Trump is a kind of cancer broadcast. The closer we get to the inauguration, the more deafening it becomes. Racist bilge in the UK, infecting even mainstream news sources. Facebook dismantling accuracy standards.
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They're grovelling to the new rising global regime. People need to remember that PEOPLE are the ones with genuine power whilst democracy continues to exist. Trump said not so long ago that US citizens wouldn't need to worry about voting anymore. It's in our hands, it's all about US, the PEOPLE!
Why people are still on Facebook is totally beyond me. Being on FB is like being admitted to a perverse reverse asylum, which is designed to make you mad instead of curing you. Get out! Get out before they fuck with your brain!
I deactivated my Facebook account back in July but I understand why some people still stay. There are many legit and useful Facebook groups. And an awful lot of businesses use Facebook as their web main website.
... but if you know people clinging to Facebook because their afraid of essentially making a PowerPoint, you could fo the world a small solid and encourage them to leave in a kinder way than I would.
I'm really struggling with this - groups are only thing I really use on a meta product, but I've yet to find a viable alternative - especially for local groups. It's a shame how pervasive the platform has become. If it weren't for groups my accounts would have been gone ages ago.
He can't deliver on any populist economic policies, so he's focusing on what he can follow through on: racism and transphobia. The oligarchs are lining up behind him to line their pockets even more.
I have a sickening feeling that we're going to look back on November 5 2024 as the day America made a choice that it took the world decades to recover from.
Unbelievably rich Tech despots see a future unburdened by restrictions placed upon them for privacy, environmental or working conditions, restrictions they view as holding back their potential….So why wouldn’t they appease Trump🤷♀️
Torn as whether to watch his inauguration or not. There's the morbid fascination with the possibility he might fall asleep or shit himself live on air or just gibber nonsensical bollocks etc but I don't want to add to his ratings. Maybe wait for the "Highlights" online...
Trump and his administration will be extremely powerful. American media and all the tech bros have capitulated to him and are actively on board. There is no resistance. He's got absolute power.
Can European leaders grow spines and resist? I'm not sure.
It's not just dismantling accuracy standards, Zuck is practically turning Facebook into X's level of 'free speech' - encouraging 'political' speech again and you wonder whether he will hide behind Trump when foreign countries start to hold Meta accountable. Meta back to its social cancer roots.
So if riots are incited on Facebook and governments push back against Meta is this now seen as censoring to which Trump will impose tarrifs on the UK/Europe?
I wish the left would put forward some credible alternatives rather than rage baiting tweets by the demonic trilogy. Void of ideas except “let’s keep this shit on the road for as long as possible” where are the people arguing for revolutionary ideas? It’s so depressing and only, I fear, gettingworse
Watching this from a country in Central Europe that's hosting a lot of UA refugees, I get that sick feeling in my stomach every time I see the news. Can't even begin to imagine their pain, though.
Honestly, I've been doing my best to pretend it's not happening, but as the 20th gets closer, I'm reluctantly starting to admit reality. This is going to suck so bad.
I've often wondered what it's like for German speakers to hear Hitler's rantings & actually understand his noise. With Trump, I now understand & it's awful. Sadly, he is inescapable, we've all heard him so for this reason I've made a point of never hearing Elmo speak. I feel better & recommend it.
Me too. I know others too who have spontaneously responded to his election in the same way. I have only accidentally heard a few seconds of his voice since the election and will be battening down the hatches for the next four years.
And on and on it'll continue: tarrifs wrecking economies, de-facto military assistance to Putin's Russia, ever more racist discourse from his far-right fellow travellers in Europe.
Like all bullies Trump won't tackle those who stand up to him.
But unfortunately the political landscape worldwide these days
doesn't have many leaders of democracies who are prepared to do that...
No, I just think that despite everything 'project 2025' might threaten, he's just going to get stuck in stupid quagmire, after stupid quagmire, after stupid quagmire.
and extreme stuff is going to sap all of the available energy, money and resources from 'everything else'.
So he might actually succeed in screwing things up LESS this time around, than he did last time, - but god help us if we have another global crisis like Covid again ...
It's hard for you because you work in the news media. But for those who don't, the only answer to staying sane is to not watch the news anymore. All you get is doomscrolling these days. Far too many broadcasters and journalists are addicted to it. That, and the constant images of Trump and Musk.
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I could not agree more with this. It's a philosophy I've seen from family and friends and I'm adopting it more and more myself.
I really think the 'don't exit the field' argument has had its day. Jan 6th, felony prosecutions etc etc, and here we are again, Trump back in the White House.
Pffft 🤷♂️
I agree that the 24hr cycle is toxic but i kind of feel that a big part of the reason we are in this mess is because too many people have totally disengaged from paying attention. Hence they vote for lunatics like this.
Microtargetting is a psy-ops weapon that's now being used on our civilian populations, and many have no defence from it. When the media then reinforces the lies instead of debunking them, many no longer know what the truth is.
It’s hard work watching or reading the news. You even have to fact check the publicly funded BBC FFS. We should be able to rely on them. Those running it need to be sacked and then we need a new unbiased team in charge. Kuenssberg and her cunty friends should be resigned to writing for The Mail.
Authoritarians start by undermining the capacity of facts, reason, and evidence to restrain them, seeking to convince a determinative segment of the populace to adopt their arbitrary, self-serving definition of reality. The internet (social media particularly) has been a huge gift to them.
Well, if the world moves towards authoritarianism, it could be a lot longer than four years. Trump's corruption of the Supreme Court, state departments and the Republican Party will become embedded and it could take decades to reverse, if the US people even wish it. Feels very Brexity.
And yet in the UK, the mainstream sits idly by while its enemies circle and attack. Lots of hand wringing as usual, but no one with the courage to smash them to pieces.
What’s the point in Labours majority if they’re not going to use it to smother Farage, Musk etc and the idiots that support them?
At least you seem confident that it will be just four years. Trump's promise that the electorate won't have to bother again "because he's fixed it" was perhaps just a joke?
For me one of the most difficult aspects of this is how easily/quickly/readily our political journalists have fallen in line. Really disturbing from bbc news and others.
They should be informing the public, instead they’re sane washing and joining in with the game.
I’ve been on this earth more than seventy years Ian and sadly, I couldn’t agree more. My biggest concern with Brexit was the inevitable demoralising and desperate drift towards the US and US values. Given recent events, I’m no longer concerned, I’m fearful.
It’s been a rough few weeks. Things seem to be getting more extreme on a daily basis.
This is my last social media platform now. I can’t be dealing with the direction things are going in. It’s back to the people around me day-to-day, for the most part. A tactical retreat for my own mental health.
Look on the bright side: unless something unexpected happens (arguably, he said the US won't have another election ever again...), he will be gone by the time of the next GE in the UK.
I have personally decided to only think about politics one day a week. I will condense all the crap and see which bits of information lasted more than a day. Then I will select just one thing to receive my flying fuck.
He’ll be on the golf course soon enough. He’s a campaigner and the pomp and ceremony only will sustain his vanity for a few months. Once he’s exhausted his doomed to failure revenge attempts and squashed his legal issues he’ll be the lamest of lame ducks. The maga/tech winnets are the concern.
So am I, and in no small part because it is seemingly ok to support genocide deniers in the UK and the US, just because they are the 'lesser of two evils'. Starmer is essentially Major 92, and God alone knows what Harris was. When alternatives disappear, the end game is inevitable.
Only four years? Surely you don't think this is a fixed term disease? I don't expect the world to be back on track again in my lifetime. It takes no time at all to destroy everything, but a very long time to rebuild.
I hear ya. That’s why strong collaborative resistance worldwide is so vital. He’ll be gone in 4 years because he will have done fuck all for the dolts who voted for him, but, still, heartbreaking times for all decent humans.
With JD Sports-Vance lined up behind him, it's hard to see the Repugnicans getting off the train to Crazyville any time soon. Even when nature takes its course with Trump, the course of politics will not change. The only question is whether anyone other than Trump can hold that coalition together.
Exactly.. I still think (hope) the idiots will crumble though when Big Orange Daddy shuffles off to the last barbecue in the sky.. Without his baleful influence not sure they’ll be able to think (hah!) for themselves ?..
They’ll still have an army of weirdos cheering for them. Just look at Brexit - destroyed the country, yet the architects are still on our screens every day, telling us water isn’t wet.
Getting ready for what’s to come and I don’t live in America I tidied my entire wardrobe, now it looks almost neat like the advert but for the crappy clothes.
Or perhaps the noise that trump is making about Greenland / the Panama Canal just a distraction from what are likely to be a bunch of failures against his previously mooted policy objectives.
The BBC website right now. And as terrible as the stabbing in London, the other headlines are society / world altering dreadful. We could well be fucked.
I've just left Threads, Instagram and have deleted all but one of my Facebook accounts and deleted the Pages I set up there. You cannot delete Facebook Groups (!), but I have paused all that I admin. Next to see what happens to TikTok. REMOVE the oxygen of hatred from these oligarch techbros.
It was super easy to delete a Page that I had created. To delete your personal profile, follow the instructions but you have to stay logged out for 30 days otherwise it reactivates.
Well you a Brit. I am American. I don’t know any British politicians! Trump seems to have planted himself in your mind!
Sort of funny.
#politicians are all #assdorks
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Dangerous times
They can make websites. It's not hard.
It's drag and drop.
Anyone capable of operating a business can do it and they really don't need you to make excuses for them....
Both are metastatic.
It's not even the start.
#ShitsGonnaGetReal
#AnericaWhatHaveYouDone
Can European leaders grow spines and resist? I'm not sure.
But unfortunately the political landscape worldwide these days
doesn't have many leaders of democracies who are prepared to do that...
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lf64weaqmc23
Feels like a speeding train is about to go off a cliff 😳
Because all his most stupid
So he might actually succeed in screwing things up LESS this time around, than he did last time, - but god help us if we have another global crisis like Covid again ...
https://bsky.app/profile/disqualified.bsky.social/post/3lbzsdj36b22q
I could not agree more with this. It's a philosophy I've seen from family and friends and I'm adopting it more and more myself.
I really think the 'don't exit the field' argument has had its day. Jan 6th, felony prosecutions etc etc, and here we are again, Trump back in the White House.
Pffft 🤷♂️
What’s the point in Labours majority if they’re not going to use it to smother Farage, Musk etc and the idiots that support them?
Forty more probably.
They should be informing the public, instead they’re sane washing and joining in with the game.
Is it ignorance or arrogance?
This is my last social media platform now. I can’t be dealing with the direction things are going in. It’s back to the people around me day-to-day, for the most part. A tactical retreat for my own mental health.
Better start digging the bunker now.
For Europe : I think the opposite
Many things which should have happened a while ago will be accelerated
But instead of everything getting 3-5% worse year on year, it’s accelerating.
"A Republic, if you can keep it!"
They are still in denial I think…
No American Serviceman /woman is going to lay down their life to take Greenland, no matter HOW Maga they are ...
Sort of funny.
#politicians are all #assdorks