Not really… it’s just your garden variety corruption. They’re both owned by the same ultra-wealthy corporations and individuals, so of course they’re both doing the bidding of their owners.

(Un)fortunately not enough people across the country have personally experienced severe negative consequences yet. I give it like 6 more months (optimistically) until it gets bad enough for everyone to start mobilizing.

But honestly, would you rather have a fascist dictator and be able to feed and shelter yourself, or have no food and in a violent domestic war? Just something to consider. When people get hungry that’s when action happens as has been historically shown, but who knows what comes after that.

It’d be great if they were toppled and some form of competent leadership and “normalcy” (when was the last normal period that we’d like to return to even?), but with violence comes further instability, death, imprisonment, etc. Ideally we can do everything non-violently within the system, but that hasn’t really worked so… I don’t know…

The mods just do great work in some subs, but completely destroy others. I got banned overall for posting facts in conservative subs…

But I don’t think lemmy fixes that since it has the same mod/channel structure. The nice thing is that advertisers and nefarious actors haven’t started posting as “fellow kids” yet, like they have on Reddit for many years.

Reddit has been shit for like 5+ years at that larger levels, but some small niche hobby and similar subs are still decent.

Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about him. For anyone else reading this look up the Coal Wars and the Homestead Strike.

Labor has always had to kill, die, and fight against Capital for the rights we have today. They don’t really teach these things in school (I think I learned about the Pinkertons in AP US History) because it would give Labor too much cultural power, but it’s crucial for US citizens (and anyone really) to understand what it has taken to get to where we are.

as long as they see more lgbtq and brown people getting it first, then they’ll have “won” in their minds

Sounds like it’s they want another fight akin to the 19th and early 20th centuries…

“Empathy is a sin”

Do you honestly think Trump is gonna “go down”? How would you envision that? I’m worried he’s going to Kissinger it and live for another 15 years.

I’m so looking forward to see this sniveling coward arrested and locked up (or worse) when this regime falls down.

Yes I know that’ll probably not happen that way but it gives me something to look forward to. Like solarpunk ideas, it gives me something to fight for rather than just something to fight against.

I was banned for posting facts in conservative subreddits with 2 accounts, and somehow that’s ban-worthy. I swear conservatives (fascists) are the biggest snowflakes of all.

But now I can’t post in all the cool little niche subs like weeviltime, hobbies, solarpunk, etc.

I care about his health and it’s heartbreaking that he doesn’t have a choice or know how much his mom is a sociopathic piece of shit.

OTHER

I think you meant “brown”

Get fucked Rachel. I hope you feel every possible pain that you voted for.

That’s not why I shared that though. They need to be tried and put in prison for their crimes, but I never said hunted…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen

Lemmy wouldn’t let me edit my comment so adding a new one:

Also never acquiesce or give in without resistance. Always resist. They want you too paralyzed, terrified, and demoralized to do anything and want you to have anticipatory obedience. They want you to think since you’re just one person you can’t do anything so why bother. Do not give these fucks one inch. Always resist and don’t comply ahead of time.

There are a million ways you can research because you have the internet.

Off the top of my head: organize locally (and online, though online is more risky for infiltration), attend protests, fund groups in resistance lawsuits (ACLU, NRDC for climate stuff, etc.), join mutual aid networks, constantly call your local congressperson and attend town halls. Educate yourself and share truth when confronted with mis/disinformation in your own real life, get others you know to involved and help them understand the predicament we’re in, rather than what they see on Fox or Newsmax or Tiktok.

Then there are the more extreme things that I wouldn’t condone such as providing the implicit threat of violence to back up whatever the peaceful protests are advocating. The Far Right in America has done that part very well in the past 15 years.

I don’t think this is even the big effect we’ll be seeing from AI. think that’ll occur over the next 12-24 months, as LLM operationalization occurs and matures the implementations.