The natural progression of capitalism and corporation is fascism; the fusion of corporation and state. Liberal democracy was supposed to prevent this via laws and regulations, but corporations chose to seize the means of democracy via neoliberalism and conservatism instead.
Every US corporation will be a totalitarian nazi corporation within a few years, so everyone should switch away from big tech brother, and all entities that do business with them.
Did the ER dr believe that?
Look at every corporation bend the knee and enthusiastically embrace the fascist fusion of corporation and state.
I’ve been saying it for a decade but it keeps getting more obvious. The oligarchs and their corporations have been financing the fascists, and working towards the takeover, the entire goddamn time. I’m not talking about Elon and the tech bros. I’m talking about the global 0.0001%, the tens of thousands of oligarchs who own the lions share of every market. They’ve spent decades watching the CCP and Russian oligarchy with envy, yearning for the one party state capitalism and authoritarian control of the masses — just replacing communism™️ with freedom™️, religion™️ and nationalism™️ — free from the risk that democracy represents to their wealth and power.
Always has been. Most of the shit they got up to after WW2 violated the human rights of half the planet, was anti-democratic, and imperialistic.
The AI will be used to indoctrinate. I guarantee it.
Tariffs
Might have something to do with it looking fucking stupid.
This is the conclusion I came too. I left when they killed 3rd party API’s, now when I drop in to r/all it feels like 50% AI/propaganda. Posts linger for DAYS! Back in the 2010’s you’d be lucky to find anything from the top 25 in the top 100 the following day. In the last month when I’ve refreshed the page 24-48 hours later, the majority of posts are purple. It’s obvious the volume and quality of posters has fallen off a cliff.
…And now the r/Conservative echo chamber is regularly hitting the front page? What a fucking joke. I’m glad I left. It was certainly the right time. If I started using Reddit today, instead of 2009, I probably wouldn’t have gotten addicted at all. It’s such a shell of what it once was, Lemmy is already close to surpassing it.
Edit: Oh look, after weeks/months of reddit artificially promoting conservative threads to the front page — a sub which has remained an auth echo chamber of mentally ill narcissists for over a decade — is now doing “open threads” where they all act like they’re just your working class neighbors who want peace on earth, and to make the world better for everyone “but just don’t agree on how to get there” as though they don’t openly support fascism and authoritarianism every other day of the week. Pigboy has officially turned Reddit into yet another fascist propaganda machine, and safe space.
Socialism for giant corporations: Freedumb™️
Socialism for common people: communism, thus the devil!
This is also why I am gradually untying myself from the Apple ecosystem, and all of propriety/big tech; especially US based.
When push comes to shove capitalism will not resist fascism. They will ignore all stated virtue signals and choose profits.
“Administrative channels” no longer exist.
All fascists had to do was get the roadblocks in front of one of the fascist judges conservatives have planted over the last few decades. Won’t be hard. The same will happen for most of them.