• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
    hexbear
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    7 months ago

    Imperialism's co-opting of progressive causes might be the most insidious and evil propaganda these fucks try.

    They spent decades exterminating queers in the West only to use them for propaganda for the same bloodthirsty machine that once killed them. Disgusting.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      hexbear
      54
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      7 months ago

      co-opting of progressive causes

      It's all just micro-targeting. The folks actually running the imperial project in Israel are going to give these guys the Night of Long Knives treatment sooner or later.

      They're marginally to the right of DeSantis

      They spent decades exterminating queers in the West

      And they're going to get right back to it, as soon as they're done with the Arabs.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
      hexbear
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      7 months ago

      You ever think about how black culture is simultaneously pervasive over the entire world, foundational to memes, slang, food, musicx999, sports, and cinema but it's also so highly correlated with poverty and being underneath someone's heel? It's like how can the creators of some of the world's most prodigious cultural products not also be held in esteem and abundance?

      I don't mean to equivocate imply these are equal or imply queerness doesn't dwell in the same areas. On the contrary I'm sure you could talk at length about the intersection. It seems like the blood thirsty machine has a pattern to it.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
        hexbear
        30
        7 months ago

        It's true, all marginalised groups are brought under the boot, squeezed for their worth and then disposed of. Evil system.

      • CatoPosting [comrade/them, he/him]
        hexbear
        14
        7 months ago

        While it is only something I read about once on an insomnia-bender, apparently electronic music, esp house, has its origins in that specific intersectionality. From what I remember, the post-disco evolution into house/techno was incubated in Queer-POC clubs.

        • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
          hexbear
          6
          7 months ago

          I remember sharing Chicane's (presentation of? maybe some copyright issues?) Sun:Sets with a bi friend at work one time and they made an off-color joke about our sexual orientations. With that kind of context it makes a bit more sense.

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      48
      7 months ago

      If abortion rights aren't safe in yankeeland there's no reason to believe that lgbt rights will be safe either

      • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
        hexbear
        8
        7 months ago

        But conservatives would never go against previously established court decisions! I know this because Brett Kavanagh, notorious sex pest and rapist, told me so.

    • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      32
      7 months ago

      It really makes my blood boil in a way no other propaganda does. It's one thing to just encourage the most vile and selfish members of the population to support imperialism, but trying to redirect people's empathy and turn it into a weapon of control against them? It's just so damn evil. There's no other word for it.