EldritchFeminity @ EldritchFeminity @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Your message is true, but your stats are off. Trump only got something like 15% of the total voting population in the US and won by like 1.5% of the vote. Studies say that historically, 60% of Americans are more liberal than the government - and that includes when Democrats have been in power.

Conservatives are a minority, and the MAGA crazies even more so. They just shout really loudly to convince everybody that they're a majority. The real issue is that 50% or so of Americans simply don't care enough to vote against fascism or care more about maintaining the facade of order than freedom. Like MLK said, the biggest threat to equal rights isn't the white supremacist, but the white liberal who cares more about a negative peace than true justice.

Very true. I was just saying that you can also blame enshittification for it going down like it has as well. Burning the candle at both ends and all that.

This brings up an interesting point because my first thought when I read "inundated with sexualized media their whole lives," my first thought was, "In this Puritan culture?!" On the one hand, ads are all about using sex to sell products, while on the other, advertisers want nothing to do with anything that isn't 'kid friendly' content. You just need to look at how sanitized the internet has become by corporations to see that at work.

But I think there's something to be said there, and I think it goes deeper than just "the kids these days live in a Godless society of homosexual perverts" or whatever. I think the normalization of sex and availability of information about sex and sexuality has probably influenced it. I'd also say that the current state of the world and the stress of daily life have as much of an influence on this as the amount of sexualized media in their everyday lives. It's been a noticeable thing with Milennials having less sex and fewer kids from stress, both financial and otherwise, and I see no reason that wouldn't continue to trickle down to other generations. And even the amount of media out there, regardless of type, has just as much of an effect. If you have books to read and movies to watch, you're less likely to pop out kids accidentally because you were bored and got frisky.

But how do you keep making the line go up, especially in a "market" with such a guaranteed drop-off point in user retention? You can do what these companies do and fill your apps with bots to keep engagement metrics up and users coming back as they fail to date your fake users. I'd call that enshittification, and it probably makes everything worse in this case.

Is Gen Z becoming the new Millennials?

"Gen Z is ruining the Dating App Market!"

The famous picture of Nazis burning books is a picture of the burning of medical research data and patient information from the German Institute for Sexual Wellness - the world's largest research center on sex and LGBTQ people at the time and the first place to experiment with HRT for trans people.

It is exactly the same.

They could have been, I honestly have no idea. Not only has it been roughly a couple of months since I saw it, but I don't think the person quoted was ever explicitly named.

Unfortunately, I don't. I remember seeing 2 articles immediately pop up when I searched for a link for my friend, but I couldn't tell you what news sites they were and when I tried to find them again I had the same results as everyone else - I couldn't find the articles about that quote, just generalized statements possibly implying it, at most.

It was back in December, though, after the election, and it came from somebody in his administration, not Trump specifically, which makes it harder to find. Especially with the ongoing flurry of anti-trans legislation being passed right now.

Except the article says that his visa was expired. So on the most stupid of technical levels, he broke the law because he overstayed on an expired visa. Something that deserves an annoyed "You should've renewed this earlier," and that's it, but enough of a technicality for the racists to legally ruin his life.

That's not at all what they're saying. I don't know how so many people didn't get this, but what they're saying is, "Technically, he did break the law, but only at the most bureaucratic level that deserves basically a guy at the DMV shaking their finger sternly at you, and they'll use this technicality to pump up their figures of how many 'criminals' they've arrested and send this guy who did nothing wrong to gods' know where and ruin his life."

They literally called him a hard-working family man.

They do, and they haven't been quiet about it. Project 2025 has it all laid out, and it's just the latest in a long line of these plans that they openly talk about. It's just that nobody ever listens. They openly talked about how they made up the men in women's bathroom thing to make people hate trans women. In 2015. There are 10 year old articles about how they made it up, and yet people are still freaking out about it.

I wish I could find one of the articles, because I sent a link of one to a buddy of mine who works with a trans girl who's a MAGA idiot so he could show her what Trump thinks of people like us. But there's a reason that he spews so much garbage every day, and it's for this exact circumstance - to overwhelm and bury us in a constant stream of outrage.

As an American, I can tell you it's true, and we don't realize it in large part because portion sizes in the US are crazy. A medium-sized beverage here would be a large in most other countries. Restaurants traditionally serve huge portions of food, supposedly originally so that no matter how big your appetite, everybody would get enough to eat and have leftovers to bring home. But now people just eat it all.

Add in all the sugar that's in our food (thanks to a health propaganda campaign that convinced people fat was bad, most fat is replaced with sugar - especially high-fructose corn syrup), which is way more fattening than actual fat, and the lack of pedestrian access to most things, and you've got a perfect recipe for an obesity epidemic of people who eat too much, drink too many sugary drinks, and don't exercise enough.

It's part of the propaganda. Richest country in the world, they say, but you pay a lot more for basically everything because there's few government regulations keeping prices in check, and a number of things that are done by the government in other countries are run by for profit corporations here (healthcare).

Although, $10.50 for the mail is pretty pricey. That's no letter that they're sending. I run an Etsy shop and frequently send stuff in padded envelopes through the post office, and those cost me like $4 to send across the country.

And guess which one gets paid more.

I might be wrong (obligatory I am not a lawyer), but I think the laws either make it so that they can't be considered as an accomplice to a crime like that, or they're a corporation, which means that fines are really the only way they can be punished.

Either way, the arbitration clause, I believe, means that you can't take them to court like that in any situation. An out of court settlement is your only option, except in the case of a class action lawsuit, which let's them get a bulk deal on how much they have to pay out.

Yeah, at this point, I think the manual from WW2 on how to fight a fascist government through bureaucracy that's been going around is probably more helpful than clogging up a freeway.

Inconvenience and hamper the ability to get everyday business done for these people. The people blocking the entrance to government agency offices have the right idea.

It's not just blind hate, it's a nation of under-educated racist bullies

Americans can shot each other as much as they want, good for them

Words have meaning, and when you say things like that, you lump us in with those scumbags. That's exactly what the lunatics in charge want. Dehumanize us so the common person won't care when they kill us. "Who cares if a bunch of gay people got shot? They were Americans, it's their own fault for living in that shitty country in the first place. They all have guns, they should've shot first. "

There are plenty of us here who agree with you and are cheering you guys on because we want to gut the current government just as much as you do. I hope Canada hits us with tariffs, and I hope it hurts. Because maybe then these idiots here will wake up and realize what they've voted for. I doubt it, but I can hope.

No, I believe the argument they're making is if someone else posts your private information on BlueSky (think Kiwifarms doxxing gay people and sending that info to Christian hate groups), and BlueSky moderation doesn't take action against the account posting the info, and then somebody uses that information to find and attack you, then BlueSky is culpable in the attack because they could've done something, but didn't.

A better example, I think, would be the recent issue with known transphobe Jesse Singal and his followers, who came to BlueSky around a month ago and immediately began posting bigotry and false info. When reported to the moderation team, they did nothing about it (he actually got banned by the auto-mod and then manually unbanned during that period, but that's another story). If he were to do something like my example, posting a trans person's private information online and telling his followers to harass them, and BlueSky did nothing to remove the posts or his account, then they'd be legally culpable for enabling anything that might happen to you. But under arbitration, you can't sue them for it.

This just in: Hitler says generals won't do anything "without our approval."