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Cake day: July 8th, 2023
  • masquenox@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused)
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    1 year ago

    We did the same in 2016

    Nope. Not yet. The right-wingers thought they could install overt fascism without the help of liberals - they thought wrong. They tried to win the streets - antifa beat booted them off it. They got their Great Orange Fuhrer into the Waffle House - liberal disdain isolated him and booted him out. What needs to happen is liberals being frightened to such an extent of working class revolt that the violence fascists offers becomes the “lesser evil” - and a good first step is to find hysteria “hot button” issues that liberals are too ignorant and naive to see through… like above-mentioned “protect the children” trope.

  • masquenox@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion chargesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    First off, capitalist power structures invented police - which means that everything police does is tied up with capitalism straight off the bat.

    Second, just because something has been declared illegal does not make that thing immoral - and police doing something that is legal does not make the police any less inherently immoral. The fact that the police is doing the patriarchy’s bidding by policing women’s bodies in this way is about as immoral as it gets.

    Third, you could argue that the women in question shouldn’t have admitted this information to the police in the first place - but that ignores the conditions under which these women were probably interrogated.

    Fourth, capitalist institutions will inevitably always side with the power structures that protect the status quo - it doesn’t matter how many “Woman’s Day” marketing they put up… at the end of the day, they will side with the patriarchy and enable it’s violence - as you can see with the link I provided to you in my first response.