all of them were on reddit; they lol’ed and shitposted about various genocides and institutional tortures and it made me leave.

i’m your stereotypical reddit trio: tech, politics & shiposting/memes so i do communities like badposting or us news & politics and linux and i prefer these over the alternatives because of the engagement.

americans & proper grammar/punctuation don’t mix. lol

i would edit my timeline to change things pertaining to my homosexuality: namely avoiding entering my marriage that doma forced me to dissolve and avoiding permanent debt in student loans that dadt forced me to take on; both were a heavy & permanent detrminents to my financial future.

i’m living your preferred alternate timeline and i can assure that things REALLY sucked for people like me so the thought of someone else desiring it blows my mind.

i think maybe i could see it if i were a little bit older so that i could have enjoyed the liberalism of the 70’s; but then the hiv/aids scare would have impacted me even more than it already did.

i don’t bother to simplify it even though i probably should since people hate it so much they try to take their anger out on me.

this is like shrodinger’s immigrant: both lazy and taking all the jobs at the same time

you’re not far off that musk is pro-oligarchy; but framing it as american, russian, or chinese both misses reality and attests to the effectiveness of american propaganda

you laugh but i’ve literally being doing this for the last three years because my colleagues disregard the IT based overhauls we need to get rid of the bottlenecks from our architecture; but also accept that i have to keep doing it or else our client won’t pay us.

even among the labor aristocracy that we call the tech industry; the software developer petite bourgeoisie makes life needlessly difficult for the IT underclass because they think they know better. lol

so he’s pro russia, china, and america at the same time?

I’m sure it’s going to be worse for my nieces and closeted nephew (assuming that my gaydar is correct).

I used to think it sucked having conservative Mexican parents; but maga parents are on a whole other level of worse.

… the left has to organize at grassroots level, by talking to friends and neighbors, organizing mutual aid, and so on…

my ruling class has made it clear that they don’t believe that my fellow countrymen are capable of doing this anymore based on their reaction to the luigi and the worker strikes that have afflicted my country since the election and i hope that it’s just my american liberal indoctrination convincing me so.

It is important to break free from the illusions peddled by the liberals and the conservatives alike…

the liberals are telling us to be nice to each other while the conservatives slowly engulf the anglosphere with their effective propaganda; it’s so effective that the other closest spheres life the french, germans & italians are likewise being subsumed.

… But we must see these comforting lies for what they are. We must awaken to the necessity of systemic change, and the possibility of a new world…

so how is this possible when the biggest liberal parties will take no responsibility nor take any action to buck the trend i described above and meanwhile telling their followers to “be nice to each other” (translation: be nice to the fascists) while the entire western world devolves further into fascism?

My family is exactly like this and my sister keeps her distance and advised me to do the same.

I petulantly refused and got it rubbed in my face 15 years later when I saw the trump flags flying outside their homes during Xmas. I have no intentions in seeing any of them ever again.

youtube is like all heavily backed social media platforms and legacy media; you’re wasting your time is you want something other than bickering or propagandized information.

nothing to do with any praxis and entirely for my own sanity once i became vaguely aware that he was the face of mainstream americana; i likewise don’t do apple or amazon for similar reasons.

i stopped using spotify because of rogan; do you know where i can get a transcript of this?

yes and i suspect that it’s only a matter of time and i’m pessimistic atm because that scale of that time is in centuries like it was for the irish and canada’s first nations.

the unrest will pervade the americas for a very long time given the nature of the natural boundaries and trade traffic through this side of the planet; only periodically quelled by the american military like the ancient egyptians did with their own military and people in the centuries immediately after the bronze age collapse.

the nations the furthest from this declined empire’s imperial core will be the first to shake off the grip and it will cascade; but i suspect that the countries nearest it (both geographically and economically) will be stuck the longest, if not permanently through induced culture change or war.

yes and i bet that’s why my gov’t is responding w the military in peru and i expect that they will do the same w mexico; it’ll be an military iron fisted death grip intended to destroy any attempts at creating an economy through any alternatives like english did to irish. the canadians tried to do something similar to their first nations; but public sentiment changed enough to force them to reverse course and something like this is latin america’s only hope no matter how rich or powerful china gets.

yes, but temporarily so as evidenced by americans actions in south america and africa.

we have a history of making people like leopold blush in our drive towards resource extraction in the global south and the people in peru, ecuador & the congo are about the experience the most modern, painful, and quick version of it because of this.

i had the same thought when i saw the chinese limit gallium and other mineral exports.

Nostr is another fediverse like social media platform that the founder of bluesky created after he realized he had made another mistake like he did in creating twitter.