The stock is so comically overpriced. Over 100 p/e. Nobody at Reddit is crying because it can't stay inflated forever. They're likely already all out.
UnderpantsWeevil
joined 2 years ago
It's crazy to think how hard people work to evade the system that is designed to get you to leave.
Like, it speaks to the addictive nature of social media. How many hours? How much research? How many different angles of attack? All to... what? Shout "Donald Trump is a bad president" into the void amid a sea of bots and /r/HailCorporate influencer accounts? (Incidentally, RIP HailCorporate).
Real CTH hours. Old enough to remember when that whole sub got nuked for posting John Brown memes.
Reddit doesn't want users participating in the site. They want eyes looking at ads and that's it. Look, don't touch. We've got bots for touching.
Lurkers are more lucrative than posters.
Do people forget 2016?
Yes. That's how Trump wins in 2024.
Millions of us are losing basic human rights for a while now.
The eugenists insisting that humanity is failed and we need a grand culling to fix it are at the forefront of that effort.
Americans after one bad election: "Everyone in the whole history of the world is trash and we should all be exterminated"
It's so tiresome to read people regurgitating 50s era John Bircher agitprop that was churned out by the same folks lynching Emitt Till and Michael Donald.
One of my favorite old "Soviet" jokes is about a CIA agent and a KGB agent sharing a drink at a bar in Berlin.
The CIA agent says "We Americans are always so impressed with Soviet propaganda. You can get so many people from so many countries and in so many languages to believe the exact same things. Incredible."
The KGB smiles and drinks, then responds "Thank you. But the things you get people to believe are truly incredible. We can't hold a candle to the America propagandists."
The CIA agent sputters in indignantion before relying "Nonsense! Americans don't use propaganda!"
The KGB agent just laughs and finishes his drink.
get ready to live like the Slavs did under the Soviets
It's funny because this story could just as easily be about an LGBTQ community living in Reagan's America or hippies living under Nixon.
Some of us are way ahead of you.
The problem is that (as has been mentioned up thread) implicit threats are powerful because of the way they destroy a community's history.
You can stay silent for a while and fly under the radar and get by. But eventually, you get older and you need to communicate the "correct" ideas to a generation that has only ever heard the party line.
How do you convey to your kids and grandkids that eugenics isn't good science, that vaccines don't cause autism, or that homosexuality isn't a sin when you've got the government blaring the opposite and you're too afraid you'll be inadvertently ratted out by a tactless youth?
Over a long enough timeline, you either need the legitimacy of open opposition or you need to recognize that your belief system will die with you.
I'm a regular Lemmy hater. And I'll happily list off all the obvious habits (and even entire communities) that Lemmy has inherited from the R-word site.
But I'll say this much in Lemmy's favor. It's not Voat. It's not 8chan. It's not Rumble.
The liberals and leftists that decamped Spez's Omalas for something better do seem genuinely interested in pursuing it. They're not turning this iteration of social media into some cesspool of scams, snuff films, and child porn.
You'd think that would be an easy bar to clear, but this community has done it while so many others haven't.
Basically, I said Hamas committed a horrible act
The problem with liberals is that they feel the need to apologize even before they make their point.
Then they're shocked by how easy it is to bully them.
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