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stop upvoting "news" that only ends up giving more visibility to these clowns
I think Facebook is popular enough, that this kind of news is actually damaging...
I don't care about Facebook, but Messenger and Marketplace I cannot replace them at all for the moment :-/
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Critics see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation,
Give me a break. Since when does the billionaire parasite class have anything to fear from the US establishment?
Since the people in charge went full fascist.
The billionaire parasite class ARE the people in charge.
The fascists serve them, genius. That's the whole point of fascism.
Yes that's what we're Increasingly moving towards.
Beware though, that all of this is a spectrum...
Yes that’s what we’re Increasingly moving towards.
Nope. We've been there for a long, long time now. People are only figuring it out now, though.
Beware though, that all of this is a spectrum…
The (so-called) "political spectrum" becomes perfectly irrelevant once you understand WHY and HOW our political establishments dangle the liberal carrot and the fascist stick before us.
Nope. We’ve been there for a long, long time now.
To a degree yes, but the intensity changes. And I know there were times, where there was even greater inequality (e.g. Mansa Musa). Yet it's not really comparable with the modern world, which largely relies on speculative assets, and growth.
becomes perfectly irrelevant
No it doesn't, fascism is a different level than liberal establishments. Our democracies are far from perfect, but they at least have some form of control by the people, to keep power somewhat in check. Fascism is definitely concentrating on centralizing power, with the tendency to escalate (as obviously seen in the past). Also there are a lot of statistics, which show, that we were in a comparably very peaceful state for some time (since the last world war), but we're currently getting out of that period again (though still relatively peaceful), into a more autocratic world again unfortunately.
I'm speaking as european, where things are not (yet) that bad. The "democracy" in the USA is definitely less democratic than let's say scandinavian democracies... And I don't want to even begin with something like Russia or China.
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Billionaires or not, they don't have control of state militaries (yet at least). In fascism, the state is at the top, and corporations bend the knee and become an extension of the government to be used at the whims of its authoritarian leader.
What it ultimately comes down to is power and the capacity for violence. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if a government can just drone strike your entire family, does it?
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I'm waiting to see what happens before I make any moves. I've been on Meta apps for over a decade, I don't want to lose the connections if I don't have to.
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