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I don’t have to stare at large screen anymore!

Now I am free to stare at small screen. 📱

Oh I absolutely loved it, don’t get me wrong. I lived through that decade as my own political awakening, so every single event described was something I watched super closely and posted about and participated in as part of the online activist space (and sometimes in person!)

Your observation that the social media companies can leverage and benefit from these protest movements (and perhaps even create them) is important, I think. It’s probably why Musk bought Twitter, he wanted to wield that kind of power over the masses and their ability to organize. It seems to have worked, too. We don’t see anything like what we saw in the 2010s these days.

I read another book along similar lines called If We Burn, which was a broader look at the 2010s protest movements that sprung up from online activism. What I took away from it is that most of that activism was hollow and didn’t have a political vision or party program, it was just the masses shouting “No!” at their shitty governments. It was also easily put down once people in power got used to it.

It’s not just “other people” that make those experiences bad.

It’s specific people.

Hotter take: patents shouldn’t exist.

Trump is the most American president we’ve ever had.

Not a step ladder.

The ladder that stepped up!

Wait

Helen of Troy? Is this a crossover?

Without tracking they don’t have metrics for their ads, which effects reports and pricing. They really want to know if someone looks at an ad.

Why would you even bother?

Again, like I said, calling y’all genocidal goose-steppers wasn’t fair of me to do. I’m sorry I hurt your feelings. I was mad.

Your cynicism is a tragedy. You can only imagine two outcomes. Either everything gets worse under Trump or things stay as bad as they are right now under Harris. There’s no other options in your mind. You are too cynical to imagine anything else.

And so you attack anyone who refuses to vote for genocide and then get offended when they strike back. Did it occur to you that I was lashing out because other .world posters were dogpiling on me in various threads and attacking me? Or do my feelings not matter?

Harris wouldn’t support genocide if she knew it would cost her the election. There would be an arms embargo by now if it weren’t for her voters reassuring her; “No no, it’s okay! You can kill anyone you want and start WW3 and we’ll still vote for you.”

But calling you all genocidal goose-steppers isn’t fair. You’re just cynical. You fundamentally do not believe you can change anything.

They’re not equally fascist.

It’s fascism lite vs fascism deluxe!

People use Archive links to avoid giving sites traffic.

This is a problem for advertisers and media corps.

Not saying they’re the ones doing this, but they’d definitely benefit.

I just don’t understand why people like OP even left Reddit.

I don’t like change! 😣

I only use the computer for word processing, internet, and playing roguelikes.

Fine. I guess I’ll learn Linux 😒

Okay, but in the US they don’t want to risk two cops messing up their witness testimony. Better to just have one, because a cop’s word is law anyway.

Fewer witnesses.

I have never seen this.