There's always a chance...
Up to the point of Terminator robot soldiers, then we're fucked.
By the time we get those, we need to have our shit sorted out.
Power is where people believe it is.
No one really "controls" a military or government, at every step of the chain people can disagree. And when they do, it doesn't always shake out the way people expect.
I was threatened with a mutinity charge in the Navy, but I stood by my position and like five people didn't get demoted over some bullshit that wasn't their fault.
If I'd have backed down, they'd have been fucked because they were the fall guys.
If trump tries to sic the US government on citizens or blue states, don't expect everyone to just follow orders, even if the people at the very top do. They're still the ones sitting at desks.
Look at South Korea, president tried to pull a coup and basically everyone told him to fuck off. Didn't matter that he was in charge of the military and government
so many people would believe otherwise
Just like they did four years ago when the same thing happened....
There's just nothing to gain from intentional fuckery tho, and a very plausible reason.
Even if they "unfollowed" it might not have stuck and if they refreshed it still would have been there.
Things changing on the GUI but not where it actually matters is literally the issue here...
So I 100% believe a bunch of people experienced what you're saying.
They're just confusing client side GUI with server side database.
Comfort.
Gen 1 fights fascism.
Gen 2 enjoys society and understands how much worse it can be.
Gen 3 grows up with all the advantages and privilege, takes it for granted, and burns it down so they don't have to pay for Gen 4 to have it.
- that is when both sides sell out to the oligarchs
Gen 4 is fucked and desperate, and either disengage politically or go with the party that's the best liars.
- that is where we are now.
What comes next?
If we're lucky at the DNC chair election they see the error of their ways, the neoliberals lose their death grip on the party, and shit gets better surprisingly fast. If we're lucky we came close enough to the ground that we go to Gen 2.
If we're not, the left most option sides with the oligarchs over voters, and it's time to affix your own oxygen mask before helping your neighbor. We're back at Gen 1, and it might take a while
Obviously, fuck Meta, but....
“People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook or Instagram accounts for the President, Vice President or First Lady,” he wrote on Threads. “Those accounts are managed by the White House so with a new administration, the content on those Pages changes.
“This is the same procedure we followed during the last presidential transition. It may take some time for follow and unfollow requests to go through as these accounts change hands.”
That sounds like a plausible explanation. If you followed when Biden was president, that same account is now Trump's.
Which means there are likely millions of users either unfollowing or following the account since Monday. I'd be surprised if anyone wanted to hear from both Biden and now trump.
I couldn't find an actual article, but here's people complaining about Instagram doing the same thing four years ago:
Old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/l1y2je/unfollowed_and_blocked_the_white_house_account/
Hell, 4 years ago Biden was bitching that Twitter didn't do this
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/biden-twitter-white-house-accounts/index.html
He's just shitting these out and no agency knows what the fuck is going on.
Like, I laughed that he declared every human a woman, but I'm really starting to think someone is just asking a chatbot to write an executive order that does _____. And then they're not even reading them first.
They dont understand their daily life is subsidized by the federal government, and that cutting those programs means their share of the costs go up.
The majority of red states aren't self sustainable.
If blue states said fuck it and stopped sending the Fed money, it would go broke along with every red state except Texas I think. But they need federal funding every year for climate disasters
"Luigi" was the response to "how do we fight fascism"...
That is the context you were avoiding by not linking.
This isn't an argument, I'm trying to explain something to you.
Yeah, once I noticed the post title it made sense why you removed the comments.
But even without that:
But mods can be stricter than the instance.
It's ridiculous that people leap to the ".world is full of pro-corprate fascists" because they disagree with a single mod.
There's more than few instances I dont like, so I've blocked them and never see them. I don't know why people with the axe to grind against .world dont do the same thing.
Edgy kids just want to find the line and then constantly put their toes over it and claim nothing is allowed because they personally crossed a line.
So...
Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?
Isn't that why we can't have universal healthcare or free education?
Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?
Why are we skipping the good parts?
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It ain't just that, it's making them have the fight.
Not sure how many people remember Project Pat, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbYMfbBB1w
We used to sing it except "ain't going back to mast" because Captain's Mast was the less formal version of Court Martial. At a mast, the Captain could do whatever they wanted and no one higher up even heard about it.
You had to agree to Mast, if you didn't they'd have to take you to court martial where people outside the chain of command got to hear what's going on. The downside is punishment could be much worse.
Some of my guys were getting fucked, so I told everyone to refuse Captain's Mast, and the command backed down because it was obvious they weren't the problem. But our chain of command showed they didn't give a fuck.
Word spread that a 1/3 of my division got out of demotions, and it was all anyone would talk about.
It's why I don't take the idea of the American military being used against Americans very seriously. The vast majority are just there because they have no other options. They hate the military more than most pascifists do. So it doesn't take much for shit to break down.
That's not even getting into how much of the military are minorities, immigrants, or even non-citizens. They're not gonna do what trump wants them to.