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Did you guys notice how quickly we got to okaying discrimination against women, people of color and LGBTQA+ people, Christi-fascists in the government, erasure of public health, not being able to trust government statistics, autocratic use of power and undermining elections?

Spread the word. These people are fuckholes.

Trump administration bars trans women athletes from 'extraordinary ability' visas It’s unclear how many athletes the guidance could affect, as the number of out transgender athletes competing in international competition remains low.

"But there's no trans Olympic athletes!" Please realize that's not the point. The point is to manufacture consent. The Trump regime has enacted worse and worse anti-trans policies nearly every week for 7 months, and every step of the way the country has complied.
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I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

I stayed polite throughout.

You stuck with the outrageously condescending “you’re just hysterical” as your compelling argument.

Unfortunate. 👋

From Canada to Finland, a US neo-Nazi fight club is rapidly spreading across the globe ‘Active clubs’ that use martial arts to espouse far-right, fascist ideologies are proliferating in the US and abroad

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As I said, to you Nazis are probably not a real thing because you didn’t grow up with personal stories of their rise to power, and what they did as they gained more power.

Nazis are getting fashionable again, and you have to stop them at the beginning vs once they’re strong and established.

This also has direct parallels with what happened in Germany.

Look up Julius Streicher and how he used Der Stürmer to grow the Nazi party. It was a very modern approach, and very effective, and was also initially dismissed by people as harmless, the way you are dismissing this now.

The point is not whether you are personally seeing them.

It’s that Nazis are getting paid to generate content and build a following, and now Substack is, according to this article, promoting them with push notifications.

If I subscribed to a newspaper that also monetized Nazis, I’d unsubscribe.

Sorry, replied to you by accident—meant to reply to someone else!

I think her reasons for being on Substack are valid—she’s not big enough to get people to move elsewhere, and enough of her audience are too lazy to migrate elsewhere. However, people with more subscribers could lead the way.

Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

You moved here because of Musk, eg a political concern. The owners of Substack are monetizing Nazis and increasingly promoting them. Same type of issue.

It also happens to be a basket you might not want to have all your eggs in long term.

Anil Dash explains: www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...

You’re writing this on a platform which people moved to from X, because X got filled with Nazis, and they started paying them as well.

Substack is simply at an earlier stage, but maybe we can learn faster this time around. This pattern is as old as the internet.

I’ve been online since the BBS era and have watched communities move time and time again. It takes a certain critical mass, following key figures, to do it.

Meanwhile my grandparents lived in Germany under Hitler, so I can’t think of Nazis as silly cartoon villains that one can safely ignore.

Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog | Taylor Lorenz Get more from Taylor Lorenz on Patreon

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog.
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America

The market can move. Especially since it’s possible to post the same thing on various platforms so your followers have the choice to follow you elsewhere.

The problem is Substack funds Nazis even if you don’t see them.

She responds to this above—right now she isn’t getting enough followers on Patreon to live on. So people who want her to switch entirely should also switch to Patreon

Stop.
Using.
Substack.

I have no comments allowed on my blog posts. Feel free to share and comment in a post of your own, but don’t just breeze through to take a dump on my page and carry on while I clean up your mess.

RIP Tom Lehrer, whose songs I used to listen to w intense attention as soon as I was introduced to them around age 7. Through them I absorbed loads of things about world politics bc they were about Real Things but were also funny, and I wanted to get all the jokes. And he seemed to be a good human.

Just donated to WCK. Link in this piece by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

100%. I remember in the 90’s how my friends and I would complain, when these things were important to us, that Diddy couldn’t produce a song he wouldn’t ruin. “Uh” “uh I like this, yeah, uh, yeah, 94” GTHOOH with that noise, Diddy!

Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.

Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

Bitcoin still isn’t a great everyday currency for people to buy things with. Fluctuates wildly and not straightforward enough for general populace use.

That I haven’t heard of!

Yeah. A loooong time ago I thought maybe Bitcoin could bypass all the US based payment processors with their puritan values, but haha NOPE

This trend is making it very tempting, as a Scandinavian, to make an alternative platform for specifically this content.

U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the U.N. and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

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