Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)
Background Pony #CE93
@Broken Adam
Sure.Dont complain when your country regress back to the dictatorship it was pre-1985
Sure.Dont complain when your country regress back to the dictatorship it was pre-1985
Background Pony #CE93
The power of [insert majority online based group you hate here] is largely limited to online spaces because that’s where there influence and effects are felt, and do not translate into the real world in any major way
-A prophet
Ebalosus 
Build commie blocks!
@Background Pony #3A25
Cry. Harder.
Unlike you, I don’t want to live in Apartheid-era South Africa where the government decides what is worthy of free speech and a free press. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, after all.
Cry. Harder.
Unlike you, I don’t want to live in Apartheid-era South Africa where the government decides what is worthy of free speech and a free press. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, after all.
Background Human 
CHS, Class of 20XX
@Ebalosus
@Lord Goku
That goes both ways. You may have nothing but the noblest intentions in giving right-wing terrorists a platform to radicalize recruits and plan attacks. Buuut…
@Lord Goku
That goes both ways. You may have nothing but the noblest intentions in giving right-wing terrorists a platform to radicalize recruits and plan attacks. Buuut…
Background Pony #CE93
@Ebalosus
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” will be the epitaph of Web 2.0,the media that claimed to connect the common people but instead propagated nazism
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” will be the epitaph of Web 2.0,the media that claimed to connect the common people but instead propagated nazism
Background Pony #CE93
@Ebalosus
“Cry harder” said the child that posted the equivalent of a Bubsy-esque “What could possibly go wrong ?”.It’s just the beginning wether you like it or not, it’s about time the pendulum swing back in my side direction
“Cry harder” said the child that posted the equivalent of a Bubsy-esque “What could possibly go wrong ?”.It’s just the beginning wether you like it or not, it’s about time the pendulum swing back in my side direction
Background Pony #CE93
Facebook doesn’t just connect democracy-loving Egyptian dissidents and fans of the videogame Civilization; it brings together white supremacists, who can now assemble far more effectively.It helps connect the efforts of radical Buddhist monks in Myanmar
Zenep Tufecki, It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech ,WIRED.com
In 2007 and again in 2008, Kahneman gave a class in “Thinking, About Thinking” to a powerful group of executives from companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia Microsoft, and Amazon (he also gave another talk about “Thinking, Fast and Slow” at Google in 2011). Kahneman is well known for bringing public awareness to the distinction between so-called “System 1” and “System 2” thinking. System 2 is good old fashioned, actual, “slow” thinking, it’s “effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious.” System 2 is the kind of rational cogitation we like to imagine we do all the time. System 1 is “fast” thinking, fight or flight, “automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious.[…]Many scholars have argued that the world has grown less democratic since the internet was introduced. It is important at least to consider the possibility that these things are connected: That the internet’s democratic promise isn’t what it seems.The gadgets we use and the social media we engage with are all designed to compel our attention by short-circuiting the more considered aspects of our brains. Why should we imagine that this short-circuit leads to more democracy, when world history shows that System 1 thinking, at least when not tempered by its complement, leads to authoritarianism and violence?Those who celebrated the Facebook revolution and the Twitter revolution were celebrating the replacement of (relatively) calm reflection with the politics of reactivity and passion. This domination of System 2 by System 1 thinking is the real social media “revolution.” The question that remains is whether democracies have both the will, and the means to bring considered thought back to politics, or, whether digital technology has made politics impossible.
David Golumbia,Social Media Has Hijacked Our Brains and Threatens Global Democracy, Motherboard.Vice.com
The road to hell is paved with good intention
Background Pony #CE93
@Background Human
Internet put us in an impasse.We cant ignore the countless problem (radicalization,mob justice,disinformation), it bring us (that what we collectively did for the last 20 years) nor can we simply turn it off /turn it into North Korea Intranet.It is my deeply held belief that ultimately, someone or something is going to have to regulate the Internet(The press have regulations,TV have regulation,radio have regulation so why should YouTube get a free pass ?) but just like all of you,i hope whoever does it doesn’t remind us why the idea of no regulation was so popular in the first place.
Internet put us in an impasse.We cant ignore the countless problem (radicalization,mob justice,disinformation), it bring us (that what we collectively did for the last 20 years) nor can we simply turn it off /turn it into North Korea Intranet.It is my deeply held belief that ultimately, someone or something is going to have to regulate the Internet(The press have regulations,TV have regulation,radio have regulation so why should YouTube get a free pass ?) but just like all of you,i hope whoever does it doesn’t remind us why the idea of no regulation was so popular in the first place.
Dustcan 
Dogs
Apparently Hannity is considering leaving Fox News in 2021 because he considers the network to not be loyal enough to Trump.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Background Pony #137C
@Dustcan
You know how bad things are when SEAN FUCKING HANNITY says Fox News isn’t loyal enough to Trump. This sounds like something out of the Onion
You know how bad things are when SEAN FUCKING HANNITY says Fox News isn’t loyal enough to Trump. This sounds like something out of the Onion
Dustcan
Dogs
According to WashPo fact checkers Trump has told over 10,000 public verifiable lies since he was sworn in. According to my faulty math that’s almost 14 a day.
igotnopicks 
Monado User
@Dustcan
14. Please on the first day alone he said he had the biggest anaugrantion ever.
Then we look at the Crowd size.
14. Please on the first day alone he said he had the biggest anaugrantion ever.
Then we look at the Crowd size.
Violet Rose in The Rain
Those who exist in and attempt to thrive in an oppressed class are powerful. As they try to achieve a normal happy life while being held back by those above them. They are more powerful than those who oppress them because they’re not the ones benefiting from said oppression. Like slaves throughout all of history are way more powerful and admirable than those who owned them.
Those who exist in and attempt to thrive in an oppressed class are powerful. As they try to achieve a normal happy life while being held back by those above them. They are more powerful than those who oppress them because they’re not the ones benefiting from said oppression. Like slaves throughout all of history are way more powerful and admirable than those who owned them.
Dustcan
Dogs
Remember that 2 million the Norks say we owe them? Turns out it’s because Trump promised them it in return for the hostages. And Trump stiffed them on the bill.
This is not as surprising as it should be.
This is not as surprising as it should be.
Background Human
CHS, Class of 20XX
@Violet Rose in The Rain
Apparently the “Socialistas” are the center-left social democrats and the “Podemos” are the actual leftists. Spain is weird.
@Dustcan
A Trump never pays his debts.
And surely this breach of trust will in no way negatively impact our denuclearization talks.
Apparently the “Socialistas” are the center-left social democrats and the “Podemos” are the actual leftists. Spain is weird.
@Dustcan
A Trump never pays his debts.
And surely this breach of trust will in no way negatively impact our denuclearization talks.
AaronMk 
Hot-take: not unusual for Europe’s Democratic Socialist parts to have shifted into the left-lib zone or Soc Dem territory. Most parties drifted right since the end of the Second World War into a sort of “kinder, gentler capitalism” territory.
Except for Labour in the UK. Most people point to Labour’s fall from its original platform as being during the Thatcherite eighties where most parties had begun that in the 30’s-50’s.
Sky funeral
@Violet Rose in The Rain
Apparently the “Socialistas” are the center-left social democrats and the “Podemos” are the actual leftists. Spain is weird.
Hot-take: not unusual for Europe’s Democratic Socialist parts to have shifted into the left-lib zone or Soc Dem territory. Most parties drifted right since the end of the Second World War into a sort of “kinder, gentler capitalism” territory.
Except for Labour in the UK. Most people point to Labour’s fall from its original platform as being during the Thatcherite eighties where most parties had begun that in the 30’s-50’s.
Background Pony #DCB5
I fear that seasons will soon be a thing of the past thanks to climate change.
The Smiling Pony 
( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡° )
@Background Human
Podemos is far left, incorporating a fair number of communist parties under its label or having outright absorbed them. VOX is far right by Spanish standards, but they’re a fair distance away from the alt-rightish far right of other EU far right parties.
@Background Pony #4729
Nah, we’ll have cool summer, summer, and summer plus.
Podemos is far left, incorporating a fair number of communist parties under its label or having outright absorbed them. VOX is far right by Spanish standards, but they’re a fair distance away from the alt-rightish far right of other EU far right parties.
@Background Pony #4729
Nah, we’ll have cool summer, summer, and summer plus.
Vivace
“ShimSham my GlimGlams”
@The Smiling Pony
Was it once claimed that global warming leads to intensification of both seasonal extremes (globally, hotter summers, more frigid winters)?
Was it once claimed that global warming leads to intensification of both seasonal extremes (globally, hotter summers, more frigid winters)?
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