It’s so funny how people have turned on him and see him as an annoying dork now. When he first really rose to popculture fame, everyone was so enamored with him. Now everyone’s like, “alright. Shut the fuck up now.” Lol
I dunno, man. That would be a massive, coordinated effort—and lemmy is such a small community. Like 300,000 active users. So someone targeted this super niche platform? That’s just so unlikely.
TikTok, yeah. I could see multiple fronts pushing their own ideas, but to have one coordinated effort? It just doesn’t really seem feasible. Neither of us have proof of it happening or not, I’m just saying. It might be a little bias showing.
Edit: this is the kinda shit that scares me. People with generally the right worries, the right ideas of Justice and righteousness, seeing someone say something that doesn’t 100% fall in line with the magical reasoning something could, possibly be happening, you turn on them? Insane. You all need to learn some fuckin nuance. Learn that things aren’t black and white. Saying “hey, that doesn’t sound feasible” or “is there really any proof of that?” does not mean people disagree with your overall values.
It’s just crazy shit. I can’t even describe what makes it so disillusioning that otherwise smart and seemingly good people do this kind of shit. It’s just…sad. Are we really so segmented between ourselves and so goddamn uniform in our ideas that someone saying there is no proof of a wild conspiracy theory—even if we are all hoping for the same outcome—makes people turn against others who don’t 100% align with our ideas? It’s just depressing, man.
And American cops are all too happy to take one less murder case if there’s any room to say it was a suicide. They’re not looking to add unsolved murders, especially ones that implicate he most powerful companies and men in the world.
Yeah that writing style is…oof. That’s what I’m saying. It’s like reading a political column in an early 2000s maxim magazine mixed with some barstool sports douche.
Well…they kind of are. We are not seeing the kind of push and pull we saw last time trump was in office. We’re not really seeing the compounding buffoonery and constant chaos of an evil yet highly disorganized and stupid and largely solitary extremist right wing government.
We are seeing a largely accepted—if nothing else, ignored—well-funded, focused group of absolute death mongers who are powering this much larger boat with trump as the flag on top, but an elite crew of Chistofascists turning coal (yes, it’s a coal powered boat) into much more precise and damaging takeover of every single lever of power. And this is just one in a fleet of these types of ships taking off all around the world. This far right surge is not an isolated thing. This is happening worldwide and they are fucking ready to put their plans into action.
While we all took four years to decompress, they were becoming a much more ruthless and serious fascist machine. They are primed to make some scary moves and they don’t have nearly the amount of big dollar pushback and spotlight on them. They are manipulating the spotlight to focus on flashy trump nonsense while some truly fiendish motherfuckers are doing everything they can to fuck things up christofascismo style.
Be very much more worried about things that aren’t the “gulf of America.”
Yeah, maybe it’s just us stone-age internet peeps that still give a fuckin lick about privacy? It just sounds like it’s gearing up to be Russia/US on one side of the negotiating table and Europe/ukraine on the other.
I mean, haven’t they had a really decent actual news outlet for a while though? I remember buzz feed breaking some pretty big stories and had really great investigative pieces done some years back
This is just attention grabbing language for something that really isn’t even a problem for Reddit. The longer recent trend of stunted growth could be cause for concern, but the actual numbers are something like they got 101.6 million unique visitors instead of their projected 103.4. That’s nothing. They’re talking like they’re in free fall. It could be the start of a trend that could be bad for a public company, but realistically, what we’re all hoping to see isnt what this article is actually telling us. Unfortunately.
It’s postmodern meta capitalism. Specifically the stage after late stage where it’s so absurd it’s almost be funny if it weren’t going to kill us all. It’s like standing in front of a firing line, and the shooters are all holding squirt guns except one clown who’s holding a real gun
I mean, I know everyone says it’s impossible for phones to be listening, but I feel like there are just too many examples for that to be the case. My friend was looking for something for our other friends birthday. Her husband suggested opening instagram and talking about the thing she was looking for, describing the specific jacket, saying the company started with an “A.” Minutes later, she got the ad for the jacket she was looking for.
When I was driving with some people from work, we were talking about daddy Yankee, and his song “gasolina.” We were using maps to navigate home from an away job. On our route, suddenly there were multiple waypoints suggested on our map, “estaciones de gasolina.” We were speaking English, the person whose phone it was doesn’t speak Spanish.
If they’re not listening, how could these things be possible?
It’s so funny how people have turned on him and see him as an annoying dork now. When he first really rose to popculture fame, everyone was so enamored with him. Now everyone’s like, “alright. Shut the fuck up now.” Lol