marcela

Is this ...mansplaining?

An internet in theory is a network of other computer networks (not single computers). The Internet is the world wide web.

Transphobia is a deal breaker for a substantial portion of the lemmy userbase. Also, other open-source communities are fiercely pro-trans, like Debian. And Ubuntu recently chastised mods for pushing the idea that transness is inappropriate for bios, supposedly because it is seen as sex-related. In this interval you say "nothing new happened", this probably means that the person is question is at least as transphobic as they were back then. If you consider transphobes only get more and more radicalized (Rowling, Chapelle, Mace, etc), it can only be expected to get worse, so that is why I said "at least". If he ceased to be a transphobe I suppose he would be out telling everybody, perhaps add a changelog that pronouns are canonically supported in ML. In the meantime, genocidal anti-trans rhetoric and legislation has only gotten worse, rendering his previous standing on the issue, even if stable, relatively worse from an ethical viewpoint, and if trans people under the new circumstances are more suspicious and feel less safe in the instance, they are fully justified, taking all the above into consideration. Being "as antisemitic as before" for an individual between 1938 and 1942 does not mean the same amount of antisemitism. The amount of things done to us in the surrounding environment has severely worsened, so being on the same ideological position comes with condoning a lot more cruelty against us. Because this is a prejudice and the "amount" of prejudice does not really matter when not only genocidal rhetoric is heightened, but also because right-fucking-now there is all this talk about cracking down on trans online spaces as havens of extremism. If the rest of this comment has not persuaded you yet, then this last part should be an eye opener, because being a fediverse instance admin, in this toxic social climate of intense transphobia is reason right enough for any trans people in ML to pull a reddit-exodus on them. So, yes, keeping the issue afloat is perfectly justified in my view.

Remember when a lady shopkeeper was shot for having a Pride flag outside the shop? Or when Canadian intelligence services reported they expected a rise in hatred-fueled domestic terrorism against trans people?

With republicans, every accusation is projection. The last part speaks volumes, as it seems they are doing it on purpose. They now want to silence those speaking up about it.

There is a knee-jerk reaction surrounding the word propaganda. Etymology of the word is Latin for "what is to be disseminated" and it can be used with or without the malicious connotation. Also telling apart the distinction between wartime propaganda (psychological warfare) and political propaganda might help. The commonplace usage of the term is better illustrated by "manufacturing of consent".

Laura Loomer:

“It’s time to designate the transgender movement as a terrorist movement,” she wrote in a social media post. “Trans people are a threat to society. We can’t allow them to continue killing people. They need to be socially ostracized and the president should make medical transitioning ILLEGAL in our country.”

In an interview with Newsmax, Jackson baselessly said that transgender women “have an underlying level of aggressiveness” and suggested they be forcibly committed to mental institutions.

“We have to treat these people,” he said. “We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country.”

See, this is the bit I don't get... If there are two people, like ANY two people, that their crimes and corruptions are enough to subvert the status quo, then what fucking difference does it make if they cover it up so hard. The message is still the same, that there is so much crime and corruption in government that a violent response is in order. Are they so stupid, or so confident?

Oh they will totally NOT deny that there will have been gas chambers.

AFAIK it does three hops like Tor Browser, but they are within a Mullvad owned network instead. Not "the Tor network". They got pretty good ratings for plenty private browser parameters, at least last year. Myself and others I know have it at least on the side for some more private browsing. It can still give you issues with many sites as well as banks TBH. Together with their VPN it makes a good solution if you are not a complete paranoid. It is good to have Mullvad as a second option, and have perhaps a hardened Firefox for your eponymous browsing.

They want to undo the making of the modern world because it came to allow the public existence of trans people. The horrors of Nazi rule on Europe dies out of living memory, and the rhetoric has a profound appeal to the human animal base instincts. So, yes, here we are.