OneRedFox

I hear you, and agree it’s unlikely that Lemmy will change the world. But frankly I’m surprised how little faith you have in the platform you help moderate. Why are you doing this if you don’t think what happens here matters?

Even though small internet forums are politically insignificant in the grand scheme of things, certain behaviors/topics can still be annoying for the people who frequent them. Beehaw as an instance is interested in curating a pleasant experience for their users and are simply following through on that by introducing a temporary break from a topic that's prone to ragebait until people have had time to calm down.

Mozilla is looking pretty cooked, NGL.

Oh yeah. I've always thought that Tlaib is the best of the squad members, personally.

She's a DSA member and is endorsed by Detroit's DSA chapter, which only endorses candidates that support:

• A “Green New Deal,” e.g., rapid decarbonization of the economy, a federal jobs guarantee, a just transition;
• Increased Income and Wealth Taxes on the Ultra Wealthy;
• Healthcare as a Right ( i.e. , Medicare for All or state-level single payer proposal);
• Reproductive Rights;
• Enhancing Labor Rights ($15/Hour Minimum Wage, Card Check, Ending Right to Work, etc.);
• Education as a Right ( e.g, , strengthening public schools, pulling the plug on charter school proliferation, free or public colleges);
• Suitable Housing as a Right;
• Clean Water as a Right ( e.g. , ending municipal water shut offs, ending privatization of fresh water);
• Student Debt Relief/Forgiveness;
• Comprehensive Immigration Reform, e.g. , a path to citizenship for all, abolishment of ICE;
• Abolishment of the Death Penalty;
• Abolishment of Private Prisons and an end to mass incarceration;
• Rejection of Corporate Donations/Super PAC Money;
• Ending Wars, U.S. Military Intervention, and Nation-Building;
• Paid Vacation Time, Sick Time, Family Leave, and Childcare;
• No Selling Arms to Human-Rights Violators;
• Extensive Police Reforms ( e.g. , special prosecutors to hold police accountable);
• End the War on Drugs ( e.g. , amnesty for prisoners held on possession charges);
• Justice and national freedom for Palestinians.

Would be nice, but their fanclub seems more interested in blaming everyone else for their humiliating failure this year rather than doing any sort of self-crit or reflection on their dogshit political system, so what they'll probably do instead is just run another uncharismatic shitter and move right. I just hope that there's enough of a demographic shift over the next 4 years that makes it easier for actually good candidates to get into position.

Remember when Bernie Sanders got dismissed as a crackpot Trumpian conspiracy theorist for suggesting that a multi-billionaire owning WaPo influences its coverage? Much like how most of a glacier is underwater, most of the influence is more subtle than this and has been happening behind the scenes for ages; I'm just impressed with how brazen it's getting.

The Pixelfed guy does good work, but video hosting/streaming is the most difficult use-case to compete in due to infrastructure costs; I'm interested to see how he's planning to handle this and I wish him luck.

Occasionally when I'm searching for something, I'll check out some Reddit links and honestly it's a crapshoot as to whether half of the comments have been deleted or not. Useful search results are getting to be a pain to come by.

Yeah, it's really weird that people keep acting like Reddit hasn't been astroturfed to shit for years at this point. I wouldn't trust the product reviews I see there.

My personal favorite from the NYT hall of shit is from back in 1922 when they published an article about Hitler, which uh:

But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.

A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."

lmao

It's been a worthless trash rag for longer than any of us have been alive.

Night in the Woods was made by DemSocs and is basically exploring the consequences of neoliberalism on a rust-belt town.

Infrastructure for a 300 MAU Mastodon instance isn't very much, but if they're paying employees to run it then that will drive expenses up quite a bit compared to how it is with volunteer-run instances.