U.S. government websites have gone dark as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders declaring his administration would recognize only two genders and ordering an end to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The problem isn’t that Meta and X and TikTok censor content…it never has been…that’s entirely within their rights, as businesses, to do.
The problem is that these 2-3 companies, run by 2-3 people with strong political allegiances and bottomless pocketbooks, control nearly every beer hall, Elks Lodge, KoC, and corner-grocer corkboard, in the world.
One of the biggest ways our government failed us was by letting these companies get so damn big and influencial.
The founders, while themselves wealthy slave-owning pieces of shit, did have some good ideas…but I don’t think they ever expected there to be just a couple of unelected private businessmen in charge of every soapbox in the country.
Oh, and also all of the press. Not them, but a different small handful of unelected private businessmen. Obviously they expected private ownership of the press. That’s somewhat of a necessity…but the level of consolidation is absurd.
Yeah I caught that after I posted and I agree, my statement stands though, it’s wicked depressing to have so many relatives who wore the uniform and are apparently not opposed to fascism and drunken conversations with folks in the beer hall can lead to that poison spreading
Thank you.
The problem isn’t that Meta and X and TikTok censor content…it never has been…that’s entirely within their rights, as businesses, to do.
The problem is that these 2-3 companies, run by 2-3 people with strong political allegiances and bottomless pocketbooks, control nearly every beer hall, Elks Lodge, KoC, and corner-grocer corkboard, in the world.
One of the biggest ways our government failed us was by letting these companies get so damn big and influencial.
The founders, while themselves wealthy slave-owning pieces of shit, did have some good ideas…but I don’t think they ever expected there to be just a couple of unelected private businessmen in charge of every soapbox in the country.
Oh, and also all of the press. Not them, but a different small handful of unelected private businessmen. Obviously they expected private ownership of the press. That’s somewhat of a necessity…but the level of consolidation is absurd.
I do nazi any problems with this
I certainly fucking do at the VFW
I was making a dark joke about how the nazis took over beer halls, culminating in the Beer Hall Putsch, which is what I think OP was referring to
Yeah I caught that after I posted and I agree, my statement stands though, it’s wicked depressing to have so many relatives who wore the uniform and are apparently not opposed to fascism and drunken conversations with folks in the beer hall can lead to that poison spreading
I was hoping musks cringy-ass post had killed off the shitty Nazi puns but here we are. Lemmy is more reddit every day.
Making jokes about Nazis is antifascist praxis.
Also: We joined Lemmy about a year apart, but I was on Kbin before that, so if anyone is making it like Reddit it’s the jerk complaining about a joke.
Maybe if the Nazis are the butt of the joke. That’s not the case here.