ActivityPub Viewer

A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a request with the right Accept header to the server to view the underlying object.

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{ "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" ], "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/outbox", "generator": "http://wordpress.org/?v=6.7", "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/outbox", "totalItems": 7488, "first": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/outbox?page=1", "last": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/outbox?page=749", "next": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/outbox?page=2", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23845", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>we are back up but I&#8217;ve been picking up the pieces</h2><p>HEY TEAM WE&#8217;RE BACK</p><p>actually got power back yesterday but while a bomb cyclone is not a real bomb it can make a real mess just the same</p><p>I&#8217;ve got a lot of catch-up to do but we&#8217;re getting there. Kinda had to move some network and UPS bits around after coming back up and some parts honestly I&#8217;m not sure why. But everything&#8217;s behaving today so I think we&#8217;re good.</p><p>How&#8217;s your Friday been?</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/murknet/\">#murknet</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>we are back up but I&#8217;ve been picking up the pieces</h2><p>HEY TEAM WE&#8217;RE BACK</p><p>actually got power back yesterday but while a bomb cyclone is not a real bomb it can make a real mess just the same</p><p>I&#8217;ve got a lot of catch-up to do but we&#8217;re getting there. Kinda had to move some network and UPS bits around after coming back up and some parts honestly I&#8217;m not sure why. But everything&#8217;s behaving today so I think we&#8217;re good.</p><p>How&#8217;s your Friday been?</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/murknet/\">#murknet</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-23T02:06:02Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/murknet/", "name": "#murknet" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/", "name": "#t0000000000bs_" } ], "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/22/we-are-back-up-but-ive-been-picking-up-the-pieces/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23845/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23845/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23845/replies", "items": [ "https://kolektiva.social/users/MHowell/statuses/113529905652902744" ] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23845#activity-create-2024-11-23T02:06:02Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-23T02:06:02Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23836", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>o noes there go the electrons</h2><p>Massive windstorm this evening in Cascadia has taken out our power; we lasted, honestly, longer than I thought we would. But we are definitely now out. This should federate out to most of our followers, though, since we have like an hour of battery backup that we&#8217;re chewing through right now..</p><p>We&#8217;ll come back when power does. If you&#8217;re local, well, good luck out there.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/murknet/\">#murknet</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>o noes there go the electrons</h2><p>Massive windstorm this evening in Cascadia has taken out our power; we lasted, honestly, longer than I thought we would. But we are definitely now out. This should federate out to most of our followers, though, since we have like an hour of battery backup that we&#8217;re chewing through right now..</p><p>We&#8217;ll come back when power does. If you&#8217;re local, well, good luck out there.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/murknet/\">#murknet</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-20T06:41:05Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/murknet/", "name": "#murknet" } ], "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/19/o-noes-there-go-the-electrons/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23836/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23836/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23836/replies", "items": [ "https://mastodon.social/users/TheIgnorantSavage/statuses/113518272032428624", "https://neuromatch.social/users/jonny/statuses/113514939527786357" ] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23836#activity-create-2024-11-20T06:41:05Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-20T06:41:05Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23820", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>something about barn doors and escaped horses, but also</h2><p>Now that there is an actual mass X-odus happening &#8211; and it is real and it is happening this time &#8211; I&#8217;m telling people: Right now, <em>anything</em> is better than X. Anything. I&#8217;m happy you&#8217;re finally leaving, over two years after I said it was time to go.</p><p>But I also say that I wish people were going to Mastodon, or some other Federation/ActivityPub social media system, and I ask them to turn on the BridgyFed gateway, to keep communications open with those of us in the Federation. I have other reasons for that too, which I may get into later, but that&#8217;s the reason I give. All of them are equally sincere.</p><p>I did that enough times &#8211; always friendly, always encouraging, but consistently and persistently, giving my little speech &#8211; and someone finally asked me why. So I told them.</p><p>1) I have been writing for <em>years</em> now about how Elon Musk bought Twitter to turn it into a fascist propaganda and disinformation machine. I wrote most recently about that <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/12/x-marks-the-spybot/\">here</a>, and how it worked in this election.</p><p>While BlueSky is <em>not</em> Twitter, BlueSky is <em>akin to</em> Twitter in if it gains traction, Musk&#8217;s successful experiment with Twitter <em>will be repeated</em>. BlueSky will be bought out and the same thing or something similar will most likely happen with it.</p><p>This literally <em>cannot</em> happen with Mastodon, or with anything in the Federation of ActivityPub-speaking social media sites in general, of which there are literally thousands.</p><p>(BlueSky&#8217;s latest round of funding is another cryptocurrency investment firm with strong ties to Steve Bannon, one of the primary authors of our current political situation and who is strongly allied with Elon Musk. To me, it seems all but inevitable that what happened to Twitter will happen to BlueSky. I could be wrong about that, but&#8230; well. You do the math.)</p><p>2) Mastodon is <em>actually</em> decentralised/distributed social media.</p><p>BlueSky may describe itself as decentralised social media, but it isn&#8217;t in any sense that actually matters. While you can set up your own domain of it, all that really means is that you&#8217;ve got your own local storage. To actually <em>use</em> BlueSky in any way &#8211; to post, to read other posts, to send messages, literally anything &#8211; it all has to go through BlueSky corporate. If BlueSky&#8217;s main instance goes down, <em>that&#8217;s it for the entire service.</em> Hence: not actually decentralised.</p><p>By contrast, if mastodon.social &#8211; the flagship Mastodon instance &#8211; disappeared tomorrow, <em>literally nothing would change for anyone else</em>. Every other instance of Mastodon would keep working just fine, with <em>zero</em> loss of functionality.</p><p>There is no critical core site to buy and bend to your will. These are thousands, and anyone can set up another. An Elon-style takeover <em>cannot work</em>.</p><p>3) Mastodon has achieved something no other social media network has managed, and that is to turn the Nazi Bar phenomenon <em>against Nazis</em> via an administrative level action called <em>defederation</em>. I figured this out a couple of years ago and it&#8217;s genius and it <em>works</em>. <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2022/11/06/i-think-im-starting-to-get-mastodon-content-moderation/\">Here&#8217;s a post I wrote where I figured it out</a>, literally mid-post. It&#8217;s short, but it&#8217;s sweet.</p><p>That doesn&#8217;t mean there aren&#8217;t problems in the Federation, because of course there are. There <em>are</em> fash and trolls and all those horrible things setting up and using their own Mastodon instances, too. But because they are quarantined <em>into their own Nazi bars</em> and <em>nobody else will talk to them</em>, they <em>don&#8217;t matter</em>.</p><p>If you set up a site and you let fash on? Every competent instance administrator adds you to the &#8220;nazi server&#8221; list and bang, their entire instance and all their users are completely irrelevant. No whack-a-mole. Poof. Gone. And since setting up an instance actually costs <em>money</em> &#8211; you have to buy a unique domain &#8211; the &#8220;create 10,000 troll instances&#8221; phenomenon <em>costs too much money to make it work</em>.</p><p>This does mean you have to join a good instance. Or if you set one up yourself, you have to do the extra work of getting a good blocklist and keeping up. Once you&#8217;re set up, though, it&#8217;s genuinely one of the least difficult and most rewarding parts of instance management. &#8220;Oh look, a fascist hive. <em>Let&#8217;s blow it up.</em>&#8220;</p><p>Boom. Gone.</p><p>4) BlueSky is BlueSky. Every BlueSky is the same. It is a Twitter clone, more or less. It talks to itself and clones of itself.</p><p>Mastodon, by contrast, is one of <em>several entirely different</em> ActivityPub-speaking social media server types. It&#8217;s the best known, but it is <em>not the only one</em>, and they <em>all</em> intercommunicate.</p><p>Frendica, for example, is a bit like Old Facebook. There are an assortment of Frendica instances out there. Despite the fact that I do not have a Friendica account, some of the people who follow me are doing so <em>from Frendica</em>, and do <em>not</em> have Mastodon accounts. They see my posts, they can reply, I can reply back, and it all works exactly as if we were using the same social media, even though we absolutely <em>are not</em>.</p><p>I&#8217;m a member of a couple of Friendica groups… <em>via my Mastodon account</em>. I joined them <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can leave them <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can post to them <em>from Mastodon</em>.</p><p>I have never logged on to a Friendica server. And yet.</p><p>OwnTube is a distributed video hosting server. There are several instances of it. I follow a couple of OwnTube users from my Mastodon account. I see when they put up new videos, <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can watch them <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can reply to them <em>from Mastodon</em>, and even though I do not have an OwnTube account, my replies are visible to them as comments under their video.</p><p>I self-host a WordPress blog. It can be followed from Mastodon. Or from OwnTube. Or from Friendica, or Hometown, or Firefish, or Akkoma, or Lemmy (which is more discussion-forum like), or kbin, or GoToSocial, or anything else. You&#8217;ll see my blog posts in <em>your</em> social media account feed, whatever form that takes. You can reply to my posts <em>from there</em>. I see them on my blog as replies. I can reply back. You will see my replies on <em>your</em> social media instance.</p><p>No cross sign-ins. No changing accounts back and forth. No switching sites or apps. No weird permissions. No need for <em>any of that</em>, because they <em>all talk to each other</em>, and most of the time, it is <em>utterly</em> transparent.</p><p><a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/11/tariffs-mass-deportation-the-pieces-fit-together/\">Here&#8217;s a recent popular post on my blog</a>. There are 74 comments. Other than the replies I wrote, <em>all of those comments</em> came from other ActivityPub-compatible social media sites. Some are Mastodon; some are not. They see my replies on <em>their</em> instances… of <em>whatever they&#8217;re running</em>. I don&#8217;t know and I don&#8217;t even need to care, because it doesn&#8217;t matter, because they all speak ActivityPub.</p><p>I have several hundred followers specifically of my blog, in addition to the 1500 or so on my Mastodon account. Most of them have never visited the blog itself, because they don&#8217;t need to. And yet, they&#8217;ve read all my posts.</p><p><em>That&#8217;s</em> what the open social web <em>actually promises</em> &#8211; and, while it can still be kinda fiddly and weird… <em>actually delivers</em>.</p><p>There is more creativity in this space about what social media can be &#8211; for <em>good</em> &#8211; than in every other social media site in the world combined and it can be frustrating and it can be strange and it can be <em>wonderful</em>.</p><p><em>That&#8217;s</em> why I think Mastodon is better &#8211; not in and of itself, necessarily, it has all kinds of problems even if I do like it, and run a small instance with 15 accounts. But I think it&#8217;s better more as successfully becoming a visible gateway to a much larger &#8211; and potentially truly better &#8211; social media world.</p><p>None of the modern online hellscape has to be like this.</p><p>It really doesn&#8217;t. None of it does.</p><p>It can be better.</p><p>And that&#8217;s why I care.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>something about barn doors and escaped horses, but also</h2><p>Now that there is an actual mass X-odus happening &#8211; and it is real and it is happening this time &#8211; I&#8217;m telling people: Right now, <em>anything</em> is better than X. Anything. I&#8217;m happy you&#8217;re finally leaving, over two years after I said it was time to go.</p><p>But I also say that I wish people were going to Mastodon, or some other Federation/ActivityPub social media system, and I ask them to turn on the BridgyFed gateway, to keep communications open with those of us in the Federation. I have other reasons for that too, which I may get into later, but that&#8217;s the reason I give. All of them are equally sincere.</p><p>I did that enough times &#8211; always friendly, always encouraging, but consistently and persistently, giving my little speech &#8211; and someone finally asked me why. So I told them.</p><p>1) I have been writing for <em>years</em> now about how Elon Musk bought Twitter to turn it into a fascist propaganda and disinformation machine. I wrote most recently about that <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/12/x-marks-the-spybot/\">here</a>, and how it worked in this election.</p><p>While BlueSky is <em>not</em> Twitter, BlueSky is <em>akin to</em> Twitter in if it gains traction, Musk&#8217;s successful experiment with Twitter <em>will be repeated</em>. BlueSky will be bought out and the same thing or something similar will most likely happen with it.</p><p>This literally <em>cannot</em> happen with Mastodon, or with anything in the Federation of ActivityPub-speaking social media sites in general, of which there are literally thousands.</p><p>(BlueSky&#8217;s latest round of funding is another cryptocurrency investment firm with strong ties to Steve Bannon, one of the primary authors of our current political situation and who is strongly allied with Elon Musk. To me, it seems all but inevitable that what happened to Twitter will happen to BlueSky. I could be wrong about that, but&#8230; well. You do the math.)</p><p>2) Mastodon is <em>actually</em> decentralised/distributed social media.</p><p>BlueSky may describe itself as decentralised social media, but it isn&#8217;t in any sense that actually matters. While you can set up your own domain of it, all that really means is that you&#8217;ve got your own local storage. To actually <em>use</em> BlueSky in any way &#8211; to post, to read other posts, to send messages, literally anything &#8211; it all has to go through BlueSky corporate. If BlueSky&#8217;s main instance goes down, <em>that&#8217;s it for the entire service.</em> Hence: not actually decentralised.</p><p>By contrast, if mastodon.social &#8211; the flagship Mastodon instance &#8211; disappeared tomorrow, <em>literally nothing would change for anyone else</em>. Every other instance of Mastodon would keep working just fine, with <em>zero</em> loss of functionality.</p><p>There is no critical core site to buy and bend to your will. These are thousands, and anyone can set up another. An Elon-style takeover <em>cannot work</em>.</p><p>3) Mastodon has achieved something no other social media network has managed, and that is to turn the Nazi Bar phenomenon <em>against Nazis</em> via an administrative level action called <em>defederation</em>. I figured this out a couple of years ago and it&#8217;s genius and it <em>works</em>. <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2022/11/06/i-think-im-starting-to-get-mastodon-content-moderation/\">Here&#8217;s a post I wrote where I figured it out</a>, literally mid-post. It&#8217;s short, but it&#8217;s sweet.</p><p>That doesn&#8217;t mean there aren&#8217;t problems in the Federation, because of course there are. There <em>are</em> fash and trolls and all those horrible things setting up and using their own Mastodon instances, too. But because they are quarantined <em>into their own Nazi bars</em> and <em>nobody else will talk to them</em>, they <em>don&#8217;t matter</em>.</p><p>If you set up a site and you let fash on? Every competent instance administrator adds you to the &#8220;nazi server&#8221; list and bang, their entire instance and all their users are completely irrelevant. No whack-a-mole. Poof. Gone. And since setting up an instance actually costs <em>money</em> &#8211; you have to buy a unique domain &#8211; the &#8220;create 10,000 troll instances&#8221; phenomenon <em>costs too much money to make it work</em>.</p><p>This does mean you have to join a good instance. Or if you set one up yourself, you have to do the extra work of getting a good blocklist and keeping up. Once you&#8217;re set up, though, it&#8217;s genuinely one of the least difficult and most rewarding parts of instance management. &#8220;Oh look, a fascist hive. <em>Let&#8217;s blow it up.</em>&#8220;</p><p>Boom. Gone.</p><p>4) BlueSky is BlueSky. Every BlueSky is the same. It is a Twitter clone, more or less. It talks to itself and clones of itself.</p><p>Mastodon, by contrast, is one of <em>several entirely different</em> ActivityPub-speaking social media server types. It&#8217;s the best known, but it is <em>not the only one</em>, and they <em>all</em> intercommunicate.</p><p>Frendica, for example, is a bit like Old Facebook. There are an assortment of Frendica instances out there. Despite the fact that I do not have a Friendica account, some of the people who follow me are doing so <em>from Frendica</em>, and do <em>not</em> have Mastodon accounts. They see my posts, they can reply, I can reply back, and it all works exactly as if we were using the same social media, even though we absolutely <em>are not</em>.</p><p>I&#8217;m a member of a couple of Friendica groups… <em>via my Mastodon account</em>. I joined them <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can leave them <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can post to them <em>from Mastodon</em>.</p><p>I have never logged on to a Friendica server. And yet.</p><p>OwnTube is a distributed video hosting server. There are several instances of it. I follow a couple of OwnTube users from my Mastodon account. I see when they put up new videos, <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can watch them <em>from Mastodon</em>. I can reply to them <em>from Mastodon</em>, and even though I do not have an OwnTube account, my replies are visible to them as comments under their video.</p><p>I self-host a WordPress blog. It can be followed from Mastodon. Or from OwnTube. Or from Friendica, or Hometown, or Firefish, or Akkoma, or Lemmy (which is more discussion-forum like), or kbin, or GoToSocial, or anything else. You&#8217;ll see my blog posts in <em>your</em> social media account feed, whatever form that takes. You can reply to my posts <em>from there</em>. I see them on my blog as replies. I can reply back. You will see my replies on <em>your</em> social media instance.</p><p>No cross sign-ins. No changing accounts back and forth. No switching sites or apps. No weird permissions. No need for <em>any of that</em>, because they <em>all talk to each other</em>, and most of the time, it is <em>utterly</em> transparent.</p><p><a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/11/tariffs-mass-deportation-the-pieces-fit-together/\">Here&#8217;s a recent popular post on my blog</a>. There are 74 comments. Other than the replies I wrote, <em>all of those comments</em> came from other ActivityPub-compatible social media sites. Some are Mastodon; some are not. They see my replies on <em>their</em> instances… of <em>whatever they&#8217;re running</em>. I don&#8217;t know and I don&#8217;t even need to care, because it doesn&#8217;t matter, because they all speak ActivityPub.</p><p>I have several hundred followers specifically of my blog, in addition to the 1500 or so on my Mastodon account. Most of them have never visited the blog itself, because they don&#8217;t need to. And yet, they&#8217;ve read all my posts.</p><p><em>That&#8217;s</em> what the open social web <em>actually promises</em> &#8211; and, while it can still be kinda fiddly and weird… <em>actually delivers</em>.</p><p>There is more creativity in this space about what social media can be &#8211; for <em>good</em> &#8211; than in every other social media site in the world combined and it can be frustrating and it can be strange and it can be <em>wonderful</em>.</p><p><em>That&#8217;s</em> why I think Mastodon is better &#8211; not in and of itself, necessarily, it has all kinds of problems even if I do like it, and run a small instance with 15 accounts. But I think it&#8217;s better more as successfully becoming a visible gateway to a much larger &#8211; and potentially truly better &#8211; social media world.</p><p>None of the modern online hellscape has to be like this.</p><p>It really doesn&#8217;t. None of it does.</p><p>It can be better.</p><p>And that&#8217;s why I care.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-18T17:14:00Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/", "name": "#t0000000000bs_" } ], "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/18/something-about-barn-doors-and-escaped-horses-but-also/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23820/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23820/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23820/replies", "items": [ "https://kosmos.social/users/GeoWend/statuses/113505168152191069", "https://mastodon.cloud/users/SarekOfVulcan/statuses/113505224593928376", "https://mastodon.world/users/vsp/statuses/113505288798553191", "https://meow.social/users/Goldkin/statuses/113505387369372642", "https://mastodon.social/users/techmindexplorer/statuses/113507275657316953" ] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23820#activity-create-2024-11-18T17:14:00Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-18T17:14:00Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23631", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>i&#8217;m not trying to convince any americans today</h2><p>&#8230;but Europeans (and maybe Canadians), bear with me, there&#8217;s important stuff in here for you, down a bit.</p><p>Okay. So.</p><p>If you&#8217;re reading this, you&#8217;re most likely not who I&#8217;m going off about. If you&#8217;re reading this and have been working against Trump &#8211; I mean actively working against him &#8211; you&#8217;re <em>very definitely</em> not who I&#8217;m going on about. In fact, why don&#8217;t you scream along with me, won&#8217;t you? You&#8217;re welcome to join in. It might be&#8230; fun? No. Cathartic? Maybe.</p><p>Regardless, <em>if this doesn&#8217;t apply to you, then <strong>it doesn&#8217;t apply to you.</strong></em></p><p>But if you did help Trump into power? If you <em>voted</em> for him?</p><p>Jesus fucking christ, you <em>fucking</em> imbecile.</p><p>You moron. You clown. You <em>fool</em>.</p><p>Or worse &#8211; you contemptible looting parasitical <strong><em>fuck</em></strong>, because that&#8217;s what fascism is, that&#8217;s what the urge to loot, to take, to own the lives and labours of other is &#8211; it&#8217;s <em>parasitisation</em>, pure and simple<em>.</em></p><p>You are not some kind of Übermensch. You are a leech upon the body of humanity.</p><p>I don&#8217;t know which you &#8211; as an individual Trump voter &#8211; you might be, but you either had no idea what you were doing (I think that&#8217;s maybe a third of you) or you&#8217;re part of the cadre who <em>did</em> think you knew what you&#8217;re doing, in which case, you&#8217;re <em>still</em> complete fools, because <em>you genuinely do not know what you have done</em>.</p><p>Particularly you, Putin, you evil old Soviet remnant fuck. You have no idea what rough beast you&#8217;ve helped slouch into power. Vladimir, do you truly not know what lies directly beneath the Trumpian surface? Do you think that barrier will survive his inevitable &#8211; probably natural, I should stress &#8211; death? <em>Do you not know?</em></p><p>Because I do, and I have screamed to the nine hells and the five heavens about it, I will not reiterate myself here except to note that their plan for fundamentalist white man Christian domination of all aspects of society <strong><em>globally</em></strong> to bring about <strong><em>the end of the world</em></strong> is both well documented and explicit. I will say that you deserve it &#8211; but nobody else does. Their inevitable eventual failure will scar the planet. The only question is how badly.</p><p>Europeans who are reading this &#8211; you need to realise that amongst other things, you are now a military alliance. Keep NATO but throw the US out of it, at least, assuming you don&#8217;t want your <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-elon-musk-x-twitter-donald-trump-b2614525.html\">American NATO participation to rely on staying in Elon Musk&#8217;s good graces</a> and letting him set up fascist propaganda fountains in your countries. Arm up, and get ready to get your hands dirty, or rather, dirtier.</p><p>Keep Canada, if you can. Hell, bring Canada into the EU if they&#8217;re willing &#8211; I assure you it&#8217;s going to be very much in their interests if they want to remain Canadian.</p><p>If the UK actually come to their senses, let them back in too. If they don&#8217;t, get Scotland, if they wiggle themselves free. But be aware that if the Atlantic Current shuts down that those islands are going to get a lot <em>colder</em> and much more <em>quickly</em> than you expect. Fancy being Celtic Denmark, Ireland? Scotland&#8230; Celtic Norway? Nobody really knows, and I know no more than anyone else. But that and worse are well possible.</p><p>As part of that, get ready to deal with the reality that the US is going to shift into dramatically <em>higher</em> carbon output, not lower. Trump&#8217;s plans will undo what progress has been done &#8211; I&#8217;m hearing projections of that being by a factor of two, unless he wrecks the economy so badly that we go into demand failure and a second Great Depression. If we don&#8217;t, I suspect that&#8217;ll end up being a lowball estimate, given how much energy &#8220;Generative AI&#8221; is burning right now.</p><p>If you&#8217;re wondering, the only one who pretends to give even half a fuck in his administration is literal plaguemonger RFK, Jr., whose official answer is regenerative agriculture and whose unofficial answer is mass death. The funny thing about regenerative agriculture is it <em>can</em> be a legitimate carbon store, and at some real degree of scale! But there&#8217;s absolutely no way in hell that it&#8217;ll cover the new American flood of carbon dioxide. What with him being a self-deluded shithead, I have no idea whether he actually believes his shit or not.</p><p>But it doesn&#8217;t matter. We&#8217;ve blown past 1.5°C and we <em>will</em> blow past 3.0°C, and what Europe needs to do now is decarbonise as quickly as possible not to stop it, but to delay it some, and soften the blow.</p><p>I mean seriously. Look at the endgame of 66m of ocean rise. See what that does to your shorelines. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@ConspiracyOfCartographers/113488585314568696\">See what that does to <em>Paris</em></a>.</p><p>If that&#8217;s somehow not enough &#8211; if you&#8217;re one of those millions of millions of people who pretend to care about climate change but don&#8217;t let it affect anything you do &#8211; then you also need to do it to prevent your own economic irrelevance, because carbon fuels aren&#8217;t going to be an economic driver that too many people give a fuck about in another eight years or so. China knows this. They make no secret about it, and they&#8217;re right.</p><p>By electing Trump &#8211; assuming he follows through on his evil promises &#8211; Americans have doomed their own country to either be a long-term economic laggard akin to late-coal post-industrial Britain or out and out economic irrelevance, hanging on as a militant fundamentalist agricultural state with islands of civilisation. And while you should never confuse the end of a Republic with the end of an Empire, Americans have more firmly ended the American Century than they&#8217;ve ended the Third American Republic.</p><p>I mean that. It&#8217;s over. The fallout will be nasty, brutish, and long.</p><p>Don&#8217;t believe me? Look at the reality.</p><p>If you have any goddamn sense at all, you know the Republicans long ago became a party that never met an ally they wouldn&#8217;t betray. For decades, there was consensus against that, but it&#8217;s gone now. Since America&#8217;s now highly variable value as an ally will depend entirely upon who wins the next election, nobody should be dumb enough to rely on it; you simply can&#8217;t form a foundation on that kind of ever-shifting sand. America&#8217;s great export was <em>stability</em>, and <em>we&#8217;ve done run plumb out of that.</em></p><p>Accordingly, if you want to keep <em>anything</em> of the post-world-war-II world order &#8211; in particular if you want to keep the agreement that wars of conquest are <em>not okay</em> and that peoples <em>have a right to exist</em> &#8211; it&#8217;s gonna be mostly up to you, Europe.</p><p>And don&#8217;t make the mistake of thinking this is just the Christofascist right. It&#8217;s not.</p><p>American Liberals are absolutely onboard with the old global order, particularly but not only those parts. The left <em>kinda sorta</em> <em>theoretically</em> is onboard with those ideas? But not really. Even amongst the non-tanky American left, so very, very many people are way, <em>way</em> more personally invested in seeing Democrats lose than keeping fascists out of power. That makes their <em>theoretical</em> positions moot, and their <em>operative</em> positions the same as those of MAGA.</p><p>Over the last several months, I have come to a much better &#8211; or much worse &#8211; understanding of the &#8220;Bernie Bro to Trump&#8221; pipeline phenomenon. In just the last few days I watched someone I otherwise like &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if <em>they&#8217;d</em> call it gloating about Harris&#8217;s loss? But<em> that&#8217;s what it was</em>, posting about going at liberals to make them angry, enjoying it with a &#8220;hee hee die mad,&#8221; and most of all, blaming liberals for everything. Not the fascists, not the people who voted for him, oh no, it was &#8220;the libs&#8221; and &#8220;the Dems.&#8221; The ones who actually tried to stop him and keep him out of power.</p><p>Seeing someone so very clearly looking forward to liberals suffering under the boot heel of fascism absolutely repulsed me.</p><p>I don&#8217;t want to single them out, they&#8217;re far from the only one. They&#8217;re just the person who came closest to me while saying it most recently.</p><p>And the more that I watch that kind of shit, and the more I talk with people from the 2016 Bernie movement, the more what I see is a group of people who came in new to politics with enthusiasm, came astonishingly close but lost their first fight &#8211; <em>as one almost always does, no matter who or what it is</em> &#8211; and then most of them &#8211; not all, I hope, but the loud ones, most of the ones I&#8217;ve met &#8211; just decided fukkit, we&#8217;re burning everything down because we didn&#8217;t get our way the first time we tried.</p><p>(If you push them on it, they say 2016 was &#8220;fixed&#8221; because had neither Sanders nor Clinton won a majority of delegates it would&#8217;ve become an open convention, and the superdelegates would&#8217;ve become able to vote on the second ballot, and they&#8217;d&#8217;ve voted for Clinton, and that would&#8217;ve been cheating. That&#8217;s the &#8220;fix.&#8221; The stone cold reality that Clinton got more votes than Sanders and had an outright majority of regular delegates &#8211; she won that campaign 54-46 &#8211; doesn&#8217;t matter to them. Not really. Does that also sound familiar? Because it sure should.)</p><p>The real tragedy is that they took a near miss &#8211; one which was in a very real way a triumph and a dramatic showing of future strength &#8211; and tossed it into the bin. They could&#8217;ve built on it &#8211; it would&#8217;ve taken a while, but with enough determination it would&#8217;ve worked, and they&#8217;d&#8217;ve been <em>a </em>if not <em>the</em> dominant force in the party by now. Instead, well&#8230; here we are.</p><p>It appals me, but like so many things that are true despite my hated of it, I accept it as what it is. My disgust does not make it less real. Like I said:</p><p><em>I understand the Bernie Bro to Trump pipeline a lot better now</em>.</p><p>The real shock horror of it all is that what I think needs to happen now is that the Democratic Party needs to move left. Sharply. Fuck, I thought it needed to move more left <em>this</em> election, and now that it&#8217;s not<em> </em><strong><em>incredibly demoralising to the actual-anti-fascist political workers</em> <em>who were working their asses off trying to keep fascists out of power rather than sabotage Harris</em></strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m free to say that I thought <em>at the time</em> that Harris&#8217;s rerun of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;centrist&#8221; play was a big mistake, even if this election still had to run on the old rules for one last time for <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/07/17/the-long-arc-of-boomer-politics-of-resistance-and-what-millennials-zoomers-can-win-starting-now/\">reasons I detailed months ago</a>.</p><p>I understand Harris&#8217;s decision, and I understand why she did it, and maybe if I were a Black woman, I&#8217;d understand it even more. But it sure looked like a mistake to me. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn&#8217;t, maybe it would&#8217;ve been even worse if she hadn&#8217;t. I couldn&#8217;t change it either way so didn&#8217;t try, and we can&#8217;t know.</p><p>Regardless, what&#8217;s important now is that I&#8217;m pretty sure the Democratic Party really does need to move left as part of rebuilding. But I see all this post-election sneering and gloating on the existing Left, and I see how they hate the Democrats and &#8220;the libs&#8221; <em><strong>so much more than they hate actual fascists</strong></em>, and I don&#8217;t know what good it&#8217;ll do.</p><p>Nothing will be enough to bring this so-called Left &#8211; the Bernie Left &#8211; onboard. Nothing. Because the real motivator isn&#8217;t fix shit, it&#8217;s <em>fuck the libs and fuck the Dems</em>.</p><p>It&#8217;s a little like watching &#8220;South Park Conservatives&#8221; all over again. Trey Parker and Matt Stone once said that oh yeah, they hate conservatives&#8230; but they <em>really</em> hate liberals.</p><p>What they meant, of course, was that they mostly just hated liberals.</p><p>So here we are with &#8220;the libs&#8221; being the only ones who have been trying to keep a Republic for a while now, with a two-front war of the former-conservatives now-fascists on the right, and a left that in large part doesn&#8217;t give a single flying fuck about anything but their beautiful love affair with failure in everything <em>except</em> burning the Republic down to get back at &#8220;the Dems&#8221; for not nominating Bernie in 2016 and looking for any reason they can to make it happen.</p><p>Some of those reasons are super valid, though. In isolation. (And if only they were in isolation! Life would be so much better! But they&#8217;re not!) Because you&#8217;ve got the whole &#8220;complicity with genocide by voting for Harris&#8221; thought-stopping rage-trigger line and that actually makes sense and is right and just <em><strong>if and only if</strong> the person you help into power is on the other side of the issue and is not <strong>even more super invested in the same genocide</strong>.</em></p><p>And if you&#8217;re one of those people, well, guess what, pop-tart, he fucking well <strong><em>is</em></strong> super invested in that genocide &#8211; way more so! &#8211; and is <strong><em>also</em></strong> invested in <em><strong>another</strong></em> genocide in Ukraine, and <strong><em>wants to start a couple more at home on top of those</em></strong>, too! So ding dong, dipshits, <em><strong>you did not keep your fucking hands clean by helping him into office. </strong></em>In reality, what you did by helping hand him power is<em><strong> sink yourself up to your neck in blood</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p>Well done. Well <em>fucking</em> done.</p><p>There was no &#8220;hands all clean&#8221; route here. It wasn&#8217;t a goddamn option, and holy shit, did you blow it, and you&#8217;re <em>still</em> going to blame it on &#8220;the Dems&#8221; because you&#8217;re <em>still</em> mad about Bernie, even when <em>he</em> really, sincerely isn&#8217;t.</p><p>And all of that is a really very long and roundabout way to deliver the point I&#8217;m making, which is not to expect the Democrats to make a comeback real soon. The attempt to revive the Third American Republic has failed. I think the next opportunity to start something new might be after Trump dies of natural causes, not unlikely while still in office.</p><p>But all that&#8217;s just me guessing, at this point. Maybe the American electorate will surprise me at long last. Maybe Trump will trigger all the disasters his plans will trigger if implemented and people will go &#8220;oh shit, that was a bad choice&#8221; and Republicans themselves will revolt. Or who knows, maybe the American Left will <strong>get the fuck over itself</strong> like it needs to if it ever wants to mean <strong>anything at all</strong>.</p><p>I know, I&#8217;m hilarious, aren&#8217;t I?</p><p>But maybe. So if you call yourself part of that Left and you have any ability to pull your friends into the actual fight against the actual fash, and you&#8217;re going to try? You have my support and my gratitude. I don&#8217;t have the &#8220;fuck the Dems&#8221; cred to try to make any of it stick, when I try. Little old me who only has the experience of being actually illegal and routinely beaten down in the street just for existing just gets screamed and/or sneered at and told how I know nothing about oppression. But if you have that credibility, and have started to realise how completely the current strats haven&#8217;t been working, and want to do something about it? Gods be with you and good luck. You&#8217;ll definitely need it. If you can use my work to help, please do.</p><p>Or better, maybe it&#8217;s time to just start a different Left entirely. One that actually goes after fascists and Christian Nationalists <em>more</em> than they go after Democrats and liberals.</p><p>That really would be refreshing, wouldn&#8217;t it?</p><p>Something to consider.</p><p>Because seriously. Fuck those guys.</p><p>&#8230;</p><p>I&#8217;ve got more I could say. I could go off about climate change, and how <strong><em>absolutely nobody gave a single fuck about it</em></strong> in their voting decisions. It changed <em>no</em> minds, as far as I can tell. Not a one.</p><p>I really hope I&#8217;m right that oil won&#8217;t matter in eight to ten years. Maybe that&#8217;ll leave enough margin for saving civilisation. Maybe.</p><p>I sure hope so.</p><p>But I gotta tell you&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;I just don&#8217;t know.</p><p>Other than&#8230; maybe I do.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s time for a completely new Left.</p><p>Maybe that should start today.</p><p>Maybe that should start&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;.with you.</p><p>You&#8217;ve made it this far. You clearly have some stamina or you would&#8217;ve already bailed, and I wouldn&#8217;t blame you in the slightest. This is a real horse pill of a post.</p><p>Whaddya think, though? Are you ready? <em>Can </em>you be ready?</p><p>Does it start with you?</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>i&#8217;m not trying to convince any americans today</h2><p>&#8230;but Europeans (and maybe Canadians), bear with me, there&#8217;s important stuff in here for you, down a bit.</p><p>Okay. So.</p><p>If you&#8217;re reading this, you&#8217;re most likely not who I&#8217;m going off about. If you&#8217;re reading this and have been working against Trump &#8211; I mean actively working against him &#8211; you&#8217;re <em>very definitely</em> not who I&#8217;m going on about. In fact, why don&#8217;t you scream along with me, won&#8217;t you? You&#8217;re welcome to join in. It might be&#8230; fun? No. Cathartic? Maybe.</p><p>Regardless, <em>if this doesn&#8217;t apply to you, then <strong>it doesn&#8217;t apply to you.</strong></em></p><p>But if you did help Trump into power? If you <em>voted</em> for him?</p><p>Jesus fucking christ, you <em>fucking</em> imbecile.</p><p>You moron. You clown. You <em>fool</em>.</p><p>Or worse &#8211; you contemptible looting parasitical <strong><em>fuck</em></strong>, because that&#8217;s what fascism is, that&#8217;s what the urge to loot, to take, to own the lives and labours of other is &#8211; it&#8217;s <em>parasitisation</em>, pure and simple<em>.</em></p><p>You are not some kind of Übermensch. You are a leech upon the body of humanity.</p><p>I don&#8217;t know which you &#8211; as an individual Trump voter &#8211; you might be, but you either had no idea what you were doing (I think that&#8217;s maybe a third of you) or you&#8217;re part of the cadre who <em>did</em> think you knew what you&#8217;re doing, in which case, you&#8217;re <em>still</em> complete fools, because <em>you genuinely do not know what you have done</em>.</p><p>Particularly you, Putin, you evil old Soviet remnant fuck. You have no idea what rough beast you&#8217;ve helped slouch into power. Vladimir, do you truly not know what lies directly beneath the Trumpian surface? Do you think that barrier will survive his inevitable &#8211; probably natural, I should stress &#8211; death? <em>Do you not know?</em></p><p>Because I do, and I have screamed to the nine hells and the five heavens about it, I will not reiterate myself here except to note that their plan for fundamentalist white man Christian domination of all aspects of society <strong><em>globally</em></strong> to bring about <strong><em>the end of the world</em></strong> is both well documented and explicit. I will say that you deserve it &#8211; but nobody else does. Their inevitable eventual failure will scar the planet. The only question is how badly.</p><p>Europeans who are reading this &#8211; you need to realise that amongst other things, you are now a military alliance. Keep NATO but throw the US out of it, at least, assuming you don&#8217;t want your <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-elon-musk-x-twitter-donald-trump-b2614525.html\">American NATO participation to rely on staying in Elon Musk&#8217;s good graces</a> and letting him set up fascist propaganda fountains in your countries. Arm up, and get ready to get your hands dirty, or rather, dirtier.</p><p>Keep Canada, if you can. Hell, bring Canada into the EU if they&#8217;re willing &#8211; I assure you it&#8217;s going to be very much in their interests if they want to remain Canadian.</p><p>If the UK actually come to their senses, let them back in too. If they don&#8217;t, get Scotland, if they wiggle themselves free. But be aware that if the Atlantic Current shuts down that those islands are going to get a lot <em>colder</em> and much more <em>quickly</em> than you expect. Fancy being Celtic Denmark, Ireland? Scotland&#8230; Celtic Norway? Nobody really knows, and I know no more than anyone else. But that and worse are well possible.</p><p>As part of that, get ready to deal with the reality that the US is going to shift into dramatically <em>higher</em> carbon output, not lower. Trump&#8217;s plans will undo what progress has been done &#8211; I&#8217;m hearing projections of that being by a factor of two, unless he wrecks the economy so badly that we go into demand failure and a second Great Depression. If we don&#8217;t, I suspect that&#8217;ll end up being a lowball estimate, given how much energy &#8220;Generative AI&#8221; is burning right now.</p><p>If you&#8217;re wondering, the only one who pretends to give even half a fuck in his administration is literal plaguemonger RFK, Jr., whose official answer is regenerative agriculture and whose unofficial answer is mass death. The funny thing about regenerative agriculture is it <em>can</em> be a legitimate carbon store, and at some real degree of scale! But there&#8217;s absolutely no way in hell that it&#8217;ll cover the new American flood of carbon dioxide. What with him being a self-deluded shithead, I have no idea whether he actually believes his shit or not.</p><p>But it doesn&#8217;t matter. We&#8217;ve blown past 1.5°C and we <em>will</em> blow past 3.0°C, and what Europe needs to do now is decarbonise as quickly as possible not to stop it, but to delay it some, and soften the blow.</p><p>I mean seriously. Look at the endgame of 66m of ocean rise. See what that does to your shorelines. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@ConspiracyOfCartographers/113488585314568696\">See what that does to <em>Paris</em></a>.</p><p>If that&#8217;s somehow not enough &#8211; if you&#8217;re one of those millions of millions of people who pretend to care about climate change but don&#8217;t let it affect anything you do &#8211; then you also need to do it to prevent your own economic irrelevance, because carbon fuels aren&#8217;t going to be an economic driver that too many people give a fuck about in another eight years or so. China knows this. They make no secret about it, and they&#8217;re right.</p><p>By electing Trump &#8211; assuming he follows through on his evil promises &#8211; Americans have doomed their own country to either be a long-term economic laggard akin to late-coal post-industrial Britain or out and out economic irrelevance, hanging on as a militant fundamentalist agricultural state with islands of civilisation. And while you should never confuse the end of a Republic with the end of an Empire, Americans have more firmly ended the American Century than they&#8217;ve ended the Third American Republic.</p><p>I mean that. It&#8217;s over. The fallout will be nasty, brutish, and long.</p><p>Don&#8217;t believe me? Look at the reality.</p><p>If you have any goddamn sense at all, you know the Republicans long ago became a party that never met an ally they wouldn&#8217;t betray. For decades, there was consensus against that, but it&#8217;s gone now. Since America&#8217;s now highly variable value as an ally will depend entirely upon who wins the next election, nobody should be dumb enough to rely on it; you simply can&#8217;t form a foundation on that kind of ever-shifting sand. America&#8217;s great export was <em>stability</em>, and <em>we&#8217;ve done run plumb out of that.</em></p><p>Accordingly, if you want to keep <em>anything</em> of the post-world-war-II world order &#8211; in particular if you want to keep the agreement that wars of conquest are <em>not okay</em> and that peoples <em>have a right to exist</em> &#8211; it&#8217;s gonna be mostly up to you, Europe.</p><p>And don&#8217;t make the mistake of thinking this is just the Christofascist right. It&#8217;s not.</p><p>American Liberals are absolutely onboard with the old global order, particularly but not only those parts. The left <em>kinda sorta</em> <em>theoretically</em> is onboard with those ideas? But not really. Even amongst the non-tanky American left, so very, very many people are way, <em>way</em> more personally invested in seeing Democrats lose than keeping fascists out of power. That makes their <em>theoretical</em> positions moot, and their <em>operative</em> positions the same as those of MAGA.</p><p>Over the last several months, I have come to a much better &#8211; or much worse &#8211; understanding of the &#8220;Bernie Bro to Trump&#8221; pipeline phenomenon. In just the last few days I watched someone I otherwise like &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if <em>they&#8217;d</em> call it gloating about Harris&#8217;s loss? But<em> that&#8217;s what it was</em>, posting about going at liberals to make them angry, enjoying it with a &#8220;hee hee die mad,&#8221; and most of all, blaming liberals for everything. Not the fascists, not the people who voted for him, oh no, it was &#8220;the libs&#8221; and &#8220;the Dems.&#8221; The ones who actually tried to stop him and keep him out of power.</p><p>Seeing someone so very clearly looking forward to liberals suffering under the boot heel of fascism absolutely repulsed me.</p><p>I don&#8217;t want to single them out, they&#8217;re far from the only one. They&#8217;re just the person who came closest to me while saying it most recently.</p><p>And the more that I watch that kind of shit, and the more I talk with people from the 2016 Bernie movement, the more what I see is a group of people who came in new to politics with enthusiasm, came astonishingly close but lost their first fight &#8211; <em>as one almost always does, no matter who or what it is</em> &#8211; and then most of them &#8211; not all, I hope, but the loud ones, most of the ones I&#8217;ve met &#8211; just decided fukkit, we&#8217;re burning everything down because we didn&#8217;t get our way the first time we tried.</p><p>(If you push them on it, they say 2016 was &#8220;fixed&#8221; because had neither Sanders nor Clinton won a majority of delegates it would&#8217;ve become an open convention, and the superdelegates would&#8217;ve become able to vote on the second ballot, and they&#8217;d&#8217;ve voted for Clinton, and that would&#8217;ve been cheating. That&#8217;s the &#8220;fix.&#8221; The stone cold reality that Clinton got more votes than Sanders and had an outright majority of regular delegates &#8211; she won that campaign 54-46 &#8211; doesn&#8217;t matter to them. Not really. Does that also sound familiar? Because it sure should.)</p><p>The real tragedy is that they took a near miss &#8211; one which was in a very real way a triumph and a dramatic showing of future strength &#8211; and tossed it into the bin. They could&#8217;ve built on it &#8211; it would&#8217;ve taken a while, but with enough determination it would&#8217;ve worked, and they&#8217;d&#8217;ve been <em>a </em>if not <em>the</em> dominant force in the party by now. Instead, well&#8230; here we are.</p><p>It appals me, but like so many things that are true despite my hated of it, I accept it as what it is. My disgust does not make it less real. Like I said:</p><p><em>I understand the Bernie Bro to Trump pipeline a lot better now</em>.</p><p>The real shock horror of it all is that what I think needs to happen now is that the Democratic Party needs to move left. Sharply. Fuck, I thought it needed to move more left <em>this</em> election, and now that it&#8217;s not<em> </em><strong><em>incredibly demoralising to the actual-anti-fascist political workers</em> <em>who were working their asses off trying to keep fascists out of power rather than sabotage Harris</em></strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m free to say that I thought <em>at the time</em> that Harris&#8217;s rerun of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;centrist&#8221; play was a big mistake, even if this election still had to run on the old rules for one last time for <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/07/17/the-long-arc-of-boomer-politics-of-resistance-and-what-millennials-zoomers-can-win-starting-now/\">reasons I detailed months ago</a>.</p><p>I understand Harris&#8217;s decision, and I understand why she did it, and maybe if I were a Black woman, I&#8217;d understand it even more. But it sure looked like a mistake to me. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn&#8217;t, maybe it would&#8217;ve been even worse if she hadn&#8217;t. I couldn&#8217;t change it either way so didn&#8217;t try, and we can&#8217;t know.</p><p>Regardless, what&#8217;s important now is that I&#8217;m pretty sure the Democratic Party really does need to move left as part of rebuilding. But I see all this post-election sneering and gloating on the existing Left, and I see how they hate the Democrats and &#8220;the libs&#8221; <em><strong>so much more than they hate actual fascists</strong></em>, and I don&#8217;t know what good it&#8217;ll do.</p><p>Nothing will be enough to bring this so-called Left &#8211; the Bernie Left &#8211; onboard. Nothing. Because the real motivator isn&#8217;t fix shit, it&#8217;s <em>fuck the libs and fuck the Dems</em>.</p><p>It&#8217;s a little like watching &#8220;South Park Conservatives&#8221; all over again. Trey Parker and Matt Stone once said that oh yeah, they hate conservatives&#8230; but they <em>really</em> hate liberals.</p><p>What they meant, of course, was that they mostly just hated liberals.</p><p>So here we are with &#8220;the libs&#8221; being the only ones who have been trying to keep a Republic for a while now, with a two-front war of the former-conservatives now-fascists on the right, and a left that in large part doesn&#8217;t give a single flying fuck about anything but their beautiful love affair with failure in everything <em>except</em> burning the Republic down to get back at &#8220;the Dems&#8221; for not nominating Bernie in 2016 and looking for any reason they can to make it happen.</p><p>Some of those reasons are super valid, though. In isolation. (And if only they were in isolation! Life would be so much better! But they&#8217;re not!) Because you&#8217;ve got the whole &#8220;complicity with genocide by voting for Harris&#8221; thought-stopping rage-trigger line and that actually makes sense and is right and just <em><strong>if and only if</strong> the person you help into power is on the other side of the issue and is not <strong>even more super invested in the same genocide</strong>.</em></p><p>And if you&#8217;re one of those people, well, guess what, pop-tart, he fucking well <strong><em>is</em></strong> super invested in that genocide &#8211; way more so! &#8211; and is <strong><em>also</em></strong> invested in <em><strong>another</strong></em> genocide in Ukraine, and <strong><em>wants to start a couple more at home on top of those</em></strong>, too! So ding dong, dipshits, <em><strong>you did not keep your fucking hands clean by helping him into office. </strong></em>In reality, what you did by helping hand him power is<em><strong> sink yourself up to your neck in blood</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p>Well done. Well <em>fucking</em> done.</p><p>There was no &#8220;hands all clean&#8221; route here. It wasn&#8217;t a goddamn option, and holy shit, did you blow it, and you&#8217;re <em>still</em> going to blame it on &#8220;the Dems&#8221; because you&#8217;re <em>still</em> mad about Bernie, even when <em>he</em> really, sincerely isn&#8217;t.</p><p>And all of that is a really very long and roundabout way to deliver the point I&#8217;m making, which is not to expect the Democrats to make a comeback real soon. The attempt to revive the Third American Republic has failed. I think the next opportunity to start something new might be after Trump dies of natural causes, not unlikely while still in office.</p><p>But all that&#8217;s just me guessing, at this point. Maybe the American electorate will surprise me at long last. Maybe Trump will trigger all the disasters his plans will trigger if implemented and people will go &#8220;oh shit, that was a bad choice&#8221; and Republicans themselves will revolt. Or who knows, maybe the American Left will <strong>get the fuck over itself</strong> like it needs to if it ever wants to mean <strong>anything at all</strong>.</p><p>I know, I&#8217;m hilarious, aren&#8217;t I?</p><p>But maybe. So if you call yourself part of that Left and you have any ability to pull your friends into the actual fight against the actual fash, and you&#8217;re going to try? You have my support and my gratitude. I don&#8217;t have the &#8220;fuck the Dems&#8221; cred to try to make any of it stick, when I try. Little old me who only has the experience of being actually illegal and routinely beaten down in the street just for existing just gets screamed and/or sneered at and told how I know nothing about oppression. But if you have that credibility, and have started to realise how completely the current strats haven&#8217;t been working, and want to do something about it? Gods be with you and good luck. You&#8217;ll definitely need it. If you can use my work to help, please do.</p><p>Or better, maybe it&#8217;s time to just start a different Left entirely. One that actually goes after fascists and Christian Nationalists <em>more</em> than they go after Democrats and liberals.</p><p>That really would be refreshing, wouldn&#8217;t it?</p><p>Something to consider.</p><p>Because seriously. Fuck those guys.</p><p>&#8230;</p><p>I&#8217;ve got more I could say. I could go off about climate change, and how <strong><em>absolutely nobody gave a single fuck about it</em></strong> in their voting decisions. It changed <em>no</em> minds, as far as I can tell. Not a one.</p><p>I really hope I&#8217;m right that oil won&#8217;t matter in eight to ten years. Maybe that&#8217;ll leave enough margin for saving civilisation. Maybe.</p><p>I sure hope so.</p><p>But I gotta tell you&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;I just don&#8217;t know.</p><p>Other than&#8230; maybe I do.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s time for a completely new Left.</p><p>Maybe that should start today.</p><p>Maybe that should start&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;.with you.</p><p>You&#8217;ve made it this far. You clearly have some stamina or you would&#8217;ve already bailed, and I wouldn&#8217;t blame you in the slightest. This is a real horse pill of a post.</p><p>Whaddya think, though? Are you ready? <em>Can </em>you be ready?</p><p>Does it start with you?</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-17T18:11:00Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/", "name": "#fascism" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/", "name": "#politics" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/", "name": "#uspolitics" } ], "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/17/im-not-trying-to-convince-any-americans-today/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23631/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23631/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23631/replies", "items": [ "https://social.rootaccess.org/users/zbyte64/statuses/113499774908869888", "https://freeradical.zone/users/baconandcoconut/statuses/113505615058996917", "https://a2mi.social/users/jhaas/statuses/113506232223232043" ] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23631#activity-create-2024-11-17T18:11:00Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-17T18:11:00Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23777", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>hello all you new followers!</h2><p>BIG influx of new followers and readers over the last few days, so I just wanted to take a moment and say hi!</p><p>My publishing schedule is &#8220;as articles get done.&#8221; I&#8217;ve tried going daily-no-matter-what; it doesn&#8217;t work for me and the quality isn&#8217;t there, so I abandoned that plan. Still chatty and kinda prolific, just not <em>daily</em>.</p><p>Right now, I&#8217;ve got a couple of articles in progress that haven&#8217;t come together yet. One, honestly, may not come together at all. The other likely will, but might become two posts, or who even knows exactly, not me. (If I knew, it&#8217;d already be out lol)</p><p>Since this is secretly &#8211; by which I mean not at all secretly &#8211; a WordPress blog, it&#8217;s not really set up for follow-backs or anything like that, so don&#8217;t take offence that I don&#8217;t follow back here. It&#8217;s technical, not personal. (Yes, I know about the Friends plugin. No, I&#8217;m not using it that way. See below.)</p><p>My personal account is over at <a rel=\"mention\" class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira\">@<span>moira</span></a> and you will get a lot of short-form politics there, but also a lot of diy/maker noise (particularly but not just <a href=\"https://www.thingiverse.com/solarbird/designs\">3D printing</a>) some fannish bullshit, a lot of biking (<a href=\"https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/\">I maintain the largest-area detailed bike map in Cascadia</a>) and most of all BRACE BRACE BRACE for weekly <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdon/\">#monsterdon</a> participation on Sunday nights because that&#8217;s how I roll*.</p><p>You&#8217;ll get some of that here, too, but in long form. This isn&#8217;t a strictly politics blog. It&#8217;s just that when your very existence is a political football, well, that&#8217;s how it falls out. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get back to <a href=\"https://archiveofourown.org/works/16287893/chapters/38092361\">other kinds of writing</a>, too. (If you feel inclined, you might start with <em>On Overcoming the Fear of Spiders</em>, or maybe <em>Once Upon a Time, There Was an Armourer and a Living Weapon</em> if you like your violent political lesbian love stories <em>extra</em> fucked-up.)</p><p>I&#8217;m currently working on enabling this blog to be followed directly on BlueSky, via the Bridgy Fed gateway. It&#8217;s not working at the moment, but the Bridgy people think they might know what it is and have said they&#8217;ll fix what they found. Hopefully their fix will solve the problem.</p><p>I&#8217;ve also asked the Friends plugin people if they can fix it on their end but they haven&#8217;t responded yet.</p><p>Anyway, nice to meet you, glad you&#8217;re here, and given what just happened, we&#8217;ve all got a lot of work to do.</p><p>Are you ready?</p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"/><p>* For those who don&#8217;t know, Monsterdon is a weekly mostly-monster-movie watch where we all comment live. If that sounds at all interesting, you should try it; the movies picked are always free to stream somewhere easily accessible in the US. Follow <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdonalert/\">#MonsterdonAlert</a> for information.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdon/\">#Monsterdon</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdonalert/\">#MonsterdonAlert</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>hello all you new followers!</h2><p>BIG influx of new followers and readers over the last few days, so I just wanted to take a moment and say hi!</p><p>My publishing schedule is &#8220;as articles get done.&#8221; I&#8217;ve tried going daily-no-matter-what; it doesn&#8217;t work for me and the quality isn&#8217;t there, so I abandoned that plan. Still chatty and kinda prolific, just not <em>daily</em>.</p><p>Right now, I&#8217;ve got a couple of articles in progress that haven&#8217;t come together yet. One, honestly, may not come together at all. The other likely will, but might become two posts, or who even knows exactly, not me. (If I knew, it&#8217;d already be out lol)</p><p>Since this is secretly &#8211; by which I mean not at all secretly &#8211; a WordPress blog, it&#8217;s not really set up for follow-backs or anything like that, so don&#8217;t take offence that I don&#8217;t follow back here. It&#8217;s technical, not personal. (Yes, I know about the Friends plugin. No, I&#8217;m not using it that way. See below.)</p><p>My personal account is over at <a rel=\"mention\" class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira\">@<span>moira</span></a> and you will get a lot of short-form politics there, but also a lot of diy/maker noise (particularly but not just <a href=\"https://www.thingiverse.com/solarbird/designs\">3D printing</a>) some fannish bullshit, a lot of biking (<a href=\"https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/\">I maintain the largest-area detailed bike map in Cascadia</a>) and most of all BRACE BRACE BRACE for weekly <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdon/\">#monsterdon</a> participation on Sunday nights because that&#8217;s how I roll*.</p><p>You&#8217;ll get some of that here, too, but in long form. This isn&#8217;t a strictly politics blog. It&#8217;s just that when your very existence is a political football, well, that&#8217;s how it falls out. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get back to <a href=\"https://archiveofourown.org/works/16287893/chapters/38092361\">other kinds of writing</a>, too. (If you feel inclined, you might start with <em>On Overcoming the Fear of Spiders</em>, or maybe <em>Once Upon a Time, There Was an Armourer and a Living Weapon</em> if you like your violent political lesbian love stories <em>extra</em> fucked-up.)</p><p>I&#8217;m currently working on enabling this blog to be followed directly on BlueSky, via the Bridgy Fed gateway. It&#8217;s not working at the moment, but the Bridgy people think they might know what it is and have said they&#8217;ll fix what they found. Hopefully their fix will solve the problem.</p><p>I&#8217;ve also asked the Friends plugin people if they can fix it on their end but they haven&#8217;t responded yet.</p><p>Anyway, nice to meet you, glad you&#8217;re here, and given what just happened, we&#8217;ve all got a lot of work to do.</p><p>Are you ready?</p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"/><p>* For those who don&#8217;t know, Monsterdon is a weekly mostly-monster-movie watch where we all comment live. If that sounds at all interesting, you should try it; the movies picked are always free to stream somewhere easily accessible in the US. Follow <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdonalert/\">#MonsterdonAlert</a> for information.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdon/\">#Monsterdon</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdonalert/\">#MonsterdonAlert</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-16T22:01:04Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdon/", "name": "#Monsterdon" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/monsterdonalert/", "name": "#MonsterdonAlert" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/", "name": "#t0000000000bs_" }, { "type": "Mention", "href": "https://mastodon.murkworks.net/users/moira", "name": "@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net" } ], "updated": "2024-11-16T22:01:05Z", "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/16/hello-all-you-new-followers/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers", "https://mastodon.murkworks.net/users/moira" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23777/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23777/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23777/replies", "items": [] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23777#activity-create-2024-11-16T22:01:05Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-16T22:01:04Z", "updated": "2024-11-16T22:01:05Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers", "https://mastodon.murkworks.net/users/moira" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23747", "type": "Note", "attachment": [ { "type": "Image", "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM.png", "mediaType": "image/png" } ], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>so whaddaya think?</h2><p>Anybody got an over/under on &#8220;Trump picked Matt Gaetz for his cabinet in order to distract from <a href=\"https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/14/headlines/trumps_pick_to_lead_us_military_has_tattoos_linked_to_white_supremacists_and_nazis\">his white-supremacist-tattoo-wearing Fox News Host pick for Secretary of Defence</a>?&#8221;</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"820\" src=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23749\" srcset=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM.png 866w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM-300x284.png 300w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM-768x727.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" /><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">yep. it&#8217;s this guy.</figcaption></figure></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>so whaddaya think?</h2><p>Anybody got an over/under on &#8220;Trump picked Matt Gaetz for his cabinet in order to distract from <a href=\"https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/14/headlines/trumps_pick_to_lead_us_military_has_tattoos_linked_to_white_supremacists_and_nazis\">his white-supremacist-tattoo-wearing Fox News Host pick for Secretary of Defence</a>?&#8221;</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"820\" src=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23749\" srcset=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM.png 866w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM-300x284.png 300w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-8.24.58 PM-768x727.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" /><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">yep. it&#8217;s this guy.</figcaption></figure></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-15T04:27:37Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/", "name": "#fascism" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/", "name": "#politics" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/", "name": "#uspolitics" } ], "updated": "2024-11-15T04:28:22Z", "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/14/so-whaddaya-think/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23747/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23747/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23747/replies", "items": [ "https://universeodon.com/users/Nazani/statuses/113493186036844691" ] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23747#activity-create-2024-11-15T04:28:22Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-15T04:27:37Z", "updated": "2024-11-15T04:28:22Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23725", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>X marks the spybot</h2><p>I&#8217;m seeing a lot of people wondering how Elon knew.</p><p>Hours before the election was over, Musk was out there on X saying &#8220;Men are voting in record numbers&#8221; and that he and Trump were going to win because of it.</p><p>And I&#8217;m seeing people wonder how he knew. Saying it was because he saw some pictures of men in queues at voting site. Stuff like that. And I&#8217;m like&#8230;</p><p>People. For fuck&#8217;s sake. <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">I&#8217;ve been telling you for years</a>. He knew because <em>they told him</em>.</p><p>X is a fascist propaganda and disinformation fountain. But before that, it was also an <em>information collector</em>, and very much still is. Even moreso, now. X &#8211; and therefore, <em>Elon</em> &#8211; knows your politics real well.</p><p>But that&#8217;s only part of it.</p><p>The X app, like the Twitter app before it, requests location information. Almost everyone who puts it on their phone &#8211; their smartphone, with GPS &#8211; says sure, clicking through permissions if it&#8217;s even asked asked about at all. Sure. Why not.</p><p>This mean <em>he knows where you are every minute of every day</em> &#8211; at least whenever you have your phone with you &#8211; and that includes when you go to a polling place to vote.</p><p><strong>Musk knew his fashpilled brosphere was turning out <em>because they all told him where they were</em> by having X on their phones.</strong></p><p>Even more than that, if you&#8217;ve got X on your phone, and your state does in-person voting, he knows whether <strong>you</strong> have voted yet, because he knows if <strong>you</strong> have been to a polling station.</p><p>Those locations are public information, and polling results at those stations help confirm or deny X&#8217;s knowledge of your politics.</p><p>If you haven&#8217;t, and <strong>your</strong> politics are in line with his, I&#8217;m sure his algorithm will encourage you to get out there and vote. If you haven&#8217;t, and your politics are <em><strong>not</strong></em> in line with his, I&#8217;m sure it will discourage or distract you just as quickly.</p><p>That&#8217;s what his pet AI &#8220;Grok&#8221; is for, really.</p><p>Well, one of the things. That&#8217;s why he wants to unleash it on all your data, for &#8220;training.&#8221; What he&#8217;s training it for is to know your individual politics. If you still have an account on November 15th, that&#8217;s what&#8217;ll happen. He&#8217;ll set it off to chew through all your data, so it can encourage &#8211; or discourage &#8211; you to vote&#8230; properly.</p><p>According to the Law and Politics of Elon Musk.</p><p>And that&#8217;s what X is for.</p><p>This election showed the billionaires that this will work. I wouldn&#8217;t expect Bluesky to remain independent for all that long; at some point in the not too distant future, I&#8217;d expect some similarly-minded billionaire to buy it, too, and do the same thing as Elon.</p><p>To stop that, Elon&#8217;s experiment needed to fail. At the core of everything else, as I have said too goddamn many times to count, <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/\">that is why Elon&#8217;s experiment needed to fail</a>. Because if it doesn&#8217;t, it will be repeated.</p><p>People did not &#8211; adequately &#8211; flee X.</p><p>The experiment has succeeded.</p><p>It will now be run again.</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>X marks the spybot</h2><p>I&#8217;m seeing a lot of people wondering how Elon knew.</p><p>Hours before the election was over, Musk was out there on X saying &#8220;Men are voting in record numbers&#8221; and that he and Trump were going to win because of it.</p><p>And I&#8217;m seeing people wonder how he knew. Saying it was because he saw some pictures of men in queues at voting site. Stuff like that. And I&#8217;m like&#8230;</p><p>People. For fuck&#8217;s sake. <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">I&#8217;ve been telling you for years</a>. He knew because <em>they told him</em>.</p><p>X is a fascist propaganda and disinformation fountain. But before that, it was also an <em>information collector</em>, and very much still is. Even moreso, now. X &#8211; and therefore, <em>Elon</em> &#8211; knows your politics real well.</p><p>But that&#8217;s only part of it.</p><p>The X app, like the Twitter app before it, requests location information. Almost everyone who puts it on their phone &#8211; their smartphone, with GPS &#8211; says sure, clicking through permissions if it&#8217;s even asked asked about at all. Sure. Why not.</p><p>This mean <em>he knows where you are every minute of every day</em> &#8211; at least whenever you have your phone with you &#8211; and that includes when you go to a polling place to vote.</p><p><strong>Musk knew his fashpilled brosphere was turning out <em>because they all told him where they were</em> by having X on their phones.</strong></p><p>Even more than that, if you&#8217;ve got X on your phone, and your state does in-person voting, he knows whether <strong>you</strong> have voted yet, because he knows if <strong>you</strong> have been to a polling station.</p><p>Those locations are public information, and polling results at those stations help confirm or deny X&#8217;s knowledge of your politics.</p><p>If you haven&#8217;t, and <strong>your</strong> politics are in line with his, I&#8217;m sure his algorithm will encourage you to get out there and vote. If you haven&#8217;t, and your politics are <em><strong>not</strong></em> in line with his, I&#8217;m sure it will discourage or distract you just as quickly.</p><p>That&#8217;s what his pet AI &#8220;Grok&#8221; is for, really.</p><p>Well, one of the things. That&#8217;s why he wants to unleash it on all your data, for &#8220;training.&#8221; What he&#8217;s training it for is to know your individual politics. If you still have an account on November 15th, that&#8217;s what&#8217;ll happen. He&#8217;ll set it off to chew through all your data, so it can encourage &#8211; or discourage &#8211; you to vote&#8230; properly.</p><p>According to the Law and Politics of Elon Musk.</p><p>And that&#8217;s what X is for.</p><p>This election showed the billionaires that this will work. I wouldn&#8217;t expect Bluesky to remain independent for all that long; at some point in the not too distant future, I&#8217;d expect some similarly-minded billionaire to buy it, too, and do the same thing as Elon.</p><p>To stop that, Elon&#8217;s experiment needed to fail. At the core of everything else, as I have said too goddamn many times to count, <a href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/\">that is why Elon&#8217;s experiment needed to fail</a>. Because if it doesn&#8217;t, it will be repeated.</p><p>People did not &#8211; adequately &#8211; flee X.</p><p>The experiment has succeeded.</p><p>It will now be run again.</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/\">#t0000000000bs_</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-12T23:56:38Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/", "name": "#fascism" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/", "name": "#politics" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/t0000000000bs/", "name": "#t0000000000bs_" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/", "name": "#uspolitics" } ], "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/12/x-marks-the-spybot/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23725/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23725/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23725/replies", "items": [] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23725#activity-create-2024-11-12T23:56:38Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-12T23:56:38Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23667", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>tariffs, mass deportation &#8211; the pieces fit together</h2><p>I think I&#8217;ve squared a circle. Doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s real; just that I&#8217;ve found a way to square it.</p><p>Walk with me.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re Trump and you&#8217;ve promised mass deportations and huge tariffs on China and other countries.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say that mass deportation is incredibly expensive &#8211; maybe you&#8217;re aware that Hitler&#8217;s camps and extermination programme were eating 13% of Nazi Germany&#8217;s GDP in the middle of their wars of conquest.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re also aware that this will take years and years and years, because there&#8217;s literally no way to do this quickly. Physically, I mean. 15 million people can&#8217;t be thrown out overnight, or even over months. It&#8217;ll be years.</p><p>Let&#8217;s also say you want to keep inflation down, particularly to keep prices from skyrocketing due to your tariff policies. Tariffs are, I remind you, a tax an imports that get paid by the importer, and which are passed on to the customer. They <em>are</em> inflationary, <em>by design</em>. At least, until and unless they torpedo the economy entirely, at which point, well, you&#8217;ve set off a second Great Depression, just like Smoot and Hawley.</p><p>Now, let&#8217;s say that it&#8217;s very important to you to keep wages down as well, because nobody wants to pay workers if they can avoid it. If you want to bring back a lot of manufacturing in an already-tight labour market, that&#8217;s going to raise labour costs. It just is.</p><p>So you assign an amoral monster like Tom Homan &#8211; author of Trump&#8217;s Family Separation policy &#8211; as the &#8220;czar&#8221; of immigration. He&#8217;s promising the largest deportation force in history and recently said <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-announces-tom-homan-incoming-border-czar-rcna179536\">his answer to preventing &#8220;family separation&#8221; is to expel the entire family</a> &#8211; citizenship be damned. </p><p>(He&#8217;s also a contributor to Project 2025 and a visiting fellow at Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 <em>absolutely is</em> the agenda. All of it.)</p><p>Then you start talking to people you&#8217;re already very friendly with, the operators of private prisons. They are utterly ready and looking forward to the new policies. <a href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-deportation-plans-private-prisons-opportunity_n_672d3faae4b01e5999fc97c0\">They see it as an opportunity to double &#8211; or better &#8211; the size of their evil industry in all its forms</a>.</p><p>Your inner circle have already acknowledged you&#8217;ll have to build camps &#8211; lots of them, big ones. You&#8217;ll call them &#8220;prisons&#8221; or &#8220;detention facilities&#8221; or &#8220;military camps,&#8221; not &#8220;concentration camps,&#8221; you certainly won&#8217;t call them that. Let&#8217;s say &#8220;facilities.&#8221;</p><p>Prison &#8220;facilities&#8221; are already well known for requiring prison labour, and for their pennies-per-hour payment to inmates. Private prisons have pushed the envelope on this in many ways; prison labour is a profit centre. One I was working against, before the fascist era.</p><p>So.</p><p>Imagine, if you would, the very easy jump.</p><p>You&#8217;ve got to do <em>something</em> with these hundreds of thousands of imprisoned people, don&#8217;t you.</p><p>Imagine expulsions taking months, then years. Years at a time. Perhaps they stop working so hard on speeding up the process. Perhaps they slow-walk it, timed to, say, suit the availability of &#8220;facility&#8221; beds.</p><p>Of course you&#8217;ll put them to work. A rotating cast of &#8220;facility&#8221; workers &#8211; &#8220;prison workers&#8221; &#8211; worked slowly through the system so there&#8217;s no one there quite long enough to start organising.</p><p>Paid, technically. At pennies for the hour, as a token, a pretence that it&#8217;s not slavery. But, of course, it is. You recoup the pennies you have to pay by charging them for everything. Maybe even their bed.</p><p>And just like that you have highly profitable&#8230; North Korean-style labour camps, with entire families of workers imprisoned, for who knows how long while they are put to work as factory labour for the private prison companies which become the new internal outsourcers of zero-cost labour.</p><p>Slavery, though not by name.</p><p>Maybe you&#8217;ll tie camp expansions to increases in tariffs. Raise them in parallel, timed so that the internal outsourcing absorbs the cost of the new tariffs. And then look &#8211; no price inflation, no wage inflation.</p><p>And whole new class of people to look down upon forever, if you like.</p><p>It&#8217;s quite the plan. Very neat. Very clean. Given that Trump voters actively <em>want</em> &#8220;military camps&#8221; used against immigrants, it&#8217;ll be a very easy sell.</p><p>And very, very profitable. Slave camps always have been, really.</p><p>And all you have to be is an abomination upon the earth.</p><p>And all your supporters have to do is let you be one.</p><p>Is that the plan? I don&#8217;t know.</p><p>All I know is that all the pieces seem to fit.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>tariffs, mass deportation &#8211; the pieces fit together</h2><p>I think I&#8217;ve squared a circle. Doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s real; just that I&#8217;ve found a way to square it.</p><p>Walk with me.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re Trump and you&#8217;ve promised mass deportations and huge tariffs on China and other countries.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say that mass deportation is incredibly expensive &#8211; maybe you&#8217;re aware that Hitler&#8217;s camps and extermination programme were eating 13% of Nazi Germany&#8217;s GDP in the middle of their wars of conquest.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re also aware that this will take years and years and years, because there&#8217;s literally no way to do this quickly. Physically, I mean. 15 million people can&#8217;t be thrown out overnight, or even over months. It&#8217;ll be years.</p><p>Let&#8217;s also say you want to keep inflation down, particularly to keep prices from skyrocketing due to your tariff policies. Tariffs are, I remind you, a tax an imports that get paid by the importer, and which are passed on to the customer. They <em>are</em> inflationary, <em>by design</em>. At least, until and unless they torpedo the economy entirely, at which point, well, you&#8217;ve set off a second Great Depression, just like Smoot and Hawley.</p><p>Now, let&#8217;s say that it&#8217;s very important to you to keep wages down as well, because nobody wants to pay workers if they can avoid it. If you want to bring back a lot of manufacturing in an already-tight labour market, that&#8217;s going to raise labour costs. It just is.</p><p>So you assign an amoral monster like Tom Homan &#8211; author of Trump&#8217;s Family Separation policy &#8211; as the &#8220;czar&#8221; of immigration. He&#8217;s promising the largest deportation force in history and recently said <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-announces-tom-homan-incoming-border-czar-rcna179536\">his answer to preventing &#8220;family separation&#8221; is to expel the entire family</a> &#8211; citizenship be damned. </p><p>(He&#8217;s also a contributor to Project 2025 and a visiting fellow at Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 <em>absolutely is</em> the agenda. All of it.)</p><p>Then you start talking to people you&#8217;re already very friendly with, the operators of private prisons. They are utterly ready and looking forward to the new policies. <a href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-deportation-plans-private-prisons-opportunity_n_672d3faae4b01e5999fc97c0\">They see it as an opportunity to double &#8211; or better &#8211; the size of their evil industry in all its forms</a>.</p><p>Your inner circle have already acknowledged you&#8217;ll have to build camps &#8211; lots of them, big ones. You&#8217;ll call them &#8220;prisons&#8221; or &#8220;detention facilities&#8221; or &#8220;military camps,&#8221; not &#8220;concentration camps,&#8221; you certainly won&#8217;t call them that. Let&#8217;s say &#8220;facilities.&#8221;</p><p>Prison &#8220;facilities&#8221; are already well known for requiring prison labour, and for their pennies-per-hour payment to inmates. Private prisons have pushed the envelope on this in many ways; prison labour is a profit centre. One I was working against, before the fascist era.</p><p>So.</p><p>Imagine, if you would, the very easy jump.</p><p>You&#8217;ve got to do <em>something</em> with these hundreds of thousands of imprisoned people, don&#8217;t you.</p><p>Imagine expulsions taking months, then years. Years at a time. Perhaps they stop working so hard on speeding up the process. Perhaps they slow-walk it, timed to, say, suit the availability of &#8220;facility&#8221; beds.</p><p>Of course you&#8217;ll put them to work. A rotating cast of &#8220;facility&#8221; workers &#8211; &#8220;prison workers&#8221; &#8211; worked slowly through the system so there&#8217;s no one there quite long enough to start organising.</p><p>Paid, technically. At pennies for the hour, as a token, a pretence that it&#8217;s not slavery. But, of course, it is. You recoup the pennies you have to pay by charging them for everything. Maybe even their bed.</p><p>And just like that you have highly profitable&#8230; North Korean-style labour camps, with entire families of workers imprisoned, for who knows how long while they are put to work as factory labour for the private prison companies which become the new internal outsourcers of zero-cost labour.</p><p>Slavery, though not by name.</p><p>Maybe you&#8217;ll tie camp expansions to increases in tariffs. Raise them in parallel, timed so that the internal outsourcing absorbs the cost of the new tariffs. And then look &#8211; no price inflation, no wage inflation.</p><p>And whole new class of people to look down upon forever, if you like.</p><p>It&#8217;s quite the plan. Very neat. Very clean. Given that Trump voters actively <em>want</em> &#8220;military camps&#8221; used against immigrants, it&#8217;ll be a very easy sell.</p><p>And very, very profitable. Slave camps always have been, really.</p><p>And all you have to be is an abomination upon the earth.</p><p>And all your supporters have to do is let you be one.</p><p>Is that the plan? I don&#8217;t know.</p><p>All I know is that all the pieces seem to fit.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-11T17:06:00Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/", "name": "#fascism" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/", "name": "#politics" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/", "name": "#uspolitics" } ], "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/11/tariffs-mass-deportation-the-pieces-fit-together/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23667/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23667/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/23667/replies", "items": [ "https://mastodon.world/users/Judeet99/statuses/113465633927185783", "https://beige.party/users/todwest/statuses/113465645224015033", "https://mastodon.online/users/Zotmeister/statuses/113465648548558712", "https://mastodon.online/users/larsmb/statuses/113465663002031979", "https://mstdn.social/users/JoeChip/statuses/113465668739047018", "https://hachyderm.io/users/vttechwriter/statuses/113465753695206479", "https://mastodon.me.uk/users/tokensane/statuses/113465767291749620", "https://mastodon.online/users/noyes/statuses/113465823953005257", "https://mas.to/users/PJ_Evans/statuses/113465849237253189", "https://mastodon.madhouse.org/users/sleepy/statuses/113465879102268079", "https://mstdn.social/users/glweiss03/statuses/113465974893758322", "https://mastodon.social/users/nhdogmom/statuses/113465983178018923", "https://mastodon.social/users/xdydx/statuses/113466167625520234", "https://infosec.exchange/users/Spartan_1986/statuses/113466315852976257", "https://mastodon.world/users/Extra_Special_Carbon/statuses/113466493866638039", "https://mstdn.ca/users/jfmezei/statuses/113466508385716649", "https://mastodon.world/users/Extra_Special_Carbon/statuses/113466514585899042", "https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/113466668143524336", "https://mstdn.social/users/jstatepost/statuses/113466700544916453", "https://jawns.club/users/phillychuck/statuses/113466709090999180", "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/ParadeGrotesque/statuses/113466749712546084", "https://mastodon.social/users/Awoke/statuses/113466754957900405", "https://genomic.social/users/BlueWaver22/statuses/113466762147416548", "https://genomic.social/users/BlueWaver22/statuses/113466783860215157", "https://mstdn.social/users/cowboyminer/statuses/113466862351962376", "https://octodon.social/users/alienghic/statuses/113466889576407176", "https://mas.to/users/tullycraft/statuses/113466910953705502", "https://epicure.social/users/Pollinators/statuses/113466918926621321", "https://mastodon.social/users/Pandarious/statuses/113467273090286546", "https://hoosier.social/users/andrew/statuses/113467378114873442", "https://mstdn.social/users/luv_wins/statuses/113467884875588207", "https://datasci.social/users/texhewson/statuses/113468603050546466", "https://universeodon.com/users/thedudeabides420/statuses/113469714984400729", "https://meow.social/users/Goldkin/statuses/113473181449151533", "https://hachyderm.io/users/DaleHagglund/statuses/113493876595988142", "https://tech.lgbt/users/burnoutqueen/statuses/113494602748399225", "https://mastdn.social/users/pravda/statuses/113494612872970194", "https://universeodon.com/users/Virginicus/statuses/113495238183833462" ] } }, "sensitive": false }, "actor": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23667#activity-create-2024-11-11T17:06:00Z", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "published": "2024-11-11T17:06:00Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], "sensitive": false }, { "type": "Create", "object": { "id": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?p=23656", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>CISHET MEN: GET ON IT</h2><p>I am not seeing nearly enough cishet <strong>men</strong> react proactively to this national wave of rape threats.</p><p>Most men listen only to men, particularly on topics like these. These men <em>specifically</em> only listen to men. <em>Not</em> listening to the opinions of women is the <em>point</em>, because as far as they&#8217;re concerned, <strong>we don&#8217;t get to have any</strong>.</p><p>Right now, these men are testing what they can get away with. They see but don&#8217;t care about how women react; if anything, they like the revulsion and anger, and look forward to more of it when they actually start &#8220;grabbing women by the pussy.&#8221;</p><p>But they <strong>do</strong> want to see how other <strong>men</strong> will react. They want to know what <strong>other men</strong> will say or do.</p><p>Passivity now, in the face of this, is <strong>permission</strong>. And your <strong>men</strong> friends are watching. If you don&#8217;t object, <em>they probably won&#8217;t either</em>. So if you&#8217;re against this &#8211; and you fucking well need to be &#8211; you need to get ahead of it.</p><p>And the next time, and the time after that? Every other time the fash test something? Because they will be testing everything they can?</p><p>It&#8217;s the same reality.</p><p><strong>You</strong> have to get in front of it. Independently. Not just a thumbs up to a woman&#8217;s post. Preferably in your own words.</p><p>And you have to start <strong>right now</strong>.</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>CISHET MEN: GET ON IT</h2><p>I am not seeing nearly enough cishet <strong>men</strong> react proactively to this national wave of rape threats.</p><p>Most men listen only to men, particularly on topics like these. These men <em>specifically</em> only listen to men. <em>Not</em> listening to the opinions of women is the <em>point</em>, because as far as they&#8217;re concerned, <strong>we don&#8217;t get to have any</strong>.</p><p>Right now, these men are testing what they can get away with. They see but don&#8217;t care about how women react; if anything, they like the revulsion and anger, and look forward to more of it when they actually start &#8220;grabbing women by the pussy.&#8221;</p><p>But they <strong>do</strong> want to see how other <strong>men</strong> will react. They want to know what <strong>other men</strong> will say or do.</p><p>Passivity now, in the face of this, is <strong>permission</strong>. And your <strong>men</strong> friends are watching. If you don&#8217;t object, <em>they probably won&#8217;t either</em>. So if you&#8217;re against this &#8211; and you fucking well need to be &#8211; you need to get ahead of it.</p><p>And the next time, and the time after that? Every other time the fash test something? Because they will be testing everything they can?</p><p>It&#8217;s the same reality.</p><p><strong>You</strong> have to get in front of it. Independently. Not just a thumbs up to a woman&#8217;s post. Preferably in your own words.</p><p>And you have to start <strong>right now</strong>.</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/\">#fascism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/\">#politics</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/\">#uspolitics</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-11-10T22:10:49Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/fascism/", "name": "#fascism" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/politics/", "name": "#politics" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/uspolitics/", "name": "#uspolitics" } ], "url": "https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/10/cishet-men-get-on-it/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/2/followers" ], 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pedestrian route, with several inset pictures showing locations, e.g., one stairwell that goes down to go under an on-ramp and then back up on the other side of the other on-ramp" } ], "attributedTo": "https://solarbird.net/blog/author/solarbird/", "audience": "https://solarbird.net/blog/?author=0", "content": "<h2>the worst nightmare pedestrian crossing in seattle?</h2><p>spokane street s. across I-5</p><p>connects spokane street across the freeway</p><p><em>sorta</em></p><p>the worst parts are of of course around the freeway but it&#8217;s still an absolute deathrace along columbian once you make it past the third under-freeway stairwell</p><p>find something worse than this</p><p>i <em>dare </em>you</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2685\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle.png\" alt=\"satellite view of spokane street s. at i-5 in seattle, with a line drawn showing the pedestrian route, with several inset pictures showing locations, e.g., one stairwell that goes down to go under an on-ramp and then back up on the other side of the other on-ramp\" class=\"wp-image-23650\" srcset=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle.png 2685w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-300x143.png 300w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-1024x488.png 1024w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-768x366.png 768w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-1536x732.png 1536w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-2048x976.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2685px) 100vw, 2685px\" /></figure><p>it&#8217;s nowhere near me but i kinda wanna bike it &#8211; but i can&#8217;t (because those stairs wow) so maybe hike it</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/seattle/\">#seattle</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>the worst nightmare pedestrian crossing in seattle?</h2><p>spokane street s. across I-5</p><p>connects spokane street across the freeway</p><p><em>sorta</em></p><p>the worst parts are of of course around the freeway but it&#8217;s still an absolute deathrace along columbian once you make it past the third under-freeway stairwell</p><p>find something worse than this</p><p>i <em>dare </em>you</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2685\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle.png\" alt=\"satellite view of spokane street s. at i-5 in seattle, with a line drawn showing the pedestrian route, with several inset pictures showing locations, e.g., one stairwell that goes down to go under an on-ramp and then back up on the other side of the other on-ramp\" class=\"wp-image-23650\" srcset=\"https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle.png 2685w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-300x143.png 300w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-1024x488.png 1024w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-768x366.png 768w, https://solarbird.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-worst-nightmare-pedestrain-crossing-in-seattle-1536x732.png 1536w, 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