I commented this under Bluesky CEO’s ridiculous response to tolerance towards right-wing reactionaries and anti-trans propagandists. Here: https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3m25esnq4t22y
You didn’t even break the rules, You just said you can understand why someone did it. which is not at all the same as wishing harm.
Calls for trans genocide are welcome on bluesky but don’t you dare criticise a CEO or you’ll catch a temp ban that they’ll use to justify making it permanent.
I have made this analogy the umpteenth time, but it’s like those school faculty members that pretend not to notice bullying, but suddenly are on high alert when the victim fights back.
Is this a sociology phenomenon? Some bias towards aggressors but retaliation is where we draw the line?
Was gonna post this reply on my main but lemmygrad is down:
Punching down is normalized to the point that those in power don’t even notice when it occurs.
The N-word and F-slur were commonly used as insults until like 2016, and is still used by chuds now but I digress.
Going to school post-9/11 was kinda crazy too. Islamophobic comments were so common that teachers just tuned it out in their heads. I got in quite a few fights with my peers back then and every time the person of authority would reprimand me because I would be seen as the aggressor because I confronted their bigotry (verbally or physically) instead of being a good boy and ignoring it.
When someone lashes out, either violently or verbally, it’s frowned upon because polite society likes to ignore injustices.
It’s why the “rise in antisemitism” thing is kinda laughable to me. Maybe I’m minimizing it and am a bigot myself, but I was talking to another Arab friend of mine and when we were looking back at how shit it was to be a Muslim in America post-9/11 we just couldn’t understand how people think someone shouting “free Palestine” at someone wearing a Yarmulka (which is still deplorable) is in any ways comparable to the literal lynchings and persecution of arabs that occur to this day in this country.
A young boy was shot and killed for being Palestinian, a 3-year old girl was drowned in her pool for being Palestinian, students in Vermont got shot for walking while Arab. To me, it seems similar to the Kirk situation, sure be upset about political violence, but your silence to all the other political violence you’ve witnessed makes you look like a piece of shit in my eyes.
Same as it is on Reddit and TikTok I find. They don’t believe in bad tactics, they believe in bad targets.
The powerful are encouraged to regularly harass the powerless for no reason, but if you return to sender to the strong. The censors go off.
I love how modern media discourse tries to pretend like calling for the deaths of your enemies is completely unacceptable and unthinkable and not an ancient human tradition of dealing with social problems.
Liberalism sure gives you a nice, stupifying high but the supply is drying up fellas, time to enter material reality before you get shot in the head yourself.
if Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump do it, then it’s fine and acceptable
Told obama to kill himself and got banned on twitter, meanwhile all the comments under his posts are from verified checks calling him slurs lol.
I’m pretty convinced that Bluesky is just controlled opposition for Twitter. I can’t put my finger on it but the platform has always raised alarm bells for me.
the former CEO of Twitter was involved in it so yeah
Bluesky is worse than twitter, and that’s a really low bar
There’s a reason I call Bluesky the fauxdiverse.
I have to question the wisdom of making your site hostile to LGBTQ people when a large portion of your userbase is people who left Twitter because it was hostile to LGBTQ people
not to denigrate everyone on bluesky but I’d be pretty certain the majority left because twitter got too rude and not for material reasons
Could you imagine being in an actual face-to-face meeting with the CEO of a tech company, and after you present your concerns she just, apropos of absolutely fucking nothing, belts out “WAFFLES”? Our lives are being run and ruined by people who could get shown up at their jobs by seven year olds.
The new CEO of the company I work at just had a “ask the leadership team anything” meeting, but threw a fit about the tone of the questions being negative. One question was “morale across the board is noticably negative, what are your plans to help address this?” to which she sat silent for an uncomfortable amount of time and then said “I have no answer for this” and then muted her mic.
We all know layoffs are coming. She turned that meeting into the classic “you’re either with us or against us” thing. But she’s so petulant she couldn’t even fake civility.
My partner ran into a similar issue with her school board. They cut staff even though the district is fiscally healthy and then patted themselves on the back for being a diverse, all-female school board. There’s something deeply wrong with the whole model of how things get run.
this new CEO came from the boston consulting group who are well known for being hired to come in and do mass layoffs… but what it means for her to be our CEO is probably some next level shit… maybe they’re gonna gut the leadership team, or maybe they’re going to just sell the company… no idea, but it ain’t good
it’s almost as if you scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds…. hmmm……
Lmao, Gretchen Felker-Martin in the replies
https://bsky.app/profile/scumbelievable.bsky.social/post/3m25nxzv2kc2v
there were some solid bangers in there, amongst all the Marvel memes
why would anybody willingly use bluesky?
I wonder this too. Nobody is making anyone use it. Just stop using it and let it die.
It’s like going to a shitty movie, railing on it, then going to the next 13 sequels.
In my experience, a lot of the artists and general Twitter users migrated to Bluesky, while the political accounts mostly stayed on Twitter. That makes Bluesky a lot more tolerable for everyday use. Also no ads, yet.
Wtf is this waffle shit? Is this a meme they are trying to use or something ?
I’m assuming she’s just being lol so randum liek teh pengu1n of d00m!!1 XD, which is a great response to someone asking why you haven’t banned the horrible transphobe yet.
I assume
Whatever it is, it ain’t working for her.
It’s a reference to this tweet (cw for misogynistic slur)
Wow yeah violence is always horrible. Good Job, Mods, anyway song unrelated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxH414tGkA
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
