Removing them isn’t enough. Over 77 million people saw his previous term, looked at him now, and said “Yep! I want more of that!” And the media being complicit doesn’t help, either.

Ooh, nice.

Or Malbolge.

Law is typically enforced at the end of a gun. If the government won’t do anything to stop these people, someone else will.

As opposed to all those other times in history that the Internet existed.

I’ve been trying. Unfortunately, people in power seem totally unresponsive to the needs of the people. Don’t know what the optimal solution for that is, but historically, the solution is usually something you’re not allowed to encourage on social media.

No. 538 gave Trump the best chances out of any model, which Nate was criticized heavily for. 1-in-3 chances, which is what Trump had in 2016, are still pretty likely.

:() ::& ;:

Hmm. Self-organizing projects whose workers work on them entirely based on their need to be done, and the results freely distributed to anyone who wants a copy?

Literal fascism, obviously.

What is there to think about? I complain about people who support Soviet-style dictatorships having full control over online platforms moderating exactly as one would expect, and I get told by Random Guy On The Internet #368,452 that I’m apparently a hypocrite because wanting action to be taken to stop authoritarians from controlling social networks makes me the real authoritarian or something. All this to “suit my agenda”, which in this case is wanting to be able to say that authoritarians are bad.

God forbid I find arguments like that incoherent and unworthy of taking seriously.

I prefer the XKCD map. Really illustrates that whole “empty space” thing pretty well:

I’m so bored of that line. At least come up with something different.

Good. Lemmy communities need to be as instance-agnostic as possible.

Good. Is development of Lemmy still controlled by tankies?

Yep. Something needs to change if we want Lemmy to be something besides a place for Soviet simps to hide from criticism. Authoritarianism cannot be tolerated.

I wonder if you could throw a simple website up on Neocities with an RSS feed.

I’ve been spending my time both here and on Reddit recently, and I’ve honestly been enjoying it more here. Though I mostly lurk.

I think “intelligence” is definable as “computation that we don’t understand yet”.

That’s why I said “expend” rather than “expand”.

Embrace, Expend, Extinguish.