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Viridian Dragon
@viridiandragon.bsky.social
Liberal, democratic socialist, cat lover, Unitarian Universalist, TTRPG player (Dungeons & Dragons, Savage Worlds, etc.)
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Oh god, I'm not sure I want to see a bunch of military grade weapons being proudly brandished by owners like they're parents of a new baby. 🤮

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Snycsouthpaw.bsky.social

I keep coming back to Paxton’s definition of fascism.

What Is Fascism?
The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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DKchronicleflask.katday.com

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.
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VDviridiandragon.bsky.social

I'm trying to figure out exactly why Ford would propose something so stupid. It's obviously not feasible. What is he trying to distract from with this bullshit?

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Jthe-jaguarr.bsky.social

Fresh Pfizer, in my veins! Threw in an influenza chaser just for fun. Get yourself vaxxed, peeps!

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VDviridiandragon.bsky.social

I misspoke. Let's say "classic" SF&F. (I remember recently reading a "classic" from the 1970s in which the narrator identifies and differentiates women based on their breasts. Detailed descriptions, and even gave the breasts personalities of their own. So, ick.)

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VDviridiandragon.bsky.social

So much good sci-fi was written by sexist, old, white men who fucked it up with their chauvinism.

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Viridian Dragon
@viridiandragon.bsky.social
Liberal, democratic socialist, cat lover, Unitarian Universalist, TTRPG player (Dungeons & Dragons, Savage Worlds, etc.)
107 followers131 following1.6k posts