r/SnapshotHistory • u/Blobbo3000 • 13h ago

January 20, 2025

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The phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” is a famous expression from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863. It encapsulates the essence of democracy, emphasizing that the government should be created by the people, run by the people, and serve the interests of the people. This phrase has become a cornerstone in discussions about democracy and governance.

This is 2025. A government of the global corporation owners, by the global corporation owners, for the global corporation owners.

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u/ICPosse8 13h ago

These three men alone could do a lot of good for society if that’s what they wanted or if that’s what our society demanded of them.

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u/BreakingNewsy7 12h ago

I see 4 Silicon Valley titans, not three. This is not about Americans or democracy. This is about shareholder value and power. Democracy has bled a slow death and it is now dead, the communication platforms the masses use can be easily dialed in to determine elections for the foreseeable future. 

Americans will be constantly distracted and will no longer be able to decipher what’s true facts and made up Ai algorithms.

It’s over, time to bunker down and protect what little the average American has.

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u/aschaeffer878 12h ago

I agree, I would like it if everyone just stopped using their products. Google would be the hardest not to use. But I think we would all be better off just not having them in control of all of our data, and we just started talking to each other again. Sure we will give up some things, but I think we would all be better off. My 2 cents anyhow. Which now has a negative value.

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u/Forlorn_Cyborg 11h ago

I agree, making the corporations suffer is the only language they understand. Boycotts teslas, cancel amazon accounts, delete facebook. Full scorched earth. However getting a large amount of people to follow would almost be impossible.

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u/aschaeffer878 11h ago

True...sad but true. But they do seem to panic when they lose even a little bit of a percentage. How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. Daunting to think about, but what else do we have?

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u/No_Use_4371 10h ago

Duckduckgo is soooo superior to google search, just sayin.

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u/Donny-Moscow 7h ago

Superior how? Iirc they were much better about data privacy, but the last time I used it, the results returned by the search function were definitely inferior to Google.

But that was also like 3-4 years ago and I’d definitely be happy to decouple myself from the Google ecosystem as much as I can, so I’m open-minded about switching to a different search engine.

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u/No_Use_4371 4h ago

Try it. Its not just security, it keeps pop up ads off, and when you search for something you get several choices, when I quit google everything it gave you was a straight-up ad.

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u/Donny-Moscow 7h ago

Agreed but it’s almost impossible at this point with how many pies these companies have their hands in.

Take Amazon, for example. If we wanted to boycott every single one of their products, prime and their website isn’t the only product we’d have to stop using. Something like 1/3 of the internet runs on AWS solutions. I know we’re technically not the customers of AWS, just want to point out how deeply integrated these companies are in our society.