I just hope some actual consequences happen to these disingenuous shitbirds. After the charges in Michigan earlier this week I’m hopeful.

Thank you. Call this shit out for what it is every time.

I really don’t understand this attitude after how far the entire country backslide under Trump after 2016.

Like, I get it, I felt the same way in 2016 and pissed away my vote, but you’ve got to realize how counter productive this is after how much more fucked everything got in four years right? Assuming you aren’t leaving the country, you do have to live with the consequences of another Trump presidency and further erosion of your rights.

Have you looked into how those railroad union negotiations ended up, or did you tune out as soon as you had a reason to hold a forever grudge?

He doesn’t even like get us man.

It’s weird that I actually kinda enjoy flossing now ever since I started doing it consistently every night. There’s something satisfying about getting all that gunk out.

I am so tired of seeing this braindead take being used as any sort of “gotcha”.

Great point, and I do think you’re right because that is the most sensible answer to what the motives behind these recent decisions are. There has been a nonstop flow of cheap debt for years that the fed is just now tightening up on.

But these business decisions also happen to align with the interests of deep pocketed bad actors. The why’s of that are conspiracy theories.

People follow the path of least resistance and right now signing up to reddit is still that. Give a link to 1 of 10 or so general lemmy instances at the home page, let people sign up and explore. Offer a few links to some deeper understanding stuff for those who want it.

The couple of people I’ve tried to get to migrate get hit with what they feel is a wall of text trying to understand what the fediverse is, and they’re just straight up not interested in investing any time in this when they can still just easily log into reddit and be on their* way.

Thank you. I think this is an important nit to pick in the context of this particular discussion.

Ignoring the evidence of Musk’s Twitter nonsense benefiting the same people who helped fund his Twitter buy out is something you could attribute Hanlon’s razor to.

Well said, thanks for doing the good work of pointing this out.

See other “grassroots” movements such as the Tea Party, Moms for Liberty, TPUSA, etc for the other side of this. These groups have clear and documented funding from billionaire interest groups and conveniently allow corporate media to conflate such far right groups with progressive movements as the same level of extremism.

Agreed. It’s no coincidence that both Twitter and Reddit are shitting the bed at the same time.

Elon is pretty clearly an actual idiot, and has managed to get by thus far by just having a seemingly endless supply of fuck you money, but this is just capitalism doing the Predator bicep meme with foreign oligarchs to consolidate power.