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  • Looks like more content creators will migrate to Nebula. Or people's Patreon will get flooded with more donations.

  • The right wing elites and their billionaire donors captured social media for propaganda.

  • While I can't speak for others, as an immigrant, there are times when i hear of news of immigrants committing crimes and in my mind I say "oh jeez you are making us look bad!" Eventually, it dawned on me that one of the reasons as to why immigrants throw other immigrants under the bus is because the former think it's signalling to locals that "we're one of the good ones. See! Please don't hurt us." It's like with any oppressed groups where they occasionally feel the need to sacrifice some of their members to the oppressors in the vain and pathetic attempt of self-preservation. It is a similar thing with "Jews for Hitler" group.

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  • Google used to be "hey, we're different. We listen to our employees and "don't do evil!"

    Who would have thought that if money is the bottom line, companies eventually do evil. I'm not surprised about what turned out. Enshittification is real.

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  • Google chose to do business with the military and Israel despite protests from their own employees.

  • The picture is beautiful and captured how big and grandiose the dam is. New Vegas didn't manage to make the dam awe inspiring. There is a rumour of remaking New Vegas and hopefully that they re-skin and enlarge the scale of the dam.

  • Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.

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  • It's not authoritarianism if I do it!

  • And do they think Trump and Project 2025 will care about their opinion? Even if Trump leaves, the technofascists imprinted themselves all over the US institution. Next project will be Project 2060, war with China. And then finally, Project 2077-- which is to blow up the world for fiduciary responsibility. Enclave is real, boys and girls!

  • I came up with a 20-30% rule. Roughly each quarter of population is always divided into different political camps. It's not what I experimented and surveyed on but it's what I have always observed in terms of voting patterns since history, especially in Europe. The Nazis won only about a quarter of voting population but they had to form a coalition to form a government. Similarly, the various Spanish left wing parties also had to form a coalition with each other before the Spanish Civil War, until the losing right wingers staged a coup to take power sparking the civil war.

    If we look at the voting pattern as well in the previous American presidential elections, only 60% of eligible voting population went to the polling booth. More than half of those who voted elected Trump while the other remaining elected Kamala. So, of those who voted, about 30-35% elected for either candidates. Those who did not vote comprise 40% and they did not do so for various reasons. It's safe to assume that of those 40%, half are either liberal/left or right/conservative who did not feel energised by either Kamala or Trump and would rather elect their own preferred candidate (Sanders, Jill Stein, Haley etc).

    Those are just my guesstimate but it roughly correlates with voting patterns in various countries if ranked choice voting and proportional representation happens. Even though some countries with no ranked choise and proportional representation, about one quarter of people are of certain inclinations. So, it is unsurprising that 30% of Americans are fascists supporting Trump. Those adjacent or apologists of Trump may not be outright fascists, but are enablers or useful idiots.

  • AMD is an industry leader with a huge economic moat and I think they will be okay when the bubble pops. I'm not sure about Nvidia though, despite having superb chips, because the problem is they loaned to companies to buy their chips. So, Nvidia's finances will be strained because Jensen Huang created a ponzi scheme that could not repay or be profitable to itself.

  • US is the only country that i know of that institutionally deny climate change because the Republican party, with their corporate donors, is still considered a viable political party by Americans. And they won't do such a thing if there aren't enough people who don't believe in climate change.

  • If you wanna suck Putin's dick as part of your dechovschina we ain't judging.

  • Cruelty is the point.

  • People say that, but remember Hillary won by popular vote. The electoral college screwed her over because of its convoluted rules that made Drumpf win by technicality. However, it's a different story in 2024, with Kamala only coming in at the last second with little time to prepare and her flip flopping neoliberal policies did not win enough voters.

  • I think it's mainly Americans who don't believe in climate change. I don't live in the US but I am yet to meet a non-American who does not believe it's real. Although, unfortunately, said people may think climate change is real but it is at the bottom of their priority. The far right idiotically and pathetically fail to link climate change with migration. The former think migrants simply want to cause havoc. Most people don't leave their places unless it's economic, which climate change is wreaking havoc upon because the vulnerable and poor global south don't have the means to cope with warming weather that causes drought. Meanwhile, the billionaires are laughing all the way to the bank and stringing us along like puppets. And we are all too happy to be played upon.

  • And WiFi

  • He was taken aback and hasn't said anything. A lot of people would not have heard of things that are unequivocally bad about billionaires because social media algorithms glaze them for the masses, and opt out the billionaires' assault on social progress and democracy.

  • What made English the dominant language is not just because of colonisation, but also because the structure and rules are simpler than other languages. Adding those adds unnecessary complexities!

  • We are all in a bubble. Social media algorithms puts everyone to a certain narrative based on one's interests and miss the bigger picture. I spoke to a guy who seems to be right leaning, kinda believes in outdated preconceptions such as men are naturally inclined to be spreading his seeds and cited billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. I told him most of Elon Musk's children are IVF-conceived.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Non-Americans, how and what do the news and social media in your country portray the US?

  • memes @lemmy.world

    Don't raise taxes on them because innovation

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    Reality can be disappointing

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Are kintsugi kits all the same, or are some brands better than others?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Which actors you admire that you really wish not to have any scandals?