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You know there’s a difference between letting someone’s objectively garbage opinions watch adults do the right thing and validating those opinions on large platforms?

It’s not a difference in opinion anyway, it’s a huge lie fueled by high-octane hate. They aren’t serious people and are not coming to the table with any intention of talking in good faith. If they even slightly cared about reality they wouldn’t have these views and as the old saying goes “you can’t logic someone out of an argument they didn’t logic themselves into”.

The reason this has gone on for so long is because Americans are spineless and enable this behaviour. They are thoroughly afraid of upsetting the status quo and so the best they can do is weak centrism while validating and giving confidence to the worst people you know. It isn’t the right-wing echo chambers, those have always existed and will continue to exist, it’s the fact that the public at large allows those echo chambers to grow by doing literally nothing about it or even helping because “balance”.

OH AND ALSO the right owns most of the mainstream media, like the enormity that is FOX-FUCKING-NEWS, and loves to deplatform progressive opinions. They enact huge amounts of censorship all the time and consider words like “cisgender” a slur while asking for trans people to live in silence and fear. Don’t come in here acting like they’re poor little oppressed babies.

You’re a clown.

If you don't think this is a big deal, then you probably won't realize until it's too late.

American history in one sentence.

If anyone reads that and goes “hell yea”…

Also what the fuck is a “nuclear reactor startup”?!? God, tech bros really take a whole bunch of privilege and advantage and just throw it all away to be dumber than anyone could have thought possible.

Also, forgetting Russia for a moment, the ultra rich love this shit. They have enough real money to buy up all the smaller businesses. They love economic downturns like this, and it’s possible that Trump is simply a fanboy simp who is voluntarily taking Russian advice and example. It’s also important to say this because it means the stupid, zero-memory US citizens need to understand that it will continue even with Trump gone and even if Russia disappears.

He’s not doing this because of blackmail, he’s doing this because he wants to.

South Korea just did this. Lad tried to start a coup to hide from consequences and got eaten alive.

ITT: Great examples of why the US has failed. Too many people trying to say “c’mon it’s bad but not that bad!” Actually it is, these are all tests to see what the population will put up with, they’re boiling the frog slowly and the frog is telling anyone trying to help it to “calm down”.

That literally happened and it was the high profile nature that got him found. So many people without the resources and support do lose family members this way.

“Boil over” I don’t want ____”?

Bud, respectfully, too bad. The US has been breaking everyone else’s shit consequence-free for decades upon decades, in large part because its own citizens are generally “head in the sand” centrists who never hold evil accountable for anything. This “boil over” talk is more of that and if you want to see this fixed you’re gunna have to put on your big kid pants and fucking do something about it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/richard-branson-trump-revenge/

Because that image looks like a conservative Facebook “claim”, even though it’s correct.

That much I know, and unfortunately the original comment could have pulled from many places. Mostly I was just trying to make sure they weren’t one of those “rich people aren’t actually rich” or “rich people take risks!” people.

I’m struggling a little to understand the main aim of this comment. It’s not untrue, there’re just a lot of parts going in different directions and, potentially, coming from different places. Without context it’s kinda just a surface observation, ya know?

1. Article is fairly old, though it is stated that Mahmoud is a leader of a sorts in the Columbia campus movement so we can guess he didn’t show up yesterday.
2. These protests started peacefully ages ago and the current administration is outright banning them. What are they gunna do, just sit down and take it?
3. Palestine is being aggressively ethnically cleansed right now and the US government is enabling it with a smile on its face. Context is important because fighting back against people who consider you vermin is not a fucking hate crime. Zionists can fuck right off.

Because not listening to horrible people literally tell you what they’re gunna do is how that dogshit country got into this mess in the first place.

“I hate to predict things like that”

Since when?!?

“A Lemmy version of” is what they wrote. It’s only one sentence, surely you can put the pieces together.

Where did you get “riot” from…? And hate crime? Riiight.

Should ask Gleason for five bullet points aboot she does every week.

No, that makes sense. I just missed him aswell/only had a couple years of it and it’s definitely nice to be able to look back on it instead of live it.

And yea, PP was his right-hand guy or whatever during that time and has always been a real douche. He didn’t grow into a conservative, he’s always been that guy. Sequels are so often clunkier exaggerations to capitalize off previous success, instead of doing their own things, and if PP gets in that’s what we’re gunna be dealing with.

Yes, but they keep saying that the only way to do it is by having strong unions, workers’ rights, and are demanding higher pay. Higher pay! Like we’re made of money!

Shoulda asked ‘em this time around, honestly, and if they couldn’t see it then you should have asked them where their guide dogs are since they’re clearly completely blind.