Just wait until people start “falling out of windows” at the white house. It’s only a couple stories though, so many will live to tell the tale publicly apologize to trump while he sits on the toilet.

Weird… No response.

He wasn’t going to give a million dollars to Harris.

Tim cook, a gay man, donated a million to trump. Don’t let Apple pretend they aren’t playing both sides.

I see ZERO discussion about how this is obvious theatre. We are so incapable of standing up to basic manipulation tactics from the right.

trump first started using tiktok as another xenophobic boogeyman, in what was a fairly nuanced situation - trump’s position being completely wrong, but ultimately some truth to the fact that companies run in China inherently have involvement of the Chinese government and thule should be reached, monitored and if abused, access should be removed.

This actual push was always meant to be something to hang on Biden admin either way (because again, some valid points to a potential ban) but in reality trump will now “save” this artificial shutdown to “restore tiktok” and millions of low information voters and non voters alike will think he did something. And in the meantime, whatever the fuck this lemon8 and red whatever apps are will likely be a huge privacy monitoring home as midst will leave things dormant in background as well after tiktok is “restored”.

Again, we are just so I’ll equipped for anything to do with technology.

How it started:

“Oh, non-profit tech company! How noble! I trust that!”

How it’s going:

I have no interest in these hollow PR dance moves until CEOs are publishing compelling outlines of how they have instituted complex legal frameworks that mean they can’t reverse (or others can’t reverse) these cynical moves to temporarily sway public sentiment during a building phase without say… Being legally compelled to immediately forfeit all historical stock earned and donate any historical salary and bonus compensation to the Red Cross or children’s cancer research. They won’t though, at best, this is an option, subject to change at will.

Remember that Zuckerberg initially allowed those tampons in the men’s rooms and got a little praise, because some men do have periods and require tampons. They were in little wicker baskets, with the lids propped open on full display as you walked into any of their global offices. Zuckerberg then quietly told them internally to start closing the lids in the basket by default, still there, but closed, and then to place them on a lower shelf out of the way and ultimately, you now see the headlines that he ordered them fully removed performatively.

Declarative statements matter from people with proven, consistent integrity - that trait is inconsistent with anyone who can successfully rise to the level of modern CEO.

Thank you, but look at the publish date on that, I think this info may be out of date at this point. Altman headlines in past year.

Also, seems his own sister is suing him for sexual assault, so that’s something to get to at some point as well I guess…

Not even close to the effort I’ve put in, and witnessed so many other smarter, more talented and more dedicated people put in, over 20+ years participating in consistent activism against the ills of this world. That includes literally stopping a lucrative job in my prime earning years to work for 2 solid years, without pay, for several non profits leading up to and through the 2020 election. Marching, standing face to face with swat teams, effecting policy and initiating programs that served literally tens of millions of US citizens.

But, there’s a point… When there are no longer rules, no society to see objective fact and reasonably respond, that’s defeat. So yes, it’s decidedly over. And if it wasn’t (it is) the path of a resistance would certainly not be your lazy polite hearts and minds appeal in this global aristocracy we’re left with. Also you’re having this discussion on Lemmy, an unfortunately sized small audience of very similar thought - Folks that were all functionally forced out of Reddit, the true stage at scale for any type of hearts and minds appeal.

The ultimate problem is, the noble goal of the left is basically to make a happy life where everyone’s basic needs are met, by its nature that is a peaceful and passive thing and you are encouraging people to relax and disengage, which should be allowed. But right wing folks are perpetually unhappy, they are perpetual victims of perceived oppression, even when they are “winning”, maybe especially then because they know it’s unearned and so they get immediately suspicious. As demonstrated by right movements though, they don’t know what the fuck they want, it’s chaos illustrated by misdirected anger - cheering for the people that illegally poisoned you for profit as they win the right to poison you even more, without consequence, in the future.

They are just hungrier, insatiable because they don’t have a stomach that can ever be full, they eat and they shit, no nutrients absorbed, no hibernating after getting a belly full of salmon and berries. So when the left naps after victory, they keep working through the night on the never finished hate machine.

Careful who you trust, proton is trump scum

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

1. Announces moderation team gutted

2. Announces that “community notes” will handle moderation

3. Make a bunch of moves to purge anyone in the community that might actually provide a factual “community note”

Fucking hell. It’s literally in the rest of the post there.

That’s a real “I’m 14 and this is deep”.

Hey, WAKE UP, it’s 2025 and democracy is over around the world. It’s broken and I understand that’s scary, but we’re past converting people - So stop trying to cling at your false sense of decorum or rules. The known rapist, impeached for inciting a coup against this country and trying to get his vice president killed on TV was just re-elected for his second, non-consecutive term after he got over a million Americans killed in the first term with his dog shit COVID non-response.

Seriously, you’re only holding your position here because the false normalcy of it makes you personally feel like your house isn’t on fire, which it literally is if you’re in LA because climate change is another political chip top bludgeon people to death with. And GUESS WHAT, the same felon being sworn in next week to “lead” this country is going to make you crawl and beg for the disaster relief that the trump voters in North Carolina and Florida just got without condition from the current democratic administration.

Oh well.

Week three will be trump watery shitting over a bible during inauguration with kid rock singing while the cult members literally claw each other’s skin off trying to get a finger on the bible to taste.

Some guy, you mean RFK Jr. probably. And soon mandatory lunch snack at the public tax voucher-funded Christian school your kids will attend (you won’t HAVE TO go, but the only other schools won’t bee subverted by the voucher… So, up to you bro…)

All the people who see arbitrary signs in everything will see nothing at these things happening within weeks of 2nd trump presidency starting (and the last American presidency under some form of democracy)

After the east coast relief was swift and without condition, as it should be.

Remember the red states take more than they contribute, now on top, they will restrict access to the federal tax funds that California disproportionately contributes to keep this rotting corpse of a country afloat.

The Republicans are the bad guy from the 80s movie. They are hanging from the cliff about to die, the hero reaches out to save them, they climb up the hero’s outstretched arm to safety and then immediately turn and kick the hero off the cliff with a boot to the back of the head.

Bluesky has jack dorsey, Twitter founder, in its DNA. Dorsey cheered musk on and they call each other friends. Bluesky is not the win people want it to be, it’s just a bandaid for your conscience with the same infected wound under the surface.

Weird man, had no idea that rupert murdock bought MySpace?