hello! I’m Chloé, a nerdy ace trans gal :3

this is my lemmy account that I use sometimes. I am also on the microblogging side of the fedi at @carotte@toot.cat :3

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  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldNorway José!
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    2 days ago

    exactly, it’s still exploitative, especially towards the people who can’t benefit from the social democracy (i.e. people living in the global south, who are victims of the north’s imperialism)

    colonialism made the metropoles and its people rich, all made possible by the merciless exploitation and genocide of everyone on earth who wasn’t european. anyone talking about the benefits of colonialism in leftist spaces today would rightly be expelled for being a ghoul. but social democracy is just more of the same, you’re not eliminating the exploitation, you’re just moving it.

    look at how labor laws in the global north fueled delocalization. companies couldn’t exploit people in their home countries as well anymore, what did they do? exploit other people elsewhere instead.









  • i agree, and maybe in a better world it wouldn’t be racist (it would still be glottophobic tho, but to what degree that is considered problematic depends tbf, “haha french sucks” jokes are glottophobia as well and that seems fine by most people)

    but we do not live in this better world where racial & colonial power structures are irrelevant, so making fun of Jamaican creole and Pidgin (as another commenter in this thread did…) is still fucking racist










  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldOh no!
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    17 days ago

    admittedly “charlie kirk stan” was maybe not the best way to describe it (i got this from other people), he hasn’t posted much about him (other than to mourn his death lol), but

    Screenshot of a tweet by @awesomekling:  In recent years I've attended multiple software conference talks that had unrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as "fuck [name]" and "punch [group]". Whenever this happened, some of the audience would clap and cheer, I'd roll my eyes, and the talk would get back on topic. Fast-forward to today, and look at how many people in our industry are openly celebrating the murder of someone they decided was a "nazi" and "fascist". Turns out these people were more serious than I thought. As someone who's repeatedly been called a "nazi" and "fascist" myself for disagreements with far-left ideology, I know how easily those labels get thrown around. And honestly, this is making me seriously reconsider which conferences I attend. There's a hateful rot within our industry. It shouldn't be socially acceptable to cheer for murder. We need to do more than roll our eyes.

    apparently he thinks the software industry has a nazi-hating problem??? lmao

    i’m still wary of him. he doesn’t have a big thing to point to like DHH, but the way he speaks and the people he associates with (including, you guessed it, DHH) raises a ton of red flags