@benroyce@aral The Fediverse is designed to be a decentralized replacement for Twitter. It lacks many of the features of Facebook, such as events and invitations thereto.
@Wileymiller@MugsysRapSheet@PandaChronicle@GottaLaff The "Trump-and-Dump" (to coin a phrase) will come as a COMPETE surprise to his fans, some of whom invested their meager life savings. Hopefully that will turn them into not-fans on Election Day.
It is time to conjure up mental images of vast herds barrelling across the dusty savannah and to proclaim, in your best whispery David Attenborough impression, that we are witnessing one of nature’s truly great and most majestic spectacles: a mass migration.
I cannot claim to understand the rainfall signals that prompt a million Serengeti wildebeest to abandon one grazing pasture and head to the next...But when it comes to the fresh wave of X users hopping over to rival networks such as Bluesky, the trigger to move on is quite straightforward.
The drip, drip of casual racism, edge lord bigotry, bad-faith polemics, dog whistles, crass disinformation, dodgy pornbots, cynical grifting, tin hat conspiracies and tiresome crypto bollocks became too much for some users of the site formerly known as Twitter fairly soon after Musk bought it in October 2022, later changing its name to X.
...The question arises: are the oligarchs who are trying to make Trump president and JD Vance vice-president, the latter a man who has declared he would not have certified that election, about to learn what it means to have a tyrant as president? Yes, someone who attempts a coup against the electoral process — the very heart of democracy — is a would-be tyrant. So is someone who may fill his government with people personally loyal to him. Nobody then can truly be safe, except loyalists and sycophants....
The plutocrats who support Trump may remain safer than Berezovsky. But can they really be as free as they want? Yes, a further erosion of democracy might protect them from interference by the elected politicians they detest. But the men they put in power, in their stead, have a tendency to turn themselves into absolute rulers. Nobody can then be truly safe.
@mekkaokereke@tob@ATLeagle What can be done about it? The courts are no help anymore. My friends who live and teach school there are despairing and talking about moving.
@Radical_EgoCom@sfehl@GryphonSK Other than the works of Marx himself, where should we go to find Marxism that isn't Leninism? Seems like once he got hold of it, Communism just became a new suit for a new Tsar. (Even more so under Stalin, and now Putin is trying to emulate Stalin without even pretending to be Communist)