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2026-03-14 12:46 UTC

@aral I understand your point and share your outrage and frustration. I do feel some of your comments include the fallacy of division. There are many, at great personal and financial cost, fighting book bans, protesting, investigative journalism, standing up for themselves and other vulnerable people. I don’t know whether we are a plutocracy or an oligarchy but individuals are trying to act like sea wall to push back against relentless money and power.

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 2026-03-14 12:53

@coleenwalter And none of those listed people will take offence at what I wrote because it doesn’t pertain to them but rather to those they are struggling against.

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@gdsherif@c.im 2026-03-14 13:16

@coleenwalter @aral And jazz, for which I lovingly thank my Irish and African folk. Shall we blanket-vilify Germans for nazi Germany, British for empire, Portuguese for enslaving and trading people? Israelis for ethnocide? Supremacy culture is a global phenomenon that hypes [anti-] nationalist accusations - as well as racist, classist, sexist instabilities - to keep us separated. It’s a global oligarchy that colludes at the expense of peoples’ lives. Solidarity, on the other hand, is a more nuanced antidote to sleepiness of binary thinking. #onelove .

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