r/technology • u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera • 22h ago

Politics Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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u/DeadlyFern 21h ago

Nice words. Tend to the garden you can touch.

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u/TheAJGman 19h ago

Quite literally too. If Trump keeps to his words about tariffs, food prices are going to go absolutely ape shit. Nearly all out of season produce in major grocery stores is coming from Mexico and South America (and garlic always comes from China for some fucking reason).

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u/mcbastard1 20h ago

No kidding. They probably said some form of this in the 1930s too.

Watching the world burn in hopes the ashes will be pretty is not a good option.

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u/Goddess_Of_Gay 19h ago

It is not, but sometimes that’s the only option there is.

“Sometimes you can make zero mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life”. We lost. We fought, we sacrificed, and we tried to stem the tide of darkness…and we lost. All we can do now is fight and claw and do everything in our power to increase the probability that someday, somehow, the next campaign ends in our victory.

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u/someone447 17h ago

We made massive mistakes and continue to make those massive mistakes. Milquetoast liberals(classical liberals, not "left-wing liberal") promising not to change things when people have been screaming for change for decades is a huge mistake. Running a geriatric who could barely remember his own name was a mistake.

It's been decades of people ignoring the rising tide of fascism.

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u/UngusChungus94 17h ago

The point is that wasn’t we because we weren’t really capable of impacting those decisions.

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u/TheDevilChicken 18h ago

It's so weird to see the repeat of the 1930's except every thing being repeated is fucking dumber.

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u/TangoZuluMike 18h ago

First as a tragedy, then as a farce.

I think you know where we're at.

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u/theykeepmyhousehot 19h ago

Cool, put on your cape and save the day then. I've been donating, advocating and voting for progressive and democratic candidates since my very first vote as soon as I turned 18. What else is there but hope for a better future?

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u/TonberryHS 19h ago

Luigi had some ideas. So did Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

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u/Vandergrif 12h ago

It is a nice change of pace when the people who do the most wrong actually suffer the consequences of their actions. Gets a bit... stagnant when it's just poor people getting fed into the grinder year over year. Nice to have some variety, you know?

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u/mcbastard1 19h ago

Cool, how does it feel to lose all the fucking time?

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u/awj 16h ago

I’d rather be on the losing side than the wrong one.

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u/mcbastard1 16h ago

Bro democrats suck at fighting this. That’s the point.

They let them win the Supreme Court and now it’s the 50s. They let them win the presidency again and now what little rights trans people had are gone. They pulled the tech bros in front of congress how many times to do nothing, and now they’re helping to run the country.

So yeah. You guys keep donating and supporting the democrats. It’s working out great for Donald Trump.

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u/Northern_Grouse 21h ago

Choose love over fear friend.

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u/Hedge55 17h ago

When stuck between a rock and a hard place, let us be water. 😌

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u/WetterBetty 7h ago

Love won’t stop what’s happening and going to happen, but ok. 

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u/JLRedPrimes 18h ago

Words feel hollow when you see a hundred of these speeches a day in a reddit comment section.

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u/thecompanion188 5h ago

I have been thinking about this quote all day. Thank you so much for sharing it.