Alteon @ Alteon @lemmy.world

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It's really hard to respond to this, as none of those things really exist in a remotely popular context in American Progressivism. Freedom of speech has always existed (i.e. your protected from the government), however you were never free from the repercussions of what you said in a public setting. If you say something morally reprehensible, as a public figure, or even as an employee, you have to expect that there will be fallout.

"Struggle Sessions" was a Maoist/Red China thing back decades ago. Not sure why that was referenced....

"Enforce a conformity of ideas and opinions" I'm assuming is a reference to "cancel culture". As a "consumer" why am I responsible for consuming content or a product made by a controversial figure or company? There's thousands of people that are just as good, or better than someone that caught a lucky break and became famous for something. For example, Kevin Spacey, Kanye, Dixie Chicks, etc.

As far as I'm aware, there has never been a "party line" in the general population. Sure, the Democrat political party has a sort of "party line" but you can see even that's not exactly holding up as people like Sanders, AOC, and Jasmine Crockett have been trying to break that apart for the last decade.

To be frank, none of those things remotely exist as you think, they come off more as conservative talking points about how evil "progressives" are, but in reality I've never once seen anything like that either on a public front or in my personal life...ever. not trying to be insulting here, but I'm worried that you have an extremely warped view of what you think "progressives" and the "left" represent.

I'm sorry, but what "authoritarian side of progressive ideas and politics" are you talking about? I'm a progressive (not a tankie), and genuinely have no idea what you might be talking about. Most everything that people have wanted passed is protecting individual rights and liberties for everyone...not just white men.

Would be a damn shame if someone were to just....leak those files.

That is more like a crepe. You can not do that to an American pancake, it would just break in half.

There's dozens of them! Dozens!

I see Elon got his hands on HAARP.

Uhhhh....I would not fuck around with recluses. One bite will melt a golf ball size hole in your flesh. If you really want, you can catch and release but you for sure don't want them in your house. If they breed, you're looking at a serious problem.

Yeah. Teenage girls are difficult to talk to sometimes, but I'd still make every effort to talk to my sister if one of her friends was like this.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

People have. There was a news article about it a few days ago.

This is God punishing MAGA voters. /s

Just kidding.... There is no God. This is a man-made disaster caused by climate change, and these sorts of disasters will only get worse until we start fixing our carbon issue.

Check out their quarterly earnings reports. The're revenue is decreasing by 5-10% QoQ for like the last few years. They're going to be shuttering a few dozen stores likely this year.

They literally can't. They'll barely staying afloat in our post-capitalist society.

Think of it this way. Kohl's has around 90,000+ employees in numerous brick and mortar stores. Their sales have been plummeting quarter over quarter for the last few years as internet businesses that do the same thing that they do (clothes, make-up, and accessories) do it for a fraction of the employees. When a company of about 700 employees is able to do the same job online as brick-and-mortar store that's 100x bigger than them, money becomes consolidated in a few, instead of spread out among many.

The other issue is that buyers are shopping more online than going out to brick and mortar shops as well. It's essentially killing so many businesses.

I'm terrified of what the next 20 years are going to look like. There's going to be hundreds of thousands of people out of a job, and the wealth gap is only going to increase further and further.

I'm constantly contacting my politicians, protesting at every protest, and trying to fight facism every legal way that I can. This sucks, but I can't afford to avoid news because it's a bummer.

Avoiding news and current events is why we have such ignorant people, people not voting, and why we're dealing with this shit in the first place.

I can't afford to do this. Just stick my head in the sand. It sounds wonderful, but for the sake of my friends and family, I need to know these things.

As another US citizen, fucking absolutely. I mean, fuck, we're boycotting most larger businesses anyways and going local where possible. Cancelled Amazon, got rid of all subscription services, protesting during the weekenda and weekdays where possible....these wannabe fascist fucks have no idea the ire that American progressives and the rest of the world feel towards them. They are so holed up in their fake news space, creating fake solutions to fake problems, that they are oblivious to the growing resentment even in their own ranks.

They're pushing massively into green energy. I think they are the next biggest investors after China if I remember correctly.

Oh....yeah, I'm a moron. It's still early morning. Makes perfect sense.

I'm ootl. "Forget it"?

Welcome to Lemmy, bud!

We have lots of Linux and Star Trek memes.

I highly recommend that when you update "all" or your "front page" - be sure to set youe filter for "Hot" results. Gets you the fresh, interesting shit.

This is fucking comical. For too sure why regulations are out on place. Maybe if (f)Elon investigated like they should have, this wouldn't have happened.