I just posted this valuable statement by Noah Berlatsky on Facebook, and Facebook immediately took down the posting

[arqtec@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
My Friend, More than once I see your words of Wisdom as my own
MAGATS are the enemy
This is "D" day, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Pearl Harbor all rolled into one
No Pacific or Atlantic Oceans to protect US
This Invasion was silent & deadly
Beginning years in advance a slow and effective Fascist Nazi element in our Political Body eating away like CANCER
They are here, your neighbors, the police, the military, the Senators Representatives & The Presidency
They didn't listen, Drank the Koolaid !

[josephmeyer@c.im]

@wdlindsy The one and only reason I remain on FB is to stay in touch with my relatives and friends who use it exclusively. But that may no longer be a good enough reason for me to maintain a presence there. Hmmm.

[starlily@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Immediately removed when I posted it as "Spam". Im appealing of course. Fucking fascists.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Enabling abusers is not a good idea. Letting Nazi's off the hook for being Nazi is enabling abusers.

We're not just talking about drunk uncle at Thanksgiving dinner. We're talking actual jack-booted thugs coming for dissidents, intellectuals. We're not talking about differences of opinion by people who share values. We're talking about protecting ourselves from folks who were just find with the gas chambers.

Maybe you don't smell Dachau in the air. I do.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@phaedral I havce no idea why you'd conclude I'm not aware of the dangers now facing me as an openly gay man married to another man, who has been very free about sharing information and commentary on social media that would place me in the category of a political dissident in a fascist regime.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@starlily Thanks for letting me know. So they're either targeting Noah Berlatsky or there's obviously something in what he's saying that they don't want to have said on Facebook.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Maybe I misunderstood your post.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@JosephMeyer Yes, the same for me. It's one of the few ways I can keep in immediate touch with a wide circle of family and friends, and I also lead a group discussing DNA and genealogy that's based there. I continue having a presence there knowing full well, though, that it's a toxic place in many ways, due to who owns it and why they operate that site.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Arqtec Thank you.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@phaedral I do think you must have done so.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy It does happen. Pax?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@phaedral Of course. Pax.

[savvyhomestead@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

I have friends and family who I will be more likely to avoid because of the stink and stench they smeared upon themselves by cozying up to to iMAGA.

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy good piece until the very end, where he complains about people dropping substack subscriptions. He should consider migrating off substack

That's of course not on you. Thanks for sharing, it's accurate and cogently phrased.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@draNgNon I'm glad you found it helpful. I agree that we need to consider the venues in which people choose to publish. At the same time, if I adopted a totally purist and rigid attitude, refusing to read or share material from sites that are far from perfect, I suspect I'd have little to share here.

[papyrusbrigade@mstdn.ca]

@wdlindsy
Those who could be endangered by MAGA relatives need to protect themselves.

But for those not in danger, a purely performative act of distancing from family over disgust for their politics (such that they may never hear anything outside their bubble) is unhelpful to people at risk.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Savvyhomestead Same for me. I'm already alienated from family members and friends on social media after their votes in 2016. They have shown me the face under the mask and I will not unsee it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@PapyrusBrigade As Noah Berlatsky wisely says, "Different people are in different circumstances; you can’t make blanket rules."

[bluewaver22@genomic.social]

@wdlindsy It will NOT be safe...whoaaaa.....FB took it down?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@BlueWaver22

Yes, Facebook took the posting down as soon as I posted it. And see this report from another reader of this thread who had the same experience when that reader posted this material on Facebook:

https://toad.social/@starlily@mastodon.social/113465884972122119