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New: The Holocaust Museum of LA offered Kanye West a private tour, hoping it would change his views. West turned their invitation down, and said “Planned Parenthood" was his “Holocaust museum.” Now, the LA Holocaust museum is being flooded with antisemitic messages and threats.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/holocaust-museum-of-la-flooded-with-antisemitic-messages-after-offering-kanye-west-a-private-tour/
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/holocaust-museum-of-la-flooded-with-antisemitic-messages-after-offering-kanye-west-a-private-tour/
CBS News
Holocaust Museum of LA flooded with antisemitic messages after offering Kanye West a private tour
The Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles said it has been flooded with antisemitic messages after Kanye West rejected their offer of a private tour.
The fundamental flaw with online discourse is that the most prominent voices are nearly always the most detached from reality
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BREAKING: Lula wins Brazil's presidential election, defeating Bolsonaro
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So, I know a lot of you have poor opinions on voting, and for understandable reasons, but it's the time of the year where I have to emphasize that voting for county, city, and state level positions and policy changes DOES have an impact. It's also worth mentioning that there isn't intense voter suppression for no reason. Conservatives aren't stupid. They know EXACTLY what they're doing.
Such an example I just came across is from the Vice article "Tens of Thousands of Trans People Could Be Barred From Voting Against Anti-Trans Politicians"
Such an example I just came across is from the Vice article "Tens of Thousands of Trans People Could Be Barred From Voting Against Anti-Trans Politicians"
The numbers show that trans votes have the potential to swing tight races. According to the UCLA study, President Joe Biden won by 11,779 votes in Georgia, a state where there are an estimated 17,200 eligible trans voters. The study also noted that the 2000 presidential election was decided in Florida by a few hundred votes—and there are as many as 30,300 eligible trans voters in Florida who don’t have accurate IDs.
“This isn’t a small group you can dismiss,” O’Neill said.
With less than two weeks until the midterms, there remains a series of barriers that make it hard for trans folks to cast their ballots, including issues with updating IDs, strict voter ID laws in some states, and incidents of anti-trans harassment and intimidation at the polls that could deter them from voting. This, at a time when they’re being directly targeted by conservative policymakers across the country.
States with the strictest policies, including Tennessee and Georgia, require voters to present photo identification, with few or no alternative ways to verify their identity. Both states are known for anti-trans hostility.
Voting is literally the least you can do, and part of the activism that needs doing is combatting voter suppression. Again, conservatives would not divert so many resources towards propaganda and voter suppression if there wasn't a point, and they have obviously used this as a method of control for a long fucking time. Puffing up and proudly announcing how useless you think voting is and that you consider it to be compromising your morals does not do anything. Vote and engage in direct action, even if that direct action means working towards fighting voter suppression.Vice
Tens of Thousands of Trans People Could Be Barred From Voting Against Anti-Trans Politicians
There are about 878,300 eligible trans voters across the U.S. “This isn’t a small group you can dismiss.”
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For those of you still using Chrome, it is strongly recommended to switch to Firefox. Not only does it track you across the web, it also is the most vulnerable browser available https://bgr.com/tech/google-chrome-is-the-most-vulnerable-browser-in-the-world/
BGR
Google Chrome is the most vulnerable browser in the world
According to data from the VulDB vulnerability database, Google Chrome had more vulnerabilities than any other internet browser.
Recovered
The fundamental flaw with online discourse is that the most prominent voices are nearly always the most detached from reality
Basically this, but replace "thinks" "think" and "thoughts" with "tweets" "tweet" and "tweets" or whatever means of communication applies best to your current favorite politics shitposter
Now this begs the question, should you include me in the list of hacks exploiting politics for social capital and becoming increasingly detached from reality while doing so?