Voted to fire the asshole in charge of this reality, felt mildly better for a while. Then he came back, and I'm more exhausted than ever.
TikTok is a political scapegoat because they're Chinese-owned, and they have long been taking serious eyeballs & money away from American oligarchs - so said oligarchs are pulling whatever strings are at their disposal to eliminate the outflow of money to places they can't easily get it back from.
Reddit has quite a range of political fiefdoms. Compared to what "X" has become, virtually anything more tolerant of non-right-wing opinions looks significantly more liberal, even though the reality is that much of it is neoliberal at best (i.e. what used to pass for "centrist"). True leftists will tell you that the liberals of today have far more in common with conservatives of decades past than they do with actual leftists. That fact helped cost Harris the election.
When it comes to Twitter/X, you'd be hard pressed to point out other communities that are significantly more extreme in their right-wing audience than those that have flocked to there over the past couple of years. There are plenty of right-wing communities nowadays, but they're all about the same because they're all heavily extremist-leaning - you just can't get much more right-wing without becoming Mussolini (or similar).
In the end, Twitter was attacked because - despite Musk's claims to the contrary - it's undeniable how much extremist right-wing content is favored. If you can't see that, then you seriously need a reality check.
Yeah, it's highly doubtful things will ever be what they actually should, but there still can be some significant improvements made. That kind of shit is most assuredly still going on behind this "in your face" stuff as well. We'll probably never get rid of that, but the overt shit shouldn't be that hard to get legislation done for - IF we ever manage to regain our sanity in this country.
"Ideologues" are everywhere, and you are not exempt from their influence, either - it's just a matter of whether you choose to listen to the ones that tell you what you want to hear, or the ones that are willing to risk losing their audience because they know telling the actual truth is far more important.
As far as I'm concerned, the more individual groups all reaching the same conclusions about Trump the better. The decentralized nature of the revolution will make it that much more difficult to contain.
This isn't news. The grift has been the MO from the beginning. One can only hope once most of the country eventually regains a proper level of sanity that they'll use his years in office as a guide for writing new legislation designed to prevent all his crap from ever happening again.
Still better than those who had to keep working through it - medical professionals, especially.
With that cowl, I'd be worried about a run-in with Bat-Cat in a dark alley - let alone a tunnel.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit...
I admit not knowing how the flow of cases works so maybe he couldn't, but you'd think he'd somehow engineer things to wind up in front of the infamously conservative-friendly fifth circuit.
Then - when you uninstall their short-lived app - Windows doesn't automatically fall back to the app that handled that format before they foisted theirs upon you.
You mean the synopsis didn't effectively give that away?