Can’t you see what British Corporate Media (e g. Guardian) is trying to do?!
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/british-corporate-media-is-pushing
Casey Newton wrote about this a lot two years ago: https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/
This is known for a long time already and the reason why I boycott Substack. If you publish there, you are supporting right wing propaganda. Find a different platform!
Getting harder and harder to find non Nazi bars…
I don’t fully understand, TBH. Is it particularly hard to create a substack competitor? Why don’t we just… Do that
I think it’s a bold strategy to leave the bigger more populated and used platforms to constantly exist on the smaller less relevant ones that never grow and offer everything the major platforms do just worse.
Shall we take Stalingrad? nonono it’s full of nazi’s, lets focus on Dieppe
Use Ghost (or any other Substack alternatives that DOESN’T promote hatefulness and harassment)
Nazis can use Ghost too.
So what other website people should use instead of Ghost or Substack?
Idk, it depends on what they’re trying to do.
Austerity, ignorance, and scarcity breed fascists, not a SaaS TOS.
But has Ghost ever sent out swastikas in push notifications?
Idk, I deny push notifications for most apps anyway.
Substack is a very useful platform. Both in that you get all the email addresses of your subscriber base, so they don’t lock you in there, and the monetization they have set up.
The fediverse should target it to replicate much or all of its functionality. It is MORE than a mere blog. It has a big ecosystem one blog can’t replicate alone. The payment system would be particularly difficult to copy well.
Is everyone really advocating for some substack CEO to start deplatforming people based on ideology? How quickly do you reckon that will be weaponized to deplatform any anti-zionist content? I’d take an ‘open for all’ framework over arbitrary deplatforming based on ideology every day of the week. Particularly considering the ‘new definition’ of anti-Semitism being adopted everywhere that equates most criticism of the state of Israel with anti-Semitism.
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Policies on hate speech could include automatic fact checking and community notes displayed to every reader.
If fact checking is deplatforming the alt right, then well, problem solved.
The far right is racist against Jews, but the conservative Christians think the Jews are the chosen people, how does that work out?
There’s a big difference between being pro-state-of-Israel (Zionist), and being pro-jewish-people in general. They do not necessarily go hand in hand.
Fundamentalist christians are typically Zionist because the state of Israel is necessary for the second coming of christ. It’s entirely self-serving, not a belief they hold because they like jewish people at all. So being zionist and also antisemitic is pretty common because people are racist assholes.
Plus they hate muslims at least as much or more than Jews, so the math still works out.
The far right isn’t a monolith and has lots of different subgroups like anything else
But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.
Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.
They sure seem to move as a monolith when it comes to systematically destroying the country in a well planned and organized manner like with project 2025, stacking the Supreme Court, dismantling civil rights, dismantling women’s rights installing a dictator and obstruction of everything that isn’t tax breaks for the people who own everything, unlimited money for Israel, unlimited corporate subsidies and installing an oppressive mass surveillance state policed by literal Nazis
That’s rich people pulling the strings.
That’s because they hate the rest of us more then they hate each other, that doesn’t mean they won’t turn on each other once its more convenient than working together.
They have one thing in common: the understand they can get most of what they want by voting as a block, instead of demanding their candidates tick all the boxes.
Leftist infighting is the best tool the right has. And they know it. Whenever you see a leftist saying they won’t vote for a Democrat because “both sides are the same”, there’s a good chance you’re seeing a Russian bot or a right wing plant. Or a fucking idiot. I guess that’s a possible third option.
Must be a coincidence that they are both funded by the same oligarchs and Israel
No coincidence. Just because both sides are bought and paid for does not mean they’re the same. They differ on a non-zero number of pretty tangible things.
And if you have any realistic means to getting a third party in there, why are you not telling the rest of us??
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far right nazis love hiding behind antizionism
Nazis hide behind zionism, blame antizionists for naziism, because its all projection and they have no respect for our intelligence, which may have been warranted in your case.
don’t nazis hate jews the most though?
Israelis are nazis so it gets complicated. But they all hate the muslims more in the first place. Some nazis want to otherize other groups than the jews, tradiationalist nazis in the US are on the outs with the establishment because they still otherize jewish peoples.
But the Israeli aligned nazis, including the israelis themselves, are generally fine with otherizing the left jewish people to a degree. Long have been, it’s them that have long called them self hating and the like, the truth is jewish people in the US are far more left than the general population, but the minority of Israel nazis in the US is very rich and very connected and not inconsequential in number and are as we were saying in league with the religious right evangelicals and other crazies, that are both in an alliance with Big Business.
That is where the rubber meets the road, the unholy alliance between religious extremists and Big Business. Both think they can control the political monster they bastardly fathered together in their unholy tryst with, I’m not sure who the mother is in this analogy, I want to say Medusa though.
Actually there’s a big MAGA civil war among its most popular figureheads that boils down to two camps:
Those that love Hitler
And those who love New Hitler ™️ (Netanyahu)
It started with Tucker Carlson interviewing Nick Fuentes in a verbal back massage. Candice Owens also joined along in that camp too.
Now you have the Tucker-Candice camp at war with the Ben Shapiro camp, and Nick Fuentes attacking everyone because he’s a fucking moron even compared to the others.
… The Aristocrats!
(If anyone gets this reference I’ll be what scientists are calling “fucking surprised”)
It’s not that rare of a joke.
… Don’t they take a cut of most subs?
Yes, and that’s exactly why the article is important. They can either hide behind a “we are just a vehicle for posters” or they can refuse to host the content. They are choosing the former.
Most subs aren’t comprised of almost exclusively hate speech.
