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[–] 106 points 5 months ago (34 children)

Thank fuck I literally use none of those services.

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  • [–] 53 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    I wish WhatsApp wasn't the main form of communication in my area of the world.

    That's the only one I'm on and it's because I could not convince anyone around me to just use texts or download signal

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yes you should break yourself from all of the US and Israeli tech stack. They cannot be trusted.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    It's hard to get away from the hardware companies through. I'm all AMD because they're a little less evil, but they're in the same AI bubble and also currently doing little in terms of innovation since they already have the performance advantage

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t either. Too bad 99.9% of the rest of the people do.

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    [–] 68 points 5 months ago

    People are talking about it, but the conversations are muffled or muted by those same billionaires.

    Large no kings rallies should have had massive coverage, but were actively ignored by the news who frequently report on a handful of protestors who are promoting hate. Heck, with all of the pro Trump bullshit being a tidal wave of shit it just drowns out everything else so trying to actively discuss problems anywhere but niche communities is like trying to have a conversation in the middle of the dance floor at a rave.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This was a problem decades before Trump took office, and the exact same problem will remain after he's gone.

    Those corporations are "donating" (bribing) every election cycle for a reason, and it's not charity.

    Each candidate has a billion dollars, win or lose... that we know of. Our reps and their entire families are millionaires. Bribery is blatant and legal.

    See Super PACs and Citizens United for further details.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    We are on the losing end of the class war. And it feels like we aren't even trying to fight back.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    A poll came out the other day that put Mamdani +49 (that’s not a typo +49) in New York. People are waking up, all the propaganda in the world cannot change people’s mind when they see someone fighting for their material interests.

    I’ve been in this fight since Bernie in 2016 there are people who’ve been in it much much longer than me.

    We are winning…

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    [–] 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    They said......on twitter/X ... with a blue check...

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Kind of ironic that this was posted on Twitter (X).

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Delete all your accounts, and tell all your friends and family to do the same. Refuse and reject any service designed to fixate your attention. You won't miss them, most people alive today lived in a world without their influence.

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    And some people will defend billionaires saying thjs is just the free market working.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Let me know if and when they take over thelemmyclub, I'll be out of here in a heartbeat

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Lol 185+ stations.

    Sinclair waged this war a decade ago and won. That number needs a couple zeros on it.

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Plus Amazon

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Last season of Westworld was about guiding people through AI to control them. Your destiny was preordained by AI.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We shouldn’t be integrating AI into our lives though. AI sucks.

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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)
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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    The beacon of freedom and democracy, as that loosely arranged attempt at a nation state has been called, certainly is not.

    (Edit: and unlike some people seem to think, it has never ever been) 

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