brucethemoose

100%

My mom went to an integrated school in the South, made friends... but sometimes overheard racist slurs and threats behind closed doors. Same story with family I have now, all pleasent in public, friends with some gay family members. But vehemently anti-vaccine and such behind closed doors... I have horrible stories I can't even repeat.

The duality is unreal.

A question is where that behind-doors comes from... a lot is from church. Church like you've never seen if you haven't been to the South.

Ukraine's enemy is Vladimir Putin's ego.

It's not even like Hitler and WWII. Hitler had plausible strategic reasons to expand Germany's territory and the industrial capacity to do it. So did Japan. Horrendous, but like reasonable in a horrific Machiavellian way.

Russia is... impaling itself over a comparatively tiny strip of territory, and dragging allies in, only because admitting defeat would bruise Putin's public image, and he basically sacrificed his entire economy and brainwashed his people to do it. Russia's actual territory isn't even at risk.

I find it incredible that global warming is skyrocketing, debt is skyrocketing, we have all sorts of existential political and health issues and the thing people worry about is...

Trans people in bathrooms.

Like, what the heck?

Even if I was anti-trans (and I am not), why would I lose so much sleep over that? What's gonna happen, I see what looks like the opposite sex in the bathroom and my head explodes?

Even racial segregation made slightly more sense because actual societal segregation was the existing state, precedent, and public consensus (as horrible as it was) but... trans people are already mixed into the public?

Note this isn't entirely people's fault anymore, algorithms pick the influencer before the person does.

They could absolutely be trained to pick the intellectual instead, but... why would they do that? It would cost them short term engagement, e.g., profit.

Depends how much Musks's companies try to unionize.

Is there any future where the Security Council is abolished?

Like, where everyone gets tired of this shit from the U.S, Russia, and China, and Europe uses their weight to end it?

This is the last antitrust win we'll get for years, isn't it?

I know Trump doesn't like Big Tech, but I doubt his admin will punish them meaningfully, but just rail about censorship.

I fear this is exactly who they're courting.

Yeah, keep saying the message was the problem...

It was the delivery. It wouldn't matter if the Democrats struck up the most revolutionary, amazing, appealing set up policies known to man and Republicans promised to randomly shoot people. The message is not getting there because it's all filtered through influencers and algorithmic feeds people actually pay attention to now. No one (in the US, on average) is reading this Guardian article, or watching cable news, or listening to what their union or neighbors say, or whatever.

Mark my words, Democrats are going to stay on the high horse and lose the next election, no matter how progressive the next candidate is or how much Trump messes up, unless they get into the mud with the propaganda game.

Playing devil's advocate, is there a plausible explanation for this?

It does look like he's rubbing his gums, and there's not a lot of reasons to do that...

How does he use IG?

Assuming its not a parody.