This was a problem decades before Trump took office, and the exact same problem will remain after he's gone.
Those corporations are "donating" (bribing) every election cycle for a reason, and it's not charity.
Each candidate has a billion dollars, win or lose... that we know of. Our reps and their entire families are millionaires. Bribery is blatant and legal.
See Super PACs and Citizens United for further details.
Thank fuck I literally use none of those services.
People are talking about it, but the conversations are muffled or muted by those same billionaires.
Large no kings rallies should have had massive coverage, but were actively ignored by the news who frequently report on a handful of protestors who are promoting hate. Heck, with all of the pro Trump bullshit being a tidal wave of shit it just drowns out everything else so trying to actively discuss problems anywhere but niche communities is like trying to have a conversation in the middle of the dance floor at a rave.
The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Kind of ironic that this was posted on Twitter (X).
Delete all your accounts, and tell all your friends and family to do the same. Refuse and reject any service designed to fixate your attention. You won't miss them, most people alive today lived in a world without their influence.
And some people will defend billionaires saying thjs is just the free market working.
Let me know if and when they take over thelemmyclub, I'll be out of here in a heartbeat
Plus Amazon
Lol 185+ stations.
Sinclair waged this war a decade ago and won. That number needs a couple zeros on it.
Last season of Westworld was about guiding people through AI to control them. Your destiny was preordained by AI.
We shouldn’t be integrating AI into our lives though. AI sucks.
The beacon of freedom and democracy, as that loosely arranged attempt at a nation state has been called, certainly is not.
(Edit: and unlike some people seem to think, it has never ever been)
Use Kimi K2 instead, feed your data to the Chinese instead of the massive nonces in the US.
Add Google, Microslop, and Apple to the list as they love to bend the knee to kiss the ring.
There's only so much you can do when your operating systems are run by fascists.
But they "deeply" care about your "privacy".
They said......on twitter/X ... with a blue check...
We need socialism
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