FRFR. My grandmother spent the 70s and 80s in little mountain villages in Guatemala and Honduras with the Peace Corps. When she came back she spent another decade in LA public schools teaching adult ESL. She had hella first hand accounts of atrocities that our country fomented.
All MAGA are republicans but not all republicans are MAGA. They want you to think MAGA is the majority to take away your HOPE.
Always an independent critical thinker
it is WILD how every single post i make here attracts people who seem to think this is facebook and the appropriate way to reply is to post unrelated boomer memes
I am not sure I understand what drives it but it's a weird rule of social media that sizable accounts just automatically attract this like a swarm of midges that always loiters around my garden after a warm rain.
It’s also cuz everyone on FB who got frustrated with Zuck and his content moderation said they were all moving to Bluesky - not realizing this was a different kind of network.
They’re not getting any attention on Facebook. Right now a portion of my feed is literally saying that musk should have access to all our personal info. You can imagine how popular that’s making them.
They’re getting a few likes and “hell yeah’s” from chuds, but nothing like a credible voice who has actual beliefs and causes. Like, say, defending trans rights
Excellent. Let's hope the rabid fascist mouth breathers remain rudderless and causeless (beyond their inbuilt misogyny, homophobia, racism, general nastiness, Nazism, and feigned Christianity that is)...
Man, I don't even know how you do it, crossing the 2K follower line altered the signal:noise ration in my mentions sharply in favor of noise almost immediately, and I don't even get 1/10th of the nonsense people hurl at you.
That is so annoying. When I get these starter pack posts, I vet every one and never follow the "meemers" (my word).
I want cogent thoughts, not the easy way out cartoons.
not sure if this would help you but I switched to followers-only on replies and I think it’s helped a little? People just QT instead but at least it’s out of the replies for other readers
It’s interesting I’ve seen this FB comparison before and at first I thought I got it and now I’m not sure. bc a ton of one off replies to popular posts, often repetitive, was very much a Twitter thing (and even so the chitchat below-the-line/OP engagement was my favorite part of Twitter)
Every time I look at the replies on a post from a prominent account they’re full of the most pointless resistance memes, it’s wild. I actually like reading interesting replies, not looking at boomer humor cartoons about Musk or whatever.
I am sure there are bots but it's also facebook posters. People not used to their comments being read and treated as part of a conversation. They just Respond.
This has never actually happened to me so that's probably what I would do if it did but A: I'm guessing it's really weird and unpleasant the first time it happens to you and B: there is still some trade off involved. Good comments from nonfollowers lost.
Memes and emojis are becoming nearly as out of control here as on FB and X. It isn't all boomers, but it is almost always a mindless way to contribute to the conversation.
How maga programming conservative think tanks/echo chambers began
Barry Goldwater
Accuracy in Media
Roger Ailes Fox
Louis Powell
The Heritage Society
Norquest Meetings
Bob Grant
Rush Limbaugh, also got married in Clarence Thomas‘s house
Russia interference
Meta
X
How they reach middle-aged men
More like Escobar/Noriega 😎✌️ btw, everyone should watch the cautionary tale on Netflix called "Narcos" about the hell the America's went through in the late 20th century. Pedro Pascal is amazing in that series.
Had to go back to YouTube to see this again. I'm not sure what's weirder: that this was once viewed as going way too far, or that Tupac and Biggie's deaths made it look innocent.
I was a political prisoner of China. I would like to tell the American people, to whom I owe my freedom, especially my Republican friends, that the US is not Xi’s China; At any moment you should and can unite and oppose and stop Trump’s authoritarian tendency without being put in a Gulag or shot.
There were SO many good parodies of that bumper sticker. Also, I’ll take “directly responsible for our current catastrophic situation” for however many billions of dollars Cheney stole
the peak of east coast/west coast hatred, i’m born and raised in los angeles and lived in connecticut at that time and i went to brooklyn to a friend’s house and was like wow they super fucking hate each other, it was wild
When snoop went off at the awards “ east coast ain’t got no love for Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg”?? I said “welp here we go”… yrs later Snoop turned into a sell out, VERY disappointed 🤨😞🤦🏻♀️
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Shoot up your block then make you know me
You ain't ready yet, slow down and recollect...
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if so, which one?
Always an independent critical thinker
CNN!
I want cogent thoughts, not the easy way out cartoons.
Barry Goldwater
Accuracy in Media
Roger Ailes Fox
Louis Powell
The Heritage Society
Norquest Meetings
Bob Grant
Rush Limbaugh, also got married in Clarence Thomas‘s house
Russia interference
Meta
X
How they reach middle-aged men
https://abcnews.go.com/International/panamanian-dictator-manuel-noriegas-complex-us-ties-lessons/story?id=47722429
https://youtu.be/rv2Tfgkm_0M?si=Ysu559G5SOegPjb1
#resist
I know you weren't making a request but the idea amused me.
Still some work to do - the flag doesn't quite fit down there and I'm still not sure whether to include the hyphens in the name, but still.
Tupac's anger at getting shot? Misplaced but understandable, and he named names. But "New York, New York" dissed the entire city over one bad gig.