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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago

I've been calling this for years. The next holocaust will be more efficient than Hitler could ever imagine beyond his wildest dreams. Big tech knows more than people know about themselves. We're all on lists we don't even know we're on. People will be discriminated for reasons they didn't know they could be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Social platforms are under the same effect as voting. Over half population either supports it or is too ill informed. They just want to scroll their feed without thinking too much. Same way voters just vote for the one that sounds alright on the surface. Combined with the fervent supporters makes a majority. It's the minority of voters/users who are opinionated against it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Woke == Haram. It's christian sharia law. You know, that thing conservatives have been fear mongering about for what like 20 years. Except want their version of it for real.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To these young men, society teaches them that they are fault because of the patriarchy

Women have lost their way and need to be put back in the kitchen. The gays have gotten to much freedom to be flamboyant and they're destroying decency and indoctrinating children. The blacks are getting too uppity, they need a knee on the neck. Minorities have gotten too much and need mass deportations now.

But yeah cis hetero young men get the blame for everything.

By your reasoning, women, LGBT+, minorities are all justified in becoming extremists. Yet the only demographic is leading way on this. Now I'm sure you'll feedback loop your logic to take it as young men getting all the blame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

My theory has been that left leaning men let other voices be heard. That came at the cost of letting the right fill the power vacuum. The left need to let their own assholes be assholes.

I think Democrats have needed more chaotic good and lawful evil parts of the chart. Everyone else on the left need to realize those guys will need to say the wrong things for the right reasons. After all the messaging is not for you. It's for the boys with a tendency to the right.

What they say will not agree with you. Lose the battle, win the war.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 days ago (6 children)

There's a bigger story here. The tech industry is making a play as a lot of tech billionaires had openly supported Trump late in the election cycle. Elon weirdly becoming Trumps shadow. Bezos human-centipeding himself to Trumps corn hole. a16z doing an about face after supporting Democrats all these years, openly admitting its because "fuck you, lower taxes for the rich".

Elon surviving Trumps conveyor belt of cronies is irrelevant. The tech billionaires have signaled they are all in on Trump. It's pretty obvious his regime is better for them. No more regulatory road blocks. Policy that personally benefits wealthy individuals.

What is going to happen with all the Google antitrust stuff. I assume it's as good as gone.

I suspect big tech knew with near 100% certainty the Trump victory. It's their whole reason for existence to know these things. I might even be inclined to say they nudged it in their favor. Elon suddenly inserting himself into the picture is pretty damning. I think he knew if not outright leveraged Twitter until their internal analytics showed a certain Trump victory.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

The agitators are gone. The useful idiots remain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Don't believe what you see online. It's that simple.

Even with theoretical identity verification, people still lie. I swear it's like the social media turns peoples gullibility to 100%.

Everyone online has some odd propensity to want internet stories to be real. Even doing mental gymnastics to believe it. Maybe pointing that out can remove its power.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Voats problem wasn't engagement. It was literal nazis.

They tried to prop up a thin veneer of legitimacy but at some point they just stopped caring. The front page became blatant "kill all [whatever]" type posts. That's when engagement completely collapsed.

Lemmy has some clearly in bad faith instances which are probably run by nazis. Federation seems to be doing its job of resilience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

People are turning on each other. Like those saying Latinos should out each other to be deported. Nothing but more examples of how divisive the Trump regime is. I suppose I don't have to look up how this kind of thing has happened before in times of fascism. I'll bet it's gotta be true.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can’t enlist the support of an entire gender by telling them that they are the source of all of society’s evils, and that they themselves are fundamentally evil no matter what, that they are all rapists-in-training, that the world would be better off if they were all killed, and that they are no better than vermin. And more importantly: that when they do something objectionable it is misogyny and bigoted and disgusting and (with some things) even illegal, but when women do it, it is a big nothingburger with zero consequences for the woman.

Where in the Democrat platform says all this? You're using the lies the right uses.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The Friday news dump returns.

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