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  • I felt this. One of my partners cars was hit with a bat because she had a pride sticker on it. Our partner was asked to resign as a math teacher because they’re trans and respected students’ pronouns. By the end of COVID I was concealed carrying just to go grocery shopping.

    I miss Florida wildlife deeply. I was part of Florida trail association thought I was never going to leave but life throws curve balls it’s up to you to figure out how to catch them.



  • blindbunny@lemmy.mltoCommunism@lemmy.mlReal Girl Talk -Nina Simone
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    3 days ago

    But does it really matter?

    This is where I should have stopped reading.

    A lot of what the CIA does is done through deniable means and intermediaries. Not knowing you work for the CIA, or being able to claim you do not know you worked for the CIA, is standard operating procedure.

    Some standard leftist paranoid purity testing. While partially true, I doubt Nina Simone was going to be tricked into hurting someone. But you knew that.

    “But comandante! did not know I was working for the CIA!” has been heard before in the jungles of South America, usually in the presence of a firing squad. Do you think claiming ignorance should immediately be a plenary absolution?

    Quite the jump from unknowingly performing your art for a CIA front to a firing squad. But you do you boo.

    Or do you think only people who are not famous are responsible for the outcomes of their actions,

    Gods damn, this is quite the jump of a conclusion. I think people are responsible, famous or not, for the knowledge that motivates their actions.

    comrade?

    Don’t “comrade” me. You sound like one of those self proclaimed vanguards that’ll shoot my dumb ass in the back of the head.

    I suggest doing some mutual aid. Make some solidarity irl. Because takes like this aren’t going to find it online.