• voodooattack@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    From the way American mega-corporations are going all-in on this, it seems like a long-term choice; so I think it’s one of two things: the shareholders are demanding that they go full republican (which isn’t happening AFAIK), or they’re trying to survive because they know something you don’t.

    Disclaimer: not a US citizen/resident, but sad to see this happening tbh.

    Edit: or it’s short-term and caused by Trump pressuring everybody to do controversial stuff in order to distract the public from the Epstein files.

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      2 months ago

      Silicon Valley elites quietly became deeply entrenched in some wild god-complex groupthink over the last 5-10 years, and it aligns fairly well with fascism.

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      They are on it just as much as they were on progressive issues very little time ago. Corpos don’t have believes, they do what they think will bring them more money now

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    I deleted my Facebook account in 2009. I started an IG account in 2021 that was 100% for comic book stuff. Deleted that one last night.

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    I just had the opportunity to purchase “AI” eyeglasses. They do recording, pictures, capture audio, supposedly let you talk to them, etc. IIRC the frames were by Ray Ban, they didn’t look awful.

    They were powered by Meta. That was an instant hard pass for me.

    TBF I’d probably have skipped them anyway, but if they’d been some other company I’d have at least been intrigued and given them another look.

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    Facebook has really taken the mask off, like X, and societies seem to care so little it might be time for them to get the Old Yeller treatment. I remember the old Deus Ex games, and some of the themes are so irrelevant nowadays simply because they have stopped being dystopian fiction.

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      LOL what mask? Have you been living under a rock?

      This was 5 years ago, and plenty other regime plants like him in all social media companies.

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    We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation

    “You’re a woman, that’s a mental illnessl” is apparently completely OK?

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      Is there actually something behind all these comments about his appearance, or is it just typical internet name-calling that mostly falls into the same anti-LGBTQ+ bucket?

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        It’s a typical Blue MAGA thing where everything they are supposed to stand for, and the main thing that differentiates them from Red MAGA can be forgotten.
        Everything is allowed when it’s against their enemy.
        Racism, misoginy, you name it.
        Scratch a liberal…

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        I guess that’s what makes it funny they are anti what they remind ppl of. Don’t hate thy self, push toward others is what she is projecting.