create an opposition to Twitter; prevent split of democratic forces; instead unite democratic forces, overcome trench warfare, show Trumpists how actual discussions look like; division of the left might be softended through this; also make unusual allies for example with neocons, traditional conservatives or yes, J.K. Rowling; the more democratic forces are in the boat, the better, the rest is solved by federation

Nevermind that the Neocons helped build the Trump State, by dint of our government being unwilling to prosecute the War Crimes of Bush and Cheney. People seem to forget that Project 2025 was already around, and didn't specify who the Republican nominee needed to be, it's ready-made for any Republican to take the reigns. The Neocons always wanted to be permanently in charge. It's not about the Trump, it's about the party. Project 2025 was literally spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation, which has a long history of neoconservativism. These are the people they want us to make inroads with??

Nevermind that JK Rowling and others literally are making life more dangeous for trans people in general and for cis women. The number of women who "don't look feminine enough" and are being harassed in bathrooms by cis men is fucking astounding. The only reason they're harassing cis women in their own bathrooms if fucking trans panic bullshit, helped along by fuckwits like Rowling. Rowling claims her position is to help women, but I guess only certain women, who look feminine enough. Eat shit, Rowling.

Anyone who even passingly suggests bullshit like this shouldn't be taken seriously, period.

We don't make the world better by telling bigots that its okay to be a fucking hateful bigot.

This was literally this articles first point. I couldn't make it any farther. I kind of don't give one fucking shit what else they have to say. They already lost the fucking plot. What even is this fucking garbage?

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that your instance needs to federate with her. But it would be good to have her as part of the Fediverse and say: look world, in the Fediverse, people can discuss things much better than on Twitter.

That's all I'm saying. I'm not even saying she is a good or bad person. I do think some of her statements are transphobic, but I also think she got radicalized because of the cultur war. I'm pretty sure in the Fediverse, once discussions are not heated up by algorithms, some people might become more moderate again.

Will this be the case for Rowling? Not necessarily. But she should still be in the Fediverse.

(Or at least at some point; counting her in this early may have been too provocative)

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No?

Lets send an even better message, “Look world, we’re not the hateful scum who give platform to promote hate against people for how they were born”.

Let’s make a stand and say we’re not like every moral less corpo site. That we value humans over advertising dollars and never ending growth targets.

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

That's still possible without banning corporations completely from the Fediverse (which will not be possible anyways). It's just melancholic daydreaming.