The monopoly men have worked very hard over the past one hundred years to stamp out class consciousness in the US. They won’t give in without a fight.
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Post had nothing to do with murder or violence. It is clear who reddit serves.
Bootlickers is the battle ground
If owners control them, they win
If they gain class solidarity, owners lose
The moment Robber Barons were first stopped, they starting working to rig things so they are never stopped again.
The only way to remind them that they have no such power is the French way.
All Tesla dealerships should be on fire by now. Now protected by a wall of obese 'police' that would not pass the most lenient tests to join the police force in any country of the EU.
Now that I'm no longer on Reddit, I feel that I can finally speak my mind.
The only way we will be able to get rid of the billionaires is if we drag them out of their mansions by their hair and stick them into a guillotine. We need to face that they are too powerful for the law to take care of, and I doubt they will let themselves be taxed out of their riches. The only way to get rid of the dragon is to decapitate it.
They're immune to laws. They're immune to protests. Their money is untouchable. But they're touchable. Nobody is immune to ballistics. Nobody really wants to open box number four but I fear we are there.
Hear hear. Hate to quote Dorito Mussolini, but "he who saves the world breaks no laws."
Yeah, it was real nice of him to point that out for the rest of us 😀
I mean, its true. The American Revolutionaries were committing treason until they won against the British.
If you win, your new judicial system would legalized everything you did.
Case in point, the richest one is currently dismantling the world's most powerful government from the inside, with impunity
Because they own the platform.
Hence, why Lemmy was needed.
Lemmy's security is largely in its obscurity. If the community ever gains the degree of popularity or prominence as Reddit, it will succumb to all the same socio-economic pressures.
Hell, Reddit's origin story isn't far off from Lemmy's. A left-wing FOSS guy pioneers a novel means of aggregating information in a relatively decentralized and community-oriented way. But then the capitalists move in, he's arrested, the administration of the site is auctioned off to VCs, and the site is slowly mutated into an echo chamber for neoliberal propagandists and reactionary agitators to scream at one another, drowning everything else out.
Lemmyites want to believe they've engineered a technical solution to what is ultimately a socio-economic problem. The human labor that makes Lemmy work can be attacked and replaced, the communities that form alienated from one another and censored by moderators and dispersed, and the popularity monetized here just like has happened elsewhere.
This isn't a safe social media space. Its just a lingering redoubt in an internet that's been under siege for decades.
As I understand it, the fediverse as a whole is composed of instances, each one communicating with whichever other instances it wishes (the instances acting as social medias of sorts). Each instance is created by people making their own thing, so if one large instance (such as Lemmy.world) were to get taken over by filthy capitalists, someone could simply make a new, separate instance and choose not to federate with Lemmy world. Is this not the case?
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Reddit was never FOSS. Linux is still going stong, even with vested financial interests.
Most importantly, wie have already made the decision to leave traditional social media and build something better. If worst comes to wiorst, we'll find each other again.
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They want to establish the narrative of Luigi-the-terrorist, but human beings know who is the reasonable one.
human beings know who is the reasonable one
I remember people saying that about Julian Assange and Edward Snowden twenty years ago. It didn't take long for popular opinion to turn on them, though. Just call the whistleblowers allies of the opposition party or props of an evil foreign government. Americans hate that. And the American public soured on them rapidly, as a result.
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Saying that the post has nothing to do with violence is pretty dishonest. Why do you think that the person who made the meme used Luigi Mangione instead of Bernie Sanders?
Either way the post didn't explicitly or implicitly encourage violence and should've stayed up.
Why do you think that the person who made the meme used Luigi Mangione instead of Bernie Sanders?
Because Luigi everything has been getting censored by establishment media?
I agree. At most send an advisory message reminding the poster of rules and not to post worse. AT MOST. And I say that as someone who condemns the CEO murder and I don't agree with Luigi being glorified in any way.
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Allegedly
A person can be an idol/totem/icon of resistance. The post does not incite violence, nor does it display any violence. It does not break any rules.
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Let's try the same text with a Nazi salute. Maybe even a literal photo of Hitler. I wonder if they'll stay up. (I expect they will)
You have to use his full name “Luigi Mario” so it doesn’t get taken down.
If the billionaires aren't getting mad at this, they are getting something good from it. Most likely in the form of extreme tax cuts (and the moral type of fraud). They'd have less capital but more for themselves.
It is because Spez is a corporate shill taking that sweet sweet Russian oligarch and Chinese investor money while he bleeds users and data.
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It's not only who they serve that is on full display, it what those in power fear most
They fear it so much that they are ruthlessly crushing it across all social media platforms
This is really one of the biggest problem we have. They influence elections, they influence public opinion, they spin the narrative as they want.
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I feel like the US at this point is a lost cause. The corpos have accumulated way too much lobbying power over the past few years. They will never allow real progressive candidates win major elections. Democrats now have to play the center in order to not upset the corporations. We lost our last real chance to make meaningful change with Bernie in 2016...
Bernie in 2016
DNC komissars denied us that because it was "her turn"
And they have been denying pro worker candidates ever since.
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