Oh of course. It can’t possibly be the case that people oppose psychopathic xenophobes who are committing genocide because psychopathic xenophobes committing genocide is something that is rightly opposed. It must be the case that they actually do it because - checks notes - they’re jealous.

Really fucked up that you just watched a video illustrating the gap between western characterizations of a rival country and the reality in that country and completely failed to get the broader point.

All other considerations aside “Thiel-backed” guarantees all by itself that it’s technofascist bullshit explicitly intended to benefit the oligarchs at the expense of everyone else.

Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the tech oligarchs…

Conservatives can’t tolerate people considering why and how a society takes a particular form, because that can lead to them wondering how it could be better, and any honest answer to that question leads away from conservatism.

With Trump playing a role that’s sort of Caligula, Nero and Marie Antoinette all rolled into one.

This is the answer to the internal industry question, “How can we force people to watch our shitty AI translations?”

Those anti-features don’t exist in Lemmy

No, it in fact hasn’t. If anything, it’s been verified by them, because they generally start off by admitting that everything I said is true. It’s just that they then go on to say that it somehow doesn’t count because it’s possible to opt out of those anti-features.

Which misses both the point that the anti-features do exist (as opposed to Lemmy) and do exist because rimu stuck them in there, and that most of the reason it’s possible to opt out of them is because other people - notably wjs018 - added that functionality.

Gonna have to disagree with you on this one.

Much though one might criticize the lemmy devs for their politics, at least they keep it to their instance. They don’t bake it into the software.

And that’s very much as opposed to rimu, whose opinions are at the heart of Piefed and forced into virtually everything the software does from the moment you sign up for a piefed instance, from the preset subscriptions to the reputation tags and default hiding of downvoted content to the list of prohibited sources and banned domains.

All you have to do to avoid Dessalines and Nutonic’s opinions is to avoid their instance and federated ones. But it’s impossible to use Piefed and avoid rimu’s opinions, because they’re baked into the software.

That means it’s low.

Right, but they’re awkwardly blatant about being awful.

Trump, insane and toxic as he is, has this weird charisma that’s hooked in the MAGA morons. Vance and Miller and Vought and Hegseth and the rest of Trump’s fascist coattail-riders don’t share it. I don’t think they could accomplish anywhere near as much without Trump as a figurehead, since even Trump supporters tend to recognize that they’re noxious assholes.

Granted that just getting Trump out of office won’t fix everything, I think it would greatly handicap the fascists.

And if nothing else, he should be removed just because he’s obviously mentally ill, and a president who’s obviously mentally ill should be removed.

It is vividly time for that lunatic to be 25th Amendmented out of office.

If you can be effectively censored by the banning of a site flooded with CSAM, that’s very much your problem and nobody else’s.