The douchiest douche who ever douched? Oh man! Oh! This is so unexpected! Gosh! *snif*

I guess I’d like to thank my agent, Marty Petraskov over at GRU Artists, and the guys down at the Macedonian troll farm - Hey Dmitry! And of course Little Baby Internet Jesus! And all of you who still haven’t figured out that one simple vote to stop trump was the most important decision you could have made in your political lives and you failed. Thank you! Goodnight!

The best promotion is to be awesome.

>Lemmy, is awesome (y/n)?: _y

“Make it a double order!”

Right in the shit. No hey how ya doin’, no nothing. Just - Bam.

The corporate news sewer spew begins. You can drink all you want, but it never gets any better and it costs a lot to do it.

I’m sick of these articles

Let’s be very clear that corporate news has failed so spectacularly, they can not recover from this. They will not change, and we shouldn’t give them any benefit of doubt.

You will need to find a different way of getting the news than from CNN / NBC / NYT or whatever it used to be in the before-times.

You want more nazi man salutes! Got it!

(“More nazi man salutes for table 4!”)

Look at me! I’m Big Butt Dukat!

I don’t really care because until The Problem is addressed, I will not support anything they do.

At this time, Meta’s Head of Public Policy was Joel Kaplan, a man whose previous work involved working as George W. Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, as well as handling public policy and affairs for Energy Future Holdings, which involved three private equity firms buying Texas power company TXU for $45 billion and immediately steering it into bankruptcy due to the $38.7 billion in debt Energy Future Holdings was forced to take on as a means of acquiring TXU.

Jeff Horwitz reports in his book Broken Code that Kaplan personally intervened when Facebook’s health team attempted to remove COVID conspiracy movie Plandemic from its recommendation engine, and Facebook only did so once Roose reported that it was the most-engaged link in a 24 hour period.

Naturally, Meta’s choice wasn’t to “fix things” or “improve” or “take responsibility.” By the end of 2021, Meta had disbanded the team that ran CrowdTangle, and in early 2022, the company had stopped registering new users. In early 2024 — months before the 2024 elections — CrowdTangle was officially shut down, though Facebook Top 10 had stopped working in the middle of 2023.

Meta hasn’t “made a right-wing turn.”  It’s been an active arm of the right wing media for nearly a decade

RedNote’s Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, literally translates to “Little Red Book,” which seems like a direct reference to a book of quotes from Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung. But The Washington Post reported that the app is designed to be apolitical and its co-founder, Mao, maintains that the name instead pays “homage to the colors of his college,” Stanford Business School, and his former employer, Bain Capital.

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeetthefuckouttahere!

Oh you.

Sure, what a scoop Newsweek. You’re really shaking things up.

That’s not a Freudian slip. That’s just misspeaking.

Good for you! Keep up the good work. Hopefully people will vote for the initaitives you need to make all that happen.

Guaranteed apathy? I think there’s a very considerable effort on the part of conservatives to prevent liberal politics from existing, and that can be pretty draining, but apathy itself is homegrown. No one can “give” someone apathy, but they can keep them down and out enough to get them to create it themselves.

That’s where the participation part comes in again. If you want to just keep getting rolled, do nothing.

Sure.

Well . . . there are some similarities to that yeah.

Yeah I get it. It’s just, wrong. Provably, empirically, identifiably wrong. But I understand how people can feel that way. They don’t know.

I’d be interested to know what the Republican justification is for this…

Oh, I have that here somehwere, let me see . . . uhh . . I think it’s under these papers here . . one second . . . ahhhhhh . . Yeah . . . yep . . .okay here it is. *ahem*

“We’re complete fucking assholes.”