Years of propaganda from oligarchs, their think tanks and their propaganda spreaders. This has been an attack for many decades but especially after WW2 during the red scare and then after 1970 when the Powell Memo was issued. That is the origin of all of our messes, including Reagan and Trump.

Many of the same right wing think tanks are from the same oligarchs from decades ago and/or their heirs. Think Timothy Mellon or Birch Society (Koch Brother father). Even then, there was “the business plot” where the oligarchs of the 1930s wanted fascism because of the threat FDR had to their wealth and power.

Just doing my best to avoid surveillance capitalism and government surveillance. Is that illegal yet?

I get it. It is convenient for following businesses and groups. It just was not worth it for me personally and I hate supporting Zuck and his evil leadership team. It also was impacting me mentally just digesting the crap that kept being thrown on my feed.

I am surprised you still use Facebook. I got off of it because I loathed how it went from a place to interact with friends to ads, rage bait and political posts constantly. It is one of the first tech products to undergo enshittification in my opinion. I read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. It added some more reasons for me to hate Zuckerberg and company but reaffirmed what I already felt simultaneously.

Same deal with lawyers that go into public interest. It pays super low, compared to corporate and similar that has money to throw at their employees.

So tired of these Bible thumping backwards states

Of course Silver Lake is in on it 🤦‍♂️

I’ll believe it when I see it. Knowing the current admin, they just need to give Trump some bitcoin and he’ll allow this to go through.

And when they hit their end inevitable enshittification, what then?

Agree

Do you literally hear yourself? You think large corporate and oligarchs run insurance, tech, etc., is a better route than a public option? 💀 Jeff Bezos, Musk, Thiel, and Ellison for everything?

Large corporations and oligarchs are better? I’ll take the government. At least we can vote on them.

I hope they consider other ways of doing things after this incident.

Why do we place so much reliance on one mega company? This level of importance. It should be seized by the government.