I cannot believe there is even consideration about giving him preemptive pardon.

Like, it’s not even clear what possible crime he committed, but since they might go after him we should issue a pardon just in case.

Because it was to kill H1B controversy that was dividing Republicans, and we for fooled again.

Hmmm, is there a way to just quit and leave an access to messenger (preferably by non Facebook app?) I have account since 2006 and want to kill it, the only thing that keeps me is still a few of people that I don’t have other ways to contact.

Edit: not sure if Facebook got confused (due to visiting Europe), but on my family member messenger it showed option to separate Facebook account with messenger due to European regulations. I wish it have me that option.

Yeah, they do that to both sides, check it out https://www.newsweek.com/tech-ceos-donations-donald-trump-joe-biden-inaugurations-compared-2010457

He gave Biden a whooping $43,200 lol

I see though journalism in other countries than US and the standards seem way better.

Kind of off topic, but what has happened to our journalism?

This essentially is article about a tweet and how others on twitter responded to it.

The amazing thing is that the disinformation managed to convince pro Palestine people that Harris was worse for Palestine than trump and at the same time pro Israeli that Harris is worse for Israel.

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That’s true. They already evolved and most of us didn’t even realize. News feeds were added and gradually evolved to use information they know about is to push our buttons and affect our behavior and beliefs.

They still needed content, but with generative AI that’s no longer necessary, this is why social media companies are so invested in it.

Social media is no longer social it became a platform to manipulate people. It is much worse than traditional ways of propaganda, because each person gets their customized feed tuned to issues that are more likely to influence them.

I think the point is that Elonia wasn’t running in an election.

The difference this time is that this won’t be paid by the government like covid vaccine and in fact will be very expensive (i.e. how much people are willing to pay to cure their cancer?)

How can you create such conspiracy, when they don’t even want to give that vaccine?

I suspect if we were forced to pay $500 or more to get covid vaccine we wouldn’t have conspiracies either.

Just heard that via Rick Sanchez voice.

Set it on fire, more like. Phony Stark tries to make it look like the car contained an explosion, but the car just had flammable materials inside.

Thank God.

People can’t handle driving in 2 dimensions, imagine if 3rd one was added.

GOG users be like: 👍

Their success was that they combined their forces to win the election, but each of those grifters have different goals and many of them are incompatible.

I definitively don’t support whatever Banon is after, but I welcome the infighting.

They will still inflict damage to the US, but hopefully the infighting will make it much harder to consolidate their power and turn US into fascist state.

Yeah, his vision of peace was Israel getting rid of anyone who they don’t have good relationship with.

It still mattered. Republicans won on federal level (mainly due to a successful social media campaign) but there were also some good wins for Democrats on local levels.

Highly recommend “On Tyranny” book by Timothy Snyder.

I don’t know about others, but I hope maybe it is similar with others.

I stopped watching 24/7 channels, I no longer trust CNN. Washington Post and LA Times showed their colors during the election, showing exactly that the owners purchased them to manipulate readers’ opinion.

I since then set up recurring donations to ProPublica, local NPR station, I also found a local news paper that still seems to do local journalism. The rest I intend to rely on Lemmy and Reddit.

I stopped caring what trump is saying (he always lies) and instead intend to care about what he does. There are things that are out of my control, but intend to support any way I can politicians, judges, public employees and others that will fight him. And when it comes time to protest I intend to do my part.

I just don’t want to waste my energy on pointless BS that 24/7 news media was doing 2017-2020. If trump says he intends to take over Greenland why should I rile up about it and how can I change anything. It is likely a BS anyway to tire us up.

Also I highly recommend On Freedom: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. This book was published in 2017 when he started his first term and outlines what things we should watch for and not let him do if we still want to have a democracy.

No surprise, the 24/7 news is purposefully is exhausting and most things they talk about are not worth paying attention to.

Instead we should ignore things he is saying and act on things that he actually does and never obey in advance.