And just like that the “ally” disappeared but their corporate tyranny remains…
If I could, I’d like to ask these groups one simple question.
Why hate? Tell me what it is that makes you see another group of people with a different lifestyle or background, or culture, or anything else that you’re not a part of, and you default to hating that group.
I’ve never understood that concept. I can understand hating individuals, because those individuals are assholes. I have plenty of people throughout my life where I’ll say “Ugh, Gary is an asshole!”. But I don’t sit here and say “THOSE people are assholes!”
Because it’s perfectly fine to judge people. It’s actually important to judge people. But you can’t judge whole groups as one. It doesn’t work. Because EVERY group has good and bad. That’s just the nature of humans. So if you judge a whole group as one, you’re missing the point of judging. To judge someone is to analize their traits as a person. If you try to do that with a group, there’s too much variation to come to any conclusion, and at that point it’s not fair judgement, it’s just hate.
Which brings us back to “Why hate?”
And I want anyone from these groups who are transphobic, or maybe other groups that are racist, or maybe other groups that are hateful towards any gender, I want them to explain their hate. I want them to lay out their logic.
Because I assume they’ll spew out some hateful statement like “They’re always doing this and this”. And I would challenge them on that.
“When did they do this and this?”
Or maybe they’d say “Because they have menal illness!” And I’d say “So you hate people with mental illness? If someone in your family develops dementia, you’ll hate them too?”
Every sentence they take I’d challenge them to make a logical explaination of it. Because I don’t think they can. And 9/10 of them I don’t think will change. However, I think you’ll get some people who realize “Wait…am I wrong? Am I being an asshole? Oh my god I’M the asshole here!”
religion.
PieFed has a trans theme, btw
Damn, they well full mask off.
Not sure what you mean, but I read it as full musk off - not sure really what that would mean either but it somehow makes more sense.
“Mask off” refers to taking off the facade of something and showing their true selves. In the case of meta/twitter/etc. the changing of policy from protecting groups that are discriminated against (ineffectively, but at least pretending to try) to actually promoting hate and discrimination is revealing their true selves as bigots and hate mongers.
I think they were confused because of the typo. It should say “they went full mask off”
Thanks
Holy cuck, the Zuck is such a fuck.
These companies just go whichever way the wind blows. Which is exactly what you would expect.
Zuck, meet Luigi
In all seriousness it’s not a cure for all our ailments. As much as some people may have “earned” themselves a forced retirement it can be incredibly easy to frame it as a purely political hit and then swing the pendulum back the other way and take out someone actually fighting for democracy. The United Health CEO seems to have been universally accepted as human garbage.
How many billionaires do you know actively fighting for democracy?
Is this sucking up or just finally feeling free to show their true self?
Yes
Given it’s a commercial company. It’s probably the first.
how are the meta shareholders ok with zuck burning down the company?
They’re probably more afraid that Trump will burn the company down.
who do you think told him to delete them?
Now you can see the true colors of CEOs: they don’t really care about minorities, scientific facts, or the truth itself. They only care about aligning with the current leader’s ideas to make more money
i wonder what would happen if both the upcoming president and the vice got assassinated, how would the lizard corp react?
Only one way to find out
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Rainbow capitalism has always been a sham.
Yeah, anyone who thought the big DEI push was anything more than virtue signaling got taken for a ride.
What even is a trans and non-binary theme?
Isn’t it just some colours?
Yes, it’s just some colors. If you can’t handle a picture with some colors, you’ve got a problem.
When did I have a problem with it? 🤔
I’d guess pride colors, depictions of Blahaj (that IKEA shark that’s popular among trans folks), stuff of the sorts. Stuff that right wingers get offended by.
Unfortunately, nobody cares. Funny infinite brainrot stream.
You got to make a show for the king.
This right here is why decentralized media like Lemmy and Mastodon are important.
Because they’re the only kind of places where this isn’t explicitly always happening (instead of only sometimes on some shitty servers that nobody else federates with)
These are the last places that you will actually be able to have relatively real, unfiltered conversations as opposed to corporate-curated conversation.
That reminds me of the late 90s when people suggested getting a mac because macs didn’t have viruses.
They didn’t have viruses because hardly anyone used them.
Metafilter is from the late 90’s and still isn’t overrun with bots and other bullshit and it’s still widely used by many professionals.
You know the difference? They didn’t prioritize explosive cancer-like growth and instead prioritized community and thus it’s still a great site with plenty of people, plenty of discussion, and almost no “viruses,” to use your analogy.
The 90’s was also when there were thousands of different websites and not everything was centralized on Facebook/Reddit/Xitter. We’re simply reverting to that better version of the internet.
Also things like transparent moderation logs exist in the fediverse, so there’s more controls the users have to see if their admins/mods are actually working in their interests. Everything on the centralized platforms is a blind “trust us.”
First they came for the transgender and queer,but I was not trans or queer
Then they came for the democrats, but I wawas not a democrat.
Then they came for the Jews, but I’m mark zuckerberg and I’m rich,so fuck my people.
