It's a bad sign for things to come. As platforms become more and more openly fascistic, it's only a matter of time before they start actively promoting Nazi accounts rather than just passively protecting them. People are too addicted and reliant on social media to switch to other platforms, and even if they did there would probably be a massive amount of suppression put on those other platforms. We're going to have to deal with the consequences of all major media openly pushing for our governments to implement outright fascism. How are we supposed to deal with that when most of us primarily operate on these platforms?? We can't survive on the good grace of those who actively want us dead forever, and the very same fascists are monopolizing alternative forms of media.

Trump barely won and only because of a technicality with only marginal media support. Could you imagine how utterly fucked we would be if every one of these platforms just all at once decided to gaslight the public and put their support behind an actually dangerous fascist? People already forget that less than 100 years ago the concept of fascism was popular in the States, and it's getting dangerously close to making a comeback.

I don't mean to be a doomer but holy shit when you consider all the stuff that's going down, things are looking bad.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      3 years ago

      Same reason I'm constantly agitating even when I'm at work.

      My goal is to make myself so visible and locally outspoken and what some people might consider alarmist that normies might come to me for advice when shit starts to break down.

      I'm already pretty well known locally and I'm not as woried about opsec as I would encourage others to be.

      I've got lots of local comrades.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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          3 years ago

          Some of us are going to have to break anonymity when the time comes. I've nobody that relies on me, any risk I take falls only on myself, therefore I feel a responsibility to be some sort of liaison.

      • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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        3 years ago

        I desperately wish I knew a person like you irl. (I mean, obviously I wish I could be that person that people could turn to, but it's just not in the cards). I'm pretty isolated and getting increasingly concerned about this very thing. I have also felt like doxxing myself many times but for the inverse reason - I want to somehow be a part of a community that could support each other in real life before it's too late for that to even be possible. I've got zero local comrades.