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    3 months ago

    Meta (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp), X/Twitter, TikTok - all of these are fascist mouthpieces. Consider any information you gain through them to be propaganda.

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      3 months ago

      One of my biggest recent gripes is that I have to use WhatsApp for work. I have disconnected myself from all privately owned giant social media, but I can’t drop whatsapp because I’m required to use it for communication at work with students.

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    There’s a thing that happens to people like Zuckerberg and Musk. They get a lot of hate (deserved, yes, but they don’t see it that way, and it’s probably true that they get plenty of undeserved hate too). Anyway they get used to the hate. It stops affecting them. But in this process they also develop a detached disdain for the public. They write off humanity. This same thing that allows them survive the hate also allows them to walk around like they know better and are better. It’s what sucks all compassion out of them. And then they behave like criminal overlords, because the can and honestly it’s the final “fuck you” they can give the world.

    I’m not rendering any judgment here, like “we should stop hating on these guys.” No. I’m just saying I think this is part of how they get to be this way.

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    Facebook needs to be burned to the ground. I’ll let you decide if that means in a business or physical sense. It is a cancer consuming us from the inside out.

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      3 months ago

      Sunglasses? No. Literally the opposite. Those marks are what happen to your face when you never take off your quest headset.

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      I’m not sure what’s so amazing about that. I see lots of people get the same outline when they go skiing.

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    Zuck plans on running in 2028 after Trump. His hero he constantly tries to emulate, Augustus Caesar, didn’t run a company. He was an emperor.

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      3 months ago

      He doesn’t have the charisma to be a cult leader, which is a requirement to be a Republican president now.

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      I don’t see it happening, but if it does…

      People just voted for me. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb fucks.
      —Mark Fuckerberg

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      Unless democracy is disbanded I don’t see that happening. He may be the same kind of con artist that trump is… but I can’t see him ever getting that loser nerd image out of the heads of any group no matter how much MMA training he takes.

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      Republicans are already preparing laws for another Trump term in 2028 but he’ll likely need a puppet for 2032

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        Given Trump’s physical condition and eating habits, I would be extremely surprised if he even made it to the end of the current term.

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          His dad lived into his 90s and he has the best medical care on the planet available to him. He’ll probably keep going for a while despite his best efforts.

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    I try to not get swept up in “correlation equals causation” and conspiracies, but many of these timings seem really really sus

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    This bullshit is just going to get worse and worse.

    This is probably due to people mass reporting these pages or profiles and them being automatically blocked or some shit. But yeah, @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com is right. It’s really a funny coincidence.