Amazing

It isn’t preemptive to see cops as our enemy, for they’re already taught to view the public as an enemy. The reform we need isn’t even what gets discussed by anybody who wants to “work” with police.

Public safety needs to be gutted and rebuilt from the ground up, with cops only handling situations where someone might need to die. There is no non-lethal violence. Any instance of cops using any form of violence carries the risk of someone dying. We shouldn’t expect them to be anything but violence machines; a last resort to any issue, not part of a front line.

If their unions don’t hate you, you’re never gonna actually accomplish anything. It’s not a good strategy to ally with people who get upset at being anti-cop. In the US, politicians who say “fuck the police” are better off than any respectability politician. We’ve heard nothing but meaningless platitudes for years, and people are tired of it. The “safe” politicians have provided no safety, and people are too scared to trust them any longer.

Idk. 14 year old me would still find this stupid

Google drives me up a wall with their search engine the most. AI bs to hide the fact that SEO and paid promotions make it hard to find anything anymore 😒

Suffocation?

Astolfo is a femboy icon, and while there’s nothing wrong with being a femboy, the community does skew younger. At a certain age, it gets awkward to call yourself a boy or girl, as our bodies naturally mature. It has a lot to do with the loss of youth, and the shame that comes with it.

Teachers are expected to be more “grown-up or mature,” with them using cute characters coming across as out of touch. It gets awkward when teachers break that perception, like they’re trying to be someone they can’t.

If the teacher doesn’t know who Astolfo is, they seem even more out of touch than if it’s a cute girl character; a “how do you do fellow kids?” moment. If the teacher is aware and intentionally represents themselves as a femboy, it still breaks the view students have of teachers as mature. It would be abnormal instead of immoral, but that alone is risky if a conservative catches wind of it.

I was honestly surprised by the ban. Elong hadn’t even been in charge long enough to account for the change entirely. I wasn’t even being that hostile, just tearing into them like I do here when people spout bs. They just reported me because I made them look like fools.

I felt similar about Musk buying Twitter. I created an account for the first time after never wanting to use the app before, just so I could watch shit go down. I got banned for dunking on transphobes after a few months 🤣

Other people aren’t going to RedNote for political reasons. I’m not going to RedNote because I was never into TikTok.

I’m barely into YouTube, and I have no desire to jump back into short form algorithm driven stuff after a decade away from that noise. Deleting most socials as teen was the correct move. I only missed out on connecting with people I already knew.

Feeds are the bane of my existence. I don’t even look at my Lemmy feed. Instead, I check on individual communities and sort by new. Communities being smaller is an advantage for me.

I know. If it lasts more than a month though, I think we can be far more hopeful. It’ll be hard for Netanyahu to restart hostilities if the peace lasts long enough.

Did you just reply within your own comment?

:3

Proposed Addendum:

• Thank You ➔ Good Boy!
• Can you grab the door? ➔ Be a Good Boy?
• Have a good day at work ➔ Be a Good Boy!
• How was your day? ➔ You’re a Good Boy <3
• Good morning ➔ Hi-ya Good Boy!

Mooching

I’ve found that my best responses both take them at face value, AND make them not want to troll anymore

Even if something is clearly bait, it still might be worth pushing back against. All internet arguments, bait or not, are principly about the audience, not the person you’re responding to. I honestly don’t care what someone’s motivation is. If someone says bad shit uncontested, people start believing it.

This even applies to someone saying something to troll. If they tell a lie often enough, they tend to internalize it. If you actually want to influence a troll, make them not want to troll there. Give pushback that isn’t fun for them to respond to.

Like all other social media, they harvest an invasive amount of data. Not more than meta apps or anything, but it is part of standard capitalist practice. They exist, like every mainstream social media platform in China or America, to promote economic interests in a corporate system. It deranked BLM videos because deranking popular dissent is part and parcel with selling to advertisers. China doesn’t even need a backdoor, just the basic understanding of how it’s similar to all their own apps.

China is another capitalist empire under a different flag. They’re neoliberal to the bone, only better at exploiting the system than America in certain ways. They don’t want to undermine the global capitalist order, as they’re quite good at winning in it. They’ve become more nationalistic and hawkish militarily, but that’s a direct result of neoliberalism. It quickly becomes unpopular if there aren’t internal and external scapegoats. The degenerate western influences are scapegoated there, while the degenerate commie immigrants are the enemy here.

All of it serves to protect power. Trump will adopt many strategies from them, because that is what their government exists to do.