tartaruga

joined 2 months ago
[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago

People have been asleep and okay with fascism as long as they have money in their pocket. Now, this breach with ethical behavior in the name of corporate America on the part of so many has gone full circle. In other words, this is what you get when you value money over people.

[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee -5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

I cry bullshit. Incels aren't that way because of money. Generation X ate out of dumpsters and did what they could to survive. Not saying younger generations have it easy, but you can be broke and not be a misogynist. From what I understand, sex offenders created the incel movement to normalize their bullshit. Trump and all of those rapists want a world where they can be evil with no consequences. They are working hard towards that end. They need an army of like minded degenerate perverts to achieve this. The algorithms promote this sort of insecure male content on YouTube and other media. Most of those influenders make money trafficking women for sex. This is a new thing. 30 years ago, people were moving away from sexism, and racism. Now, everyone is a protégé of the sociopath billionaires and misogynist tech bro oligarchs. People need to realize this isn't a natural movement, it's a synthetic one. Fuck incels! Not literally, of course.

[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

It started when Elon Musk intimidated Reddit into banning a subreddit. The sub "r/whitepeopletwitter" was deleted by a frightened Reddit CEO Steve Huffman because people there were posting the names and information of the young hackers Elon deployed in the Treasury Department. Those hackers stole Americans' personal, private data. they are traitors. The people in this subreddit were punished, because Musky had a big temper tantrum. Even though this sub was allowed to return to Reddit, activist content still gets banned under the guise of deterring violent threats. People have been banned for even merely upvoting pro-Luigi Mangione content on Reddit. It's censorship. I put up with it and I regret it now. Having to write without even remotely suggesting violence was hard. I'd slip up and get a temp ban. I was finally permabanned for using an old saying, "stomp Nazis," on a thread about people evicting a NeoNazi from a punk concert. I didn't really think about it, and it's what people used to say, it was not a legit threat of harm. Meanwhile, I had trolls chronically threatening to make liberals like me cry all the time. Sorry, but that IS a violent threat. I know these trolls are surely ugly enough to bring tears to my eyes, but normally tears fall because of physical pain. So I deleted my account and destroyed the Reddit app. That's one less fool to look at all the ads there, which keep getting more flashy and prevalent. It didn't feel good to be censored this way. Im glad for Lemmy. Reddit censorship sucks, I'm now in the habit of being hypervigilant for anything that could be construed as violent content, even when writing here. Article about Elon bullying Reddit

[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I was permabanned from Reddit, just for saying, "stomp Nazis." After this, I deleted the app entirely. I had issues prior to this. Posts I had carefully written and spent time writing, were deleted for using the word "target," and the word, "shoot." Both posts had zilch to do with guns or violence. Saying, "oh, shoot" about a funny autocorrect deleted my post. All this censorship, but somehow right wing trolls were still getting away with being jerks to me?! Wtf! Now I think the app is the most heavily censored thing I have ever encountered. It's unusable, it's so censored. What am I supposed to do? Go back and say, "spank Nazis," instead? At a minimum, it would confuse the message and at worst, I'd get banned for saying that. No, I'm mad at Reddit & I'm never going back.

[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

I think they have us stuck between the fire and the frying pan. Once in the frying pan, we are sooo glad not to be in the fire, and we get 4 more years of Dems, while the Republicans secretly march us closer to the cliff. Now their end game, Project 2025 is on fast track to actualization. The Dems make us lazy because we think they'll help but they don't. I feel like the Democrats hung us out to dry. I read in the New York Times, a Democrat suggested the best strategy for Trump was for the party to "roll over and play dead." I translate that as, "the party doesn't care." Some party members like AOC show backbone, but the rest of them not so much.

[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's all just a form of "divide and conquer." Their tactics are plain to see if you are looking for them.

[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and the rise in the cost of living was because of the housing crisis. The Democratic party didn't contribute to Inflation. People buying epic amounts of real estate caused the inflation. Ironically, it was Silicon Valley and Musk followers who were grabbing up most of the real estate after the pandemic. That land is being appropriated for their "freedom cities," or company towns, where their soulless employees can live. I think they plan to stash their loyal followers in these cities while this country devolves into civil war and chaos. Yes, they really do want to trigger a civil war or race war. They will house only those stupid enough to work for them in "smart" cities, where technology and AI keeps everyone under tight watch. Just heard on MSNBC that the data Musk and his hackers stole from their DOGE raid is being used to assemble a database on Americans for surveillance purposes. China has done this to their people. Time to go low profile, seriously.

[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Because people give their power away to authorities, instead of taking control over their own lives. No one is going to rescue any of you. Only when we all accept this and move on, together, will we ever be free.