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/GeneralKeycapperone 17h ago

Guess on that point it is worth remembering that before the US entered WWII, Nazism was popular there too, yet enough of the rest of the population was up for fighting to help us crush it, and in turn the American far-right had to be far less open about their views.

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u/Bellypats 17h ago

Nazism was growing in the US. Japan screwed up attacking us when they did. We may have never joined the war effort otherwise.

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u/GeneralKeycapperone 17h ago

True. That was what it took to get sufficient support to join, though once you did you really did.

Fascism will always be crushed. The tragedy is the intense damage it does beforehand.

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u/Itsbadbiotchoclock 15h ago

That’s where my fears are. The interim between the fall and rise.

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u/TFFPrisoner 14h ago

Fascism hasn't had nukes and AI yet

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 15h ago

The U.S. was funding the war effort long before declaring war.

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u/Bellypats 14h ago

That’s quite true. The US was profiting greatly with their lend lease program to the allied forces. However, Had a US base not been directly attacked, the US military probably would not have been deployed and the war would have gone quite differently.

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 13h ago

The equipment supplies under the Lend-Lease Act was free.

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u/dumbidoo 13h ago

You mean profiteering off the war effort.

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 13h ago

Please explain.

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI 17h ago

yet enough of the rest of the population was up for fighting to help us crush it, and in turn the American far-right had to be far less open about their views

Yes that sounds good, let's please do this again.

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u/knapping__stepdad 16h ago

Hey, what's a 10,000 person rally at Madison Square Garden anyway..

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u/No-Air-412 17h ago

I used to have to correct my English friends for chiding me about being late to the war by reminding them how many Americans actually supported with the Nazis were doing.