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You do not get to profit, financially or attention wise or another way, off of a *potentially* queer jew whilst we are banned from pride events.

We do not know if she was questioning her sexuality but ultimately straight or if she was actually queer because she was killed for the crime of existing as a jew before she could come out. Queer rights obviously matter. Anne Franke is not the person you should be using.

You need to protect alive queer jews. You need to love all jews, not just the dead ones.

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

you have industry insiders making videos saying "people don't like it! they want real, paid, imaginative humans to connect with" (DUH)

meanwhile timbaland's faux japanese ai 'artist' flopped last year already (200k music video hits and we never heard about it again) after sparking rightful negative backlash. it's just gratifying. not even hate watchers showed up to give this absolute artistic betrayal any clicks lmaoo. nobody gaf. the internet really said go back to spinning cool ass beats old man ffs

meanwhile pop divas with huge music & concert productions behind them - bc who else can carry this except talented female artists - are in more demand and full swing than ever with big songs, big choreographies, big tours, big promo. thanks to women the spirit of music/fandom and everything behind it isn't entirely dead unlike the maga halftime show with paid actors as an umm 'audience'

meanwhile scorsese is getting grilled to the gods for pushing ai. it's deserved: our illusions keep getting shattered when legends suddenly ride for another cash grab instead of making a good mainstream box office hit for the ages. i mean.

meanwhile some music sites were so overwhelmed by fake and copycat songs/bands/artists being uploaded that they shut down, creating huge expenses with incoming theft lawsuits. well.

so, spotify, the big ai war drone investor (the usa are currently testing these 700 million buck missiles in lithuania with a huge failure rate: the music business is of course completely harmless, fun, insignificant, and puts their money where it's important) now brings in markers for songs that are ai generated as pathetic damage control. it's just... yikes. so late. what are they always doing. or not doing.

should have focused on paying bands and small artists instead of financing some made-in-germany error rockets (while washington could soon pay iran 300 billion as 'investment' while the war cost them 34 billion already). it's giving elon yall

anti-viruses, vpns, ad-blockers- none of these are going to help you here.

the first thing you're going to need is a good solid boat (preferably oak wood). you will also want some cannons and a plank depending on the sort of shenanigans you plan on getting into.

Also! Not once have i seen any of you talking about the importance of citrus fruits and vitamin C. antivirus doesn't prevent scurvy. come on you should know this by now.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.