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They’re transitioning to a non-profit organization now. While non-profits have their own problems, and it doesn’t make them exempt from enshittifying, it removes the profit incentive to do so.

In other words: I’d give them a little more credibility when it comes to this sort of thing until they give us a reason not to. I’m hopeful that they can be a positive force in the industries that they are in.

Reactionaries will always piss and moan about every kind of protest; “stupid stunts” or otherwise. Those are the people you don’t listen to, because if they had it their way, there would be no protesting.

The fact is that even their outrage draws attention to the issues and non-disruptive protests typically don’t have anywhere near that level of notoriety.

Edit: adding a sourced article that cites multiple studies on the matter.

Nice conspiracy.

A step in a marginally better direction. Next step: ban animal agriculture.

We need to solve the problem, not just tax it. Animal exploitation, while reason enough to ban it on its own, is also a primary driver in climate change and zoonotic diseases. If you want to solve either of those existential problems, banning animal agriculture must be a part of that strategy.

Imagine being anti-exploitation/pro-liberation for everything, right up until it involves a hierarchy you benefit from 🤡

Couldn’t be me 😎

Is anyone else bothered (but not surprised) by the fact that Amazon/Twitch agreed to cover it up for him? Seems pretty wild that they should be off the hook for working to protect his image after doing predatory shit like this.

Fair enough. FWIW, I disagree with the mis-characterized “context” you provided, but I’m uninterested in debating that.

I just don’t want videos where marginalized people are talking about issues that affect them to be removed, so that’s why I focused on that aspect.

I mean, if we’re digging out problematic things from peoples past, even ContraPoints used to semi-frequently make appearances in Nazi fetish gear in her videos, so I don’t think that’s a useful metric. I say that as a fan of ContraPoints, and creators of varying problematic pasts. It sucks, but given that most left-leaning content creators have put in effort to distance from those kinds of problematic behaviors, I wouldn’t want someone to remove their otherwise helpful videos, or to take away from any advocacy they may do.

Vaush has had land back advocates in on stream to speak on the issue themselves, so i have a hard time believing that he has miscategorized land back. I think it’d be equally ridiculous to remove those videos that discuss progressive advocacy/radical movements, simply because someone that people consider to be contentious is involved.

I’m entirely uninterested in debating the merits of internet content creators. Most of them, to some degree, have done highly problematic things, but digging up trash from their past (especially when they have changed course) is usually a useless, parasocial distraction. You can not like a content creator without letting your parasocial disdain distract from the good they are doing, like when they are bringing on people to speak about issues that affect marginalized people.

I haven’t seen either other those things from Vaush or his community (taking into account that every large following will have some people that are bad), and I think if the other progressive people that made it out there to canvass for a progressive candidate saw it fit to make an appearance with him, I would sooner trust their judgment than other people on the internet.

But parasocial issues aside: it’s valuable to have trans voices out there. There aren’t enough as it is, and there are even fewer speaking about what NN is. Removing videos like this would feel like a big step backwards, in my opinion.

Thank you for being transparent.

The context for this clip in particular is that many left-leaning creators are canvassing for the reelection of Jamal Bowman, a member of the squad, and this interview covers an interesting topic that is hardly ever given a spotlight, so I think it makes sense to keep it.

I had only vaguely known of NominalNaomi and the reactionary backlash that she got for breastfeeding her child, and I think it’s nice that she’s talking about it. In my opinion, removing the video would only serve to keep the topic as a taboo.

God bless 🫡 Get the occupying force the fuck outta there.

It’s analogous, and this is a comment section. Deal with it.

It’ll be Ubislop, or your money back!

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war between Israel and Palestine

Not a war. It’s a genocide, and it’s Israel that is perpetrating it.

Surviving the AIDS crisis, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, “conduct unbecoming” in the military, strung up on fence posts in Wyoming, public arrests, family disenfranchisement, discrimination in housing, marriage, legal rights…just getting started

Cool. And you’ll get absolutely nowhere with reactionary sentiment like “fuck you, I got mine” as a part of your movement. The people that want to allow the genocide to continue are the same people actively working to take those rights away from LGBTQ+ people, and they’re not gonna let up just because reactionary twats like you think it’s okay. Not to mention the fact that the rest of the LGBTQ+ community doesn’t even have all of the rights you mentioned, but that’s none of your concern, I’m sure.

The fact is that rights movements and struggles for social justice will continue to largely ignore backward sentiment like yours, as it is necessary for the progress of all of the groups that struggle for them and your attitude toward people other than yourself would only lead to an erosion of those rights.

“I got mine. Fuck you.”

Russia is the country imposing the invasion in Ukraine. Russia is the only country that can stop doing the invasion.

Lol. It’s a close second, but at least Apple isn’t blatantly hostile toward users in the same way that Microsoft is.

Friendly reminder that these pandemics are the direct result of animal exploitation and carnists have themselves to thank for making the entire world suffer to an incalculable extent, just so they can have 5 minutes of mouth pleasure.

Those “super bugs” and antibiotic-resistant bacteria you’ve heard scientists express dire concern about for many years? Yep. This is it. And it’ll only continue happening as long as we allow animals to be systemically bred into existence and exploited.