Post AyV1uSTZN6JSOKMXUe by happyborg@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AyV1uSTZN6JSOKMXUe by happyborg@fosstodon.org
2025-09-22T21:50:24Z
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#Trump's #fascism is characterising #autism as an illness, while many autistics feature as outstanding figures in numerous fields, including during the fight against #Hitler in WWII. #science #Farage is a mini-me Trump and will keep following his lead. #ReformUK
(DIR) Post #AyV1uTn6TxX4TCVea0 by light@noc.social
2025-09-22T23:01:42Z
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@happyborg But what are the consequences?Autism is definitely a disorder, even if I as a high-functioning autist am only just recently realising how much it disables me.
(DIR) Post #AyV1uUqKZRhxjV1kFU by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-23T13:46:14Z
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@light Bro lost me at the second word lol, not quite sure what he's on but I don't think I want a taste.
(DIR) Post #AyVRsnJ3YEg7E0JQ0m by light@noc.social
2025-09-23T18:36:57Z
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@realcaseyrollins how do you define it?
(DIR) Post #AyVSbrnpgFRUCYCRt2 by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-23T18:45:28Z
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@light #Fascism? Pretty sure it's race-centric #nationalism with no democracy or freedom to say much to criticize the regime.If I'm wrong, it should be too far off-track.
(DIR) Post #AyVltEqt8RXBjucsc4 by light@noc.social
2025-09-23T22:21:27Z
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@realcaseyrollins >no democracy or freedom to say much to criticize the regimeThe US seems to be moving in that direction from my vantage point here in the UK.https://www.thefire.org/newsTrump's lawsuits. His and the FCC's jawboning of ABC. The political deportations. Etc.>race-centric #nationalism Idk about this one. Republicans don't like immigrants, but generally just illegal immigrants IIRC. And I don't think it's race-centric.
(DIR) Post #AyX1sMQ7IuxfLZfQVE by light@noc.social
2025-09-23T22:21:37Z
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@realcaseyrollins Could be wrong though. You are in a better place than I to judge. What do you think?
(DIR) Post #AyX1sNk0OSSrRXyp8q by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T12:55:20Z
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@light I think when it comes to speech, we're not in the greatest place, but that is due to the behaviors of individuals, esp. violent ones, not anything that the #USA's federal government has done. I am not particularly concerned about repercussions against people who are supporting violence and terrorism. If you think citizens should be able to do so (the front page of #FIRE is focused on those stories), I respect that take, but I do think violence is the line of what should be tolerated./1
(DIR) Post #AyX1y1KEeBoZeycBZA by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T12:56:21Z
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@light #Racism is and probably always will be a problem in the #USA to some degree. However, when it comes to the federal government, we're not seeing the race-centric language one would expect of a state steeped in #fascism.
(DIR) Post #AyX2MGwUEeT72r4SMC by indyradio@kafeneio.social
2025-09-24T13:00:41Z
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@realcaseyrollins @light wWe didn't let Africans in to the US, even when we were still colonies of Britain.No, we brought them here in ships after we kidnapped them for the slave trade. No one is innocent.Now with all this money rolling around, enough for a trillion dollar war budget, what about reparations? Should you have to ask? I don't think so.The only reason you should have to ask for reparations is willful stupidity, like the willful stupidity of the Nazi #Ukraine project or #Israel
(DIR) Post #AyX2cmkrizcELLVdPU by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T13:03:43Z
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@indyradio @light
(DIR) Post #AyX2lbvPMM4BMReHHk by indyradio@kafeneio.social
2025-09-24T13:05:17Z
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@realcaseyrollins @light You are completely wrong.How about something sane?
(DIR) Post #AyX2qZzzwokKpsAICW by indyradio@kafeneio.social
2025-09-24T13:06:10Z
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@realcaseyrollins @light excuse me I blocked your domain. do I need to do more to not see your posts?
(DIR) Post #AyXA05vVJJyw8tXysK by cy@fedicy.us.to
2025-09-24T14:25:56Z
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I mean except for peaceably assembly, and petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. But the US gov has violently cracked down on those since 1791. -_-CC: @light@noc.social
(DIR) Post #AyXJdADWBvq6KYg4LA by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T16:14:16Z
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@cy I'm struggling to think of any cases over the past few years that peaceable assemblies that didn't impede road or foot traffic were obstructed in the #USA. Same goes for petitions.
(DIR) Post #AyXJlesq3fQpl23Um0 by light@qoto.org
2025-09-24T15:14:14Z
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@realcaseyrollins @light@noc.social>If you think citizens should be able to [support violence and terrorism] [...], I respect that take, but I do think violence is the line of what should be tolerated.I agree with you. The First Amendment (at least according to #FIRE's podcast So To Speak, which I have listened to quite a few episodes of) does allow that, however. When the KKK were around, the courts allowed them to promote violence against black people; and because of that black nationalists and supremacists were allowed to say violent things about white people in turn. IIRC.>I am not particularly concerned about repercussions against people who are supporting violence and terrorism.Was Rümeysa Öztürk supporrting violence and terrorism?As far as I'm aware she wrote a perfectly peaceful anti-Israel article in her university newspaper.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk
(DIR) Post #AyXJlgDn5FmluIrk4O by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T16:15:47Z
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@light@qoto.org @light@noc.social I'm not familiar with #RümeysaÖztürk so I can't really speak to that case. She might have been supporting terrorist groups like #Hamas for all I know.
(DIR) Post #AyXMYordwFcQoI48RM by cy@fedicy.us.to
2025-09-24T16:46:40Z
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Think unions, protests. Vietnam. Oil pipelines. 16 years after the first amendment, the government was all ready to trump up charges of coercion, violence, and conspiracy to destroy the first union in the USA. The whole thing about road and foot traffic is also about false charges. They're blocking a road with no traffic? Oh no they're blocking traffic!"or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, except if it blocks traffic" - the USA Constitution
(DIR) Post #AyXMj6tpjqSXdpztQm by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T16:48:58Z
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@cy > "or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, except if it blocks traffic" - the USA ConstitutionThis but unironically. Don't block the road, and don't block the sidewalks. If that's hard for you to do while assembling peaceably, you belong in jail if not a mental hospital 😂
(DIR) Post #AyXRc1uaNtP1upnBYm by light@noc.social
2025-09-24T17:43:14Z
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@realcaseyrollins >(the front page of #FIRE is focused on those stories)I was referring to all the stories about Republicans/Trump attacking free speech.
(DIR) Post #AyXS0uK5jg2BcTaKOm by light@noc.social
2025-09-24T17:48:10Z
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@realcaseyrollins I found the original article: https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkjJudge for yourself.
(DIR) Post #AyXVtUXzZRynT0o2vQ by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T18:31:41Z
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@light I didn't see any on that page
(DIR) Post #AyXVwqPKkcdy8OM4J6 by light@noc.social
2025-09-24T17:57:35Z
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@realcaseyrollins I don't see any references to Hamas whatsoever. The tone and content is entirely one of humanitarianism and student politics.
(DIR) Post #AyXVwrF5eC2miuZOym by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T18:32:17Z
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@light I'm too busy at work to read all that.
(DIR) Post #AyXbdoz8PoN3wfPfN2 by cy@fedicy.us.to
2025-09-24T19:35:36Z
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Peaceably assembling people ARE traffic, and if it's hard for them not to block the road, that means there are many of them, which means what they are protesting is legit and shouldn't be suppressed. Laws against blocking traffic were established to crush unions, by enabling scabs to cross picket lines. If you're filling the streets, then you have more right to be there than the sellouts trying to stab you in the back!
(DIR) Post #AyXd4ex7vJWQbSppwW by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T19:52:08Z
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@cy Haha! "Sellouts trying to stab you in the back" be like:
(DIR) Post #AyXdK8Iv4rm7ylPHYO by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
2025-09-24T19:54:56Z
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@cy "I am not in traffic, I am the traffic"