Just fucking vote.
You are correct.
However, this doesn’t work so well if certain groups of people are disenfranchised at a higher rate. It doesn’t work if ballots are stolen and manipulated. It doesn’t work if judges stop counts or recounts of votes. It doesn’t work if there are fewer polling stations or drop boxes in certain areas. It doesn’t work with gerrymandering. It certainly doesn’t work with propaganda that encourages voter apathy.
This would significantly reduce the scope for concerted disinformation
You don’t think if Lemmy became large enough to be a target that it wouldn’t be targeted with overwhelming bots and paid people posting propaganda?
I’d like to borrow your rose-coloured glasses, please. It’d be nice to have such a rosy worldview for a moment.
Although at the same time, enshrined in there is the idea that some are worth about 60% as much as others.
Not to defend the racist fascists, mind.
Worse, in the examples they give, the legislatures and/or judiciaries stood against the dictators.
Here, we have decades of propaganda fueled by the oligarchs that has removed the world view of a third of our population from reality, and it’s not just Trump - the Republican party is in on the deal, from Congress to SCOTUS.
It’s not the same battle. It’s not the same order of magnitude. It’s at least two orders of magnitude harder.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t fight; rather, we should fight all the harder.
But that’s why I’m not certain partition / civil war type solutions are off the table.
The point of the phrasing is not “this is a fair description of what was happening” but more “even if it was as bad as this, it’s still bullshit”. So you’re right, but that’s why I phrased it that way.
Listen, kid, I’ve been on reddit since 2009. I hung out with the admins in IRC back in the day. I was a default mod for a while, and I’m the “father” of /r/nottheonion.
There’s plenty I don’t know about reddit and life in general, but on this topic, clearly I know a fuck ton more than you.
There was a time on reddit when self-promotion was against the rules. That rule was dropped something like a decade ago.
The simple fact is that - from at least the article’s telling - the subreddits wanted the content, and in that case, it is absolutely fine and encouraged for someone to submit.
There’s a guy making youtube reviews of restaurants in my local city’s subreddit. The content is popular - people like it. So we absolutely are happy to see him post. Is it self-promotion? Yes, technically. It’s also relevant to the subreddit and desired by the mods and members of the subreddit.
You’re like the people saying “dis a repost” when someone CROSS-posts. Note that reddit has a BUILT IN SYSTEM for cross-posting, but there are redditors who don’t know that.
So, little boy, you can take your condescension and /r/confidentlyincorrect along with /r/iamverysmart and fucking LEARN something, or go off and continue to be willfully ignorant.
Disclaimer: If the article’s reporting is incorrect and the subreddits considered it spam, well, that’s not what the article said, and I don’t otherwise have other knowledge of it, nor do I care enough to google for any other possible sources. But that’s the informatio you’re working off of as well, so there’s that.
PS: To add a light-hearted end: I’ll go to /r/dontyouknowwhoiam now :) (that name seems too long. Is that the right one/ Well, you probably know what I mean and I’m too lazy to look it up :P )
In fairness, once I’m dead, there won’t be a me to care.
I’d go with a sewage processing plant, personally.
wut
Unless the article is absolutely lying, it mentioned the subreddits wanted the posts and couldn’t overcome the sitewide ban (i.e. manually approving the content). Your comment is a really huge stretch there.
Mine came from simply saying that a drone would probably take care of a Russian solder seen in a video on crutches heading toward the front lines in Ukraine. Literally just that. Not saying it with any joy or approval, just a statement of fact. Phrased pretty damn much like I said it in this comment here.
Like you just did with your comment and OP did with their posting: non paid ad posting
I just want you to know I hate you for that pun. lol
The deer was dead,
Jesus christ… I came to the comments first for the inevitable jokes and to make one or two myself but this is how I learned THAT extra bit of news… yeesh.
“All your base are belong to us” and the monologue about the Magic / More Magic toggle.
if you’re wanting to wash it at home,
The AI should absolutely understand the implication that you want to wash your car at the car wash, not at home. The prompt is clear about that, even though it is implied.
“I want a hamburger. McDonald’s is three miles from me and Wendy’s is five miles. Which is the cheaper place to get a burger from when you consider the distance to each?” is not an exact analogy, but the point is that it should be ABSOLUTELY clear that you do not wish to make your own hamburger. Any response that discusses that as an option is ridiculout, unless maybe it’s one of those options-at-the-end thing LLMs love to do - but it has no part of the main answer at all.
You have to have the car there no matter what type of car wash it is.
If the car wash is some distance “away”, it means neither you nor the car is at it. Any attendant is not going to walk off-property to retreive your car, especially when most of them you drive up for service. Which is rather the point.
I’m not afraid to say that it took me a sec. My brain went “short distance. Walk or drive?” and skipped over the car wash bit at first. Then I laughed because I quickly realized the idiocy. :shrug:
Yes, except it’s not cute, nor really a game. Just stupidity. But otherwise, you’re right :)
I’m a progressive. I see all those issues and my response is to vote as progressively as I can.
Why is it that viewers of Fox “News” and consumers of right-wing radio, who all preach some nevulous, nationwide hoodwink to the point that a third of our country is living in a parallel universe - why is it the issues that drive them to be insane and embrace fascism?
I think your premise is wildly off-base.
That said, I agree with your last para - except when things go bad enough the fascists start to doubt, that’s when you have a chance to try and engage and convert a few out of the cult.