hey i got 12!!! <3

dw same

i think it makes sense but maybe you meant to respond to someone else?

like literally same. maybe more like 10 years. i hadnt heard of it til yesterday. but it decarbs the thc and makes it stronger cuz burning is not the most efficient way to consume. its only like 10 seconds.

wouldnt have tried it if not for my love's allergy tho

the feeling when rightwing press makes the labour party sound based

I lived in the UK for years. I went to oppose fascist marches many times. It was violent, like seriously fucking dangerous. I have been hurt. I hurt fash. I wore a fucking helmet and they threw rocks and bottles at us, my helmet was hit and fucking saved my life. After the marches the fash would break up into smaller groups to roam the streets and attack minorities. We did our best to protect people. I'm not saying this to look cool. Truth was I was scared out of my mind and I don't know if I can ever go back to that kind of thing. I'm saying it because I absolutely believe that what is going on now must be like that, but so much worse. That place has only gotten worse in the 4 years since I left.

This has been brewing for literal decades at this point. There was a contingent of anti-europe people in the conservative party, way back before brexit. they were a small voice calling for it. but even then, more subtly, they had been putting their fingers into the culture and brewing anti-immigrant, anti-muslim, and anti-EU sentiment. When this group got loud enough to threaten the integrity of the conservative party, Pigfucker David Cameron called the brexit referendum, expecting it to fail, as a way to shut up the rightwing of the party. But instead that proved to be the catalyst for the fascist sentiments in the UK to be brought into the mainstream. This was when the tactics I associate with fascism truly started to feel like they were integrated into british society. Facts stopped mattering to people. Hate crime went up. Hell I got violently attacked.

As far as I know, there was some russian influence on Brexit. I don't mean that russia caused this current situation - absolutely not, they only have the utter disaster of the past few decades to blame. They utterly failed to contain the rise of fascism. But I believe a nuanced and fact-based take is that Russia thought that Brexit would be politically useful to them, and used social media to support that. It probably would have happened anyway, the force from this didn't come from russia but from some scheming british fascists.

This has been waiting to happen for fucking years.

I also wanna say that I'm not saying the EU is a good thing. It's an inherently white supremacist institution "protecting" fortress europe against the desperate people at the borders. But the way british culture and politics work, and indeed this is true of a bunch of countries' far right, opposing EU membership was a predominantly fascist position, and considering everything that has happened in that hellhole of a country since brexit, i do think it would be better if it had never left.

edit: thank u to those who have thanked me for what i used to do. but i was just doing my job as a human being, among many others, resisting people who have forgotten their humanity. maybe one day i will be able to, or have to, do it again.

oh fuck it would be so funny/tragic if it were ziq like i'm fairly new to lemmy but i know about ziq from raddle

that doesnt really answer my questions tbh. not that i think there is a legitimate way to justify it. i dont have a problem with the goddess gender part. im not gonna tell anyone they arent their gender. but the pronoun thing goes way beyond gender and is literally just trying to impose hierarchy

ty i literally hadn’t heard of it before and im not exactly new to leftism. tho from what ive seen it doesnt seem to be leftist at all.

also wtf is soulism and why is there an asshole trying to get me to capitalise their pronouns like they’re my fucking dom? and how do they have any claim to be an anarchist acting like that? you is not a gendered pronoun. i don’t capitalise my own name, i’m not about to start. i’m sorry. not happening.

oh hi (i made that post and then left. surprised i haven't been banned yet)