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Cake day: October 26th, 2023

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  • The “funny” parts of the internet like Twitter and Reddit are also owned by millionaires and billionaires, their express purpose being to entertain you and show you ads, not to actually inform you. An especially egregious example is YouTube when a video essayist tries to explain how the Native Americans were killed by colonists, or how most of Latin America was brutalized by capitalist oppression resulting in millions dead, and people have to bleep out their words like they’re on cable TV.


  • I know that the stuff written in 4chan was awful, but I think that having it as even a major catalyst for fascism globally is very reductive, and doesn’t explain things like conservatives rejecting the Alt-Right, or Democrats simply siding with the party, or various megacorporations funding mass media like Fox News and PragerU, or think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation. Obama did nothing about it when PragerU showed up in 2015 or so, and Biden did little about hate-speech when he was president, but what he did could be weaponized against anti-fascists. For those saying that he was too old to accomplish this, the rest of the party that was younger made the same liberal mistakes he did, and Trump also had his moments where he was babbling, making Biden inexcusable.

    If Hillary got elected in '16, and banned hate speech like in Germany and France, it wouldn’t make much a difference in the big picture because they wouldn’t fix the problems with society that made fascism appealing in the first place, because both parties are funded by housing companies, medical companies that charge insane amounts, car companies, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Israeli apartheid state. She could certainly amend the constitution to allow her to take down 4chan, or actively police YouTube for anti-semites, but when she runs up against the fuel of fascist dialogue, things break down, and she’d probably be ousted from her own party like Bernie Sanders. This is why Pepsi-Cola actively donated money to Texas Republican lawmakers. The people that actually run fascism are the people who have always ran the economy, them being billionaires like Theil and Yarvin, and when speech breaks down, what remains is class interest. Said interest is not of a parent protecting their children, but of a witch fattening up Hansel and Gretel.


  • I should’ve been on here instead. I legitimately thought that Anarchists, Communists, &c could make a difference being on there. Now I get people deliberately blocking accounts that aren’t even fascist, and being concerned with “bullying” instead of actually solving real problems. BSky has upper-class liberals talking about D&D, whining about how laws aren’t being followed correctly, cheerleading American imperialism, making unfunny jokes, and claiming that radical politics came from 4chan rather than legitimate political grieviances. All sorts of suburban slime. I really should’ve been elsewhere.