Poe Dameron is my hero… while everyone else was debating how the bad thing happened, he’s the guy that’s just figuring out how to fight against it.

Peeople just didn’t appreciate the genius of JJ Abrams… pretty much every reason why people fall to fascism are in the two Star Wars movies he made. Palpatine obviously represents fascism, yet people whine about Palpatine returning not being explained.

Now I need instructions on how to change my oven from F to C

It’s actually really effective. People are going to hear about a movie and if they feel like they already saw the movie, that’s the end of it. If it’s banned completely, they might get a bootleg DVD and watch the entire uncensored movie.

Kinda like how TikTokers think they’re well informed, and don’t bother seeking out information elsewhere. But try finding anything out about what’s happening in Hong Kong, the Uighurs, or Tianamen Square on TikTok. It’s just not there yet people using that platform never consider what information they aren’t seeing as long as there’s enough there to make it feel like it’s not missing anything.

China is actually really good at censorship. When people see 95% of things they generally won’t put effort into finding the other 5%.

Yeah right? Like how is just there in a perfect spot with no one anywhere near him?

Well it happened and it went as they should expect if they do that.

Were you kicking at them when it was Trump vs. Hilary, Trump vs. Joe, and Trump vs. Kamala?

You’re just rationalizing why you’re constantly attacking anyone that opposes fascist Trump. A lot of wards against the opposition to Trump and zero words against Trump. You’re just Trump’s proxy minion.

And yet again, you’re obsessed with meaningless categorization that has no basis in reality. You’ve been conditioned into doing this as a way to show loyalty to your particular tribe. It’s just a vain effort to prove you’re tribe is smarter and therefore superior to the other tribes.

The real smart thing to do is to recognize the threat to everyone else one particular tribe has become. And work with everyone else to oppose it. But your caveman brain has become to accustomed towards throwing rocks at a particular tribe you’ll just go on doing it when after they’ve been beaten down to the ground while the real threat gets ready to take you down.

This obsessive need to categorize politics to know who is in your tribe so you know whether to agree with them isn’t actually all that smart.

Right now there’s only fascists and those that oppose them. Kicking those opposed to fascism just after they were kicked to the ground by the electorate puts you on which side of things?

Yeah there’s some of the rationalization I’m talking about. There’s not a lot of daylight between the politics of the US and China right now. Both have authoritarian leaders that push a narrative about the need for a strongman to run the economy and protect their respective countries from the evil foreigners. Both want to expand their territory. Putin is the same, of course.

Fascism is just a scam to make people accept having an authoritarian leadership. There’s common tropes they use in their propaganda to emotionally manipulate people into supporting it. Glorious past, evil foreigners took things from us, we need a strong man (and it has to be a man because misogyny is a big part of it) to make things right. It’s all bullshit no matter where you put it on your precious spectrum. But it’s bullshit that works. And when it does work all that matters is what you do to oppose it. How you categorize it means jack shit.

When someone is throwing a spear at you how much time do you devote to trying to categorize what ideology they’re in?

When fascism enters the picture there’s only three groups of people. Those that support it, those that oppose it, and those that do nothing. Which of these three groups are you in?

It’s not about blocking, it’s about sending a message.

How are you sure that you haven’t bee brain washed?

The left-right spectrum is a construct. It doesn’t line up at all with reality. In reality, tribalism is 90% of politics. Most people vote the way their parents do. Some rebellious types don’t, and instead just conform to whatever their peer group thinks on political matters. Ideology is a post-facto rationalization for all of this.

Currently the “leftist” tribe is becoming more and more into alignment with the fascist tribe. You both show a common disdain for those in the opposition “liberal” tribe after all. And that’s what really matters in all of this mess. Leftists have joined fascist movements in the past, they just come up with rationalizations (which they have a lot of practice with) for why that’s the ideologically correct thing to do.

Don’t worry, you’ll be 40+ by the time the updates are finished compiling.

They problem is they’re looking to enforce these policies and only hurt the blue states. Notably NYC where they just wiped their asses with the constitution so they can have the federally indicted mayor under their control. Case was dismissed without prejudice so the if the Mayor doesn’t destroy people’s lives, they can bring back the case. All so they can have video (probably hosted be “doctor” Phil) of people’s lives being destroyed to satiate their hateful audiences.

If the red states don’t feel any consequences, this won’t end. They won’t have any empathy for people elsewhere.

Yup. And by the end of the week China will step in and replace all of that funding.

Add a bell button and a whistle button.

I think instead of promoting a page where people have to choose a server, just send people to lemmy.world directly. We should probably just get people to sign up there at first and have the ability to migrate their accounts to other servers if they want to do that later.

Having to choose from multiple servers is asking people to choose between a bunch of options they know nothing about. Get people straight to looking at content and posting stuff as soon as possible, once they’re more invested, and understand more about the different instances they can change servers if that’s what they want to do.

But yeah writhing the code needed to make account migration seamless might be a lot of work so not sure if that will happen.

Old news. It went super nova a few months back. But they’ll probably keep us from seeing it for about 600 years.

It always strikes me as odd when people’s reaction to seeing a news story on mainstream media is to complain about it not being reported by mainstream media.

Also, the Democratic Party does not determine what’s on the front page of newspapers. In fact it seems a lot of media is being told handle Trump with kid gloves since the news isn’t a big money maker for the huge corporations that own them and their owners are worried about reprisals from Trump against the more profitable parts of their corporations.

NY Times is independently owned tho, and they had a good piece on it a few days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/gitmo-migrants-trump.html

Didn’t make the front page because of some stuff in Gaza and below the fold they had a story explaining some of the nuances of birthright citizenship.

Golden Age of America! As golden as the showers Trump allegedly had in Moscow.

What would the D’s and R’s be doing differently?

You’re about to find out.

Then a a month later VGA 2.1B. After that VGA 3.0 Fullspeed and 3.0 Highspeed, to make things “less confusing.”