Tell me we’re not an oligarchy.
I would, but I don’t like lying.
The Alt-right and capitalism ladies & gentlemen! Hope it was worth it.
Of look! All those things we said would happen are happening. Quelle surprise.
Qui aurait pu le prévoir? Pikachu.exe
Walang sinuman ang makakapaghula nito. Isang ganap na sorpresa ito.
Obh obh, cò thog an tùr babel a rithist?
Më thonë se gjyshi im e ndërtoi, por prindërit e mi nuk janë njerëz shumë të besueshëm.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn.
हमरा हिसाब से ऊ इंतजार करत रह सकेला आ सपना देखत रह सकेला।
every time the Americans go ‘oh shit I think we’re obviously living in a fascist regime!’ they forget about it within a week, this is like the 8th time in the last 2 years that this headline has run.
Literally two days ago they were running the same headline in response to Starlink and Ukraine.
I think we remember it every day, but that doesn’t mean we suddenly reach the critical mass necessary to change it. For those of us who recognize what’s happening for what it is, it’s at the forefront of our minds.
Don’t you DARE suggest they get off their cowardly asses or they’ll start throwing MAGA-level language at you real fast
It’s always the same responses:
“Nothing can be done” (we tried nothing and are all out of ideas)
“What are you doing about it?” (Can’t somebody else do it? We welcome foreign interference!)
And then endless excuses for why nothing will work so they won’t even try.
I’ve even seen the people giving these responses mock others for moving away from the US.
The downvotes on this post are hilarious. Just a bunch of the most pants-pissing white liberal cowards who keep telling themselves they’re not part of the problem.
Though I will ALSO mock Americans who would rather flee the country than stay and fight back.
It’s almost like abandoning protocols for platforms was a mistake.
Just like coming down from the trees and leaving the ocean.
It’s pretty crazy inside ocean though.
Yeah leaving the ocean was the first big mistake. Or maybe it was going multicellular. Or maybe it was letting in that bacterium that turned into proto-mitrochondria. Seemed like a really good deal at the time, all this new energy available for neat new activities, in exchange for some “progress” and cooperation? What could go wrong!?
In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
If we hadn’t left the ocean, some other species would’ve taken our place. And while you may feel differently, I really don’t think orcas would be any more responsible than us. This is to say that there’s no guarantee that any species would behave any better than we have, given the same level of intelligence and drive for resources.
It’s not a zero sum game. Let the orcas go to work. I’ll gladly be their pet or play in their zoo, it’s likely to be better than what we’ve set up.
Can’t help but notice you didn’t mention your eagerness to be the orca’s food, which given the their nature, is drastically more likely.
Nah, they have been widely and countless times shown to be disinterested in or even vehemently opposed to eating us for whatever reason, the only known attacks come from mistreatment or mistaken identity, whereas there are literally centuries of numerous stories of their willingness to partner with us to work for shared hunting spoils in the wild, and numerous stories of their protecting humans from other predators. They’ll be great owners to us.
I see you either didn’t read or patently disregarded where I said “given our level of intelligence and drive for resources.”There’s no reason to assume they’d be as benevolent as you assume, especially given how deadly they’ve proven to other animals, such as seals, just for sport.
Orcas are highly disciplined apex predators whose behaviors are calculated survival strategies. I get your understandable dislike of human species, but to pretend that those predators would be kinder and more benevolent than us at our level of intelligence and capacity for reason seems to be nothing more than hating a species that, by and large, is generally kinder than the assholes, who get the most attention.
Don’t forget abandoning nomadic lifestyles in favor of agriculture and settled civilizations…
I don’t know living until a maximum of 50 doesn’t sound great.
You want to spend an extra 50 years in a drawn-out process of dying?
50 is not old. Plenty of people can enjoy life into thier 70s. 80+ is where bodily autonomy degrades.
Man, I was just keeping with the deadpan humor of the thread. I know 50 is still young. But leaving the ocean and coming down from the trees likely had similar effects on lengthening life expectancies, no? I don’t think we’re here for an anthropological debate though, are we?
So they’re destroying the ‘social’ feature of their social media. Interesting choice.
It stopped being social media a long time ago. It’s been addiction media since a long time. I used to call it consumption media. But addiction media is more accurate.
Datamining tool that was getting federal money. 3rd party government funded social manipulation.
People need to understand that Zuch was in on this since at least Cambridge analyitca, he’s one of the pioneers of modern misinformation warfare. Of all the guys in tech, only musk is more on Trump’s side than Zuch. Actively the enemy.
musk has twitter, and tesla which has a wider reach. zuck has russian disinformation backing to help with manipulating boomer and genx users.
You must be delusional if you think Musk has bigger reach than Zuckerberg. Facebook is used by everyone. Your grandparents are on it. It has 3 billion monthly active users. Twitter has 5 to 6 times less users than that sitting at 500-600 million. Meta also had Instagram which is also incredibly popular.
And WhatsApp which provides businesses in the third world a platform to communicate internally and with customers. Besides being the most popular massenger. Took me years to get a majority of my friends and family to use Signal or Threema instead.
what the fuck are they expecting? The account against kings on the platform owned by wannbee kings? get your fucking shit together, open your eyes and FUCKING LEAVE!
And lets stop about that BS “but we won’t be able to reach as many people if blah blah”. There. You now reach NO-FUCKING-BODY
Given how many bots and scam accounts are already present on the mainstream socials, it’s not like they were reaching anybody to start.
I wish activist organizations would stop making Instagram their primary/sole updates platform and have more sane communication options that aren’t crazy addictive and centralized (for which there are quite a few options). Encouraging more people onto Instagram is counterintuitive
That’s where people are these days, unfortunately.
Guess some people don’t like hearing the truth. Maybe if they post to peer tube instead they can get 5 views and maybe even a like.
We have to be able to meet people where they are, wherever they might be.
That’s assuming that they stumble on it. If all of those members know where to go, they will probably use an alternative platform. After all we all heard of a better option to redit and here we are
But how many people actually left Reddit to go here versus how many are still there?
Lemmy underestimate the vile power of network effect.
some went back to lemmy after coming here. i think some LURK on reddit instead though, after they were forced out, or tried to create a new account. all the content is there.
That’s a good point. It should really be a two-pronged approach. One is setting up and maintaining an alternative to the mainstream social media sites, while the other is out in the muck trying to inform people and let them know where to go.
You misspelled AI bot accounts. It is unfortunate though.
It isn’t that I object to people reluctantly using the big-tech social platforms, it’s that they seemingly do so enthusiastically.
I’m not disputing. Enthusiasm is precisely why they are in Instagram.
They did the same thing to Lula right before the Brazilian election, so what’s to stop them from doing it domestically?
Honestly, they did the same thing in 2016 just were more sly about it
Hey guys, I had an idea that maybe the richest people in the world are buying up all the media so that they can control and censor public discourse and anything they disagree with.
I know it’s a bit out there, and I can’t prove it, but it’s just this crazy thought I had!
Post was removed by AI mod
Reason: Subversive thoughts
Fancy that!
There’s a reason Elon bought Twitter, and it wasn’t just so he could wave his dick through the world’s biggest megaphone.
Bluesky will fall in line as well. You don’t have platforms with hundreds of millions of users without big pockets, and if you’ve got big pockets it would seem the world is already working exactly the way you want it to.
bluesky is already falling in line, its getting there.
And none of you saw this coming? Really? State owned media news and “entertainment” outlets refusing to disparage the king?
And STILL y’all use them - knowing full well that all your information is sold on the open market and all your secrets are no more?
And then bitch about it. Fucking hell - America and the rest of the world devolves into dumb shits.
If you don’t want to be “cut off” by the people you’re protesting against, DON’T USE THEIR MEDIA.
state sponsored mass surveillance using AI cameras.
Convenience is a hell of a drug. As soon as you ask someone to uproot their social media presence to the fediverse their eyes begin to glaze over. They don’t understand it and want to be part of a giant and almost all-encompassing community which is not where we’re currently at right now.
It takes multiple instances of censorship, frustration, and offending the wrong bot to be forced out of their online shell and even then they might still go for the next corporate-owned social media because it’s “easier” than understanding what federation means.
Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube… Federation is the only real solution…
Streisand Effect in effect.
