That’s not true! No matter what kind of billionaire he was in life, now he is a good billionaire. You might also say that all dead billionaires are good billionaires.

Trump and MAGA will be more than happy to let him take credit and the blame for doge. Although it really was the think tank behind project 2025. Passing the blame to Musk is a win for Trump. So that is part of being used, chewed up by his remaining fans and then thrown away like the garbage he is. We’ll see how his net worth develops.

Huh, thanks. I don’t quite understand it but I guess a token makes sense. Similar to how I can use reddit with VPN when logged in, but not without. I don’t even have a youtube account any more though since they forcibly degoogled me by demanding my phone number.

So is regime change to bring about a liberal democratic government also considered cultural genocide? Like if I’m working against the Saudi monarchy and Wahhabi religious order of laws (which is their long term culture) am I guilty of genocide?

Was the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan cultural genocide? Is forced rendition or even “nation building” genocide? Guantanamo? Rendition?

Are Starbucks and McDonalds guilty of genocide for spreading their “franchises” (Temples of a neoliberal globalist culture really) everywhere?

Is the “culture war” against the institutional racism in the USA a cultural genocide? After all it’s a culture of racism… are the atheists really conducting a cultural genocide with their War on Christmas!? Oh God! Are we the baddies???

If you’re in Finland, don’t deny any of this! It’s illegal now!

PS: Sorry this is a late reply, and obviously it’s argued to absurdity.

I use freetube without anything but the issue is that my VPN is blocked now, and a self hosted invidious or piped won’t help with that, right? I imagine I’m going to need some kind of split for the VPN, where some apps don’t use VPN.

But even freetube is somewhat clumsy for queueing videos and proper theater mode without borders. Using Youtube is becoming more and more cumbersome lol.

I wish there was a simple executable that pre-downloads and buffers my youtube channel videos and then just launches an optimized local web server that has good UX.

I guess my main point is that Elon doesn’t really have a “base” any more. Neither the neoliberal technologists and futurists he charmed nor MAGA are on his side any more. He burned his bridges with public support. So he only has his money to influence representatives. And is empire is crumbling too.

What prompted me is that the neoliberal mainstream press and social media is jumping on this as if it was a turning point. This is another “Trump is in deep trouble now!” after he or someone else said something.

PS: I’d be curious where Peter Thiel stands, the handler of Vance.

PPS: If Thiel backs the impeachment Thiel will become president and that might align with their goals to dismantle democracy in the US.

Elon Musk isn’t really part of MAGA though. He joined Trump and MAGA shortly before the election and now got chewed up by Trump like anyone else did. Nobody on the Republican side gives a shit about him. With his money he can make trouble but thinking this is a turning point is silly. It’s just more chaos.

Divide and conquer. Non state-actors and special interest have a far easier time attacking a hundred small entities than one big one. Because people have much less bandwidth to track all this shit than it is to spread it around. See ALEC and the strategy behind state rights.

In the end this is about economic power. The only way to curb it is through a democratic government. Lemmy servers too can be bought and sold and the communities captured that grew on them.

Yes. Cooperatives = co-ops. Let the workers (and possibly users) elect management and what to do with profits.

But what if the magnets reprogram your brain to just not notice thee differences? Ever think of that? Obviously you can only question the infernal power of the heliomagnetism while wearing a tinfoil hat.

Easy. Nationalize social media and turn them into democratic cooperatives with the mandate to enforce strict moderation on hate speech.

No, “cultural genocide” is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition:

… any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In the article they say it’s likely a femicide, gender based violence. Misogyny is hatred of women - especially when they are not obedient or leave a man. So nothing really new.

What is new is social media and neoliberal control for profit, and a complete lack of accountability and moderation to stem the tide of hate speech.

Wasn’t that implemented once? Or was that a browser feature? I swear at some point what you typed into input comment boxes was saved.

Shhhh! Isn’t MAGA basically reading uplifting news to decide what next to destroy?

Neoliberalism is the belief in inequality based on class.

Fascism is the belief in inequality based on identity.

No wonder, it’s just a small hop.

Hakas will continue until morale improves

To be fair, the FDA was incompetent / hamstrung in many other areas before. The overriding purpose was to increase profit.

They, at least they are trying something new :D

Oh is that the bastard administrator from hell?

The F-droid app is complete garbage, also they don’t make it easy to install apps that are open source but don’t follow GPL. Obtainium is perfect, just point to git repository. Now all we need is a P2P source control service.