Her constituents Josh and Aschleigh just heard "Blah blah blah Constitution blah blah blah brown people bad," and that was enough for them, so it served its purpose.
Rottcodd
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I think all references to Turkish foreign policy should include the phrase "this week," since next week it'll likely change. Again.
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right." ― H. L. Mencken
IMO, the fact that those people aren't here is the best part of the fediverse.
Fandom has been complete and utter shit for years now.
Better late than never though.
The "All" that's displayed on a given instance is all of the threads from that instance and from communities on federated instances to which someone from that instance has subscribed.
Roughly:
Imagine a brand new instance. For simplicity's sake, we'll imagine that it has no communities of its own, so the only content it can ever have is from other instances.
By default, it's federated with everyone, but it's not going to actually get anything from any of those other instances. It'll just remain that way - federated but empty - until somebody from that instance subscribes to a community on another instance.
At that point, a mirror for that community will be created on the new instance. And from then on, that mirror will... well... mirror the threads and posts on the other instance.
But that's it. At that point, the new instance has just gone from having no content to having content from one community on one other instance. And it'll stay that way until someone subscribes to a second community, and then a third, and so on.
So again, "All" isn't everything on the fediverse. It's everything for which that specific instance has a mirror, which is everything the users of that instance have subscribed to.
So already to some degree, and undoubtedly more over time, instances are going to come to have a specific feel, as, for example, users on a tech-oriented instance subscribe to every tech community out there and not much of anything else, and so on.
With all due respect, fuck that.
I block every bot I see. If I just wanted an endless stream of mindless "content," I'd be on Reddit.
I came to lemmy/kbin a few weeks ago to check things out, and have been here ever since.
While I'd say that it is absolutely the case that the ruling class must be eliminated before there can be meaningful change, since they're too far removed from common life (or sanity for that matter) to make any of the necessary concessions of their own volition, I think it's undeniably the case that a rational society cannot be built by people who believe that killing people is an acceptable approach to problems.
I think the only hope is that our descendants, when they rebuild civilization out of the rubble we leave behind, will do a better job of it - at the very least, that they'll know better than to let psychopaths gain power.
Yes - of necessity and by design, there is and can be no central authority in the fediverse that can be meaningfully expected to promise to protect blithering morons from the consequences of their own actions.
Whether or not people actually do face the fact that posting publicly things they want to keep private is bash-yourself-in-the-face stupid,
and make the simple choice to simply stop doing it, is entirely, as it should be, their concern.
Your activity on this thread implies you have a vested interest in downplaying Facebook's bias. I'm not sure why...
Anyway - of course there are bigots on every platform, and of every stripe for that matter. The internet has enabled bigotry on a scale never before imagined, and the steady slide of much of modern civilization, and the US and UK (and lately Canada) in particular, toward overtly corrupt overt plutocracy has left more people than ever desperate for some way to assure themselves that everything wrong with the world is somebody else's fault, which makes bigotry a growing enterprise.
But while bigotry is ever-present, each individual site has its own expressed bias for the particular forms it's more or less likely to at least tolerate, if not actively encourage.
And Facebook's expressed bias is toward white supremacism and Christian nationalism.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.". ― H.L. Mencken