You first. I recommend starting out by posting your intentions on social media.

the_donald started as a joke on the Internet. (And those who pointed out the joke were extremely quickly banned.)

This administration is doing just fine at manipulating index funds.

Really, federal congresspeople shouldn’t need investments at all. A savings account or government bonds are enough. We can pay them a bit more to compensate if needed.

But they shouldn’t have any corporate dependency.

Reagan.

It’s still not great, even if it’s better than the alternative. Certainly better if you’re forced into it rather than stepping into that habit willingly.

Don’t comply in advance.

No, but it clearly wasn’t the solution. They likely could have used some of those people they fired for that.

Is that the oil that Russia is now importing after losing infrastructure?

Because they’re either trained to shit on democrats at every single opportunity, or they’re training others.

pushing people towards specific ideas using social media

I’ve been incredibly concerned about this for more than a decade. Watching r/the_donald in action was incredible and validated all of that fear.

And it’s still happening. On all social media, including here.

Certain narratives are pushed hard, and it’s effective. Some of it is fully genuine. Some of it is/was seeded artificially and picked up some genuine steam, and is still being reinforced. The stuff that’s fully artificial seems to be dropped fairly quickly most of the time these days.

After the artificial narrative picks up and gets genuine sentiment mixed with it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. If you can mix it in with existing emotions, like anger that we’re in this situation, and add in some seeds of truth it works even better.

Propaganda works. On all of us. And just by being here, we’re being exposed. But I’m afraid to leave, too. The more real people leave the easier it is to manipulate the remainder.

It’s just all so easy and effective and actually happening. And the alarm bells about it aren’t loud enough.

“cheap points”

This is exactly what even the most cynical of us wanted.

Who says anyone is surprised? It’s still important to point it out.

Regardless of how bad it is, the lightning bolt is clearly intended as nazi shit.

They’re not good at making swastikas either, but no matter how deformed they still count as nazi shit.

And 4chan is anonymous social media where you don’t even have to create a fictitious user history or have a reputation. You can literally just post a thousand times a day. More if it’s your job and you have help.

By far the easiest social media to manipulate.

America is currently unavailable. Please try back in 4 years.

anything will become the justification for using the military on its own people.

Especially around voting time.

Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.

Sure, but I don’t really give a shit about some minor whitewashing of Trump if it helps put a stop to actual suffering.

He’s always been too dumb to do most of this shit anyway. I guarantee the pump and dumps aren’t his original idea, whether he’s in on it or not.

I need my Omnissa Remote Client (VMWare) to work on Wayland with multiple monitors and I’d be good to go.

As it is, I have to use Windows for work.

Ubuntu didn’t work, but PopOS with Nvidia drivers built in works great.

Yeah, I am on .World which for some reason still federates with .ml. I’ve moved over to Piefed on Desktop, just not on mobile yet.