Munrock

Thing is, both of those statements were true of twitter at one point.

To my knowledge there's no qualitative difference in implementation that will prevent BS ending up the same way as twitter.

But it also can't be ignored the same way twitter can't be ignored. It's shaping to become another major public forum: to ignore it is to remove your own voice.

All in all I think the right play is critical participation, while throwing support behind the fediverse.

My friend in Hexbear sent me this picture of the shelves in his Bearmart:

It's just a matter of time before they cave to liberals; we need to defederate NOW to protect ourselves.

The Palestine thing was the first time she took a position that was categorically leftist and not liberal.

Up to that point everyone knew she was a tool for the liberal establishment, and it was safe to assume she was a sock puppet with no actual agency. When she started speaking out for Palestine it was clearly not desired by the establishment that gave her her platform, judging by the way media and talking heads covered (and often didn't cover) it.

So it was a hopeful thing. Stanning her specifically would have been a mistake, but the possibility that this one teen that the libs had invested so much celebrity power in might be developing class consciousness and turning all that power against them was something to root for. It didn't last. Easy come, easy go.

Pretty sure they consider USians equally disposable. And easier to leverage their deaths for manufacturing consent.

Be it known to those short on time: the thread peaked here, you may move on.

I worry that they're doing it to justify some kind of action against DPRK directly.

Reuse whatever cheat code I used to topple Gorbachv to topple Wall Street

Be careful who you back up with, as well, if you live in a country that could potentially get sanctioned by the US i.e. if you live outside the US.

it can only be changed via an elected employee representative in a collective workforce agreement which I sincerely doubt they have.

"But we're all one big family at [insert corporation]! You wouldn't hold out on your family, would ya, sport? 🥺"

"Oh shit they've built a fence! Now we have to go the long way round if we wish to meddle in their elections!"

Sounds like a golden opportunity. MAGAs are usually so painfully close to class consciousness but the stupid political ecosystem you all have over there makes everything adversarial and so they dig in and cover their ears when they anticipate interacting with someone such as a communist. Being neighbours with one gives you the opportunity to build a rapport with them without them reactively closing their minds off and othering you. It's a fantastic opportunity, so long as you haven't already othered them first.

This list reminds me of how every now and then a liberal will pop up on xitter or some other public space and proclaim that they're uncomfortable with what's happening in Gaza being compared to the Holocaust because "the Holocaust was on a whole other level of cruelty", and I'm never sure if they're saying that out of idiocy or malice.