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And now #petebuttigieg is on the #whitedudesforharris call. It's really interesting how the party has pivoted to "the vibe" as opposed to wonkish policy positions to motivate voters. I think that's gonna be a winning move. But that's like, my opinion, man. #TheDude

#uspol

@arrrg

Khashoggi was murdered in 2018. Trump was president. Biden was a private citizen.

And even if Biden had been president, it happened in another country, in a Saudi embassy, and no one knew about it until it was done.

What you wrote is so wrong in so many ways it's just incoherent.

@notwhatwethink

@realTuckFrumper

He could concede and bend the knee. After all, until SCOTUS gets reformed and they neutralize that stupid immunity mistake, it'll be Empress Harris.

Great news: the GOP mayor of Mesa AZ endorses Harris. "Now more than ever, we need leaders who will put country over party." [de-paywalled link from @azcentral] archive.is/KC91o

@randahl

If those thing had happened in the US, the Republicans would be telling us it's Antifa and BLM.

@Tharpa@hear-me.social

They had t-shirts made up, just for that.
Which sort of blows a hole in their "just caught up in the moment" excuse.

I see a lot of people talking about technical solutions to racist attacks on Mastodon. I used to do that too.

I was wrong.

Yes. There are things that could be done to improve technical protections. Signup validation, proactive moderation, visible replies, limiting who can reply.... But those don't actually solve the problem.

The problem is us.
The problem is what we allowed our community to be.

The tech community has a lot of racists in it. Some are billionaires. Many of those billionaires fund and support explicit racists and eugenicists. When these people, and those who want to emulate them, suffer zero consequences for their racism (and they almost always do), they get more brazen and more explicit. For some it's a thrilling game to see what they can get away with. For others it's a deadly serious ideology.

We need to make it clear that VCs, developers, managers, and influencers who don't take racism seriously won't get hired. That their companies will be boycotted. That nobody will work on their projects. It's not enough to not be racist. We need to be proactively anti-racist, and we need to hold everyone we work with to the same standard.

And when I talk about fighting racism, I'm not just talking about someone saying the n-word. The guy who says, "We don't allow politics in our company/project" has just stated that they are perfectly fine hiring and funding a racist, even if it drives others away. The company that says they don't need a DEI initiative because it "doesn't help the bottom line" has just told their employees that being biased is perfectly fine. You know what they call someone who sits down to dinner with Nazis; if you enable one, you are one. Every step backwards is one more racist who feels empowered to step out of their dank closet.

And fighting them has a cost. We may need to turn down opportunities, and be attacked in response. It's no accident that a lot of the Black (and LGBTQ+) folks who receive the most attacks are the same ones who stood up to their organizations, who called out and continue to call out the racism and bias, and who daily pay a price for it. The message is clear. "Do what they do and we'll make an example of you too."

All of this is going to be harder than we want, because the racists hold a lot of the purse strings. But the tech community is our community, we live here, and we're responsible for making it safe for others.

And I don't want to see one more post saying, "I haven't seen it myself, but...". If you're not seeing it, go out and search for it. Or turn around and look at your own organization and see how you can make it better. We can't cleanup Mastodon without cleaning up the entire community; it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

And yes, you can replace "racist" in what I wrote with any other fascist ideology. They are all cut from the same cloth, and a follower of one invariably joins the others as well.

@hobs

Your posts suggest you're in/near San Diego, I'm up in Ventura County, north of LA.
But it's good to know I'm not the only one prepared. πŸ˜‰

@randahl @adrinux

@hobs

The straw thing irritated me. Still irritates me.
I'm prepped, I'm ready. I have my re-usable stainless steel straws in my pack, and I keep my canvas grocery bags in my car. But now when I order a drink, they don't ask, they just bring me a plastic straw. Usually unwrapped and already in my glass.
Why don't they at least ask?

@randahl @adrinux

@randahl
And in California we even walked back the plastic straw and single use bag ban. Big Oil is holding us all hostage and picking us off one by one, hoping the rest of us won't notice.
@adrinux

Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable β€” and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" β€” that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.

We're a few days into the current wave of #TwitterMigration, and we're all excited for all the #NewHere folks to have joined.

But please be mindful you are joining a social network that was not a barren, desolate desert before. It was a blooming, cozy garden.

It's not just about finding your old connections from :birdsite: , it's also about making new valuable connections with folks on here, who might have moved years ago, or who might have never had an account on hellbird.

#Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine

"This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package valued at up to $200 million to provide #Ukraine with key capabilities, including: air defense interceptors; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons."

Press release defense.gov/News/Releases/Rele

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