• Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Remember in 2022 when Meta changed the rules to allow calling Russians orcs and slurs, and stated they would no longer enforce any discrimination against Russians?

    That was the canary in the coal mine that libs failed to heed. They were fine with it, and now they don’t have a leg to stand on when opposing this.

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    If someone told me that 4chan would end up as the blueprint for the entire internet, I would have called them crazy.

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      they would be crazy the modern internet is nothing like 4chan. On the modern internet people say unhinged racist and misogynist stuff with their real name behind it.

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    • Mark Zuckerberg
    • Jeff Bezos
    • Satya Nadella
    • Bill Gates
    • Sundar Pichai
    • Tim Cook
    • Elon Musk
    • Sam Altman
    • Peter Thiel

    Just a list of names. The greatest hits, if you will.

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    I’ll never understand why humans find rudeness to be a likable trait while kindness is looked down on.

    Why people enjoy being mean for the sake of being mean?

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      well it’s still against meta rules to be rude by insulting someone’s character or intelligence

      So you can call trans people ableist slurs and tell women to stay in the kitchen, but don’t you dare say that someone is a piece of shit for the actions they take

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      Because it makes you feel better than somebody

      If you can convince yourself that at least you’re better than a black guy/a transwoman/etc., that’s really all you need

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      For fucking real.

      I get having a hard day but why be mean and throw it out on others? We all struggle, why make it fucking harder? Does it kill people to watch others smile? Being nice to others not only makes others happy, it makes me happy too. Is that not fucking normal for these weirdos or something?

      I just don’t get it.

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      I would contend this isn’t a human trait, and like many things is probably downstream from Calvinist brainworms in some way; relating virtuousness/“divine favor” with the perceived position in a given social grouping etc.

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    I really want to delete all of my Meta. Theres a few group chats though including my family one over messenger, and also i do mostly follow activist accounts on insta. But i really despise these platforms now and im guessing it wont be long before activism, especially explicitly leftist and pro palestinian activism is gone from these platforms anyway.

    Mainstream social media is so fuckin cooked and the only alternative with any steam behind it is bluesky.

    Im wondering if we will see a regression to smaller online spaces. I already mostly replaced my idle social media time with hexbear although im also a fucking weirdo

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    It’s wild how as much as he’s a joke he’s also serious because he causes billionaires to kiss the ring this excessively.

    Like yea trumps a borderline illiterate lazy dumb fuck but all these “liberal” billionaires are cutting huge checks after ignoring the dems last time around.