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Nowhere Girl (@gwynnion@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
You can tell TERFs / GCs are hateful bigots because there are no circumstances under which a trans person can exist that they will accept. They may pretend to in order to appear reasonable in front of others, but the goal posts always shift so the trans person is inevitably in the wrong. There is no such thing as a "gold star" trans person who does everything right such that they have to accept them because they just want us dead, period.
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Gruber says: “…the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. … to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime.”

To me, this take feels obtuse to the point of intention – or at least self-parody. Smells a bit like the whole “paradox of tolerance” folks like to shop around in debates.

Surely you can’t possibly be unaware that Meta (née Facebook) already has a rich history of acting badly, that many folks switched to alternatives like Mastodon as a response to that, and many now express wariness & outright revulsion to that same bad actor wandering into a new party?

My dear sweet summer child, don’t be a doofus.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

—@lmorchard