Support for trans rights in Canada is declining. Here's how we got here -- and what lies you're being told
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Unfortunately, it just passed in Idaho
Idaho is a right wing hellscape.
Boise is pretty dope
Straight, cisgender white people are having a real hard time not being the loudest voices in the room anymore and it shows...
Well for one, maybe using a platform like Substack when they're known to platform literal nazis doesn't help.
What a horribly pedantic thing to raise when the topic is about people's rights being taken away.
You've centered yourself and your feelings, good job.
Cool. Those rights include my own as someone who is trans.
Happy pride.
Fair enough.
My point is that the journalist has a following on a platform that they've built over time and is writing about an important issue.
The NDP still posts on Xitter and Meta platforms, the DSA too. At least the writer has made the article publicly available so no proceeds are going to Substack.
I'm not sure if you've seen the alternatives to Substack either. Other than moral criticisms and poor payment models for creators, the only alternative would be to self-host, and that's not easy for non-tech savvy.
And Trump uses mastodon. What's your point?
Mastodon is decentralised, Substack is not, Substack corporate can make the decision they don't want to foster and profit off of nazis whereas Truth Social has literally broken AGPL license terms with things being out of Mastodon's control due to it's decentralised nature.
But nice try.
Edit: Slack to Substack, oops
Journalists avoiding publication options based on ideology is literally how we end up with echo chambers...
On this topic specifically, don't you think it's important to try and communicate directly with the people who are being misinformed?