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Bunny Blake. I make words + music + software + games. They/them.

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Hey @andrew_strutt you should be ashamed of yourself. I hope you spend your 4th thinking long and hard about how this was your response to someone merely mentioning slavery existed.

This is genuinely creepy and disappointing. Do better.

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the US operation in Iran

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@Fabulous_Corvid @gambargin I saw a blogpost about antisemitism, the image was an AI drawing of Jesus with a dreidel. I commented the dreidel had smudge lines on the side and not Hebrew letters and the author just didn't care, "it saves me so much time," he wouldn't spend 30 seconds to touch it up.

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@Schneider_CM he censors several of his lyrics, "30-pack of hoes" becomes "straight rock & roll", "throw my finger in the air" becomes "throw my first in the air", weed references removed.

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@RonanJKennedy @RightWingCope I don't think anybody is insulting gayness or gay people, people are pointing out the hypocrisy and denial about how often performative homophobia turns out to be closeted gays. The hypocrisy and denial is the part people are making fun of.

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@BlakPantherBabe @ayoBDB I wouldn't have felt that way in a different context but this was one of the biggest entertainment events in human history, the producers weren't going to let anything truly provocative happen.

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@BlakPantherBabe @ayoBDB I have complicated feelings about it, it felt kind of disrespectful to Gil Scott Heron whose thing was never layered irony. A bunch of dancers in the shape of a US flag while people chanted "sit down and be humble" felt kind of Orwellian...

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@LazarusLoafer A think about Gil Scott Heron is that he was never a guy who got into ambiguous layered irony. He also probably understood that the producers of one of the biggest budget entertainment events in human history wouldn't tolerate anything genuinely provocative.

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@LazarusLoafer Thank you for helping me feel less alone in beholding a bunch of dancers in a US flag shaped formation while a refrain was chanted to "sit down and be humble". Positively Orwellian.

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@StonesStic3901 @OnlyHere4WNBA @BlakPantherBabe @_rathbone Since you mentioned statistics, what do you think about criticisms that the Global Slavery Index (which you mentioned previously) is based on questionable methodology and an inadequate sample size?

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@StonesStic3901 @OnlyHere4WNBA @BlakPantherBabe @_rathbone If skin color "has nothing to do with" (sic) why are you willing to overlook centuries of US laws based on skin color? I don't care about China, I am an American and part of patriotism and citizenship is talking about the history that has shaped my corner the of the world.

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@StonesStic3901 @OnlyHere4WNBA @BlakPantherBabe @_rathbone None of this means that white people are automatically bad or racist, but the cultural history of the US is built on centuries of codified enslavement and discrimination based on skin color. It's important to talk about this history because it is part of the national character.

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@StonesStic3901 @OnlyHere4WNBA @BlakPantherBabe @_rathbone The White House and US Capitol were built with labor by enslaved Black Africans. Twelve of the first eighteen US Presidents had Black African slaves. Woodrow Wilson grew up in a household where his family kept enslaved Black Africans.

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@StonesStic3901 @OnlyHere4WNBA @BlakPantherBabe @_rathbone The history of the United States is based on 400 years of codified slavery and segregation based on skin color. Black people couldn't use the same water fountains or sit in the same section of a movie theater until 1964. Black people couldn't marry white people until 1967.

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@StonesStic3901 @OnlyHere4WNBA @BlakPantherBabe @_rathbone umm the transatlantic slave trade was conspicuously dark skinned people being enslaved by white Europeans. There were no plantations where white women were bred as chattel by Black Africans.

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@StonesStic3901 @BlakPantherBabe @_rathbone Racism and prejudice are not the same. Racism is a socioeconomic phenomenon that only goes in one direction. Black people can be prejudiced towards white people but that's not the same as racism. There are no white George Floyds or Michael Browns being murdered by Black cops.

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@TruthCheckingX @berniefan123 @LethalCheshire @grubram3702 @Tiffceline @SarahIronside6 Workers "making more" is a slippery metric without considering factors like life expectancy, work / life balance, access to meaningful community, etc. Working on a fishing boat or oil field can be highly lucrative but it's hard / dangerous work.

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@TruthCheckingX @LethalCheshire @grubram3702 @Tiffceline @SarahIronside6 "Rich people getting richer" is not the problem, the problem is wealth gap and relative inequality.

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@TruthCheckingX @grubram3702 @Tiffceline @SarahIronside6 Yes, the period from post WW2 through the 1970s was a time of broadly shared prosperity. It used to be possible for a single income working class family to comfortably own a home.

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@grubram3702 @Tiffceline @TruthCheckingX @SarahIronside6 People are crying broke because wealth gap exists, because corporations are responding to record profits with layoffs and downsizing. Market performance does not correlate with people being able to access health care or buy groceries.