Maybe im severely out of the loop, but I was under the impression there were human rights abuses happening in China against uyghurs. I get that the US and UK claiming China is evil and doing human rights abuses is hypocritical as fuck. Theres definitely a lot of misinformation about it all online.

Surely its possible, if not extremely likely, that China is doing awful shit to minorities in the same fashion that the US, Canada, UK or anyone other world power do all the time.

Im curious why there is an outright denial of it

Fuck yeah thats great

Thanks for asking. I like these spikey Katydids. Theyre very neat

This kind of obnoxious shit is all over bsky I simply couldn’t spend my finite time on earth there any longer. This is a pretty good example of the average default pfp over there

It went well where I was. Lots of Trump in diapers lol that was weird. The inflatable mascots were out in droves. We got a lot of support from people there for keeping some focus on Gaza and ICE.

The strange part for me was how they tried to manage the march. There was no concrete direction to the crowd from the organizers on where we were going. Once we got to downtown there were just two guys in tac vests in the road yelling that the march was over and everyone just kinda aimlessly wandered off. Still unclear if the tac vest guys were actually leadership or not.

If it was a different kind of protest the random dispersment and lack of coordination could have been really bad but the local police were nowhere at the end of it, luckily.

Im doing some work with an anti-genocide contingent gathering associated with the Revolutionary Workers party. Signed up to help out but not 100% sure yet what the specific messaging will be.

Edit: I personally plan to lean on how military budgets going to arming genocide directly harms US troops and government workers as a way to swing some middle of the road liberals

Those going are expecting it to be smaller than the last one. Hoping to have some focused messages and get some of these libs thinking in the right direction.

I dont expect there to be much pushback from the local PD where im at. They were pretty chill as far as they will be.

Agreed, the comments are doing the work of saints for the mal-up to speed

And without a doubt this op is some fart huffing to an expert degree

Good lord.

At the upcoming No Kings, there are some smaller groups trying to steer the message towards actual concrete goals and put more focus on Gaza, ICE/DHS, and actionable issues. At least on the West Coast US.

The last one was “orange man toupée” shit, as per usual. Expecting this one to be similar

Pretty new here so I dont really have the context, but I think I got the gist from comments and unfortunately read the whole post (save yourself)

Fuck whoever this self-important assweasel is. Their mastubatory prose is worthless.

Agreed. Its very disheartening. My center-left liberal family is generally well-intentioned but they have their moments that really display that the progressive viewpoints are entirely oppositional theatrics and not genuine ethical value.

Big one that stands out for me was my retired silicon valley aunt coming to visit, and took us out to a fancy restaurant. I told her how I had been helping out my neighbors who live in a few tents in the park next to us. She was legit offended that I referred to the camp community in the park next door to me as my neighbors. The lack of self-awarness was pretty staggering considering where we were when it was said.

Hear hear. Fuck my boss too. My workplace is nutty. Currently the general big boss of the region is on a tirade firing everyone who questions any decisions upper management makes and then hiring on-call workers to replace them. At this point almost half of the workers are completely untrained and we all have to train them without extra pay, or make up for their mistakes otherwise we can get targetted for audits. Office work is abusive as fuck.

Thanks for the link. This sounds useful

Thank you for sharing. Its tough talking about these things even on some random forum.

Similar situation happened to me as well. Relatable that the actual assault is seemingly less harmful than the reactions/treatment that follows.

CW: SA story

a white on black digital collage. A white stencil of a opossum mid-screech with exclamation points protruding from its open mouth

a white on black digital collage. A white stencil of a fox mid-yawn with an anime eye, white text showing “!? !?” is next to the fox’s mouth.

Thank you for the nice comments!! 💖 I’ll share some more of what I got in another post sometime soon