https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEH9MAgSGA

There are trends - this video explains it well. Trump will reshape America, he will cement power and make sure it’s much easier for MAGA to succeed in future (making it easy, rigging the system, for them to be re-elected).

You are entering a new authoritarian regime in the USA.

Many folks voted Trump because they don’t trust politicians, they don’t trust Democracy, and now they get what they want - Democracy takes the biggest hit in history - and it’s not because of Trump, it’s a worldwide trend - there have been no new Democracies for a good many years already.

Project 2025 (which Trump laughably kept saying ‘I never heard of it, I never read it’ - he’s laughing his tits off, he loves the lower class working Americans, he loves Americans with low education… because they just signed him into power thinking he gives a toss about them - he doesn’t.

He hates them, he hates women, he’s racist, misogynistic, a criminal and a liar.

Project 2025 is a right wing manifesto - opposing abortion and reproductive rights, even outlawing FDA approved safe drugs used in medical abortion… reviving 19th century extreme right wing laws.

Also opposing LGBTQ rights, opposing immigrants’ rights, a racial manual for reorganising the entire federal government to serve a right wing agenda.

You will see now mass raids, deportations, an end to birthright citizenship, breaking up families and dismantling asylum.

Trump will also work to bring in power of warrantless surveillance - to be exploited to spy on Americans and their data… radically expanding executive power and making a mockery of American’s idea of having freedom.

Trump will also use executive authority to limit First Amendment freedoms, he will have power to mute the press, also damaging fair replresentation in the voting process (he said - you won’t have to vote again, with a wry grin on his face).

Watching Trump you can see he’s TELLING YOU what he plans to do, laughing at you for being stupid, because he knows you don’t take it seriously.

Basically, it’s the fascist’s playbook - and you voted this POS into power.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/07/will-project-2025-help-trump-or-prove-assault-on-democracy/

For sure, as a teenager - interest in music switched from interest in music to finding music videos that got girls in 'em'.

I talked to a guy from Springfield - and he says personally he doesn’t think it will make any difference to him whichever one gets in, because right now it’s just talk.

So his idea basically is that whoever he votes for, he’d gonna get screwed over again… this is the decline of democracy and the rise of the post-truth politicians… in many ways, watching Trump is like watching Putin’s mill putting out news - all fake and contradictory news helping to convince that all news and politicians are fake.

I’d agree with this - for Trump, it’s basically just a personality thing and his policies and what he says are less relevant (everyone knows he’s just a joker that talks crap… so you should ignore what he ACTUALLY says and trust that he will deliver… sth like that) whereas for Harris, people listen to what she doesn’t say and expect that she’s hiding the fact that she’ll install surgeries in schools to do stealthy operations so she can send Harry home as Harriette…

I do feel more optimistic that the world can be saved from more Trump - but it’s not yet guaranteed.

First step to log in is to paste some URL - and https://lemmy.world/ doesn’t work for that… another hurdle to exclude anyone not advanced enough?

Yup, after seeing a University student trying to point out the Civilian toll, I remember WWII - did everyone forget Dresden?

Laws of war are designed to make it somehow more civilised - but the more we see war, the more we see that it really cannot be ‘more civilised’ and that the ‘fog of war’ is a bitch.

For sure, if someone shoots your kid, you must turn the other cheek because they’re gonna dress in civilian clothes and pretend to be innocent when you shoot back. It’s what these pricks have been doing to U.S. troops for years and it’s the reason that civilians are more at risk when fighting animals like this.

Should there also be entries to cover Ginger, Blonde, Black, or a million other specific labels which could be targeted?

Isn’t singling out Transphobia a form of predjudice? Shouild we also add to the list a few thousand other terms which some people find ‘edgy’?

Sometimes there is VICARIOUS pleasure to be had - I never noticed ‘schlorp schlorp’ noises.

There’s a lot of truth in the adage that ‘sex sells’. To imagine yourself being in the position of the person on screen is rather a guilty pleasure, enabling you to take part in ‘consentual sex’ with someone by simply imagining that you are the one doing the act.

Also consider - don’t sign in to YouTube. Set uBlock, and Sponsorblock, too - so when youtube does get watched, the ads and promotions get skipped.

Everyone here is missing the point - by signing in to YouTube, you give Google more power to dominate your life.

With a simple inoreader extension in Firefox, you can visit a youtube/youtuber/video page and subscribe the feed.

Search interesting channels and save them to Feedly, or Inoreader.

Pin those to Firefox, so that your feeds are always refreshed and visible.

To begin with, I’d stop her using the YouTube website logged in.

Set her up with Inoreader - then when you find something interesting, you can visit the ‘video’ page and subscribe to the feed…

If you log her out, that will mean she just uses it without logging in - which works ok for feeds. She can browse, but it’s fresh.

Just a few suggestions that work for me - via RSS feed (not subscribed in Youtube):

• Juicy Life
• Sci Show
• Simonscat
• FailArmy
• Daily Dose
• Vlad Vexler
• Big Think

With inoreader it’s a simple task to mark all items in a folder as read if you want to skip them. Also, with the inoreader account you can log in remotely at any browser, then you can find stuff you think is cool and subscribe - then that will show up in her feeds.

Not only video/youtube.

• !dadjokes works too - Lemmy stuff, any stuff.https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/home

• Then some interesting pinned tabs/bookmarks like https://window-swap.com/

• Then you should also show her the new Radio

I love this site, I found a couple of dozen and added them in pyradio app so I’ve always got interesting listening when I don’t want to stare at the screen.

Group

Shorter than community.

ROFL Back in the day, when AOL was a thing - I used to think it stood for ‘Assholes Online’.

Good luck (",) appreciate the efforts you make fighting the crazy deluge.

Lemmies

Lemmings

It IS monetized - right now by donations/crowdfunding.

What we need is for people to be more open to supporting what they want via micro-payments, regular donations, because that’s the way to say NO to advertising which brings in virtually no income for the amount of time and bandwidth it consumes.

Wow - we have a new defniition of ‘awesome dudes’.

Thank you.

You know that Google and Reddit own the internet - so just go there, and make sure you’re using a Chromium based browser because that’s the market share too.

That way, you can work to create a Fediverse whilst Google and friends succeed in closing all the loops to take total control of your internet and browser.

Other people will say they ‘search’.

Part of the marketing strategy is to make Microsoft, Google, Reddit etc the default.

Why reinforce it?

The issue is becoming accessible to Search.

Not specifically to become accessible to Google.

Here’s one example of something I found OUTSIDE the fediverse via search.

I use SearXNG, but I remember that one came via Qwant search and NOT via Google.

Language IS very important here, and it’s important to avoid always using ‘default’ branded options which are not and should never be considered the default.

It doesn’t wear off. I fell off a skateboard when I was 59, only the torn rotator cuff (and 1 year of painful rehab) let me know I shouldn’t have tried going down that hill…

I boosted from 1k karma to 20k by searching ‘pun’ on every top joke each day for a week.

It’s enough that good/bad posts get boosted up/down by votes without them generating Karma.

Intelligent answers aren’t always the most popular…

Woteva. You litterally sound like an auld man 🤣 I disagree with this…

I do find slightly more mature content over here (though not so much of ‘watchitfortheplot’)…

Mostly it’s just stupid people, lazy people, ignorant people.

There are some here, but it’s certainly less than the 95% hit rate of RedTit.