC. “I am 20 years old. I am not a child. My life should be defined by my own choices.”

    She had no choice in this at all, she is who she is, so we need to stop helping make a minor part of her identity her identifying characteristic.

  • I agree it's not to intentionally target her maliciously, but it is malicious: how does the story change if you just say 'daughter'? If she was a Catholic convert would it be 'Elon Musks Transgender Catholic Daughter'? I understand part of his hatred towards her is that she's transgendered, but we don't have to allow that. And as I said, other news agencies aren't (all) doing that.

  • Is it though? It just legitimizes it as a reason to separate her from other women. Until I see "So-and-So's cis-gendered hetero daughter" I think we can agree it's singling them out, not highlighting something in good faith. For example, and this is the BBC's:

    Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father | BBC

    She's a woman, who from what I can see is emancipated from her father. He's a sack of shit, she's voicing that. That's the story.

  • One thing I noticed, and you can check this for yourself too, is that American media outlets constantly refer to her as 'Elon Musks transgender daughter', and it really bothers me it's not just 'Elon Musks Daughter.'

    So I checked, and the BBC, CTV News (canadian), CBC (also canadian) all just refer to her as his daughter.

    I absolutely love that she's bringing the lumber, but I could really do with news organizations not using that as her identifier. She's not 'Elon Musk's transgender daughter.' She's Vivian Jenna Wilson, she doesn't even consider Elon her father. I'll let her speak for herself here:

    (From her name change):

    “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she wrote on the petition.

    “I would like to emphasize one thing: I am an adult,” she said, according to NBC. “I am 20 years old. I am not a child. My life should be defined by my own choices.”

  • Hello, Wisconsin!

  • Holy shit, forty three year old millennial here and I actually got it right.

    Now to celebrate with a nice ibuprofen for my back.

  • Martha Wells Murderbot series is on book 8 (of the full length novels) and I love it more each time. I've read it through three times and still enjoy it each time.

    I know it's not 3 but if anything I find it more impressive.

  • I think my favourite part of this is that, of all the things Republicans have called people, all the racist terms, all the gay-bashing, anti-trans, misogynist, ablist bullshit terms they've used, they're freaking out over the 'epithet' weird.

    Talk about the most thin skinned little bitches on the planet.

  • They were throwing temper tantrums over the owner of Kotaku telling them that they needed to write more gaming guides/articles instead of the social culture outrage garbage they had been spewing that tarnished their reputation.

    So these attacks are gamergate garbage, thanks.

  • "But from the outset, she said, she did not feel welcome. In her witness statement she detailed how colleagues “took it in turns to shout out ‘watermelooooon!’ anytime I walked into the room. Every time they did this the others would laugh,” she said, adding that she “felt humiliated and mocked”.

    She heard colleagues talking about her “getting lynched” and being “tarred and feathered”. One said he would put her in a “hot box” – a reference to a scene in the film Django Unchained in which a black female slave is tortured by being locked inside a wooden coffin-type box.

    In her statement, Knight said the Tarantino film “was regularly played by my colleagues – seemingly on repeat”.

    Over several years, Knight tried to raise complaints about the racism and misogyny, informally at first and then formally, through Service Complaints, the grievance scheme for members of the armed forces. She backed up her complaints with evidence, including WhatsApp screenshots and audio recordings.

    However, after submitting a service complaint about her treatment at AFC Harrogate she was removed from her role training junior soldiers, on the basis that her “mental or emotional state [was] sufficiently at risk of deterioration that she should not be in a [junior soldier-]facing role at this time”.

    “I think when it got to that stage, that’s when I just realised that the army is institutionally racist,” Knight said. “And they would go above and beyond in order to discredit me as an individual, in order to protect the army image, to portray that racism doesn’t exist, even though it was there in black and white.”

    What the actual fuck?

  • Communism

    Jump
  • From what I understand Vietnam is a fascinating combination of (borderline Stalinist at times) Communism combined with a 'socialist-minded' market economy. I could be wrong, I was reading about it a few years ago.