They’re trying to ban tiktok. I’ve never used it but it’s just because it’s Chinese, social media from any other company based in any other country is just as fucked and unhealthy and unregulated in the US, but they are going to ban it specifically for its country of origin. China pills a lot of weight and the company tiktok is powerful and fighting it in court and all but it seems pretty obvious it’ll go through even under current admin watch–let alone when a direct competitor and owner of Xitter owns the White House.

While yes, you’re logistically correct it would be very difficult to shut down the whole Internet, that’s not the goal, the goal is to massively control it and enshittify it beyond your worst dreams.

Look to China and Russia for "internet"TM

Narrator: "it was, indeed, beyond trust.

And the asshats sold them up to the deadline day, instead of saying stopping sales 5 years ago. Penalizingly anal company.

Not sure if that aphorism is the most appropriate to compare Americans to since it was Bush II who famously didn’t know what the saying was supposed to be.

"…shame…shame on me?”

It’s not complicated; you say whatever you need to get elected in politics. Once elected, only money and a distant second, reelection, matters.

In this battle we have money against stupid racists. Guess which one the administration will serve? They’ll wrap it up by doubling down on MX wall height or something retarded; it will be the first of many shit sandwiches Trump will stuff down his voters throats to their unending surprise.

Edit: well that didn’t take long - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/28/trump-musk-h1b-visas

WWEducation coming right up!

One class to serve them all, laws and cops to bind them.

One class to rule them all, and raw greed to blind them.

Not just the US, seems like a united oligarchy front and initiative; The UK just re-sold the royal mail last week to a billionaire who will move operations and taxation out of the UK in 5 years. Same stupid short-term thinking that got governments in a shitshow to begin with.

Vote by mail and democratic participation smothering is also the goal of privatizing so there is less transparency and accountability and more corruption angles.

Protect your Post CA!

Maybe the deep south is our poison reflex to vomit; the deep south knows it’s the sickest part of a dying patient and is trying to eject the venom.

I can’t help with that, but let me transfer you to someone who you’ll get to explain it all to over again.

Moore was way to the left of Obama and always has been. What you want, him to get up on stage at every moderate and right winger and shout “I’m still correct and more progressive that you are” to prove he’s consistent?

Dude hasn’t changed what he does since the beginning, maybe pay attention.

He’s been on a roll since 1989 with Roger and Me, the hell do you mean “lately”?

If you’re shocked that broad corporate fair-weather astroturfing wasn’t actually what it claimed, you were naive. The speed coming the other way–from not acknowledging LGBTQ or other minority groups existed as humans who deserve a voice or consideration to sponsoring pride shirts and hiring visibly tokenized figureheads–should have been indicative the change wasn’t organic, which means it wasn’t going to stick at the first pressure; economic, political, or other.

Companies largely follow non-discrimination laws related to employment not because it’s the right thing to do, but because they can be sued easily under federal and many states’ employment laws. Don’t put your time into company-run employee groups, put it into getting progressives elected and engaging with unionization so you can take your place at the table rather than waiting for it to be given.

They have to make a statement, they’re attempting to not hide but also not enrage further. They, of course, because they can’t be honest nor fix the structural issue that is the cause of the problem in the first place, failed.

To directly fund the president’s choice of Bitcoin reserve to the spectacular enrichment of himself, Texas and anyone else in the know. The oil rush is on and there will only be one winner…

David is right up there with Samuel L Jackson for me in his unique and satisfying delivery of the F-word and it’s derivatives.

Yeah we can all trust Meta, who never should have been allowed to purchase Whatsapp for antitrust reasons exactly like this. Whatsapp was innovative and very successful outside the US, rather than compete with their own decent product Facebook just absorbed them and gulped their users.

In a radical departure from the past few thousand years…

Sure: now that they know Elon is going to force through or dismantle any approvals still needed to drive with unproven tech, they may as well not miss the boat.

The Luddite - An anticapitalist Tech blog helped me understand why these seemingly contradictory worldviews don’t necessarily have to be–its a matter of what and for whom technology has been put to use.

As an example, Louis Pasteur gave away his patent for the good of medicine. It sounds almost impossible to believe against the modern backdrop of pharmaceutical companies that don’t even want to develop cures, they want “subscription” customers.

People have been trained now that since no one watches out for them they have to take their pound of flesh however it can be gotten–this is what stands out to people when they talk about societal decay, selfishness and anomie but it can be difficult to put ones finger on without understanding the workings of the machine.