• xenomor@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    79
    ·
    18 hours ago

    Facebook needs to be burned to the ground. I’ll let you decide if that means in a business or physical sense. It is a cancer consuming us from the inside out.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    111
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    19 hours ago

    Meta (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp), X/Twitter, TikTok - all of these are fascist mouthpieces. Consider any information you gain through them to be propaganda.

  • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    44
    ·
    19 hours ago

    I try to not get swept up in “correlation equals causation” and conspiracies, but many of these timings seem really really sus

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    19 hours ago

    Zuck plans on running in 2028 after Trump. His hero he constantly tries to emulate, Augustus Caesar, didn’t run a company. He was an emperor.

    • samus12345@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 hours ago

      He doesn’t have the charisma to be a cult leader, which is a requirement to be a Republican president now.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t see it happening, but if it does…

      People just voted for me. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb fucks.
      —Mark Fuckerberg

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      9 hours ago

      Republicans are already preparing laws for another Trump term in 2028 but he’ll likely need a puppet for 2032

      • gramie@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        8 hours ago

        Given Trump’s physical condition and eating habits, I would be extremely surprised if he even made it to the end of the current term.

        • samus12345@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 hours ago

          His dad lived into his 90s and he has the best medical care on the planet available to him. He’ll probably keep going for a while despite his best efforts.

          • KariKariCrunch@lemmy.worldB
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            15 minutes ago

            Even the best health care eventually can’t keep up with an obese geriatric’s steady diet of McDonald’s and Diet Coke.

    • TheFogan@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      18 hours ago

      Unless democracy is disbanded I don’t see that happening. He may be the same kind of con artist that trump is… but I can’t see him ever getting that loser nerd image out of the heads of any group no matter how much MMA training he takes.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    18 hours ago

    This bullshit is just going to get worse and worse.

    This is probably due to people mass reporting these pages or profiles and them being automatically blocked or some shit. But yeah, @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com is right. It’s really a funny coincidence.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      5 hours ago

      I’ve always been curious if it would be worth someone setting up a movement of people that set up meta or Instagram account and then just go through in Mass report. Obviously they don’t pay for moderators so like eventually the system will autoflack the post and take it down.

      Basically do the same thing that Facebook is doing to suppressors but to the opposing side.

      I don’t use Facebook myself so I would never be able to do something like that but like surprised someone else hasn’t

    • forrgott@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      17 hours ago

      Considering the recent policy change saying it’s ok to specifically accuse lgbtq+ of being mentally ill, no, it’s not just reports. Not a chance. This is by design.

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        8 hours ago

        It’s only been one week and I’m already fucking tired. There’s going to be four fucking years of this fucking bullshit. That’s if we’re lucky and he doesn’t transform the US into a full blown dictatorship with president for life status.

        • Pika@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 hours ago

          This will not happen, due to the end goal of what they want being directly against the constitution. And even if it did we would see a full reversal of power in the other direction. There is no way that they would be able to accomplish something like that without a full Civil War again, but this time I’d be even worse because instead of just fighting the South in the North you’d be fighting your neighbors cuz it’d be red versus blue.

        • CircuitGuy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          8 hours ago

          That’s if we’re lucky and he doesn’t transform the US into a full blown dictatorship with president for life status.

          I may be hitting the copium, but I feel like this will not happen. It feels like having influence over social media platforms is really powerful, but the Internet is still there. It’s easy to send or find information if you want to, much easier than before the Internet. It’s much easier for set up or use a new information outlet than it was to start a TV station or newspaper. I thought no retailers could beat Sears, until Walmart came. People protested Walmart saying if they don’t like your CD for political reasons, people just won’t buy it. No one can touch Walmart. Then came Amazon. I think social media platforms will be even more short-lived in their influence, especially considering how easy it is to “change the channel” or start a new “channel”.

          • gramie@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            8 hours ago

            The people in China, and to a lesser extent Russia, want to have a word with you about how the government can control the internet.

            • CircuitGuy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              8 hours ago

              The people in China, and to a lesser extent Russia, want to have a word with you about how the government can control the internet. It’s not happening year yet. I’m hopeful that people will just go around the censors to get the content they want. I’m concerned that when Tiktok shut off its service and some people wrongly thought the gov’t “blocked” the packets, many Americans were okay with that.

              • wanderingmagus@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                41 minutes ago

                (Unrelated, but in order to have a newline appear in Lemmy, for some reason you need to have two carriage returns. Example:

                line one, single carriage return line two

                line one, double carriage return

                line two)