Christ some of you people are so smug.

Listen friend, I didn’t insult you. How about instead of attacking people out of nowhere you extend the benefit of the doubt that someone is engaging in good faith? Like I assume you’d like people to do for you.

never follow it up with any inspiration or call to actions

I’ve shared all the same advice and links you have in this post. I just don’t do it every time because I’m not a robot.

It’s more “it’s time to try something else.”

I don’t know who else needs to hear this, but electoralism is over in the United States. These people have stopped playing by any rules.

This is in our hands now. Nobody’s coming to the rescue.

When they don’t cede it we take it. There’s hundreds of millions of us and only a handful of them.

https://generalstrikeus.com

You feel this way because you’ve been intentionally individualized.

There is strength in community, but community threatens the capitalist class so they’ve done everything they possibly could to drive wedges between us.

You’re absolutely right that nobody is coming to save us. That means it’s up to us to save each other. It’s not too late.

Liberals are pro-capitalism, which is the ultimate mechanism for inequality.

“Neoliberalism” isn’t a pejorative, it’s a political philosophy that has dominated the Western world for about 50 years, though it has roots much further back. It is a philosophy embraced by both Republicans and Democrats. It’s about privatization of services, lowering taxes, and deregulating corporations. It’s why we have for profit healthcare in the US, for example.

They already overthrew their government and embraced socialism. You act like they want to overthrow their current government. They live decent lives. Better than ours. Our media lies to you about them. They are largely happy. I know it’s impossible to imagine that, what with living in this nightmare, but it’s possible when your government treats you as more than consumables to be exploited for profits.

How many times must I write the difference between corporate controlled platforms and governmentally controlled internet?

Oh, the burden you must bear dealing with us know nothings.

The same corporations that own the media own the government. There is no difference between the two in the United States. This “democracy” is a sham. This is an oligarchy. How many times do you need to be told this before you get it?

Just putting a fine point on it.

US users make up about 17% of TikToc’s global user base. Selling their addictive algorithm to keep a small number of users was never going to happen.

And what hand waving? It was banned because the US government could not control the flow of information to its own people like it can with all the other US corporate/state owned media. The data collection nonsense is just that. If they cared they could have regulated data collection across the board. Foreign countries abide by host countries laws all the time, see GDPR and similar. But that would have cut into the profits of other corporate/state controlled media outlets like Meta and Google.

Thanks, comrade!

The US government literally just effectively banned a social network through government mandate.

US corporations are the US government. They outright own it. US media is state media with extra steps.

Or that everybody owns. The means of information distribution and the means of production should be completely in the hands of the people.

For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it’s not actually meant as a slide.

https://umtychy.pl/131896-tychy-rzezbiarskie-formy-zabawowe-na-os-g-zjezdzalnia

I mean, yeah, but this is like showing a picture of the alphabet and saying “this is spot on for so many books.”

< looks around at Western countries with militarized police forces, brutal suppression of protest, and high incarceration rates >

“This is fine. Tankies are authoritarian.”

Clinton signed into law a whole raft of neoliberal policies that were started by Bush, and the cumulative effects of those policies over those decades are what we’re feeling right now and what we warned about back then. The frogs have been boiled while the populace bickers about which neoliberal corporate shill sits on the puppet throne. They’re after all our money and they’re getting it by distracting us with the political circus and dividing us with wedge issues.

And the same people that own the media also own and operate the state.

I’m so glad this stuff is starting to finally bubble to the top of the public consciousness.

Now, everybody read Marx.

When you Google for “best whatever” and land on a reddit thread, take some time to look at the histories of the people commenting.

You’ll find many cases where the only post they’ve ever made was for that product, and cases where the person posting the question also posts in the comments with an answer, like they forgot to switch to alt accounts.

A lot of it is obvious SEO marketing nonsense. Trust nothing. The entire Internet is trying to scam you. Enshittification, indeed. This used to be a nice neighborhood before the capitalists moved in in the 90s.

“. . . . except as a punishment for crime . . . .”

Slavery never stopped, it just evolved. There’s a reason black men are so overrepresented in the prison system.

The US is a fascist country. If you live here and you don’t feel it, you are benefiting from it.