Also, is there an inception going on here?

It’s in politics, listed as cross-posted to…politics? Both communities seem to have the same link, but two different posts?

Why do you think Facebook has been called FBIBook or FedBook for over a decade now?

The most important work for We, The People.

Also, I suppose considering legacy status - totally fine?

This is the most important work for We, The People, I suppose.

Also, I guess considering legacy status: still cool.

The usual accusations I’ve seen about it over the years seems to be an accusation (usually this is from the left) that she and Ms. magazine, wittingly or unwittingly, were used by CIA (Operation Mockingbird?) to blunt the impact of feminism.

That kind of thing has been said about her for years and years. Not surprised at all; it’s almost guaranteed to come up in the pre-written obits from the “liberal media”, too.

When I first read Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy, I did not know who Steinem was, and so the joke about a “Steinem job” flew over my head.

Years later, I always wonder if she was ever asked about that reference…

I’m still surprised one half of the population could stop thinking about women’s basketball for long enough to even consider the Flock cameras…

They think the American people are that stupid. Often, they tend to be correct.

Coke vs. Pepsi.

“What? They are both sugar water that is terrible for you?”

–American consumers

Axon is The Choice of a New Generation ™ !

“What? They are both part of a dystopian panopticon being built by collusion between oligarchs and fascists?”

–American citizens

I bet tiny-d donnie got a good scare after seeing all that drone footage and started wondering about someone parking a boat just off the coast and doing something nasty with a drone…not that terrorists flying drones are going to care about an airspace being closed.

Oooh, these would be perfect as targets in urinals!

Tiny-d donnie’s administration is doing the people’s work again, I see.

How will this improve even one American’s life? I mean besides puffing up little-d donnie’s ego.

Other than hating brown people, what supposed reasoning do the cons even use for not supporting birthright citizenship?

Canada is right to target certain things. They know full well most Americans don’t support tiny-d donnie dumbass or his stupid war with Canada, and it’s not all of us that should pay for that asshole “winning” the election.

That’s a great idea, and could probably be expanded to any Marklar dumbass. Chances are that Apple knows if you are an extremist right wing nutjob and they could just change it for them.

Maybe every once in a while, “accidentally” push something like “Lake Epstein” to their maps, too. 🤣

FB is such an enshittified mess these days. I log in there maybe only a few times a year. I recently heard Cory Doctorow talking about the early days of FB, and I do remember those days. I had my doubts about their intents from the outset, but even I didn’t imagine it would descend so far.

BTW, don’t use Nextdoor, it seems to be even worse. The thing seems to be designed to give a permission structure for busybody Karens to police their neighborhoods.

As can be expected the opinions on there are just…ridiculous. Particularly around things like water use.

Same with adding unwall.app/ before many urls. Or looking for it on archive.is.

At this point, I just assume most things are behind a subscriber wall, at least, and act accordingly.

I honestly think having Obama as president for 8 years combined with gay marriage and all the bathroom bills and “men in women’s sports” completely broke a lot of brains.

In at least some anecdotal cases, people I’ve known that were kind of apolitical now seem to think that women’s basketball and “protecting the children” is of primary importance to the country.

I mean: what even the fuck. Some of these people don’t even have kids. And don’t even know of one instance of “men in women’s sports” anywhere near them, including in the nearby schools that their kids, if they even had them, would be attending.

The propaganda network the cons have set up really is something to behold. Sportsball won’t meaningfully change most people’s lives one way or another. Things like clean air, clean water, climate change, infrastructure, health care, a living wage, etc…most certainly will.

But we are arguing over sportsball. It’s just beyond stupid.

Exactly. And that’s why I use the scare quotes.