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  • JGrffn@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldPapers, please.
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    4 hours ago

    Come on dude, that’s copium. Would it have eventually happened? Sure, the MAGA movement is the new mainstream right wing and this could’ve become a common sentiment through think tank pushes. Would it have happened right now under Kamala? Lmfao fuck no, that’s ridiculous

    If you were really saying both sides would’ve been just as bad, just take the L and move on. Kamala wouldn’t have pardoned my country’s drug lord ex-president, among hundreds of other things, and that’s facts.


  • Listen, man, I’m from Honduras. Cuba and Venezuela get touted as the literal demonic results of communism over here, as if communists declared war on the Cuban and Venezuelan peoples. Communism was never going to get rid of corruption because corruption is part of any system of power. Communism guards against specific flaws in capitalism, but it’s still not a perfect system. This doesn’t clear the governments of either country of their sins, but we HAVE to weigh that against the actions of the literal colossus that decides whether any and every country in the Americas is prosperous or carpet bombed/cut off from the rest of the world, and they decide that purely on what interests and benefits them. Socialist and communist policies are both the only way forward for the continent, and literally impossible to pull off while the US controls all of us. The alternative is to just become slaves with ever lower wages, ever higher costs of living, and a bunch of bootlicking politicians telling you not to listen through your ears or see through your eyes, but to listen to them and to the empire because they know better, all the while also being told “at least you’re not as bad off as those stinking communists, and you need to fight to prevent that from happening to you”, as if the problem wasn’t the United fucking States assfucking anyone who dares to try and make things better.

    By all means, hate and rage against the corrupt, but also do try to understand who the real culprits of this clusterfuck are.


  • the original or more prevalent tool needs to seek ways to be better as to not lose market share

    I think concentration of market share itself is an issue. I just got banned from WhatsApp, twice in a row, by the automated spam banhammer they have, and I fully expect to get banned a third time as soon as their registration retry timeout expires in like 18 fucking hours (I’ve been at this since Friday).

    I hate Meta as much as anyone else around here, but I’ve essentially been cut off from my entire community with this single event (which, to clarify, is a completely unwarranted ban that has been reverted by WhatsApp twice now). Everyone uses WhatsApp for their hustles, businesses, friend groups, neighborhood groups, etc. I have tried for YEARS to get a movement going to at least consider installing alternatives. I’m now left with signal which has 1 contact, and telegram which a ton of people downloaded during a whatsapp outage during the pandemic, but which nobody uses anymore because… WhatsApp came back rather quickly.

    The lack of interop and lack of any usage of email on WhatsApp for anything other than support tickets, means I might need to ditch my phone number, which I’ve had for 20 years, because Meta’s AI got trigger happy with me for some obscure reason that not even they seem to understand.

    Something that truly pisses me off about this specific conversation is, people in the privacy circles can’t quite seem to grasp just how much of a stranglehold Meta has on its communities. There’s 0 chance of me being able to get even a fraction of the people I interact with to use something other than WhatsApp. I’ve tried multiple times through the years and I have never been able to do anything about it, and it quite frankly pisses me off that the general response to someone using WhatsApp around here is “just stop using it and get your friends to stop too lol wtf why you such a lil bitch” as if we don’t live in a society that depends on these fucking monopolies because that’s how they were designed. You quite literally can’t opt for alternatives or go against the flow on this because it can result in you being cut off from your entire community, and as much as anyone here likes to LARP that they’re post-apocalyptic survivors who can and do live by themselves or whatever, that’s not the world we live in.

    Some stuff needs to become interoperable, their concentrated market share usage needs to directly correlate to how much regulatory oversight they receive, and ideally it should either be diversified or government-owned if the concentration is too high and can’t be reversed. All of this can only happen through legislation, and clearly legislation isn’t doing shit because the EU’s DMA should have me connecting into the WhatsApp network from other apps already.