Reddit 100% was censoring and shadow banning any kbin or lemmy mentions.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if reddit actively promoted or even creates negative comments. There was a precedent of people abandoning Digg so they were clearly very aware and afraid.

At the end of the day it’s impossible to tell with these incredibly opaque networks. It’s even hard to confirm comment visibility as Reddit employs data fudging and shadow banning.

Just another reminder that nothing any closed source social media says should be trusted, ever.

That’s literally what half of your leaders want too, no? Literally almost every republican agrees with this.

What is this magical “Status quo” word supposed to mean here? Because Trumps is everything status quo and even more direct so. He’s literally supported by billionaires and republicans that run US right now.

There’s much mental acrobatics here when the reality is much more simple. People are fucking stupid and american 2 party democratic system is fundamentally broken

I feel like this sort of logical acrobatics is exactly the cause that got you guys there. In other countries we’d call spade a spade and get on with it.

Americans will literally do anything else but accept responsibility.

Don’t really see the causation here especially since Trump was already a president before! Where’s the change here?

The first black women president was right there and yet the turn-out was lower than Biden who’s a generic white politician.

Sorry no matter how I look at it, I don’t see any signals to validate this claim.

if Americans truly wanted change that badly they would have voted 3rd party and amend their stupid political system. Voting for Trump is not wanting change — it’s wanting to justify your own terrible person.

“people want change” is such a cop out. If you actually listen to these people then it’s pretty clear they’re just fucking stupid.

People need therapy and education.

Yes I’m perfectly familiar with “survivors bias” but never seen it so extreme.

Yeah but almost every American I meet here traveling in SEA or Europe is a perfectly reasonable person.

Dunno I just am in such disbelief that my world experience doesn’t match reality at all. I even consider myself pretty well traveled with 20 years of experience traveling around the globe though admittedly I’ve never been to the USA yet and I fear I might not get to see Yellowstone or Big Sur ever at this point or do I even want to?

Kinda sucks to be a fan of US now ngl.

• political institutions should promotoe individual rights and social equality
• critqued organized religion
• the government should serve the people
• wrote the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls” during civil war
• people have the inherit right to reform and/or dismantle oppresive goverments
• all individuals possess inalienable rights (human rights basically)

That’s what I gather from his wiki and some chatgpt queries. Never heard of him before (not an american) but honestly — I’m a big fan now.

US is system is so bad. The constant pandering to “founding fathers” as if it’s even possible to have strong enough vision that it would last 200+ years and refusal to innovate past the ridiculous two party system is just sad tbh.

Yet nothing will change because you can’t change these things without a revolution apparently.

Yeah but basically everyone I follow from podcasters to tech developers are all non-idiots and I assume their following are also mostly non-idiots. Where are all of these idiots hiding? The contrast between US soft power export and actual average americans is colossal.

Why are americans so stupid and yet manage to export so much smart stuff from tech to podcasts to scientists. Is it some sort of dystopia where 1% rules, 20% live in a bubble and 79% are just brain dead idiots?

I disagree, this flip-flop logic is what drags down the movement and allows “no billionaires except the ones I like” idea to poison the public discourse. If we collectively stick to a unified view we have much more power in changing things.

The point is that there is no “better ones”. The billionaire should not be socially acceptable concept ever. Full stop.

nah million USD isn’t as much money as it used to be. That’s a house and couple of cars in more expensive countries. Though, personally 1 million USD net worth would be more than enough for me and my family.

Why should I restrict my limited lifetime on contributing pennies to solving this issue when there are mountains of gold right there doing nothing? I’m not bending over backwards unless the big ones bend with me — pretty fair stance to take, right?

Why is “death for billionaires” so taboo though? Clearly they’re damaging our society much more than a single murderer or marijuana carrier and yet we have no problem accepting that these people should be punished socially but if you mention guillotines for billionaires then suddenly you’re an extremist.

Try mentioning this to Tailor Swift fans and you’ll get immediately crucified. We should normalize the idea that THERE ARE NO ETHICAL BILLIONAIRES. Period.

It’s a staggering amount of wealth that allows to do shit like this and why do we tolerate this is will be eternally confusing to me.

Not only is this an issue of equality but it’s a social issue as well. People stop taking public responsibility issues like pollution or climate change seriously because “if private jets are legal then why should I do anything?”.

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