Learn to read. I was in absolutely no way justifying genocide. But I live in the real world where the consequences of people’s actions exist and not a Fantasyland where good always prevails and fighting the good fight wins in the end. The evil won and it’s in no small part due to people not acknowledging the reality of the situation.

But hey, go sit happy on your soap box, it’s not you and your family being exterminated. It’s not mine or anyone else on these platforms. You know why? Cause Israel has blocked Palestinians from using the internet. These people are going to die in the dark and it’s your fault.

The problem is morons who thought there was any way out of participating in the genocide. Your choices were either Harris who would rubber stamp arms sales to Israel while using them to bring them to the bargaining table in an effort to try to stop the slaughter or Trump who is going to supercharge the genocide until every Arab man woman and child in Gaza is dead.

And both of them are completely beholden to AIPAC who, thanks to Citizens United, dump football fields full of cash into our electoral process. People talk about Russian election interference but Israel’s been interfering in our politics for decades.

Yeah my sister was shocked that the I didn’t even watch the highlight reels. Cause I just don’t want to see that fuck. I’m going to be hearing about him and his batshit schemes for the next 4 years and I just don’t want to fucking deal with it right now.

At some point we need to adopt some fucking privacy laws.

Yeah we absolutely had to ban TilTok because of privacy concerns but the idea of creating a law to protect our privacy is ridiculous beyond all reasoning. The stupidity of the United States government is absolute.

This right here is the right answer. Trump just created the ultimate bribing machine for himself.

Kimmel is really quiet leftist, so he gets it. But he’s also beholden to network executives who only understand money and the things that make them money. And advertisers don’t like Luigi or the idea that CEOs are disposable.

Not that I’m any fan of Apple but this is obesience, literally all the big tech companies are lining up to kiss the ring. Trump is a vindictive small-minded asshole and he’s going to have more power than any other person in the country and they all want to be on his good side.

Can we talk about the fact that Wyoming shouldn’t even be a state based on their miniscule population.

The social safety nets were a result of far left government policies. Read a history book sometime.

That 13% would also be people who would openly admit to supporting his actions. There are a lot of people who condemn his actions publicly but in their own minds…?

What kind of world have we come into where Hacker News is a pro corporation website?

Hackers used to be the antithesis of big corporations and capitalist overreach.

Here’s a fun fact I just recently came across. In the medieval times when the church wanted to remove a heretic, someone who was speaking out in opposition to church doctrine, they would burn those people at the stake. The reason they would do this was not because this was a common practice to burn people at the stake but in order to prevent relics of the heretics from being collected and giving their followers something to rally around.

I think Luigi’s Stack Overflow history is a relic of his existence and something people could rally around and the powerful don’t want that to exist.

That is the one he had on his person when he was arrested. The Stack Overflow one is not so much a manifesto as a testament, a recounting of his experience. And an understandable motivation for his actions.

There is disruptive behavior.

There is none currently. You’re free to continue to advocate dropping Meta products, but don’t hold your breath. Ideally we would have some kind of government intervention to break up the monopoly that is Meta or some form of regulation to reign in their behavior, but none of our politicians care to bother and unfortunately, with the party coming into power in our government, there’s little hope any kind of regulation on any monopolistic corporations. With our last election the American people have chosen to package themselves up and give themselves over to the corporate overlords.

Facebook has about 3 billion users across the globe. That’s just 500 million short of half the human population of the planet. At its height Twitter was around 360 million. And it’s user base has only shrunk by 30 million or so since the douche bag took it over.

Facebook, on the other hand, has dug its hooks into everyone’s personal lives to a point at which getting them to ditch Facebook would be like telling everyone to basically ditch their friends and family. No one is going to do that.

Twitter was an add-on. It was an extra. You could use it or not, nobody cared. It hadn’t built a large enough user base to be so integral to people’s social lives. TikTok, in about half the time twitter has existed, has basically eclipsed it in terms of monthly active users.

We have to accept this fact, Facebook has become an institution. And it should scare literally everyone that such a huge and powerful platform is owned by one single person with no real oversight whatsoever. That is why he was able to unilaterally decide to first censor Facebook at the beginning of the election and now uncensor it once an oligarch friendly president has been elected.

Everyone’s so focused on DElon Husk’s role in getting Trump elected, but all Zuckerberg needed to do was shut down the discourse on his platform so that the news couldn’t flow. And now he’s adopting the policies of Xwitter in an effort to win some favoritism from the incoming administration.

They won’t.

Okay this isn’t working I just sucked face with my phone for like a minute.

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

we are spiralling out of control in debt, cost of living and hope

Yeah that’s centrist-conservative degradation. We’ve been experiencing that in the United States since the mid-70s. Just wait until they begin deleting your social programs like they have been doing here.