terf Island

Me personally, I’d choose NZ

But also like they did historic (up til Trump ofc) expansions in ICE, were deregulating industry,

This is to appeal to the morons they lost to.

deregulating industry,

What??? Biden was in so many ways better at regulating industry than other presidents. Lina Khan did work.

refused to make his campaign policies materialize like single payer healthcare

In what alternate universe did you hear him make that promise?

and ran cover for genocide

Yup, but people do have to remember the alternative we have now is literally worse on this in every conceivable way. Also, I feel fairly confident in my assumption mossad has the best blackmail in the world… The things israel gets away with…

and it was one of the most substantive reasons Trump is now in power.

This is utterly nonsensical. People who are not brain dead did not see trump, who wants the palestinians all to die, very publicly, and think “well joe is still bad, so lets think worse”. That would be a brain rot psyop level of non thought.

I think democrats lost because people were racist and sexist, people didn’t feel spoken too by someone with charisma (partially tied to the first, but also shes literally an EX DA…), the world has been seeing a bad shift in key metrics, and people who don’t pay attention just blame that on whoever is currently in power.

There were probably more, but I think those are the key ones and think the idea that palestine is what made kamela lose is something that people who only pretend to care say.

Is society so broken that we unintentionally produce these kinds of monsters or are some people just inherently born evil?

Unintentionally? Brother there are like a dozen rich white right wing billionaires who have made this their lives purpose. There have been organizations like them for … basically forever with all different sorts of dynamics.

They are very intentionally being created, and of course some people grow up without empathy for those different for them, or without any at all.

They were stabbed by 50% of people going through life not giving a shit about anything, then 30% of the remaining 100 actively wanting to harm others as their primary purpose in life.

You see it in the poll numbers.

Its why republicans consistently get 30% and democrats fluctuate based on vibes maaan.

You also see it in how people act when witnessing someone being abused, where most just want to turn away and pretend its none of their business even when they are in a position to do something meaningful.

Also, I don’t see locking data from search engines as a bad thing. The fediverse isn’t search engine searchable either

The fediverse not being searchable is one of the biggest flaws with it, and make it similarly ephemeral to Discord, except its actually worse because the sizes of communities are just in that goldilocks area of awfulness where there are echo chambers, and people are rude and toxic. Whatsmore, availability due to the small size is relatively mediocre.

However, it’s free and they have to support it somehow.

These arguments might just give me an aneurysm.

This has let so many horrible free to play games off the hook while they literally make billions in profits and have astounding profit margins.

Discord makes money.

In a non hyper greed infested world, they could simply coast at the level of wealth they are at now, still making free money for their investors, paying their workers, and improving the service, without making peoples lives shittier.

There is no reason to justify this shit.

Have you not seen the world? Everything, no matter how horrific, can always get infinitely worse.

The PIF could buy it and ban gay people. Israel could buy it and persecute people against genocide. A rich right wing billionaire could buy it and force even more nazi memes upon the youth. They could make a monetized limit to how many servers one can join that is purposefully below any sane reasonable or normal level. They could make PMs pay per message.

There are infinite ways it can get worse. Infinite.

It also makes giving or getting any kind of support a hellish time sink, but that’s almost besides the point…

You know, this comment just made me realize this might actually be the point for some companies.

Its a cheap way to pretend that you care about customer service, while actually dissuading customers strongly from actually trying. Its also completely easy to bot vs having a human on a phone line.

A great problem of our society is there being too many problems to have any group of people focus on enough to get any of them solved.

If every issue has just 2% of people caring about it, companies can easily just write those 2% off and do business as usual.

This is why to not have an enshitifed world it has to be top down, and people have to participate in politics logically as opposed to based on which groups of people they hate.

The basic maths of it just doesn’t work for any sort of bottom up action.

It would have to be a relative time of quiet and one company sticking out like a sore thumb for long enough for them to be damaged.

You have seen how rapidly things are getting worse.

There is not going to be that happening, and even if there were, it wouldn’t be enough as there are thousands more issues.

I don’t do the work to back up somebody else’s opinion.

Yet you expect others to do that here for you.

You are sealioning right now. You’re asking someone else to do a shit ton of work under the guise of “just asking questions” pretending to have healthy discourse.

A lot of this sites people suck and its filled with people justifying absurd things, but right here, you are asking a question so open ended its tantamount to asking for a thesis paper, and those would still be scrutinized.

Canada is one of the countries the US exploding might hit. Choose a farther nation.

That is never happening.

Firstly, because the ram is primarily being used in systems that use ram that is completely incompatible with your systems.

Even if you are a homelaber, the ram used on GPUs is literally just the dies, and of a different type, GDDR, or HBM, which is even more impossible to use.

The servers themselves are requiring crazier and crazier power setups such that you could not power it at home.

The days of just getting a crap ton of hyperscaler stuff for home fun are nearing their end.

Like, even without AI, you’re not getting a serviceable Graviton rack in your home.

The other reason this is not happening, is because even if shit hits the fan, companies will not give you the same prices they had before, no matter what.

That’s just how companies now operate. The shareholders never want them to lower prices, and so they don’t.

The only time consumers see new prices are with blitz business strategies to monopolize whole markets, and those have very obvious monkeys paws clauses.

That’s not exactly a problem for them though, hence their willingness to be more open about it.

He bet that people would be proud of being their worst, and he was right.

Trump has outright defied everything the evangelicals stood for. They now only stand for Trump. When he’s gone, they won’t be able to revert

This is a baffling bit of logic to me.

If they were able to change so quickly, why do you think they will suddenly leave?

More than that, I think its pretty clear that trump was an unmasking of their true beliefs.

He was an unmasking of the fact that they have never cared about anything more than hurting marginalized people. That has been, and continues to be their collective single voter issue.

The republicans will always be the party for those people, and those people are the most guaranteed voting demographics.

This is of course all reliant on democracy even functioning in 1 year, which I have high doubts about. I’d say the odds are out of its favour.

To beat the voter manipulation/intimidation/gerrymandering etc to the extent needed to actually oust trump is damn near an impossibility, and then if he gets the next 2 years, its completely over.

Once the cult leader falls, there absolutly will be a reckoning. His base is tied to him specifically, not the party.

This is way too hopefuly thinking that I feel like too many people are hopebaiting themselves with.

They specifically have plans, openly documented in project 2025 to no longer need the cult leader, nor votes.

This isn’t going to just go away.

There isn’t magically going to be some new person to join the fight and win it for you.

Its the people, fighting apathy and the regime, and right now apathy is working tightly with the regime.

Your troll shtick doesn’t work once its revealed you’re a troll. You no longer enrage, you just look foolish.

People making shit posts like this and the hopebait pretending there will magically be punishment and restoration “once this is all over” are part of the problem.

They want to talk like its a foregone conclusion that the evil will fail and the good will prosper, but history has shown us anything but this happening, and we’ve literally seen no signs that they won’t continue getting exactly what they want with only mild delays and roadblocks.

I think you are pretty much agreeing with my message.

Of course, it would be better if they didn’t, but can you really blame them when the system is stacked against us?

Yes, specifically when they use even a tiny bit of that little free time to beat down others who actually try, or when they don’t pay attention to the only ways they could possibly lessen the awful situation.