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For-profit media doing whatever is most profitable, which is clickbait and gossip.

I thought I'd burn through them but I haven't had an issue. I use DDG for low hanging fruit but I'm going to stop bothering.

He doesn't even clear that low bar. He cheats on his wives and palms his children off on others people.

They can't say "I like abusing women and minorities and wish it was a more acceptable hobby so I'm voting Trump" -- the Unite the Right rally showed them that plausible deniability builds platforms and going mask off takes them away.

But they can say clearly bullshit things like this and everyone does them the favor of pretending they actually mean it.

If someone doesn't politely play along, they've been coached at how to manipulate their way out of it with by saying things like "the left just calls everyone they don't like a Nazi".

The neoliberalism that drives shit like this is unfortunately (and genuinely) a "both sides" issue.

The right-wing will be more openly psycopathic about it but ostensibly left-wing parties the world over are still dragging their feet on the regulations needed to force companies to behave ethically.

We desperately need to dismantle the "managed democracy" they've built where the only choices are "red neoliberal" or "blue neoliberal" before they kill us all.

I already worked out you were a fucking idiot but sure, demean yourself in public if you really want to.

Do you know what a neoliberal is or did you see there word "liberal" and assume you knew everything you needed to know?

"The basic (colonial) double standard of the Israel Palestine "conflict" is that any Palestinian violence justifies any Israeli violence, but no Israeli violence ever justifies any Palestinian violence, and once you see it, you'll never stop seeing it."

They're only achieving nothing when you take the "war on drugs" at face value.

The USA has for-profit prisons, inmates that are functionally slave labor and an incarceration rate well beyond that of comparable countries.

Psychopathic neoliberals profit from the "war on drugs". It's not a byproduct of the war on drugs, it's one of the goals.

You don't have to politely accept it when they claim "it's not about that". Make them prove it by putting an end to the exploitation of prisoners and their families and investing in harm minimization strategies that actually work.

That was my initial reaction too. "Have they considered shipping it as not-dogshit?"

because apparently we learned nothing during the four years this trash ran the country

His victory wasn't because his supporters were ignorant. They knew exactly what kind of shithead he was, they just couldn't admit out loud they wanted the sexism, homophobia, racism and authoritarianism.

Remember that when he was first elected, his support flowed out from the "alt-right". They were nothing more than rebranded white supremacists, but the name change gave them enough plausible deniability to dodge deplatforming.

When "Unite the Right" rolled around, many of them triumphantly tore of their masks, waved their swastikas, grabbed their tiki torches and started an antisemitic chant. One of them even started executing political dissenters then and there.

But their "ha, we were nazis all along" celebration was short lived. They'd undermined their plausible deniability and their platforms were crumbling. Even Fox News was hesitant to put any alt-right figureheads on air. Even better (for us), many of them lost their jobs, girlfriends and families after their face popped up on the news.

So the rule became "never go mask off". They could be openly advocating sending Jews to concentration camps but if someone says "that is blatantly Nazi behaviour", their reply will always "the left just call anyone they disagree with nazis".

They still want to do it. They'll still try to do it. The vast majority of their supporters know they mean it and that's exactly why they support them.

But as long as they never say it out loud, there will always be an army of useful idiots giving the benefit of the doubt.

For example? Can you actually name 3 accounts this happened to?

Well, the "not seeing votes" definitely is, on both Lemmy and Reddit. All this does is make that abuse observable.

Oh bullshit. Any healthy company should have no problem sorting "controversial opinions" from "far-right extremism that grooms domestic terrorists" and they're not going to get addicted to banning in the process.

Whenever I see these slippery slope arguments, the top of the slope always just happens to align with the views of the person arguing (or the views of the person they uncritically adopted their opinions from).

If Substack became riddled with CSAM, would you be in the comments patting them on the back? Because as we all know, deplatforming images of children being raped leads to deplatforming mask off neonazis before eventually leading to innocent Palestinians and LGBT users being banned too.

The pro-gun community have taken the stance "I'd rather other people died than I temporarily lost access to my guns", so despite your suggestion being completely reasonable, they'll fight it with all they've got.

They'll claim it was an accident or outage, but those accounts weren't struck at random.

Internally, is someone curating a list of prominent accounts by political leaning? Are those accounts the target or right wing report bombing? I want to know exactly how those accounts were landed on.

And it was never broken for Chrome.

Google can do plenty of damage to Firefox in a few hours and the best way to do it is to simply not include Firefox in their testing. If you don't know the standards the web is built on, it makes FF look unreliable, despite it being Google's bug.

Unfortunately that doesn't work any more. The people who are still staunchly pro-gun after the last two decades of violence often just say "yes, I support convicted felons buying grenade launchers and mortars".

They're confident it will never be anyone they care about getting killed because they only care about themselves. To them, an armed gang member next door is just a get out of jail free card waiting to be murdered with their cool gun.

This will undoubtedly upset some gun toting lunatic who will want to claim they care about their family and that's why they have guns, but that's just more exceptionalism -- every child that killed themselves with a gun or murdered their classmates had a parent who thought it would never be them.

It's a "good outcome" for the pro-gun community because it's a small school shooting that should be easy to sneak under the rug.

It's obviously a horrific outcome for the victims, students, their families and their teachers, but who gives a fuck about them? The killers dad was the only one profitable to the gun lobby and a font of power for Republicans.

If only the "responsible gun owner" didn't leave a poorly secured firearm around a child who wanted to kill people.