The older model - a Klingon warrior by repute - was much more robust:-).
Tbf, I think a certain minimum amount of intelligence is required to even qualify for that statement, which I suspect disqualifies most... but yeah, underneath that, there do seem to be a few, like Jeff Bezos.
Though Donald Trump himself I see more like a monkey doing its thing, as much a symptom as a feed-forward cause of his own. I ain't saying that he's not "evil" in his own way, just that he lacks sufficient character for his brand of it to have had any effect at all, if it weren't for the fact that the systems were so broken to begin with. Money (his father's in his case) corrupts.
N-n-nuh uh! It was always a guy, I just helped reveal that truth!
(Whoosh)
It doesn't work, bc no matter how many you put on, it always needs more cowbell.
Bold of you to assume that most people even want that. From what I can tell...
Right, exactly!
Also I was unclear: I am likewise not against the (actual) communist content so much as I am against the "communist" content, i.e. I was saying that it doesn't even look like actual communist content to me. Like, Russia is ostensibly a "democracy", though really is a totalitarian regime, and also capitalist, so to claim that it is "communist"... does not fit with reality itself. And similarly for China. Also, America is bad for being a democracy (BUT!) and being capitalist (B-B-BUT!?) and for supporting genocide (b... 🧠 🦗), while neither Russia nor China somehow does any of those things - certainly not towards its adjoining sovereign nations.
Though you cannot bring up such "facts" or "logic", instead you have to dance to their tune, despite never being told what it even is. And it could change at any time. And they hold community content hostage to your compliance.
Hrm, if this all sounds terribly familiar... we have seen all of this before.
For one thing, even Huffman's Reddit was not as bad as that - it too forced compliance, but at least it was fairly open about that fact. (Here I'm ignoring the toxic userbases, of both Reddit and Lemmy.ml.) And 🤮X🤮 as well, though it seems far worse there (I never had a Twitter account though, so I'm probably hugely biased by seeing only the worst examples that people show here about it). But more to the point, this sounds to me like Maga behavior - regardless of factual evidence, your behavior must conform to comply with their unwritten rules... or else. Far-left vs. far-right, I'm honestly and legitimately not seeing much difference here, especially if Russia is somehow both at the same time (once in fantasy and again in real life).
Although at some point that becomes our problem, for condoning, excusing, painting over, or even simply ignoring the issue. Fortunately, Mbin, PieFed, and Sublinks are doing more about it:-).
Sigh... yup. Much of that has been traced back and shown to not have originated from inside the USA, but it does not matter how it started bc it's endemic now. And regardless of the rhetoric the news itself is pretty violent, with all the reporting of mass shootings - you know, bc they actually happened, except most of the time the for-profit news media doesn't bother anymore, and instead prefers to sell something sexier than all the needless deaths of children.
But you can't wake someone up if they refuse to come into the door in the first place - that is what I meant about labeling content to make it more acceptable to a mainstream audience, so as to boost subscriber counts and thereby increase the overall health of the Fediverse. Being okay with stagnation seems unwise to me, bc it predicates a fall.
And younger ones too!
1+1=2... but one WHAT!?
Except then you get quantum mechanics, and math either no longer models reality, or reality itself doesn't follow math, except conversely math is the only thing that it does follow (sometimes). 😜
It's straws on the backs of straws, all the way down...