Reddit. First strike was an anti religion comment. Got back after my 3 days and the first thread I saw was something in one of the popular subs where everyone was shitting on religion. Second strike was cheering on the bear in a clip where a bear turned on a circus trainer for "wishing harm". Third and final strike was for shitting on the manosphere for, and I quote, "hatred towards vulnerable and marginalized groups."
All three came in the last two or three years, after being on the platform for more than a decade and never being suspended before that.
Yeah honestly my sense of time passed is just really terrible as well. To me it feels like ages ago but I'm pretty sure it only came out last year some time. The other day I was just about to complain about how long Sweet Tooth season 3 took until I looked it up and saw there's only a 1 year gap between season 2 and 3 lol (still need to catch up though).
I need to look Ella Purnell up. I thought she was great but I haven't watched anything else with her in it yet.
I feel like those people are never going to vote though. The communists and socialists will be too busy going on about bourgeoisie this and that and won't be satisfied unless Marx himself is running because no one else is good enough. And the anarchists will go going "why should I take this opportunity to fight fascists if I'm not getting my perfect anarchist utopia out of it? Don't vote, it'll go against your perfect idealism." Just like they did this last time around.
I think that Bernie Sanders showed us that people who don't have ideological sticks up their asses will be willing to vote for something better that gets us all a little bit closer to utopia, even if it's not perfect yet. And as a non-American, I think AOC has that same infectious energy. But of course, as a non-American, I might also be underestimating how much Americans hate women and brown people.
Reason for deleting my comment: not interested in 'discussing' anything with people who go "men and women the same" when there's literally stats and figures that prove otherwise and the growing ideological divide between men and women is a real concern. If I had to bring up those facts, one of these snowflakes would just report my comments for 'hate' or something. Because that's how these people prefer to do it. Sticking their heads in the ground and going "not all men" out of their backsides, rather than ever acknowledging that there are any problems and working to solve them.
I don't know if anyone will come past here and see this stupid question but how do I access someone's profile that's in another instance? I want to follow someone who is on pxlfd.ca but I'm not sure how to translate this link to my instance. And searching their 3 letter username is apparently completely useless. I've tried going into a random profile to see what the url does, so that I can maybe do this myself but the url for someone's profile doesn't actually include a username, just random numbers. So what now?
Edit: just tried the official app. When trying to log in, it opens a page in Firefox because of course it fkn does. Which means that my cheap phone then closes the Pixelfed app in the background. Which means that trying to log in through Firefox does fkn nothing. Great start here.
That's the second good reason I've seen to try out Pixelfed in the last week. So maybe it's time. Might as well sign up to Peertube as well. I barely use YouTube as it is (apart from when I'm in the mood for music videos) but a Blåhaj instance of Peertube could be worth signing up for.
Yeah I think nowhere will be 100% free of bigots that think the world revolves around them. But the way I see it, it's just easier to disappear into the crowd in cities. You're going to be seeing and walking past a hundred different faces in a day.
Whereas in a small town or village, you're going to be seeing the same people over and over. And those same people you'll be seeing over and over usually consist of pearl clutching retirees and people that barely ever left their home town in their lives and who live in a small world (but of course still think they know everything about everything). And to your point, those kinds of people tend to think that their specific culture is the default and 'normal' and that everyone else in the world is wrong and a heretic.
As someone that is dying to be more GNC on a daily basis, I know that I'm not comfortable in this small town where even the hobos down the road know me personally by now.
A couple of months ago I was trying something with a second account on Facebook. Gave myself a gender neutral name, used a profile picture where it's hard to tell, and set the non-binary flag as my banner.
Ended up in an argument with a TERF at one point. She was so convinced that I was a biological woman falling prey to "trans ideology" that she even showed up on my profile the next day, commenting on something and trying to convince me to change the path that I'm on. And just because it's relevant to this story, I feel like I should mention that I was shipped with male factory parts.
So yeah, I experienced that first hand with a TERF who can "always tell", who was convinced that I was one of these foolish women being tricked.
It was pretty affirming at first but as time went on it felt less like a win and made me feel awful and deceptive. Because I didn't once mention anything about my sex but didn't correct her either and just let her keep making assumptions. Deleted that account not long after that.
Edit: fun fact, not long after that on my main Facebook account that uses my very gendered real name, in another argument with a bigot, I was accused of being a woman pretending to be a man online.
Does it make me a bad person that I can't look at a kid like this without picturing them spending their time listening to washed up reality stars, laughing at rape 'jokes' and licking the boots of billionaires?
Reddit. First strike was an anti religion comment. Got back after my 3 days and the first thread I saw was something in one of the popular subs where everyone was shitting on religion. Second strike was cheering on the bear in a clip where a bear turned on a circus trainer for "wishing harm". Third and final strike was for shitting on the manosphere for, and I quote, "hatred towards vulnerable and marginalized groups."
All three came in the last two or three years, after being on the platform for more than a decade and never being suspended before that.