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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's social media in the technical definition - it's a place to view media, both entertainment and news, with commentary, groups, the ability to follow someone, etc. Which makes it social.

But yeah, it's not quite like Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn. A little bit like Twitter though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

They want to be authoritarians, whatever flavor they have to be to have power.

They don't want anyone else to have power over them.

So when they're in the out group, they'll ramp up the persecution narrative, and when they're in power, they'll ruthlessly repress everyone else.

All makes internal sense, if you're an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Pretty regularly, they catch fertility doctors performing eugenics based procedures without patient consent. Like with shocking regularity.

Also, it isn't super uncommon for male fertility doctors to substitute their own semen instead of the correct material that the patient(s) provided.

Evil people go into these jobs because it gives them the power to push their own agenda without much oversight, and by the time someone can make a claim against them, and is believed by anyone else, they can move on.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

It's just a shit take to complain about hypothetical women and their reproductive hopes and dreams.

It's a completely unnecessary statement, not really based on reality, and depends entirely on when during the pregnancy the miscarriage occurs.

Something like a third (estimated) of pregnancies end in miscarriage. It's an estimate because it usually happens before a woman would even know she's pregnant. So period is late, and then suddenly comes...often a miscarriage.

But protip is to just not comment on how other people feel about having or not having babies for any of the infinite reasons they might feel that way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Its literally colonizing though. It's sending their citizens to build settlements in areas that do not belong to them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No matter what we do or suggest, troglodytes are going to look at the step up or downstream from that and claim that nothing matters because nothing is "as good" so why bother.

Reject nihilism.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Long answer: yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

With the name and a D behind it, he might have pulled some low info voters.

But as an independent? With other family members speaking out against him? Unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They can sue a company doing the corporate media thing very successfully, because it doesn't directly fund them....but they can't hold gun manufacturers, oil and gas companies, etc. accountable for actual harmful effects.

Is social media good? Hell no. But it isn't illegal. These kids can literally work in factories again, be married off to pedos, and these people are faking outrage to distract from all of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The problem, from the perspective of the rest of the caucus, is that if any of them are held accountable for anything, then they're all on the chopping block once a more extreme person wants to make headlines.

If there were a conviction, that might move some of them onto the roster of those willing to vote to censure or remove. But for un-adjudicated wrongdoing? They'd just be opening the doors for it to be used against them as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen, was trying to make this point through his media, but he also explicitly stated it in interviews. He was like, "Y'all do realize that superhero stuff is fascist power fantasy, right? You shouldn't like this stuff as an adult."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This works on so many levels. A+ memery.

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