Just because people in power are getting worse, doesn’t mean we can’t strive to be better.

Yep, let’s rake our forests and rinse our recycling to handle climate change!

If your house burns to the ground, no worries, you can just collect floatsom from the beach and build a new one!

Dude, some things cannot be solved via positive vibes and being a good neighbor, and if you want my honest opinion on it, I think pushing everyday people to be accountable for everything while the broligarchs are accountable for nothing is a big part of the problem.

In other words, you should strive to be better than an apologist for the system.

I mean I understand the 1950s and 1960s werent some utopia either, but before we just let capital run everything some aspects were better.

For better or worse that’s how we get hivemind echo chambers and I’m not sure it’s even in human nature to seek anything else.

There it is, in every shoddy analysis someone has to mix up the thing we have with “the only thing possible”.

Echo chambers aren’t part of “human nature”, they’re designed into the algorithms by the broligarchs to rachet up engagement – giving them $$$ – while making it impossible to build consensus and community in a way that threatens them.

Up until a couple of decades ago, there weren’t widespread echo chambers on the Internet. The first version of websites (even social ones) were simple chronological feeds. Nowadays, thanks to the assmasters in charge you don’t even know what you aren’t seeing online on most of these sites. Comments look completely different based upon even simple things like gender.

If nearly everything currently wrong with the country weren’t due to capitalism run amok I could sympathize. But unfortunately it’s not the 1960s anymore.

Why do i want a copy of something I am only going to watch once? And why should I keep a copy if I can just stream it again from the same or some different site for free in the future?

1. you’re downloading a copy no matter which way you do it, you’re just tossing the copy as you download it with the streaming method

2. aside from the wastefulness of downloading the exact same thing multiple times, the source might vanish leaving you with nowhere to stream it from again

Private equity is so pumped full of cash that they basically have nothing better to do with it.

No.

That site went from useful to a complete pile of trash. Maybe the chat bots can use it or something.

Sounds terrible. I’m sure it’ll happen cuz we live in hell.

This is like adding ESPN to the live TV package.

This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to suing someone for sucking. Which, for whatever reason, was a childhood trope in my family. I love the idea of that being an actual thing. Many companies would be open to lawsuits if you could sue them for sucking.

Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn’t worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that’s what you’re thinking. Definitely not.

The COVID pandemic was the millionth example of this.

I just put in the web address into my reader (Feeder).

Some articles are only for subscribers, but a lot of them are the whole thing.

It’s a little difficult to separate the politics off and put it into a different category altogether. He supports having the government be shitty to people he doesn’t like. I have no doubt he could be nice in the pejorative sense – like in the difference between nice people and kind people or in the “nice guy” meme sense – but many doubts that he’s actually a really nice guy in any sincere way.

It’s easier to say you just don’t really know him. I think it’s similar to the neighbors saying how the serial killer really seemed like a great guy when the reporters interview them. He wasn’t a great guy, you just didn’t know who he really was.

What community? This is social media we’re talking about. Have people really convinced themselves that these things are communities?

All of a sudden their test scores start going through the roof.

How about “billionaires are edible” or “Tech bros are welfare queens” or “Watch out for a-luigi”?

Demographics aren’t destiny either. The whole electorate moved red last cycle. It really isn’t enough to “these people have stereotypical liberal attributes, they’ll flip this state blue!”. They won’t.

He’s otherwise a really nice guy

Doubt