I'm sure this is totally separate from conservatives reigniting the rhetoric that LGBTQ people are pedophiles.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    "Gas Can Arsonist" and "fireball" sounds like this publication is trying to make it sound cool as fuck to encourage it.

  • Bungola [any]
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    3 years ago

    I heaerd a popular cafe, show venue in Portland OR was also torched just a day ago.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      We're real fucking close to an American kristallnacht. Get armed. Shits gonna get bad in the coming years. Much worse than it already is.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          The one time I'll critically support Russia is for shoving kalibir cruise missiles up these foreign fash mercenaries throats.

      • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        They even have a name for it: Day of the rope.

        I am not fucking around when I say that I am making a doomsday plan. I even bought one of those dorky skull masks and a MAGA hat from a thrift store to serve as a disguise until I eventually flee. My main goal is to just run for my fucking life. I worry that in the vast majority of western nations, similar kristallanchts will happen as well. As for the global south, these countries will just get nuked "for teh evulz".

        I would have loved to have simply moved to bumfuck nowhere and just have lived my life in peace, not giving a shit about what was going on in the world. All I wanted was the world to not mess with me for its sick kicks and I couldn't even be granted that.

        If there's two candidates I have for my escape countries are Iceland (relatively hard to invade, up north so more resilient to climate change), and also Ireland. Both of these countries have historically been responsible for little to no particular colonization, holocausts, etc. Hell, Ireland also was relatively chill with Jews in comparison to the rest of Europe. However, correct me if I am wrong because I do not intend nor want to deny or handwave any tragedy.

        • Quimby [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          The optimistic side of me would say that people under 30 or so have a strong critical mass of people with decent views on stuff. Which doesn't necessarily prevent this shit, per se. But I imagine you'd be as safe sheltering with a bunch of college kids in Brooklyn as you'd be in Iceland or whatever. And I think there are even plenty of middle age libs and neolibs who will go to great lengths to protect you, if only to deal with their own guilt or savior complex or whatever. Taking in Afghan refugees was all the rage earlier this year. It's lib shit, obviously. But it gives me a reason to be optimistic that people would keep you safe / offer you shelter, even if it's just because they want to virtue signal.

          Not trying to invalidate or anything. More just reassure that there are people potentially nearer to you and easier to get to who would protect you.

          • Bulma [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            The optimistic side of me would say that people under 30 or so have a strong critical mass of people with d

            Tbf leftists have been saying that for decades. The kids are alright until they are gifted enough material conditions to no longer be, and in the imp core ig the majority are still somehow given enough to prevent that change

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          In global south political elites will just fan up xenophobia, very easy to do with the colonial borders and migration.

          It's starting to happen in South Africa right now, search up operation dudula.

  • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    :amerikkka:

    I can't wait to leave this shithole, I probably should have realized much sooner that I was going to be a refugee in my life.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    what a great way to make that business even more popular

  • PrideBoy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This reminds me of the upstairs lounge fire in New Orleans: https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/prejudice-pride-revisiting-tragic-fire-killed-32-orleans-56014428

    There is a long and tragic history of arson being used against queer people.