We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
You should be aware of this before promoting Substack content:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/03/substack-user-revolt-anti-censorship-stance-neo-nazis
My God.
You know you can buy "Mein Kampf" in stores, right? Like, bookstores. In America.
This is clearly not a Nazi substack, and reading it is a good thing, not a bad thing, even if there are like 3 Nazis somewhere on Substack, also.
The platform itself, Substack is the issue. If you don't see that as a problem, you are the problem.
If you don’t see that as a problem, you are the problem.
If you don't see pointless performative leftist infighting as a problem (I won't say "the" problem, because there are so many, but "a" problem certainly), when there are literal non-performative enemies at work who would like to put you and me in labor camps, in Washington right now working hard and succeeding at making it a reality instead of just writing about it on a useless blog with 10 members on a platform you'd like to make a big stink about being "problematic," you are the problem.
I would love to live in an America where not reading a blog like OP's post, or reacting in any way negatively to it, because it's on a platform which up until a year ago had some Nazis until there was a kerfuffle about it and in the end they banned the Nazis, was a relevant problem deserving of even the few minutes I've spent typing this. I don't live in that America. Please, until I do, cease pretending that this is in any way a problem or relevant.
Substack removed some Nazi content according to your link. I have no information that they removed all of it, ever, and based on their own commentary on the subject at the time, they won't unless forced to.
I'm not aware of any leftist conspiracies to abolish democracy, if there were, they'd be classified as right wing extremists.
I don't live in your America, but I, and with me the rest of the world have to put up with the bullshit that's oozing from every pore of its soil.
Supporting Substack is just one of many such noxious stimuli.
I don’t live in your America, but I, and with me the rest of the world have to put up with the bullshit that’s oozing from every pore of its soil.
Okay, so you hate America and what it stands for. Fair enough, we do a lot of damage. And, you've chosen in this instance to focus your anger, although being not even really sure whether the thing you're complaining about is still a real problem to any degree, on one of its chief villains:
Substack.
It's been nice talking with you. You've been a peach.
Noted, and emphasizing that everyone should vet sources of information before acting.
I'm all for calling out propaganda where and when you find it.
Care to illuminate what about this content you find to be objectionable?
They're just making up bullshit. Somewhere down below, when I pointed out that Substack finally removed the ~three Nazis that still were on it, over a year ago, they said that they "have no information" about whether there are any still left, in the present day.
It's just a manufactured freakout over nothing. Well, it was that before they removed the 0.000whatever% of Nazis, now it's just a manufactured freakout without even a fig-leaf of legitimacy.
Somewhere down below, ...
He said, as if I don't read every single thing that gets posted to this comm. ;)
I JUST WANT TO FIGHT ABOUT IT MORE, I WAS RIGHT
(Point taken, lol)
The thing that stood out most to me:
This would disproportionately harm: Up to 150 million Americans who do not have a passport.
Get a passport. You might not end up needing it to prove your citizenship, but there's other reasons to have a passport. Medical tourism is definitely one. "I'd best get the fuck out for a while" is another. I'm sure there are less "strictly legal" things one might want a passport for.
Interesting. It's a shame they're not on the Fediverse, but at least they have an RSS feed that you can read in readers like Feedly.
!lefty_[email protected]
It's a little bit awkward, since it would be better if you could talk back directly to them, too. But you can get it in your Lemmy feed now.
I know that some people feel that this sort of thing is all they can do, but I hate politicians, and I refuse to beg them to help me.
That's all right. Every action isn't suitable for every person. You'll find your way.