It would be cool to add another forum for people to organize around ideas and issues, be able to take collective actions, and organize into private groups as they see fit.

It is about the only thing that could save us from the kakistocracy, rule of the worst, we are saddled with.

It won’t though because supply and demand are not equal countervailing forces, all of supply is controlled by a literal handful of agribusiness conglomerates. The ranchers themselves are being squeezed for decades now, the three large Meat Packing houses on the other hand are making money hand over fist.

Prices are high because of price fixing, because of illegal trusts that the government has not enforced for decades. It worked with eggs, as long as they have someone to blame it on.

Blahaj bans people under false pretenses. They are not subtle about it.

Your description of them is laughably wrong. Using protecting vulnerable people as an excuse to shut down people that disagree with you or your pals in a way that does not violate any rules is not protecting vulnerable people in fact it could be making them less protected all around.

Idk if federated alternatives are to reach critical mass we would need instances that have a clear set of rules, that you could challenge if a moderator applied them unfairly, and even opted for a trial amongst your peers for if it was against the rules. Allowing moderators to be Petty tyrants in a feudalistic system attracts the wrong people that will prevent the fedivers from achieving it’s destined Glory.

Likewise moderators found to be abusing their power should have some means of correcting their behavior or removing them. Other moderators cannot be trusted for this, they all protect each other’s rights to be dicks so they can be dicks. We need a better system set up better to start.

I had the same thing, because I thought they were being too vicious against people like author JK Rowling’s while people like Kirk went around talking shit with impunity that was labeled trans hate.

There was Zero plausibility, I called out what I think is an overly aggressive in some parts campaign that has made things worse and was immediately accused of being a bigot myself and then blocked and canceled. No discussion or mod notes just your banned.

People learn they can shut down criticisms with bigotey accusations no matter how flimsy and they use it. Meanwhile they lost the larger cultural fight while they were falsley accusing allies of bigotry. As always on a left purposefully played off each other by organized interests.

I have seen disagreements with dishonesty used for social movements be spun into bigotry, and mods buying that and banning, despite clear bad faith attacks with no basis.

Call someone a bigot of some kinds it immediately shuts down and cancels any points until the accused goes on the defensive.

Those using this tactic in bad faith, like many mods, are cynical pieces of shit. They do not care they are hurting the goals of the movement, just about their place in it as a shit slinger.

That is the big one, but anything that could be taken poorly as bigoted regardless of meaning or truth can get admin actions.

Cultural differences, historical facts, it is all filtered through every flag everyone posts, from influence agencies to keyboard warriors firing from their hip, through an ai system no where as developed as they claim, and overseen by unnamed real people that may be dumb as shit, are working on dishonest metrics.

Soon after you will have to submit a certified copy of your palantir social score to that application to use the VPN.

Not quite brainworm’s fault we are getting extorted for drugs.

Nuclear is the most expensive with long term waste, and is an existential threat.

As if we could trust industry and the government right now, ha.

We already have 4 reactors on active fault lines, others in storm surge areas of ocean, increasingly severe storms. A meltdown is when not if, as is improper disposal of waste and the ones making it sticking society with it’s cost.

Yes for anybody wearing goggles or glasses outside if you rub soap like dish soap and circles on the lenses it will prevents them from fogging up and will not streak because the circles thing. Vinegar sort of works too but doesn’t stick on as well as soap.

Freight rail is a lot less than it should be as well.

It is also owned by Private Industry without clear rules on what they can charge in that more than it should be.

The rails were only made with eminent domain, Private Industry should not be able to screw people on it, or give preference to large companies over people and small ones.

The thing is the rail network was pretty comprehensive at one point. Only a few remain.

That remains to be seen. A cop just full out blasted a chick in the eyeball requiring surgery.

Why did the cop feel justified in doing that? Something is rotten in the culture, and I bet any consequences get downgraded to paid vacation.

Connected influence ops are given free reign, absolutely. Big money to polits.

If I can spot them they can, and they choose not to shut them down, even as those ops abuse actual people in bullying them away from reality and use the system to get the real users violated, mass flagging and whatnot.

You are writing like they’re involved in good faith efforts to stop inauthentic behavior and that is just laughable. Completely false as well.

Connected influence ops are given free reign, absolutely. Big money to polits.

If I can spot them they can, and they choose not to shut them down, even as those ops abuse actual people in bullying them away from reality and use the system to get the real users violated, mass flagging and whatnot.

You are writing like they’re involved in good faith efforts to stop inauthentic behavior and that is just laughable. Completely false as well.

Connected influence ops are given free reign, absolutely. Big money to polits.

If I can spot them they can, and they choose not to shut them down, even as those ops abuse actual people in bullying them away from reality and use the system to get the real users violated, mass flagging and whatnot.

You are writing like they’re involved in good faith efforts to stop inauthentic behavior and that is just laughable. Completely false as well.

I actually think we could take the country in 2028 if we organized. Outside of traditional social media, maybe on some new Federated social media not run by douchebags which may or may not control many of these forums. With a slate of populist candidates offering real reform, a new deal, we could trounce whomever is going to replace the president in the next election. But after that? The fix will be in completely. The fix is already in in many ways but we could still overcome it with an overwhelmingly popular mandate. Not with Gavin newsom.

In the United States voting is done at the state level. As such this is something many of us are working on, many of us have voters sponsored ballot initiatives where enough votes can get an issue on a ballot for an up or down vote, it is how we legalize marijuana. Anyway we have one of those coming up here in Michigan and other states for ranked Choice voting.

The United States is a shit show though, too little too late I fear.

Ha ha, I know, They’re not working for the left wing or four causes, they are looking to as you say stir up shit, make left-wing people look bad, and often to reduce turnout, which is an all too easy sell given how much the Democrats suck

You could replace Democrats with the left Center option of almost any Western Country here. They will all fall like dominoes if we do not get a viable reform alternative. Don’t fool yourselves, Russia and the United States will be helping behind the scenes to get their own right-wing hacks in to put a permanent fix in on elections just as they’re planning on doing here. A fix on elections, on the media, preventing any criticism, there is no bottom to this.