Is it overly conspiratorial to think the Meta is doing what they're accused of on behalf of the US?
The only important question is whether Democrats will get any sense if they win.
The worst outcome is actually Democrats winning and then keeping the status quo and continuing to serve corporations and special interest groups over the needs of their own constituents.
They won't have any real power to force through legislation even if they win, but if they win and don't use this time to shake up their own party and instead keep Schumer/Jeffries/et al in charge and keep towing the center-right Third Way-esque line then in a few years time we will find out that actually, yes, there are worse people that could be president than Trump (all of the malevolence, but perhaps with competence too next time).
Every election for over 10 years now has been a change election and the Democratic party refusing to understand this (because the consultant class and their high value donors don't want to understand it) is one of the primary factors in creating and enabling Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-l...
It’s their platform, they can boost who they want.
Liberal voters don't unite well, and they also tend to have lower trust when it comes to misinformation.
The political atmosphere in the USA, and worldwide let's be honest, has become so cynical that people aligned with the American president don't really see any issue with doing morally wrong things or downright illegal acts if that means a political victory for them.
It’s basically impossible for elected Republicans to hold Trump to account, and even if they get wiped out in the coming election (I’m skeptical), I doubt that dynamic will change. If the price of gas weren’t so high, Republicans would be fairly happy with Trump — he’s basically kept his promise to be a hard-ass on immigration and other culture war issues.
I don’t expect a Republican reckoning that would please Democrats. Future Republican standard bearers will probably be very similar to Trump but more competent.
Not at all. We all know it. There's just literally nothing we can do. The whole world is an US dictatorship
And it doesn't have to be criminal. You are hallucinating more than a 2024 LLM.
You mean when Twitter "permanently" banned Trump in January of 2021, after the 2020 election (which he lost)? Which election do you suppose that interfered with?
Good, the cancerous infestation that is socialism must be eradicated.
lifeisloving•52m ago
(they may have already, they can basically do mind control with recommendations algorithms and get swaths of people to do whatever they want).
handoflixue•40m ago
At that point, they've already won, neh?
(this is mostly to object that hyperbolic phrases like "basically mind control" don't do your argument any favor)
tomalbrc•35m ago
Secret? Its called "X" and Facebook.
neom•29m ago
Fun read: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/joshua-haldeman...
andsoitis•19m ago
treapassing-sil•7m ago
For some reason this reminds me of the baby hilter paradox.
N_Lens•27m ago
cwnyth•11m ago
morkalork•9m ago
slibhb•27m ago
lifeisloving•11m ago
mullingitover•8m ago
I mean, this is South America we're talking about. It's not attitudes that undermine their democracy, it's very notoriously US-based three letter agencies.[1][2][3][4][5]
[1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/legacy-posting/chile-united-states...
[2] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/southern-cone/2025-1...
[3] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB133/index.htm
[4] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB465/
[5] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/events/operation-condor-1975-1980