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OnionPetal wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 10:17 pm This reminds me of the old 'Parable of the Broom Closet':

'Fellow witches,' the new initiate purred, adjusting his pointy hat just right. 'It’s time we stop hiding from the burning torches. Visibility is power! Let’s come out of the broom closet, together!'

The coven, desperate for acceptance, nodded. 'Yes! The world must know our names!'

And so they did.

The bonfires were glorious.

The witch hunter clapped his colleagues on the back. 'Another successful visibility campaign!'

And so the witches learned too late, the timeless lesson of the ages: Privacy is power. Exposure is bare skin in the fire.

[The above parable was largely AI-generated ]

I'm sorry but this is stupid. How do you want to live more freely Without fighting? How do you expect to have people on our side without telling the people that we even exist?

It's the choice between individual survival (and in most cases you will survive anyways and the death will only be social) or fighting for justice and freedom. I'm sorry but I think we must choose the second. Individualism has already damaged our societies

That revisionist history, coupled with survivorship bias, guarantee a LGF for any poor straight, white man, the OP and his chosen example activists forgot to show!


Not only is Onion Petal's reply spot on, it's also revealing how little thought has gone into building, not burning down, a society!