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Trump's 'Truth Social', is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit (www.vice.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Westerners keep thinking that one of their advantages over somewhere like China is that apparently they're free to criticize the government's tyranny as much as they want and however they want in the media.

Yeah, between their "criticisms" mostly being memes and shitposts, the government just ignoring them, and them only doing it when it's convenient for them, it's working real great as a tool for improving their countries isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I think this is the real genius of the western system. People easily conflate their freedom to scream into the void with having actual power. There's a pretty big difference between being able to criticize the system and being an actual stakeholder.