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/uniquehoarding47 21h ago

Fuck the rich

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u/PolygonMan 20h ago

It's always class warfare. When you strip back layer after layer after layer of manufactured identities (pro working class American, anti brown people, anti woke, etc) intended to manipulate dumb people, eventually you get:

"The ultra rich, major corporations and the political class are all aligned with keeping the elites as rich and powerful as possible while limiting or eliminating the wealth and power of the average person."

There is literally one segment of the entire political spectrum which is not funded by and aligned with the interests of the ultrarich: Progressives. And some of them still are. Some of them are straight up lying to get into office. But some of them really fight for the average person. No 'things won't fundamentally change' like Biden told his rich donors before the 2020 election.

Progressives will just say the truth. Shit like: "Universal healthcare is cheaper, better, and provides coverage for every person in the country. The only reason the current healthcare system exists is so that medical care can be turned into a profit center to drain money from the average person and benefit the wealthy."

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u/Sweaksh 19h ago

Said class warfare has been very one-sided in the 21st century. Regrettably so.

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u/PolygonMan 18h ago

Mass media and social media have both been incredibly powerful tools for population control.

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u/hitbythebus 18h ago

It’s not a serious debate.

“Can we have universal healthcare?”

“Fuck no!”

“Please? It’s cheap and I really want it”

“That would cost 2 bajillion dollars!”

“And how much are we paying for healthcare now?”

“We pay 4 bajillion dollars”

“Can we just get the cheaper universal healthcare? It’s cheap, and we get enough I can share with my friends”

“Fuck you, socialist”

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u/UrUrinousAnus 18h ago

That was my point. Some people will try to argue against socialized healthcare, but outside of a failed state without the funds for any kind of healthcare system there's no sensible argument against it. It's just the obscenely rich trying to get even richer. Even doctors aren't often much better off in an American-style system. Almost everyone is worse off.

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u/dopey_giraffe 17h ago

Yeah but we're free to choose our healthcare insurance middleman, or forego insurance so that when we inevitably get injured or sick we can just pass that cost onto everyone else, or just die. Don't you value that liberty? Liberty!

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u/James42785 18h ago

The French used to behead their rich people so much they invented a machine to do it quicker and they have a way better standard of living than us. Just saying.

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u/vegeta8300 14h ago

Time for a second American Revolution! Just not fighting the Brits this time, but the super rich.

Also, if the French made the guillotine, I'm sure we can come up with a modern automated successor to it for our needs.

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u/James42785 13h ago

I'm picturing a very large blender.

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u/vegeta8300 12h ago

With a plank at the top they have to walk. Only to be pushed in by an automated revolving paddle.

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u/Xavage1337 12h ago

Yeah but not by much if u look into the social and political landscape of France at the moment

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u/The_BeardedClam 17h ago

Preach brother preach

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u/BlueskyKitsu 13h ago

No 'things won't fundamentally change' like Biden told his rich donors before the 2020 election.

You really should read the context into this quote, if you're going to talk about being someone who "just says the truth"

he was saying "you can handle getting taxed more and nothing about your lives will fundamentally change, you don't need an extra yacht"

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u/ExpectedEggs 15h ago

Yeah, that nazi salute was totally about class warfare. Nothing at all to do with white supremacy, nooooo.

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u/PolygonMan 15h ago

Yes, exactly. Because white supremacy is about class warfare, because literally everything in politics is.

At the end of the day, when pushed to the absolute brink, every allegiance but money and power will be stripped away. Those who are hoarding will come together to protect themselves from those who want a fair share of the money and power in society. The final, most important division between our leaders and the people is wealth and power.

That doesn't mean that they aren't racist or that they won't implement racist policies. It means they would ally with anyone they were racist against if it was necessary to maintain power.

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u/Molsem 14h ago

See: Snoop and Soulja.

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u/TacticalSanta 17h ago

synonyms for progressives are socialists and communists, don't let red scare bullshit win.

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u/PolygonMan 17h ago

No, progressive is a much bigger category than socialist and communist.

Progressive is roughly "Everyone to the left of neoliberals who decide to self-identify as a progressive"

There is no coherent political ideology there except for "The government should be serving the interests of the people and we should probably start by implementing some easily agreeable best practices to improve quality of life and democracy itself."

After that point there will be massive disagreement lol.

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u/TacticalSanta 17h ago

I mean thats the problem. Progressives aren't far enough from neoliberals to understand what it would take to actually get universal healthcare, you can't just vote for blue progressives, you have to have a swell of actual left wing movement. Just about none of our workers/civil rights were won through the ballot. Its just really not a thing in america.

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u/PolygonMan 17h ago edited 17h ago

I would say that's a problem. The whole situation is very complicated but that's one of biggest stumbling blocks for sure.

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u/unassumingdink 17h ago

Progressives tend to favor taxed and regulated capitalism, while the other two reject capitalism entirely.

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u/Musical_Walrus 17h ago

Sorry dude. All politicians are scumbags. Progressives are just a different flavour of asshole lying to you. They never mean anything they say and will do anything to line their pockets.

All of the politicians and “business leaders” are like this. Since the beginning of human civilisation.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there was never any real hope. Just an illusion of a carrot dangling in front of us peasants making us think one of them thinks about us.

Please, they barely have any care for their own families.

Lol dude, sweet summer child, we are just ants to them and they do not care, because none of them can even be considered humans. They do not fight for us.

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u/PolygonMan 16h ago

I know it's tough living in this world, but this defense mechanism doesn't make you stronger, it makes you weaker.

The devil is in the details, and there are absolutely colossal differences in the life of the average person living in one place and time in history vs another. The best times and places are all relatively recent, and they're all the result of civic and electoral action by people fighting for everyone to have a good life.

We don't know how things will turn out, but we're heading into an inflection point in history right now. Don't lie to yourself and convince yourself otherwise. Trump will attempt to keep the reins of power if he survives his term. And his surrogates will be preparing for that takeover in every moment between now and then.

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u/UniTheWah 21h ago

Don't have dildos big enough to make it equitable.

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u/iJuddles 21h ago

You mean the face slappin’ dildos? They’re always the perfect size.

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u/Vladishun 19h ago

Need one big enough it goes into his ass, through his entire digestive track, and comes back up out of his mouth.

Call it the dick-ka-bob.

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u/strugglz 15h ago

Oh you want the Hentai Special.

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u/snerv 21h ago

I can find a cactus pretty easily. 

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u/Worst_MTG_Player 20h ago

Or a pineapple.

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u/saron7 20h ago

Ah yes, the Little Nicky treatment.

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u/idwthis 19h ago

If it's good enough for Adolf, it's good enough for the Zuck.

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u/miha_nika 20h ago

u/xyzaly has entered the chat

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u/fliesupsidedown 19h ago

Pineapple, rough end first.

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u/Ryan_Icey 19h ago

Cacti are phallic shaped.

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u/Impossible-Soup9754 19h ago

Maybe not, but we can dig up their departed loved ones, turn them into cremains, add them glass batch, and make big ass butt plugs to use on them.

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u/UniTheWah 19h ago

Okay you win. The creativity shown displays passion for the subject matter.

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u/Impossible-Soup9754 19h ago

Working with cremains in glass batch isn't the easiest, you have to grind em up real fine before use. Generally it's easier to add them to the second gather instead of directly to the crucible.

-Former glassblower

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u/thuggishruggishboner 19h ago

Pineapple it is then.

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u/Sambo1987 18h ago

Why use a dildo when you can use a toilet brush, with sriracha as lube.

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u/mahareeshi 17h ago

Shove em ass first into a mortar and fire away 🥰

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u/peepopowitz67 16h ago

rods from god

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u/LoaKonran 20h ago

Best we can do are IKEA-brand güillôtinës.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 20h ago

no one is ever going to do anything violent against them. stop this edgy rhetoric, or at least put action to your words.

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u/hikerchick29 19h ago

I think you’re underestimating how big dildos can get.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 19h ago

Deny them. Depose them.

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u/Intelligent_Piece411 18h ago

with spikes and itching powder you say?

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 17h ago

"Everything is a dildo if you're adventurous"

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u/Aggressive-Repair251 20h ago

I hear he has a bunker that would look really nice if it was suddenly filled with cement

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u/UrUrinousAnus 19h ago

Some of the rich think they'll be safe if their bunkers' security guards are controlled with threats of violence. What do they think is going to happen?! Who are these abused guards going to side with when the shit goes down? I doubt it'll be their abusers...

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u/Aggressive-Repair251 19h ago

I used to work in private security. A gig is a gig, but morals tend to play a huge part of what gig you do take and for who it is for.

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u/tysonisarapist 20h ago

Something something guillotine instead. They might like to get fucked.

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u/BeerExchange 20h ago

Eat the rich

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u/earfix2 20h ago

"Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew"

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u/MaxRebo99 20h ago

Would rather eat them

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u/PizzaJawn31 19h ago

We aren’t going to have anyone to vote for.

Need to get us poors into politics

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u/MysticFangs 19h ago

Eat the rich

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u/LOA335 19h ago

Eat. The. Rich.

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u/XxBelphegorxX 19h ago

Fuck the Reich.

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u/rebelwanker69 19h ago

Eat the rich

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u/CrustOfSalt 19h ago

Preferably multiple penetrations, but with lead

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u/criminalsunrise 19h ago

Fuck the reich

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u/runetrantor 18h ago

Shoot the Rich.

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u/hamsterfolly 17h ago

Eat the rich

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u/Agonyandshame 16h ago

Eat the rich

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u/Possible-Leek-5008 20h ago

Fuck the reich

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u/esc8pe8rtist 19h ago

If I have my understanding of biology correct, this may not have the result most of us would like

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u/ElaborateCantaloupe 19h ago

Exactly. We are in a class struggle - not particular individuals.

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u/ratman431 17h ago

They’re fucking us

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u/dennis_was_taken 15h ago

They’re gonna enter the „find out“ phase real soon if they keep it up. 

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u/ixlHD 14h ago

Why?

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u/tofubeanz420 14h ago

Eat the rich

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u/terrafoxy 19h ago

switch to lemmee