It’s also a fucking repeat of the auto-bailouts nearing 20 years ago. At this point its pretty obviously a wealth extraction grift. With fascists and liberals in power they will get socialized bailouts, probably forgiven like the covid trillion dollar wealth transfer.

Replace “tech CEO’s” with “S&P 500 CEO’s”.

America is a corporate dictatorship, where your access to freedom, liberty, and justice are proportional to your level of wealth.

They legislated an antifascist org a terrorist org (Palestinian action).

Conservative fascisms tentacles are deeply embedded in the UK, from surveillance state to political corruption. That’s why Brexit happened, and they remain among the most susceptible to fascism among the developed world.

“Yes. Let’s let a secret police compromise all our private communications. That’ll surely protect us from evil” — Americans, post Snowden leaks, in between the Epstein class raping and murdering another child; a state-sanctioned intelligence operation orchestrated by their secret police.

Around the time anyone with glasses becomes a risk, anyone with or without glasses becomes a risk. At that point miniaturisation will be so advanced that any button or zipper could house the components… and they will.

I am certain most 2020’s state/fed level law enforcement globally do this whenever they have the funding, means, and manpower.

Agreed. I still browse old to see what the mainstream narratives are, but I will never log into an account ever again.

Allowing foreign companies to amass and store data on citizens — especially sensitive &/or government data — should be formally classified as treason.

Even as fascism and capitalism are aggressively using technology to destroy our democracies and wealth equality, “liberals” continue to use our tax dollars to enrich both and build big brother FOR fascism/capitalism.

Just like the Democrats have shifted far right for 50+ years to appease fascists in the USA — just like liberals did through the rise of nazi Germany — liberals everywhere will reject the left, embrace fascism, and abandon democracy sooner than they’ll abandon the implementation of the omnipresent mass surveillance state.

“Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds” — black panthers

If it weren’t obvious yet… The entire Republican party are treasonous criminals beholden to either foreign enemies/oligarchs &/or billionaires, with Russia at the top. The main difference appears to be that the corrupt who make up the Dem majority are beholden to American billionaires and corporations first.

But as they say, a few bad apples spoil the bunch. The absolute corruption was always a certainty once domestic-first corruption was normalised.

Who’s we? You think you or I get to decide what will be censored and silenced?

Unless the protocol is 100% open source, decentralised, user controlled by default, and resistant to unwanted censorship and propaganda, the oligarchs and corporations will ALWAYS be able to seize control and use it against us.

If you genuinely think the solution is yet another billionaire controlled closed for-profit platform, propaganda-promoting algos, and a bunch of bootlicking gatekeepers to censor and moderate it — that can be sold, transferred, and monetised in any way, to anyone, at any time — whelp, the world must be an absolute enigma to you.

Eh. I don’t use bsky, and think most current ICE staff should be imprisoned for terrorism for the rest of their lives, but I don’t want any communications services to decide which entities should and shouldn’t be verified. That’s how you end up with power-tripping mods, propaganda bubbles, and censorship (exactly what fascists are doing with X, fb, tiktok, etc).

The goal should be an open protocol where users/orgs can sign messages cryptographically (like PGP) and every other user can decide which users, feeds, or algos they subscribe to without censorship. Like, if I subscribe to my friends and family (trusted sources), or friends of friends, I don’t want any form of moderation between them and me, but the freedom to sub to moderated topics is also necessary for public (untrusted sources) feeds/comms.

Around the 1970’s the oligarchs realised that the greatest risk to their wealth and power was democracy, so they set about implementing corporate dictatorships and ramped up the class war.

Fascism, culture wars, etc, etc are just a means to achieving their ends; that they can profit from the entire coup.

I was wondering when the seasons would start to visibly collapse… Sigh.

FYI, expect real YoY inflation to be 5%, at the very least, for the rest of your life.

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How about you provide evidence for how something which burns through far more finite resources than necessary is somehow better for society?

Yeah but most people are idiots, so…

Username checks out!

I’ll give you a hand… The implication is that you need to be brain damaged to want a toilet cam.

Have you tried brain damaging yourself? If that fails, repeat until you something or whatever.

Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.

You’re analogous to someone in 2013 arguing that the solution to facebooks crimes/corruption/censorship is to migrate to whatsapp…

Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor, and benefits hostile actors the most; fracturing groups into smaller and smaller bubbles. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables users to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides. The users trust should override anyone else’s.