A valid point.

It’s not getting a lot of coverage, but there is a lot of data to support that this election was firmly stolen and Americans did not choose him. Trump ranting about stolen elections for a decade made it so Democrats are timid to send the same accusations back, worried of being considered flip-floppers after years of claiming our elections are “super duper secure, I’m super cereal.”

Of course, some of us remember similar from 2004, so the idea that our elections have been secure has been a joke for a while. A falsity the Democrats stood on to justify “faith in the system.”

But yeah, most Americans I deal with on the daily are uneducated fucking morons. So you, know, I also don’t put it past these fucking idiots.

Finally, nobody remembers any of the “good” people in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power as anything but “Nazis” and we Americans will fare no differently. That certainly isn’t your fault.

Makes good business sense. Keep everyone on your shitty app and monetize it. I wasn’t for it but understood the greedy fucks behind it.

Not understanding how greed and control are different manifestations of fascism is still on you. Corporations always align with fascists because a corporation is essentially a small kingdom where a handful of Lords make all the decisions for the peasants (workers/consumers).

Plenty of us saw where this was headed because of the API drama.

You think Discord is bad and enshittified now? Just fucking wait.

People need to get on Matrix or XMPP like fucking yesterday.

Good thing to come around on. Mediocrity is the norm, and there’s not really a great reason to hate on it.

It’s like hating on Garfield. Sure, Garfield became really mid after it stopped being just Jim Davis and started being Paws, Inc., but plenty of people still love Garfield so who cares? It’s perfectly okay to enjoy things that aren’t perfect.

Pizzacake is often pretty mid (there’s worse crimes than being mid), but this one is spot-on.

Don Hertzfeldt made some amazing short films with a really, really simple art style.

The message sometimes matters more than the quality of the art. There is still a level of high quality to it despite the seemingly simple art style.

Damn, I didn’t know he got Chris Chan’d. Ugh. So fucking tragic.

Are they getting too high on their own products?

Yes and they literally have turned the idea of Admin Rights into the Divine Right of Kings.

“I know how to be an admin, thus I should run the fucking world.”

When Cisco helped roll out The Great Firewall of China, they made great pains to explain that all they were actually doing was setting up the hardware and software to do what they were already designed to do. Computers and computer networks were never designed to be democratic in nature at all. Now that computers run the world, these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian bought Digg together. They are relaunching it together. I am saying people are attacking the new Digg without considering that maybe, just maybe, Ohanian could be a good steward of a new social media site. I am willing to wait and see, I think he could potentially do good works in this space.

It really helps to read articles or watch the newsclips associated with such news.

Further, a lot of dirt poor people literally rely on Walmart because Walmart was successful at gutting every other business out of their already dirt poor areas. That was literally Walmart’s business model to undersell the competition until they were the only game in town, it’s how they got so huge so fast. Large swathes of the South are like that. There’s a reason they teach their employees how to sign up for food stamps.

No, this is insane:

But, later the same day, the President gave his joint address to Congress, which was largely well received by Americans.

A poll by CNN showed that 69 percent of Americans had a positive reaction to the address, while a CBS News and YouGov poll showed 76 percent approved of it. It was therefore a day of mixed signals for the president, but the shift in Trump’s approval ratings could suggest his honeymoon period in office is nearing its end.

Yes the lie and greivance filled address.

He is a cofounder of this new Digg. He is involved with buying the site along with Kevin Rose.

No… Lemmy users and internet people in general are attacking this reformation of Digg and acting like Alexis Ohanian continues to be a piece of shit and that we should expect the same fast path to enshittification.

I have a hard time thinking that after a long-term relationship with Serena Williams that Ohanian is so out of touch and unable to produce something good. Like I said I am cautiously optimistic

Everyone acts like Alexis Ohanian is an untrustworthy piece of shit because he was a reddit founder.

He is married to Serena Williams. Williams has been a focal point of hate from the right wing for decades (including internationally). Literally years of unnecessary hate and derision on her because she didn’f fit stereotypical beauty guidelines and is a badass tennis player (a very white dominated sport). She also literally has first hand experience of having her medical issues ignored by doctors during her pregnancy, which happens at a far greater rate for black women.

Williams may be rich, but she was never obscene rich, and she got where she was squarely off her real talents. She also was part of a Superbowl show which made a point to critique where America is at and where it is headed, particularly in respect to race relations. A superbowl show that made right wingers collectively melt down.

I’m saying people are acting like she, a black woman who has experienced direct adversity from the right-wing, has no impact on how Ohanian conducts himself or how he approaches life, and that we should expect the same-old, same-old techbro bullshit from him. I just don’t think that’s the case after they’ve been married so long.

Look I get why everybody wants to shit all over this, and for good reasons.

But we can’t all be like “Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl performance was a deep political critique on the problems in America and the resurgence of a racial divide in America!” that literally featured Serena Williams crip walking, and turn around and act like she has zero influence on her husband Alexis Ohanian, his politics, or his understanding of where America is at.

I am cautiously optimistic.

Damn and here I am participating in this boycott for so long without even trying.

Target sucks.

Soon: