• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, notable for codifying and expanding Bush’s drone war and then… somehow getting a Peace Prize for that?

    Also, we can literally blame the rise and prominence of Tom Homan on Obama. So should be still really be cheering for Obama at all, ever?

    Can we fuck off with this pretending that these fucks didn’t enable the situation we’re now literally in? How could we expect our government to go after Trumps crimes when Obama said “we need to look forward, not backward” in respect to going after war crimes?

    Further, can we stop pretending that one corporate social media is better than another corporate social media. Jay Graber talks good game, but so did Zuckerberg, Musk, and Dorsey before they got their billions. You’re just building another billionaire who will turn on you.

    Reminder, Bluesky owes literally millions to Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm. They will have to pay that money back somehow. The enshittification will happen. And I’m sick of the weak loser excuse “We will just move to another shitty corporation with another shitty corporate social media service when this one doesn’t work out.” Cool, and you’ll mint more billionaires each time, you jabronis.

    That’s half the reason people use it.

    That half the reason is only for weird celebrity worshipping jackasses.

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          The practical choices we’ve made have all be war criminals

          Pardon?

          How does this nonsensical comment currently have 5 points? Who upvotes this? Or are they just bots and/or sockpuppets?

          It’s funny how comments like this almost always have a handful of points, regardless of what they say. They don’t even need to make sense.

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                Jesus fucking Christ. I saw what was coming and even though she was far from my choice, I did what I thought mattered more than how I personally felt. Get over yourself, dude. I can look at things and have an opinion and still choose to go with what matters when literal Nazis are on the other side of the equation. Like I said, it’s literally not my fault that more than half the country was too fucking dumb to clock that because they’d been fed the same bullshit for decades.

                Did you forget we’re talking about a fucking twitter replacement, not the fucking election?

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                  Did you forget we’re talking about a fucking twitter replacement, not the fucking election?

                  And you decided to write five paragraphs about Obama and twitter.

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                    Am I, or is that how you’re choosing to read it?

                    Did you forget we’re talking about a fucking twitter replacement, not the fucking election?

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            For the hundredth time. If people are staying home the fault is with the candidate. That’s how voting works. You have to earn votes. Either accept that or get used to losing.

            Not that you liberals are all that upset with the results.

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                Based mod response. I get so sick of purity politics and using that as an excuse to justify letting fascism take control, but people gotta justify their choices somehow…

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                    Not sure if you misinterpreted me here friend, but I was agreeing with you.

                    This has nothing to do with being a mod and everything to do with rational thinking.

                    Yeah, but seeing them together is what I’m happy about.

                    Accepting the responsibility of facing reality has nothing to do with letting fascism take control.

                    I’d disagree, just because the people who refused to see the reality of the situation allowed naked fascism their time behind the wheel again. Plenty of people refuse to see reality how it is and choose to ignore it, sure that ‘things will just work out’ because that’s how it is in media.

                    In fact, if you were paying attention, I voted. Along with all the others that knew what would happen if we didn’t. So in that- WE tried to stop this- did you?

                    You’re preaching to the choir, she definitely wasn’t my first choice, but she was the only sane choice available all things considered.

                    My gripe is not with you, but with people who complain about the politician not being ‘exciting’ enough and using that as an excuse for why they’ve opened the door to removing the rights of myself and my loved ones. The people who feel that perfect isn’t the enemy of good, and that compromise and letting the democrats back in power was absolutely unthinkable (or, as some people told me, they deserved to lose to ‘learn a lesson’).

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                You’re simply wrong. And to tell you you’re wrong I have literally all of human history to show you. In particular the last election. It doesn’t matter what special circumstances you think exists. You have to appeal to the voter. That’s essential that’s the first step and no other step matters if you don’t take that step. You will lose every time if you forget that step.

                You people keep banging your heads against this I don’t know how you don’t get it.

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                    You try to appeal to Reason by telling me that the thing that just failed will work. Just want you to think about that for a second.