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Very clearly fake. Come on lemmy, don't turn into reddit, please.
sorry, what else would a reddit-clone full of reddit users be? I think a lot of people here are trying hard for this place to be reddit 🤷♀️
I’m certainly one of those who hope this place will remain better than Reddit, but Reddit had a lot of good qualities for a lot of years.
Perhaps instead of generally hating on Reddit, we be more specific about the negative characteristic we don’t want. Are you specifically comolaining about fake content?
The problem is that while I recognize this is fake, it’s a satisfying circle jerk (or is that what you are specifically complaining about?), and is one of the possible answers to “why did they vote like that?”
Early Reddit was more thoughtful and the communities were smaller, Lemmy theoretically could be the same, but a big problem IMO is that all social media has blended together and people are sharing stuff they see on Twitter and Facebook on every other platform.
Social media hadn't been so homogenized during old Reddit, and it was a lot less acceptable to cross pollinate between social media platforms.
The old Internet is just dead, in general. You would have to ban links like this that are just "other social media" on Lemmy. Otherwise, there aren't really any walls between the communities at all.
What is fake? The original tweet sounds like a lot of people you see on interviews on TV...
Maybe it is real, but it so perfectly fit the LeopardsAteMyFace meme that I have to assume it’s fake.
It already is Reddit.
I can't get people to understand that the people who cloned Reddit to make Lemmy didn't make something different, they made a shitty copy. There is clearly no innovation regarding solving the fundamental underlying, unaddressed problems of democratic social media.
Yeah the back end is slightly different, but from the end user perspective, it's a link dump filled with morons.
Until we move to a merit-based system of commenting and posting, we're going to be going in circles looking at stupid memes and misinformation and ill-considered opinions from idiots.
Clone of reddit with a little bit of 4chan edge from feeling antisocial and anti authoritarian in here as well.
I'm not sure how merit based would work but I still think a public shame board of recent bans with their comment or post that got them banned with how long would do a lot to make it more obvious what the mods do and who is repeat offending.
I mostly just try to vote on what is relevant to the conversation but it's a mess on all the social media sites these days.
True. Seems like nothing has changed since the BBS days, that's why I use the language of "fundamental problems" going unsolved.
The "problem" is huge and totally non-trivial.
There was this whole phase of Lemmy where it was looking like an alternative instead of a clone.
So maybe Lemmy was almost like a clone of Schwartz-era reddit, before becoming more of a transplant of post-2014 or even Spez era reddit.
This might be fake, but I have a neighbor like this.
She's been freaking out about groceries, the price of her meds going up, now losing her insurance.
I've helped her out a lot more than any orange has the last few months, yet she still spouts about how great he is. Although now with much less enthusiasm, and if you don't put trumps name in the conversation she sort of comes back to reality a little and can realize that a bill gutting social safety nets to give the 1% a huge tax cut isn't a fair deal.
It's a cult.
stop helping her or anyone like her.
let them live with the consequences of their actions, at fucking least. i could give less of a shit. i don’t care, do you?
“waaaah i voted for hitler and now he’s taking away my medicine waAAAAH”
it’s like, the most narcissistic take bc these people are patently incapable of empathy or critical thinking.
Oh hey look! You are twinsies with Melania Trump
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I Found It! 🎉
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..... I love it.
yeah i was gonna link the image but thought it’d be an obvious enough reference.
the difference is latinos are born that way. nazis choose to be shitty people. saying you flippantly dont care is okay in only one of these scenarios, take a guess on which.
you and the (probably fake) twitter post demonstrate the most important part of US politics:
It's about making sure the right people suffer. Chuds vote for Trump not because they like him particularly, but because it upsets the liberal in their life. When there are consequences, it's not the role of liberals to meet that suffering with a mutually positive vision for the future, but instead to point and go ner ner you deserve it! And the next time Democrats are in control, it's the liberals duty to ignore all the longstanding problems and suffering that has continued through every administration, and instead point to the stock market and say But the economy is actually good dummy!
And the most important thing is that we never expect our government to do anything but dole out suffering to this or that group of people.
refusing to aid and abet fascists in my community has nothing to do with the government’s decisions on who to hurt or help, it’s a personal choice. something most americans seem to have forgotten how to do, which is the real most important part of american politics.
i don’t disagree with the sentiment, but the context you bring it up in is sussy.
A person's actions make them what they are. If this neighbor is calling ICE on people, sure yeah they're a fascist.
But if all this lady did was vote for Trump, that's not really enough. That's barley one action, from over half a year ago. Less than that, if its not even in a swing state. If people are showing regret after seeing whats been happening, fuck I don't know maybe you grow a bigger coalition with honey than with vinegar.
Voting for Trump is plenty. Make Trumpists suffer. The warning signs were all there. He ran a tabloid style ad talking about transgender surgeries in prison. That's how desperate they were to fearmonger. They said immigrants were eating people's cats and dogs. And 77 million people gladly lined up to vote for that naked hatred.
Fuck Trump voters. Hope they choke on their next meal.
Yes yes, so cathartic to imagine. But that's all it is.
Momentary catharsis. You can't build anything out of it, cus if you did, it's ultimately just, "round up all the bad people who disagree with me, let them die, and then everything will be better!" and oops, that's just what Trump is doing
So what you're saying is that there will be massive negative consequences for the actions of Trump and his goons?
Or are you saying that progressives wouldn't be able to do the same thing and that we have to be docile and empathetic to their stupidity and cruelty?
Because it seems to me that there is no possibility of consequences for the Trump administration or for conservatives in general and that this is a roadmap that proves that if they get power like this again there will be, once again, nothing to stop them.
No no no there's a large difference, it's "round up all the bad people who cause lasting harm, let them die, and then everything will be better!". Like it or not, you can not measure good with the same stick as you can measure evil. Not when the systems we've built in do favour "evil as default (and worse, up to some point, so do the rules of physics).
There definitely was a @UltraMAGALady account on xitter that was deleted within the last 24h, but because it was deleted I’m not able to verify this specific post. It does seem very likely that it was real, though.
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Yes, the account existed, but it was brand new and had no followers (according to the same thread on reddit). Therefore it seems unlikely that the screenshotter would have randomly stumbled upon it.
Questions would be:
Was this a sincere account or satire?
Even if sincere, did that post actually exist?
It just seems a bit too much to believe someone would admit it is just for the lulz at making liberals upset. Maybe they admit to it being a bonus but to say it is the point.. Particularly in a scenario where that admission very explicitly amounts to a self own...
Given the account existed and was deleted - ostensibly after going viral - we can surmise that it was not satire. We can also make an educated guess that the post did exist since the account was deleted after going viral.
For the last part, if you don’t personally have thousands of firsthand experiential anecdotes of encountering people exactly like that, I genuinely envy you and your hygge bubble. A staggering number of American Republicans make “owning the libs” their whole personality. This is a natural, inevitable outcome of ur-fascism’s enemy creation propaganda pipeline.
Nothing ever happens
Whether or not this particular one is fake, I guarantee you there are thousands of people just like this.
Yup, anyone saying it's fake is missing that there are many people that think this way.
Maybe you shouldnt engage with the post then, since thats why this garbage gets posted in the first place. If the engagement numbers dropped for these types of posts they'd stop posting them, but here it is with a thousand up votes a d many comments. Its almost like the post is deliberately controversial or something...
Yup. Most are but they’re entertaining.