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Joe Biden ends re-election campaign in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

How a very american of you

What opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

They’re not interchangeable.

We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The algorithm serves the most engaging content.

J.D. Vance's former trans friend speaks out about how he turned hateful in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There’s tons of money available for grifters prepared to preach right wing doctrine. It’s been a 20+ year project of right wing billionaires, like Thiel These others

Trump is one.

In the UK they fund Farage, Tice, Lee Anderson, etc etc.

They set up TV stations, give them shows etc to funnel money to people who will help undermine democracy. None of this is profitable, it about influence.

The battle playing out in the West now is not left and right. It’s the wealthy vs the ultra rich .

The wealthy centre, characterised by the Dems in the US and Labour in the UK - are interested in maintaining the status quo, protecting their profits and the power structures and bureaucracies that enable them. They might appear moral, but it’s really about “we’re doing very nicely thank you”

The ultra rich, the billionaire class think traditional power structures are constraining their ambition. These are people that would see governments and democracy disassembled, in favour of modern feudalism, they are characterised by Conservatives and Republicans, but they are playing winner takes all.