• Riskable@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Over a billion dollars to fight… (checks notes) the concept of people not being 100% aligned masculine/straight/male or feminine/straight/female.

    WTF‽ What made them think that the 0.5%-2% of the population (depending on who you ask) that land at the edges of the sex spectrum are worth that level of hate?

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      4 days ago

      The investment in demonizing scapegoat groups does seem to pay off for the far right. It helps them sell their own ideology as a solution for people’s woes, if they can convince people their problems are caused by the designated scapegoats. It effectively distracts people from the plunder of their lives by rich kleptocrats, while filling them with the kind of misdirected hatred that fascism thrives on.