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

[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

[bluewaver22@genomic.social]

@wdlindsy Yousa...the surveillance state begins

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@BlueWaver22 So it seems.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Just so we’re clear — the rule is that these people are allowed to despise us; to insult large groups of people on the regular; to demand that transgender people be pushed out of public society for their own comfort; to talk gleefully about how they can’t want to watch ICE agents pull grandmothers from their beds and deport them;"

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/3

These People Voted For Trump Because They Hate You, And You Monsters Won't Befriend Them?

What is the world coming to?

(www.wonkette.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"to — again, because this deserves repeating — shout
'YOUR BODY, OUR CHOICE!' at women and girls'; to call Puerto Rico a pile of garbage; to denigrate women who don’t have children; to repeatedly claim that 'liberalism is a mental disorder'; to talk about how they voted for Trump to punish us; to regularly claim that Black people are lying about the existence of racism and police brutality, to force their religion on us, and so forth!"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/4

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"And yet, we’re supposed to want to be their friends, want to hang around them, invite them to parties? We’re mean if we don’t want to date them and bring them around our friends so that they can insult and denigrate them, because who doesn’t love that?"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/5

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy Good morning, William.

Talking of women/bodies, etc., have you seen this?

After Trump’s election, women are swearing off sex with men. This has been a long time coming | Cécile Simmons

When misogyny reigns supreme, a sex strike can be a feminist act, says Cécile Simmons, an investigative researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[toottropiques@c.im]

@wdlindsy Not me.