From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and trans people first find community.
People seem to think that supporting a social justice cause somehow makes them left of centre. It doesn’t. The US has spent a lot of time and money trying to stamp out governments with left of centre economic policies for many decades and has framed anything even remotely socialist as full-blown authoritarian communist butcher-dictator, and therefore anything short of full capitalism and privatisation of everything is bad. They over-thew social democracies in Latin America and installed brutal military dictatorships to privatise and sell of the resources. They napalmed Vietnam because something-something commies. The US has no concept of what left-of-centre is because they have bombed, raped, and pillaged pretty much everything that resembles left-of-centre in this world. I even hear people in the US calling themselves ‘left of centre’ and then finish their sentence hating on socialism - which is a pretty broad spectrum of ideology.
It’s not just anti-LGBTQ+. This is going to be bad for everyone. We’re just years away from banks and insurance companies factoring in your social credit score based on your activity on sites where you had to verify you’re not a legally considered a child.
You verify your age on Discord. Discord doxxes you through negligent handling of user data. Your account is found to be a member of a server that might suggest you are less responsible. Your rates are increased. Even if you know this is the reason, you cannot sue Discord because you were coerced into waiving your rights. The shareholders are happy because the line goes up. Is it already happening? I doubt any companies are rushing to tell us that they’re doing it, but the data is available to them.
People seem to be deluded into thinking the Democratic Party is a leftist or centrist organization. It is a rightwing corporate party riddled with racist, bigoted members. Look no further than the current leadership’s anti-Mumdani, islamophobic rhetoric as proof they will throw anyone under the bus.
Because they are assholes losers that care more about winning than the disgusting things they have to do to win.
There is no honor or decorum left in politics, just naked greed and the concentration of power. Our politicians are the result of the corrupt environment they live in.
Until we seriously start removing money from politics we will be stuck in a ever increasing enshitification feedback loop where the only people who are represented are the wealthy.
It won’t be nice to hear, but here goes… Because the ‘woke’ movement pushed by the Dems, were really just a psyop - propaganda - to create hatred against orthodox Russia/Putin. Remember pussy-riot, the Gay Putin memes etc ? They were all US supported/instigated narratives pushed in Nato + especially Ukraine for many years. Now that the campaign didn’t amount to the expected result, the US plutocracy/MIC don’t need/want it anymore, and not all Dems were onboard with the ‘hippie’ psyop that went against their core morale. They are likely pushing back now.
Obama/Biden and other top Dems knew all along that it were just a campaign to pump up hate in a move against their perceived enemies, and don’t care shit about ordinary people and their sexuality - or life really. I mean, when did US top politicians suddenly grow a desire to defend the little guy ? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Re. social media/censorship. US spends a ton of resources grooming social media platforms for ‘proper’ western/liberal content/values, and the TikTok issue - among many - are an attempt to control information on that platform also. Specially young people have via uncontrolled media, seen what happens in israel/gaza, Ukraine/Russia, and even seen how China is really like, and even become friends with them. The young people on uncontrolled media (non US sphere of interest) are - according to the US leadership - getting behind the ‘wrong’ party in masses. That made the US Plutocracy flip out and make all kinds of problems for the Chinese company (hundreds of fake rumors, tariffs/pressure, and now money to buy it. The whole shebang were rolled out for ‘National Security’, which oc is just the security of the Plutocracy - not the people…
I think the ‘normal’ prosecuting morale is coming back - unfortunately. …and fascism - that were already here before Drump - will become much worse as the US plutocratic regime decline into recession/crash. Be careful over there !
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Because as someone outside looking in- USA has not had a ‘left’ party in over a hundred years.
Your Democrats are Centre-Right sometimes approaching right wing.
Your Republicans were Classical Right, now Far Right.
People seem to think that supporting a social justice cause somehow makes them left of centre. It doesn’t. The US has spent a lot of time and money trying to stamp out governments with left of centre economic policies for many decades and has framed anything even remotely socialist as full-blown authoritarian communist butcher-dictator, and therefore anything short of full capitalism and privatisation of everything is bad. They over-thew social democracies in Latin America and installed brutal military dictatorships to privatise and sell of the resources. They napalmed Vietnam because something-something commies. The US has no concept of what left-of-centre is because they have bombed, raped, and pillaged pretty much everything that resembles left-of-centre in this world. I even hear people in the US calling themselves ‘left of centre’ and then finish their sentence hating on socialism - which is a pretty broad spectrum of ideology.
It’s not just anti-LGBTQ+. This is going to be bad for everyone. We’re just years away from banks and insurance companies factoring in your social credit score based on your activity on sites where you had to verify you’re not a legally considered a child.
You verify your age on Discord. Discord doxxes you through negligent handling of user data. Your account is found to be a member of a server that might suggest you are less responsible. Your rates are increased. Even if you know this is the reason, you cannot sue Discord because you were coerced into waiving your rights. The shareholders are happy because the line goes up. Is it already happening? I doubt any companies are rushing to tell us that they’re doing it, but the data is available to them.
punkass bitches in the DNC only for money
fucking burn them
It’s because they’re right wing bigots, Walter Cronkite.
People seem to be deluded into thinking the Democratic Party is a leftist or centrist organization. It is a rightwing corporate party riddled with racist, bigoted members. Look no further than the current leadership’s anti-Mumdani, islamophobic rhetoric as proof they will throw anyone under the bus.
Because they are assholes losers that care more about winning than the disgusting things they have to do to win.
There is no honor or decorum left in politics, just naked greed and the concentration of power. Our politicians are the result of the corrupt environment they live in.
Until we seriously start removing money from politics we will be stuck in a ever increasing enshitification feedback loop where the only people who are represented are the wealthy.
It won’t be nice to hear, but here goes… Because the ‘woke’ movement pushed by the Dems, were really just a psyop - propaganda - to create hatred against orthodox Russia/Putin. Remember pussy-riot, the Gay Putin memes etc ? They were all US supported/instigated narratives pushed in Nato + especially Ukraine for many years. Now that the campaign didn’t amount to the expected result, the US plutocracy/MIC don’t need/want it anymore, and not all Dems were onboard with the ‘hippie’ psyop that went against their core morale. They are likely pushing back now.
Obama/Biden and other top Dems knew all along that it were just a campaign to pump up hate in a move against their perceived enemies, and don’t care shit about ordinary people and their sexuality - or life really. I mean, when did US top politicians suddenly grow a desire to defend the little guy ? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Re. social media/censorship. US spends a ton of resources grooming social media platforms for ‘proper’ western/liberal content/values, and the TikTok issue - among many - are an attempt to control information on that platform also. Specially young people have via uncontrolled media, seen what happens in israel/gaza, Ukraine/Russia, and even seen how China is really like, and even become friends with them. The young people on uncontrolled media (non US sphere of interest) are - according to the US leadership - getting behind the ‘wrong’ party in masses. That made the US Plutocracy flip out and make all kinds of problems for the Chinese company (hundreds of fake rumors, tariffs/pressure, and now money to buy it. The whole shebang were rolled out for ‘National Security’, which oc is just the security of the Plutocracy - not the people…
I think the ‘normal’ prosecuting morale is coming back - unfortunately. …and fascism - that were already here before Drump - will become much worse as the US plutocratic regime decline into recession/crash. Be careful over there !