ShareMySims
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- Comment on Meta’s new content policies risk fueling more mass violence and genocide 5 days ago:
A feature, not a bug.
- Comment on Retail giant Monsoon's CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting Shein 1 week ago:
Retail giant Monsoon’s CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting competition, so he can continue to exclusively use them himself
FTFY
The CEO, like all CEO’s is concerned with his own companies profit margin, noting else, but especially not “fairness”.
- Comment on Memory Wiped 1 week ago:
Yeah, unfortunately I’ve been down it before, and the more you look, the worse it gets (I could have included so many more countries and atrocities, but it was too depressing to keep reading through these statistics)…
And you’re exactly right, it’s a reflection of just how much shit gets swept under the rug either by the establishment and its authorities because it reflects badly on them (and tor they don’t want to stop doing whatever horrible thing it is they’ve been getting away with), or by bigots in society who are either happy to remain ignorant, or worse, actively deny anything is happening because the existing structure gives them some level of comfort and privilege (which is of course one of the many ways those in power keep us divided to maintain said power).
The saying goes “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, which is precisely why we aren’t taught it properly (and some of it gets deliberately omitted or even erased).
- Comment on Memory Wiped 1 week ago:
From the forced sterilisations of disabled people upto the 70s,
Still happening, both in US and EU (couldn’t find a good source on the UK, though I don’t doubt it happens, instead have this horrible statistic Disabled people’s Covid-19 death rate as much as 11 times higher than non-disabled people because we’re not seen as worth saving), and certainly in most other countries too.
And this is just disabled people, Indigenous people (in Canada too, of course), immigrants in detention are still being forced/coerced sterilised, as well as several other marginalised groups targeted in different ways (like systemic racism that leads to higher mortality rates of Black birthing parent and babies during and after pregnancy, UK US Canada).
And to go back to what the op of the thread said, the Trail of Tears, is like the tiniest tip of a monstrous iceberg of ongoing genocide, and that monstrous iceberg is just one of many floating in the American ocean of white supremacist atrocity (and before the Americans get defensive, Yes, other countries do atrocities too, yes citizens there/here are also taught a whitewashed version of history that serves to maintain the state, you may not be alone, but you’re absolutely no better than anyone else).
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t debated them though? I called them transphobes, left 3 links for the sake of anyone who might be reading their nonsense and want some correct information, blocked them all, and reported the issue.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
Those are not inherently the same,
Yes, they are, like I said, you don’t have to mean it to be transphobic for it to be transphobic. People who are ignorant and get called out who don’t want to be transphobes will admit ignorance, apologise, and improve their behaviour. Anything else makes a person a transphobe, no matter how uncomfortable that makes you.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, an anonymous internet forum, which is open to and used by the public.
I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make - just let transphobes be? Because fuck that.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
I think I remember from the 196 mess that Ada mentioned being able to see reports that haven’t been acted on, but I’m not sure about those that were acted on, even if that action is ignoring. Either way, I’m glad there are meta spaces to bring it up either way!
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
Wahey, good riddance! Thanks for the update.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for tagging in the relevant people, and for confirming that if the mod in question deleted the reports, they probably wouldn’t reach the admin level.
I really hope the other admins act as decisively as db0.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
Fantastic. We can only hope that the lemm.ee team take a similar stance against this user, but I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
I posted here because this is the instance the mod uses, but you’re absolutely right, I missed that it wasn’t hosted on that instance, and will be making a relevant post in our own meta community, thanks
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
Transphobia is transphobia whether the person doing it means for it to be or not.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
I blocked all 3 people in that conversation, and the community it came from, that doesn’t mean I’m just going to sit quietly and let a transphobic mod get their way and foster their own little transphobic community, especially since I assume it is against the rules of the instance they’re on.
We need to call out this shit publicly, not just look the other way.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
And yet? I want everybody to shut up about it because we have far more pressing issues at hand. When it comes to women’s sports the public has made up their mind and the facts don’t matter.
So do I, which is why I reported those comments to be removed, but then realised that the only mod in the community agrees, and so they wouldn’t only not be removed, but more of them would be encouraged, which I think is unacceptable, especially if the instance hosting them has rules against bigotry, which is what this is.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 2 weeks ago:
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I reported the comments, but the sole mod openly saying they agree with them is why I made this post, assuming the reports go to them ,and they will blatantly just ignore them
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- Comment on As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan 2 weeks ago:
As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories?
It isn’t, just like we said it wouldn’t be before the election, when the cultists refused to listen.
Keith and his cronies are nothing but establishment serving placeholders and future scapegoats for the right to blame for all the ills of society and come back in stronger and more fascist than ever. And when that happens, the cultists will act all surprised and bewildered again because they simply refuse to hear anything that contradicts their deep indoctrination in to passive compliance with the rules.
As for
There may be no nasty impulse to punish ‘skivers’
If you genuinely believe that, you’re not been paying any attention, or are completely oblivious to the masses of ableist and classist dog whistles they’ve been using all along.
Is it really a wonder why we get so much more frustrated with liberals who insist on playing along and cooperating with the system, insisting they care about society and its most vulnerable (to stroke their own egos) while refusing to listen to our warnings (again, to stroke their own egos, after all, they still see us as beneath them), than we are with those who are at least honest about throwing us under the bus? Once again MLK’s quote about white moderates being a bigger barrier to equity than the KKK are proves its depressing accuracy.
- Comment on As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan 2 weeks ago:
You do realise that many people (significantly more since covid in fact) are on benefits because we can’t work, right? And it’s those benefits (disability, employment support) that are getting the worst cuts.
So you’re not technically wrong, but your solution also doesn’t help those of us most targeted.
- Comment on AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, they wouldn’t have scrapped it unless it was damaging them somehow, rather than benefits claimants, as intended.
- Comment on AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ 3 weeks ago:
Thank fuck for miniature, and no doubt temporary, fucking mercies.
The human-run system is already designed to reject as many claims as possible and make it as absolutely difficult as possible for those they don’t flat out reject to get even the lowest rate (again, the default, which, like a rejection, you then have to appeal to get what you’re really entitled to), yet somehow AI would have managed to make it worse.
Don’t think for a second this’ll stop them from trying again, or making the existing system worse still in other ways.
After all, we are the real leeches on the government tax pot that they need to eliminate, not their fellow landlords and capitalists sat next to them on the parliament bench. 🙄
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
Meta have already tried, and in an almost unanimous move, users of the fediverse decided to defederate from them to not give them the opportunity to.
Of course they’ll keep trying, but the whole point of decentralisation is that if or when that happens, those who don’t want anything to do with it, just move on to a virtual space away from the corporation.
Sure, it sucks to always be “on the run”, but at least here we can be, vs on a centralised network, where the corporations control 100% of it and we as users have no viable alternative.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
To solve the core problem, FOR THE EU we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in independent digital alternatives.
They are categorically not interested in solving the core problem of society, and why and how we got to this point in the first place, but simply to maintain the status quo where they are the ones in control (which, while better than active fascism, has and always will be a placeholder for it, as long as they refuse to abolish capitalism).
Don’t be fooled.
