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I used to think there wasn’t a conspiracy until I visited the states and heard a neoliberal loudly ranting to themselves about how they’re “not able control people through the media anymore because everyone’s on the internet” There it was, straight out of the horse’s asshole.
Never forget he was considering (on the conservatives suggestion no less) mowing down indigenous pipeline protestors protecting their illegally occupied land and the took the NDP talking him out of it. Yes, that pipeline which genobiden ended up shutting down anyway. They were willing to shoot and kill their own citizens to build a pipeline that nobody wanted and literally wouldn’t’ve been able to complete anyway. Ignoring the morality of the situation it still would have been economic suicide, all because Liberals let oil fascists do whatever they want.
Stalin would visit everyone and ask for a single spoon of grain. If you were able to fill his giant spoon all the way, he would eat you alive.
Orwell be like “Yeah that guy? He’s a communist. How do I know… he’s. you know… black”
If people saw the original list he would universally be seen as an actual Nazi, which is why the Orwells are fighting so hard to keep it private. Based on what we know of him there’s no way in hell he didn’t also use “jewish” as the sole evidence someone was a communist.
Reddit has the worst most awful userbase (it was literally created to be a hangout for pedo-nazis) but has the benefit of normal people diluting the toxic shitheads, so as long as the moderators aren’t actively suppressing a community they tend to be pretty normal on average.
Only problem is that it’s nearly impossible to find a subreddit that isn’t suppressed to shit by both the mods and astroturf bots.
If you want to see an example of how the federation fails smaller communities look no further than almost every comment section in c/vegan is full of people who are vocally and vehemently against it. There’s just nothing to stop dominant culture from flushing out the others.
The algorithm is great for serendipity but absolutely useless at protecting the more niche subjects from the most annoying comments.
The closest I ever found to love was a result of me being unapologetically myself. I was a terrible person but it turns out that someone was into that. By the end I was involved with someone else’s life by no effort of my own; exemplified by the fact that my first memory of them is a few years after their first memory of me. Sadly as I grew as a person we fell off and this time i’m finding it a lot harder to find someone who likes me.
A lot of the federation has been people groomed by reddit dropping all the social progress that site has made over the years.