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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Well if you voted, that’s all anyone can ask for.

    Every time, I voted for them in the general even though that vote was coerced through a corrupt system that refuses to let me vote for someone who actually represents me.

    What meetings did you go to? Any? None. You went to none, right? Did you help someone campaign? No? Well that’s not a corrupt system that’s a system you have no part in not picking who you want. You can see how that might happen, right.

    8 goddamn years of listening to high and mighty people like you telling me how everything that’s happening is my fault even though I voted against what was happening at every turn. Fuck off.

    Eight whole years? Damn, that’s amazing. But those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump up those numbers to get into the high and mighty club. Try 16 years, 20 years, 30 years. More. Democrats refusing to understand how communication works and republiQans descending into open nazism the whole time. Third parties somehow, astoundingly, being even worse. Then watch a bunch of idiots decide to not vote because “the system is corrupt” and allow a demented incompetent nazi rapist into office. And how did you think it was your fucking fault again you fuck? Because if you voted, that’s the very best thing you can do. If you voted and want to say the Democrats need to do more for the working class, please do. I’ll join you. Again.















  • At this time, Meta’s Head of Public Policy was Joel Kaplan, a man whose previous work involved working as George W. Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, as well as handling public policy and affairs for Energy Future Holdings, which involved three private equity firms buying Texas power company TXU for $45 billion and immediately steering it into bankruptcy due to the $38.7 billion in debt Energy Future Holdings was forced to take on as a means of acquiring TXU.

    Jeff Horwitz reports in his book Broken Code that Kaplan personally intervened when Facebook’s health team attempted to remove COVID conspiracy movie Plandemic from its recommendation engine, and Facebook only did so once Roose reported that it was the most-engaged link in a 24 hour period.

    Naturally, Meta’s choice wasn’t to “fix things” or “improve” or “take responsibility.” By the end of 2021, Meta had disbanded the team that ran CrowdTangle, and in early 2022, the company had stopped registering new users. In early 2024 — months before the 2024 elections — CrowdTangle was officially shut down, though Facebook Top 10 had stopped working in the middle of 2023.

    Meta hasn’t “made a right-wing turn.”  It’s been an active arm of the right wing media for nearly a decade