@dgh It's important that during this time of the powerful abusing their power that we don't hand that power to someone else just to repeat the cycle.
Unfortunately, protecting megacorps from the consequences of their own decisions is a bipartisan effort. Only a few fringe players on either side of the political spectrum are willing to say "we should let companies that make bad decisions fail".
Whenever the government picks winners, they break the system, and the resulting organizations will be broken and corrupt and useless. The companies that spent all their profits on stock buybacks should face the consequences in bad times. That's the solution to stock buybacks.
Whenever the government picks winners, they break the system, and the resulting organizations will be broken and corrupt and useless. The companies that spent all their profits on stock buybacks should face the consequences in bad times. That's the solution to stock buybacks.
@AlexJones According to the left and Adolf Hitler, Asians are honorary whites. Why do they care about honorary whites being attacked?
@eff It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with Trump. Realizing that Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and all kicked off a sitting president should scare everyone. Even if you hate Trump, next time it might be your guy, and what then? You can't exactly be outraged, you loved big tech censorship when it was attacking your political enemies!
@AlexJones doesn't sound like a bad idea, to be honest. On the other hand, pretty sure I checked the box.
In Canada, a comedian named Rick Mercer did political comedy for years, first on a show called this hour has 22 minutes and later on a show called Rick Mercer report. He retired a few years back and wrote a book consisting largely of his rants from over the years (his most famous bit) but also some vingettes from his career. I was reading the book and one thing sort of caught my attention.
He had a rant about how he saw someone in a comment section with a pseudonym say "I want this guy to die horribly". He called it a death threat, and called for people to use their real names online.
In light of what the world has become, I realized something: "I wish that guy would die" isn't a death threat, but "express your opinions using your real name online" might be.
Rick is gay, so he MUST realize that just a little while ago in history gay people had to be pseudonomynous because they would be cancelled by the right because their existence was considered politically bad.
He had a rant about how he saw someone in a comment section with a pseudonym say "I want this guy to die horribly". He called it a death threat, and called for people to use their real names online.
In light of what the world has become, I realized something: "I wish that guy would die" isn't a death threat, but "express your opinions using your real name online" might be.
Rick is gay, so he MUST realize that just a little while ago in history gay people had to be pseudonomynous because they would be cancelled by the right because their existence was considered politically bad.
@pluralistic in the past few months I've realized that the only platform, the only storage device you can trust is your own, and even then it's only if you have the data in file formats you don't need to ask permission to use.
I think there's a lot of money to be made in packaging up self-sufficiency and making it available to people who don't have the skill set to do it themselves.
I think there's a lot of money to be made in packaging up self-sufficiency and making it available to people who don't have the skill set to do it themselves.
Twitter don't need to cuss on their site to get views. Well I do. So fuck them and fuck you too!
@MisterRogersSnapped @CoolKittyClub I assume they're referring to the creator God almighty.
I think vice should start working on that front, fight for censorship in the name of God. Then the left's transformation into the religious right will be complete.
I think vice should start working on that front, fight for censorship in the name of God. Then the left's transformation into the religious right will be complete.
@CoolKittyClub a group using communal software and contributing to a communal ecosystem where each uses what they need and each contributes what they can and doing it largely for free to fight the power of censorious megacorps, and that's far-right.
If thats fascist then slap a swatzika on me and call me Adolf!
If thats fascist then slap a swatzika on me and call me Adolf!
@ethot with very few documented side effects, get your kicks with nginx! (Bing!)
I just imagine a 50s radio jingle every time I hear the name
I just imagine a 50s radio jingle every time I hear the name
In RPG terms, is turning saying the n-word into a rallying cry for freedom for people around the world considered a critical fail for the progressives?
Catching up with last night's @RekietaLaw stream. Has anyone else noticed the difference between Biden and Trump with respect to taking credit? Trump spent half his press conferences calling out specific members of his team for doing good stuff, Biden claims he did everything himself.
@freedompatriot I bought a NAS to keep the most important stuff on a local raid array. The only platform you can ultimately trust is your own.