Ummm. Elon Musk made $100,000,000,000 by making internet propaganda about how his electric cars are better than internal combustion, lies about their capabilities (full self driving), lies about how often they explode and lies about how well his Robots work. And then the propaganda is so strong he becomes Buddy in chief and people think that literally paying Musk another $50Billion is a good idea.

The cats out of the bag. Internet propaganda is too cheap and too effective. Everyone will be doing it if only to counter Elon Musk (let alone make money for themselves like through bullshit crypto coins or whatever).

You or I deciding to ‘not fill the internet with shit’ stops nobody. It’s going to happen given this political climate and the benefits therein.

Lemmy.ml started off as marxist-lenninist site. All sites need to start with a niche and I doubt any future social network will avoid the niche issue.

I think normies are turning off of Lemmy recently, which naturally causes the extremists feel more loud (because the extremists will NEVER leave this site).

Trying to figure out a good social network is like looking for a good hangout in real life. The people who frequent is entirely the picture. It’s hard to compete vs commercial interests like Blue sky or whatever as they pop up though.

Still, Threads, BlueSky and Twitter are all obviously suspect sites that will seed algorithms with their message. Lemmy doesn’t do that. Lemmy has its own issues but it’s very much a pick your poison situation.

Early internet was just information about hobbies and for the betterment of people and furthering knowledge. Let’s take that back.

Nope. After 2010s proved that the internet is the central location for political battles with Wikipedia Blackouts causing major political shifts, Pandoras Box has been opened.

The internet is now the premier location for propaganda and politicalization.

Did you forget about the election?

Immigrants from Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and dogs.

And now Trump is moving for mass deportations.

The good news is that Trump is ignorant and bad at his job. I dunno how long it’d take to setup detention camps for immigrants but it’s definitely coming.

I’d say that any Hispanic or Latino, even Puerto Ricans, are at risk. Depending on which state you are in. Arizona is known to throw out US Citizens for deportation if the sheriff thinks you look funny.

The fucker paid for Pennsylvania votes last election. Literally paid for them.

He grew up in Apartheid South Africa and calls his African American workers ‘Plantation’ and none of them can move up the ladder in any of his companies.

He God damn knows what he is doing.

See for yourself.

We need to save and remember this moment. The assholes are already rewriting history as we speak.

Biden was a Charismatic leader?

Look, the shitty excuses already began.

Their eyes are still closed. Unless you walk up to that neighbor in the next day or so and show him the clip, he won’t see it or believe it.

Hell, it’s already too late and your neighbor is probably already making excuses about how Elon Musk is just sharing his hearts energy or some shit.

What we have here is Elon Musk helping out on Trump’s branding.

Even Team Trump, as fascist as they are, are being run by entire teams of teams. The spokespeople are just that, speakers.

A leader doesn’t make the decisions. The leader just unifies the people.

If there is a leader, any leader at all, who’d try to lead the progressive cause? And one that people would really behind?

That’d be a good first start. Even celebrities like Jack Black.

No. I’m just aware of the need for a charismatic leader.

Civil rights had Martin Luther King. Among other leaders. The idea of doing this without leadership is the fundamental flaw.

Cool.

Give me a name. And stop stalling.

And who will lead this revolution? Biden? Kamala?

Go on. Who is the leader? Do we just gotta all rally behind Jill Stein now?

Frustrating but predictable.

Personally I’m pretty happy with how fucking awkward Elon was while doing it. The whole gif is really cringe.

It’s a long way to 2026 folks. We are going to have a lot of Federal Level damage in the next couple of years. Even if Democrats get elected in 2026+ we will have absurd debts to pay and likely be forced to raise taxes and be the bad guy again.

Crossover with The Enigma of Amigara Fault / Jund Itos hole comic when?

I’ll double check the finale right after I get a brand new VHS player to check the tapes. But I do admit that I’m working off of memory here, lol.

Anastasia survived as an amnesiac who was taught by a con-man to act like a Princess again but then slowly regains her memories before shattering the phylactery of Rasputin because Rasputin’s incompetent bat familiar couldn’t catch it.

You know. Once upon a deceeeeeeeemmmmmbeeeerrrrrrrrr!

The rumor of Rasputin and the Russian Queen is much much older than the song though.

I don’t think it was ever confirmed either. Tzar Nicholas did often leave to WW1 front to inspect troops (and other kingly duties), so it’s just Rasputin and the Queen left in Moscow…

It might be bullshit. It might not be. But Rasputin’s family line were dealing with said rumors for a century or more.

Abe Lincoln famously warned us about how people make up shit on the Internet.