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make use of AI.

Actually Indians.

get elected

gut food safety regulations

everyone gets parasites!

that’s pretty dystopian

communists will mostly discuss communism and related

the comparison is very necessary when the problems and contradictions in the countries being smeared pale in comparison.

we have reservations about, and criticize them all the time.

what i don’t really see being tolerated is insistent propaganda talking points or trolling, and even then most will talk to you if you are reasonable.

criticizing trump or us military interventions is pretty much all i do on ml, grad, hexbear

i eventually leave or get banned from the anarcho lib comms for doing that.

whataboutism is a thought-terminating cliche.

it ends up a very effective way of shutting down comparison between them.

leftists* are rampant on the fediverse

… and just resets the cycle

i’m both satisfied with my decision to leave mainstream social media and i’d like the landscape to be better.

but also shame on apple for making it so hard

now? it has been doing it for decades, just elsewhere.

and like linux, we can figure those shortcomings out and slowly figure out how to solve them.

its ok for small comms to remain small, but something can bring the mainstream to better options, much like something brought them to the current mainstream over other niche and mainstream options in the first place.

there’s budding discussion about this on asklemmy atm.

the ideologically better option has reasons to be better. they are just longer term reasons that have to be sold and explored to it’s potential within our constraints. we have to show it’s good.

the fediverse itself is an experiment in this, and i say we are growing a nice community over here that could eventually bring more people in, or at least shift perception and use of the internet in a healthier direction. not unlike some of our predecessors.

if people are impressionable, they can be swayed. it just feels immovable because it takes time, but culture can and does change.

someone else had to convince them the landscape we are in was worth investing into, it was just not with words but fame, dopamine and a bit of cash. we could probably make freedom from corporations more compelling, because it is quite compelling.

we do have to collectively figure it out somehow though. a lot of current society’s problems trace back to social media.

and well, that responsibility is on our kinda people right now.

all i understand atm is your projection.

If you begin to question what is or is not a genocide as a laymen

…this you?

also, aren’t we on a thread about politically motivated censoring of an app?

oooh. so it’s just projection got it. just don’t hate on others just because you hate yourself. follow your own advice and get some therapy.

but hey, if you really wanna do something about it, you can always let go of your empty “anticorporatism” and actually learn from somewhere other than hollywood movies. there is hope.