[–] 1 point 1 week ago

If, somehow this next midterm election goes well, then maybe there's a mild chance at a more peaceful methods. I doubt it. It'll be business as usual in a few years. The next round of fascism will be elected in the next election, another neoliberal supporting genocide will be on the Democratic ticket and another round of madness of fascism ensues. Frankly, the US as a democracy has been officially dead since the Supreme Court gave the president immunity from anything. How can you run a democracy with such power in one person?

There's undercover thugs kidnapping and murdering people. There's a president making $6 million a day from illegal trading. There's a new focus on domestic left wing "terrorism". But not a peep from the masses. It's business as usual, as always.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You're almost there. Fight for democracy. The Nazis are in charge now and they're fundamentally dismantling our democratic institutions. These CEOs are instrumental in this dismantling, there's no more peaceful protests that will reverse this course. We've fought Nazis before, we'll do it again.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Rich-asshole/CEO-says-a-thing journalism. They say something completely absurd, and it actually makes its way around the news and memes. I swear, if we stop reporting these imbeciles and sharing this nonsense, half of the internet would have no idea what to do. The internet thrives and dies on these stupid souless pointless reactionary news articles, Tiktok dancing and tide-pod eating/trendy bullshit, and LLM stupidity.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    For people who want an opinionated browser... Yes. They have sponsored shortcuts which cannot be disabled and they ghost out the option to in the settings. If you want to dig around the about:config and tweak things, fine, but I'd rather use a browser I can make my own. Librewolf is excellently bare bones.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Life is just good enough where most people don't care as much, because their frame of reference is the one small bad act that just happened. Bad things progressing slowly over time is the strategy of fascists. Most people don't realize what has been lost, they largely only remember when it affects them personally. The goalposts have been incrementally moving, shifting chaos into normalcy. As long as things get worse slowly, most people won't notice. Social media has only exacerbated the short attention spans of the masses.

    The planet's climate is catastrophically changing, dictatorships are emerging all over the world and even in your own country, and a few rich assholes literally own everything, but god forbid, we can't stop working or scrolling Tiktok.

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