My uncle lives up in Omak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omak,_Washington
This is a small town. We don’t call them villages, we call them towns for some reason.
Technically speaking, Omak is a city actually. But pretty much everyone will call it a town around here.
Sunset Riders SNES.
Ummm. Elon Musk made $100,000,000,000 by making internet propaganda about how his electric cars are better than internal combustion, lies about their capabilities (full self driving), lies about how often they explode and lies about how well his Robots work. And then the propaganda is so strong he becomes Buddy in chief and people think that literally paying Musk another $50Billion is a good idea.
The cats out of the bag. Internet propaganda is too cheap and too effective. Everyone will be doing it if only to counter Elon Musk (let alone make money for themselves like through bullshit crypto coins or whatever).
You or I deciding to ‘not fill the internet with shit’ stops nobody. It’s going to happen given this political climate and the benefits therein.
Lemmy.ml started off as marxist-lenninist site. All sites need to start with a niche and I doubt any future social network will avoid the niche issue.
I think normies are turning off of Lemmy recently, which naturally causes the extremists feel more loud (because the extremists will NEVER leave this site).
Trying to figure out a good social network is like looking for a good hangout in real life. The people who frequent is entirely the picture. It’s hard to compete vs commercial interests like Blue sky or whatever as they pop up though.
Still, Threads, BlueSky and Twitter are all obviously suspect sites that will seed algorithms with their message. Lemmy doesn’t do that. Lemmy has its own issues but it’s very much a pick your poison situation.
Early internet was just information about hobbies and for the betterment of people and furthering knowledge. Let’s take that back.
Nope. After 2010s proved that the internet is the central location for political battles with Wikipedia Blackouts causing major political shifts, Pandoras Box has been opened.
The internet is now the premier location for propaganda and politicalization.
There are several powers that are just restated omnipotence.
Perhaps my favorite is Featherine Aurora from When they Cry. She is the author of the story you are reading. The world exists to please her (and her audience). She cares little about the pains any individual feels as they all serve her greater purpose.
It’s ‘Just Omnipotence’ but it’s written in a way for very meta interactions. But yeah, her power to create and change the world is ultimate, she literally can do anything.
Be sure to give your demons plenty of exercise!!
Fascists are building the camps right now and you’re mad that people are shouting outside of the q&a portion of a town hall.
Yes. Because this proves you don’t got my back in 2026.
If you can’t prove you’re going to be useful to me in stopping Trump next time, then I don’t give a shit about anything else you say.
And sitting here talking about how Biden was a genocide supporter and Kamala deserved to lose is just that. Fucking propaganda designed to stop our best chance at ending Trump last election or this next election.
You fucking get on board for 2026. None of this bullshit about fucking AOC up in her next speech.
I’m here to support the people who are doing things. Not to pull Jill Stein bullshit or whatever you think you are doing.
Get your head out your ass. Fucking up the Democrats won’t help you vs Trump in 2 years or 4 years.
YOU are the ones not pushing back about anything
No. I’m pushing back against YOU. A danger to the 2026 election if you continue on this path.
I’ve explained plenty to my friends why Donald Trump and his policies are horrible. I don’t need to explain that to you, because you’ve gone far over to the point where your words are now counterproductive and helping Mr. Trump again.
What I need to tell you, in particular, is that you’re counterproductive and worse than useless. You’re like this protester in AOC’s town hall. You can’t even see the fucking context of the situation in this fucking thread. Take a step back, calculate the politics a bit better, and see what’s best for you and everyone. Including those in Gaza. The #1 goal is the defeat of Donald Trump.
And you continue to prove my point. This is a topic about “Free Palestine” protesters going too far and attacking of all people, AOC on this issue.
Glad to know I can’t count on you, or anyone from your political ideology, to help us defeat Trump.
I just want to make sure everyone else is aware of this. Thanks.
We’ve confirmed that Trump is part of the Warmongers with this move. But instead of pushing back vs the genocidal maniacs, you fuck up our overarching political moves and political strategy.
It’s fine. My point here is to show who is, and who isn’t, part of the reliable bloc of anti-Trump moving forward. It’s better to know today that the Free Palestine idiots will die on this hill rather than work with us on the issue. Nothing is enough for you, and you’ll continue to espouse anti-Democrat talking points even in our moment of need and unity.
There was a ceasefire deal pushed by Biden which was active when Trump was inaugurated.
Period.
Stop fucking lying to yourself. We know who broke the deal and who pushed for it to be broken.
Worse. It’s the idiocy of the far left who are getting manipulated into self destructive behavior like this.
Yes there’s an element of manipulation here. But there’s also the stupidity of allowing yourself to get manipulated by dumb shit you saw on Facebook.
This is just a preview of the resistance we will see next election year. We need to stand firm and build a true coalition to retake the country.
Biden forced peace upon Israel, strong arming them into a ceasefire.
Trump reopened the war and now has more bombs over the region. And yet it’s somehow Kamala’s fault for the situation.
How fucking stupid is the Free Palestine group? Answer: not stupid at all. Y’all are fucking malicious at this point and it’s time we consistently pointed out the hypocrisy.
Kamala supported genocide tho. /s
https://www.investors.com/news/auto-tariffs-stellantis-mexico-canada-factories/
Mexico was importing these car parts and then exporting the Truck back to USA. Because we Tariffed Mexico and Canada, the Mexico and Canadian factories are closing down.
Which is now closing down factories in the heartland of America.
Lose lose for everyone. Who is the winner when the singular Truck was being made across Mexico, USA AND Canada?? Tariffs have now ruined the price of these parts and consolidation efforts, so now everyone is losing their jobs.
Lulz. If you can’t spar with me, you will get eaten up by the actual far right / mainstream Americans out there.
Be happy I’m willing to come over here and push back against your bubble. You guys obviously need it if you’re upvoting shitty misinformation memes like this.
The best part of this entire discussion? Elon Musk is part of the $1/year salary club. Your entire fucking meme doesn’t even apply to the most corrupt of CEOs.
Your argument sucks and you should make a new one. Sorry I’m the bearer of bad news but that’s better than y’all idiots going out to the real world and having a far right goon own you in a debate.
The board of directors removes the obvious corruption argument.
And shareholders select the board of directors anyway, so if shareholders agree to new terms of values then CEOs can and will be fired.
I’m looking at Intel for example and how they mistreated Pat Gelsinger and fired him despite being a technical leader. And the new incoming CEO is Lip-Bu Tan, who is a non-technical finance bro who is worse. Why did the shareholders (and board of directors) prefer Lip-Bu Tan?
There is a large scale hero worship bro culture that’s at the root of all the problems here, a culture that millions of shareholders have which is then passed to the Board of Directors and finally the C-suite that the Board hires.
But no. Let make shitty memes that misunderstand the power dynamics and perpetuates misinformation. That will help your argument lol.
EDIT and that doesn’t even get to say, all the CEOs who take a $1/year paycheck just to prove you wrong. The problem here is hero worship cult culture. The pay and salaries are a distraction and easily avoided with various simple political / Public Relations moves.
Exactly, except in reverse.
If you want to attract the talent of someone who has networth in the millions+++, you need to pay them more.
The form of your argument and where you are going with the discussion is very short sighted. This isn’t a path to any actual winning argument. I suggest you start elsewhere.
This is the problem with shitty memes. They poison your brain and make you dumb. If you actually want to make a reasonable argument throw this topic away and start anew.
It’s not you who is wrong. It’s this meme. It’s just a terrible starting place for discussion and is innately to your disadvantage.
The board of directors is doing so. And they do so because the board follows the will of the shareholders. And the shareholders ultimately decide the fate of companies.
But that won’t fit in a simple meme will it?
Watch Elon Musk of 2012 vs 2025.
Long term drug use clearly destroyed his brain. He never was very smart but 2012 Musk is a fucking genius in comparison