@jetton ...very surprised to see that those people had existed and had had stories to tell, warnings to share? Alas...

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Nailed it.

@jetton "I guess y'all had a shorter ride than us."

@jetton Disabled people like me have been screaming ourselves hoarse about the harm done by the Tories/neoliberal austerity since 2010 - backed up by numerous United Nations, BMJ, and countless charities - and been ignored at almost every turn.

I take no pleasure whatsoever in saying "we tried to warn you, but you didn't care".

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And, heaven forfend, no QT.

@jetton And women.

@jetton imagine their surprise.

@jetton If they came for the journalists first we would never know who they came for next.

@jetton Journalists aren’t all NYT opinion writers. They’re also people making $40k to cover school board meetings for an article no one will bother to read.

@jetton Is it appropriate to snort with laughter at this? 👀
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Aside: Reminds me of a mini-rant a follow posted on birdsite some weeks back, pointing out that Neimoller's first-person formulation in that poem was REALLY F*ING INTENTIONAL.

As in, THESE WERE MISTAKES THAT HE, PERSONALLY, MADE. That he was basically telling people 'HEY GUYS I MARTIN NEIMOLLER PERSONALLY F*D THIS UP, DON'T MAKE MY MISTAKES OR MORE PEOPLE WILL GET HURT.'

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My friend, first they came for the Jews - and almost every other group never spoke up for Jewish people then, or now. The antisemitism among many groups today is so strong that people in them take quotes about Jews and the Holocaust - and erase the Jews from it. Like right here, right now.
Allyship is only meaningful if we all help each other - not if one group alone is singled out, and allowed to be persecuted. We can choose to be stronger together in love. That is the way.

@jetton And then they all created Mastodon accounts & proceeded to complain incessantly about the lack of a QT feature.

@jetton The NYT especially

@jetton better a warehouse with the people you described than heaven with a bunch of insufferable evangelicals.

@jetton oh that's a good joke.

@jetton No offense to journalists, but I reblogged this because it has a powerful message.

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Yes, but the journalists oppose jailing journalists, which makes them exactly as bad and exactly as extreme as the government, so you cannot say that the government is bad for jailing those journalists.

But both sides! But both sides! Let's stop all of this polarization that comes from criticizing only one side!

The above is a parody of past behaviors of journalists.

@jetton That's how it works when you ignore all the "small" stories until they're huge.

@jetton Journalists appear to think they are immune. Enable the fascists and see where that gets you…

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very dark. nice

@jetton ,LOL, The Uk & USA Mainstream Media Owned Overall By Toxic Right/Far Right CONservatism Ideologies Extremists Media Tycoon Empire Owners/Runners/Investors/Shareholders & Senior Hirers That Think Same , & Happily Pump Out & Divisions, Hatred/Hate,

Should ALWAYS Be First In People's Courts, Same For Uk & USA CONservatism Ideologies Extremists Political Parties Too :) 😀

@jetton gets truer every day 😭