Since the odds are so slim of tariffs at this scale further boosting an economy that was already pretty vigorous - I think the more important question is, who are you going to scapegoat when tariffs don’t work as advertised? Immigration? George Soros? Biden? Deep State? Panama and Greenland? Her emails? Will you swallow the doublethink when Murdoch and Bezos’s fake news tell you a recession is really sort of a boom, and vodka rations are up 8%?
Very eye-opening! this info and its implications make me feel even better about removing myself from Reddit.
The fediverse needs someone with Maxwell’ energy to promote and seed.
We knew that was coming when we saw Sundar Pichai in Oligarch Row at the inauguration
I was already iffy about Reddit since the r/place #fuckspez whitewashing. I was never suspended - but when I learned Luigi was suddenly an “unperson” topic there, I realized that commercialized social media is inherently compromised.
I’m not swearing off FB/Insta entirely just yet, but every time I visit them I’m more and more vividly aware how tedious Meta channels are.
Reddit CEO u/spez Huffman never shook his compromised past as r/Jailbait mod. If there’s leverage for the regime to pressure Reddit’s compliance with favorable content policy, I think it’s connected to that.
It’s also not a very far stretch to suppose that Ghislaine Maxwell’s suspected account u/MaxwellHill, which was a resourceful driver of userbase and content development, connects Huffman to Jeffrey Epstein’s suppressed guest lists.
You will never see an explicit announcement from a social media platform “so hay guise we’re not allowed to criticize the regime, thanks for your cooperation”. There won’t be policy transparency.