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BAAAAANNNN THEEEEEEMMMM
Jesus fucking christ if I could go back in time and destroy the internet I would.
I knew a time before the internet. We don't need it. It has brought us great things, but the cons are outweighing it.
Do something?
Ok, so shut them down. Block them nationally. I know people will get around it but take some kind of protective measures before it is too late for you.
Chinese and American propaganda platforms have been pushing Nazi content for years.
Almost like some American tech giants are aiding Russia or something.
It says Tiktok and Twitter, so the tech giants come from China and the U.S. here. And they are not (only) aiding Russia. The AfD has close connections to China, and Beijing is very interested in the rise of the far right in Germany and the rest of Europe.
Of course they do. Every non-democratic country wants to destabilize us.
Sounds like those algorithms can go fuck themselves!
Am I the only one thinking Tiktok and xcom among all the others are getting paid handsomely to boost right wing propaganda?
Capitalism -> Fascism.
Same warnings Americans got. βHey, look! Social media is infested with right wing propaganda!β
Yet here we are with King Cheeto in charge.
Please, please god crush these clowns. I don't know if I'll be able to mentally recover from an AfD sweep. The U.S. needs to be the end of the spread of fascism, not the first domino in a falling chain.
The AfD won't sweep but they will likely become the 2nd strongest party, after the conservative CDU whose right wing loves the Republicans:
Among others in this image: Former traffic minister Andreas Scheuer, a prominent CDU member (CSU to be more precise but it's basically the same party).
If AfD + CDU achieve a majority it's not unlikely that they will form a coalition - or at the very least vote for the same bills.
Fascism is on a global rise. The fascist Reform UK is surging in British polls, Italy has a fascist government, the fascist ~~ΓVP~~ FPΓ has gotten the most votes in the recent Austrian election etc etc
Fascism is on a global rise and actively supported by Russia, China and the US. I doubt that democracy can survive efficient Russian disinformation + the full resources of China and the US.
I'd say it will only get worse from here.
No disagreement, just ΓVP should be FPΓ.
Fascism is also supported by many billionaires, because they won't be targeted anyways.
We are literally experiencing US disinformation. Trump is on the news telling lies, passing them off as facts. It's being reported, spread, reaching many people.
So after years of this happening in plain sight for everyone to see, people now notice days before an election? π€£
AfD will make massive progress. These social media algos had to be banned years ago. Same thing will happen with Canada.
Even my lemmy feed on Boost is full of AfD adverts, it's enfuriating.
Wtf? How are there still people using this kinda garbage app? Lemmy and the fediverse is free, run and developed by volunteers. There are plenty of open source clients to choose from. Why in the fuck are people actively choosing to look at ads?
I donβt get it either.
How do you get ads on Lemmy?
You get ads on Boost
Why would someone use boost instead of another option?
General curiosity
Familiarity for one; it was a great Reddit client and it's a good Lemmy one too. I certainly made the shift to Lemmy a lot more frictionless.
It also has a sensible layout, decent customisation, the dev is (or was, at least) responsive to the users and it was a solution that 'just worked'.
I paid for ad free ages ago, moving from RIF and I hadn't looked back.
It hasn't been updated in a while though, so I'm playing with Thunder and it's been a pretty nice option as well. Plus, you know, FOSS and available on Droidify/F-Droid. It's far and away the best 'native' Lemmy clientnive used to date.
It's a very good app and the ads are to me (and I hate ads very much, I use ublock and revanced) not significantly intrusive.
No shit.
I mean, really, how is this a surprise? Just look at the inauguration photos and who is on stage.
Didn't Vance's speech the other day hurt the AfD? Didn't it make some people deluded by their supposed "patriotism" wake up and see that we were all sold out to the Russians?
I am not German and I do not know the reality on the street in Germany, but I am scared of what could happen and how it will affect the European project.
that we were all sold out to the Russians?
No. In the mind of the AfD fanbase, being under the control of a strongman-led Russia is by far preferable to whatever they perceive is currently the case. I mean, for most of them, at least in the eastern part of Germany, that's something like "the good old times".
A key facet of fascism is the desire to return to a mythical 'better time'. They are willing to bow to a dictator who promises them this myth, especially when mixed with the promise to put the racists in power over others in the process.
Innuendo Studios covers it well in his endnote series: https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng
The AfD morons already ran around years ago with Russia Flags, Putin Pictures and Banners begging him to be their president. Those people are beyond any recovery to sanity