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Bernie knew this, to his credit, and made a point to repeat it often, but people weren't hearing it.

How this is called that when "lemmygetnaked" would've been infinitely better I'll never know...

We should not forget that these people scrunched up their faces at Twitter itself for years and said ”but what is it?” Only in the fullness of time did it permeate our entire society.

This is a very good point. I think the longevity and robustness of the ecosystem matters more than the active user count today. Eventually through pure erosion lemmy and other decentralized platforms could wind up winning in popularity as well if things get worse everywhere else and they're stable enough to continue adding new users.

Being overly informed is a trap. You definitely don't need to know every bowel movement Trump takes. I'm sure they'll eventually prove scientifically that consuming the constant barrage of doom news impairs your ability to effectively plan, reason, and organize. The political news ecosystem in this country seems intended to give everyone ADHD.

Yeah it's definitely conditional and worse the younger you are. If you own a place or have owned a place for a while your overall cost of living is treading water and in some cases even going down over time. That's definitely not the case for renters.

I wouldn't fuck with VW after their "eco-diesel" bullshit from a decade or two ago. But I would probably still prefer them to Tesla if they were the only two car companies.

This post has an excellent comments section for improving your blocklist.

Social media is doing everything in the establishment’s favor

For about half a second, people used social media to organize. Then the fascists saw how to manipulate and control it, and jumped at the opportunity. At this point social media -- especially billionaire controlled social media -- is just part of the fascist apparatus.

To a lesser extent, as this article talks about, the coping mechanism of posting through better platforms allows you to vent enough to prevent you from having the discomfort necessary to actually do anything. It's not nearly as harmful, but it's not good either.

Is signal not good enough or something? I basically switched to signal.

100000000% agree

Meanwhile 🦗🦗🦗🦗 from the genocide Joe caucus.

Appeasement will not save anyone from the night of long knives.