I no longer have any charity for these outgoing presidential remarks. What he is saying makes sense, but given that he didn’t bring this up or do anything about it when he had power, these sentiments are hollow pandering at best. Fuck you Joe Biden, your legacy is that you presided over the dissolution of American democracy and did genocide. No hollow words on your way out will change that.
Given that we are going full authoritarian fascist now, perhaps the EU should ban Google, given the US tik tok precedent.
20 years ago, a piece of shit like Mark Zuckerberg would have used a similarly meaningless term like “political correctness” instead. Made no sense then and makes no sense now. What is the problem exactly? Is there something wrong with having an ethical framework and applying it consistently? Or, having standards? Using this framing, any ideological viewpoint is inherently bad, including the nihilistic and hypocritical one that Zuckerberg himself is expressing here. It’s all just nonsense, and further evidence that the economy that plied this asshole with so much wealth is anything but a meritocracy.
What is the causal relationship between sociopaths and billionaires? Does becoming billionaire make you sociopathic, or do sociopaths have an easier time becoming billionaires?
As someone who would probably qualify as one of these anti-American Americans on Lemmy I can say this: A big factor for me is the despair I feel (having genuinely believed the myths for most of my life) as I see the facade falling away. The genuine awfulness and inhumanity of not just our government, and our economy, but also of the culture, the people themselves, is just overwhelming. These forums are one of the outlets I’ve been using for my rage. I can only speak for myself. I’m not a bot, or a Russian actor, or an edgy teen. I’m a disillusioned middle aged American.
Ha ha ha, this country is a fucking joke on every level.
I’m not suggesting that Republicans will do this. I’m suggesting that actually moral people should do this.
We should also keep records of every single person that participated in this project. We will need those to conduct the Nuremberg-like trials after we put this wave of fascism down. Everyone, from the President, to the middle managers, to the storm troopers, to the fucking janitor at the ICE office will need to be arrested, tried, and if convicted, executed. There should be no “just following orders” defense accepted.
For years I’ve been hearing Republicans fret about the danger of the federal government and the value of arming the citizenry so they can violently resist the agents when they come. Perhaps this should be the big second amendment moment that they’ve been dreaming about.
Can you imagine the solemn farce that will be trump’s funeral? We are going to be forced to endure all the pomp and circumstance that a normal leader gets. Media drones are going to speak in hushed respectful tones about the clown. There will be commentators spinning a fiction about the merit of his “maverick” ways. We are going to be expected to heal, and unite, and respect the fool and his mournful idiot fans. It’s going to be such nauseating bullshit.
Greater American Reich
While I would prefer that he and criminals like him would have self awareness and feel contrition, I’m perfectly fine with Blinken believing this as we lower the fucking noose.
This is correct.
Feudal lords like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk will wrap themselves in fake populist notions like “free expression”, but they will never, ever tolerate speech that meaningfully challenges the entrenched power structure that they benefit from. All of their feel good taglines are an intentional misdirection designed to pacify the mob that would tear them to pieces if they actually realized what was happening. Remember “Democracy dies in darkness”? I work in Silicon Valley and I’ve been trying to educate family members who continue to mistakenly believe that the tech community is comprised of lefty California hippies. Tech will not save us from fascism. The professional media won’t either. Given the institutional corruption now fundamental to our government, I fear that there is no ‘rules-based’ solution to any of this.
The cohort that controls the Democratic Party are perfectly content to pantomime gentlemanly decorum while being led into the ovens of a fascist authoritarian oligarchy. I’m just completely done with their bullshit.
This is a terribly written headline and article. Might be AI slop. In short it says:
Historically prices don’t go down unless there is an economic depression (for some reason that isn’t explained).
There is little government policy can do to bring prices down (for reasons that aren’t explained).
trump’s tariff and deportation policies will make prices much higher.
This is some legit dystopian shit right here. I almost wish I hadn’t abandoned these platforms years ago, so that I could take this opportunity to do it. I hope that more people wake up to the insidious nature of this company and these services.
Keep this in mind as you listen to them claim that privacy is built right into ‘Apple Intelligence’. The profile that is being built as that system learns about you will probably grow to be the largest potential privacy threat that has ever been introduced to these devices and ecosystem. Keep that shit off your phone.
It has nothing to do with security. It has everything to do with controlling speech and maintaining management of public narratives. This became an urgent issue for the oligarchy when they lost control of Israel genocide discourse. This is what fascist states do. They are just getting started.