Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

If the Right Wing is fighting amongst itself:

Be it OG MAGA, Tech Bros, Project 2025 Architects + Bible Humpers, and other groups all going at one another…

Don’t intervene or give sympathy to any of them, let the fuckers suffer and infight.

@CaptainXtra
@BlitztheDragon
Not to mention Trump’s a lame duck.

@Background Pony #C107
With that said, standing in their way in anyway you can is a good thing.

Take nothing for granted, and recognize he is still very much a threat to all of us.

@CaptainXtra
@BlitztheDragon
True, he’s a lame duck, but true.

I can’t help but wonder if perhaps a part of the reason for all the recent right-wing infighting is because the left has essentially capitulated after the election. Because of the high-moral Democrats “respecting norms” and as a result practically waving the white flag (at least for now), who else is there for the right-leaning factions to fight except each other? Fascism must always have an enemy to fight for it to endure, after all…

@Background Pony #53DD
Well, let’s hope the infighting can last 4 years.

@BlitztheDragon
His Twitter profile was (and might still be) him in armor with a satanic goat head design on the chest. He already tried to start a fight in that department.

You say that like it means anything besides Trump has nothing left to lose. Never in his life has he given a flying fuck about the wellbeing of anyone besides himself, and if he can’t get re-elected he has no reason to avoid burning the place down on his way out.

@Background Pony #53DD
The reason Democrats have capitulated is because they expect the elctorate to be idiots with the memory of a goldfish who will come back to their arms in future electoral cycles once Trump (inevitably) fucks up. Their stance with regards to anti-war protesters, people concerned about deteriorating standards of living and Biden’s lethargy and impotency in the face of a GOP onslaught only confirms that they’d rather deliberately sink themselves and lose an election than reform into a competent opportunistic leftist party and that while their voterbase might suffer under Trump, they will not. 6 million people were honestly right not to partake in the electoral ritual of the bourgeois state this time.

@BadgingBadger
I have to disagree with that last part, since those 6 mill would have saved us from another Trump term.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook will be “returning to its roots” as a free speech platform. As such, they will be “removing restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.”

In other words, they’re lifting moderation of hate speech toward immigrants and queerfolk. It’s assumed that policies blocking positive discussion of queer identities will remain in effect to “protect children,” as was recently found on Instagram.

EDIT: Further down in the thread, he announced he would be moving the content moderation team out of California in favor of Texas to “remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.” Because it’s only “biased” if it’s left of Trump.

@BlitztheDragon
I would’ve recommended that they moved the mod team to a more neutral state where extremist politics does NOT thrive…like Nevada for example. You’re going to pretty much have the opposite effects between California and Texas.

If he were being honest then maybe. But you and I both know that this is just another part of formalizing Facebook’s role alongside Twitter as being Pravda for Trump.

@BlitztheDragon
Aren’t the only people left on Facebook mostly boomers nowadays? Zuck’s probably afraid of them leaving too

@Natry
Boomers, and anyone who needs to keep track of grandma and grandpa, or anyone who uses it for events and advertising.

I only joined it because I needed to see an ‘invitation only’ event to find out where someone’s funeral was.

@BlitztheDragon
I thought their moderation was all done in Turkey. Oh - wait - they’ve been banned from there? Permanently this time?

Apparently it’s now mostly in Nairobi, Kenya?

I’ve never created a Facebook account and never will, but I do see that many small businesses rely on it to post announcements and hours and the like.

Nevertheless Mom likes to go on there to envy other people’s more “successful” lives, so I’ll be talking to her about the misinfo she’s likely to encounter.

My uncle, who is deaf and cannot interact with most traditional media, relied on Facebook to get his news. That’s why he’s MAGA now.

@Ciaran
Yes, I as a millenial need Facebook for advertising my brand for selling art prints at conventions and/or on the street (something I resolved to do this New Year.) Facebook is the easiest platform for having more than one profile without additional emails and logins.

@BlitztheDragon
I helped some clients run some Facebook ads, and I can see the attraction. You get ‘metrics’ and can dial in exactly who you want to have receive the ads.

But, the ads never worked. They make the person running the ads look GREAT because you have all the metrics and conversions right there and ready to dump into your powerpoint presentation.

But the conversions are only ‘engagement’ which is almost entirely bots engaging with bots, or people clicking ‘like’ and moving on.

I did a test for an indi brewery. Compared to a 1-month quarter column ad (duotone) in a local newspaper, an interview about the company’s expansion in a different paper, and a $2,000 facebook ad, the interview had significantly higher results.

Like - not even comparable.

The facebook ads (pointing to an event at the brewery with prizes and coupons) had less than 10 conversions. The quarter column ad had something like 500 conversions. And the interview article had something like 2,500 conversions.

The facebook ad CLAIMED to have more than 250,000 ‘engagements’. But that translated to less than 10 human beings coming in through the door.

The interview had the best conversions. But you can’t buy one of those - you have to get it through some thing the paper considers newsworthy. In this case it was an expansion and new game room, so that was great.

But - yeah - facebook LOOKS great. But it’s shit. It’s all smoke and mirrors and bots talking to bots.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
That is also a great use for Facebook. If you can avoid the ‘all my followers are bots’ thing. Which basically you can do simply by never paying for ‘reach’.

It’s wild how Meta is actively attempting to bring Dead Internet Theory to fruition. After hastily scrapping those AI-generated users created from whole cloth, now allegedly Facebook users are seeing their names and faces on AI-generated posts they never made.

@Kazapsky
It’s still good.

@Background Pony #D717
🤷

Trump really wants to buy Greenland it seems. Trump jr. is there now on a “visit” of somekind.

Canada and the Panama canal is also on the menu, he is talking about annexing Canada and seizing the canal.

NATO members will now be expected to pay 5% of their GDP on defence.

Trump will not rule out military action or economic sanctions.

@BlitztheDragon
That’s a huge insult to Pravda TBH. It was a communist newspaper which despite being hyper-partisan, DID in fact offer legitimate criticisms of capitalism, imperialism and inequalities, particularly those plaguing the US.

A more fitting comparison would be to the fascist Der Sturmer. That newspaper flat-out concocted stories from thin air and was so awful even Hermann Göring of all folks drew a line, prohibiting his staff from reading it.

Ahem. “Well, it’s not like Trump is planning to have his own ‘Invasion of Poland’ moment or any-oh wait.”

In the same interview he’s also droning on about wanting to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And sure enough mere minutes after his statement Qaren is already introducing a bill to do just that.

Didn’t he say that he was once was an Anti-War President? I do recall him saying that. That’s why MAGA voted for him right?