I don't know what the users said, maybe they deserved to be removed, but it's still ironic
My sister can’t afford a house
And she thinks it’s her fault
She says if she worked harder
She’d have money in the vault
And my mother needs a surgery
Her hand’s always in pain
But she fell ill last April
And used up all her sick days
[Verse 2]
They say, the homeless need to disappear
Extract them like a tumor
A stain on our society
They’re all broken consumers
Don’t try to put the blame on us
They ruined their own lives
It’s not our fault they got hooked
On drugs that we prescribed
[Chorus]
Em Stars for the silver spoons
Em Stripes for the poor
Em Stars for the nightly news and
Em Stripes if you oppose the war
Stars if you steal the land
Stripes if you take a stand
Stars if you march in time
Stripes if you don’t fall in line
[Verse 3]
We send our babies off to school
Our children are the future
Then teach them how to hide
Beneath their desks for active shooters
Oh we could make a difference
If we weren’t so fucking tired
But who’s got time to fight
When you’re just trying to survive
[Chorus]
Em Stars for the silver spoons
Em Stripes for the poor
Em Stars for the nightly news and
Em Stripes if you oppose the war
Stars if you steal the land
Stripes if you take a stand
Stars if you march in time
Stripes if you don’t fall in line
[Bridge]
They want a standing ovation
For the hero nation but
Why should we when
The man on the corner
Begging for a quarter
Lost his legs on your orders
[Chorus]
Em Stars for the silver spoons
Em Stripes for the poor
Em Stars for the nightly news and
Em Stripes if you oppose the war
Stars if you steal the land
Stripes if you take a stand
Stars if you march in time
Stripes if you don’t fall in line
Don't fall in line
I'm a game developer and I'm ashamed by this.
When chip production will halt because of the climate, you will see programmers optimizing their code again.
Jeez I hope this economy crashes.
on one hand, I wish I wouldn't have to read those headlines because it depresses me
on the other hands, there's no point in muting that information, because people should know those things and should be angry
I thought "we should read good news", and then /r/upliftingnews appeared and it was just a rose-colored glasses thing.
we actually need to hear bad news to make people react.
I'm stupider that chatgpt, chatgpt cannot achieve this artistic level of stupidity
I wonder if previous twitter execs are feeling a bit bad to have sold him twitter to see it destroyed like that.
I mean it certainly proves Elon is an idiot as he used fraud to manipulate the price and got played instead.
But was it worth it to let him destroy Twitter just because he tried to defraud it?
Even if they do that, some people will just create illegal website mirrors that remove ads.
On reddit, people already copy paste articles when there's a paywall. I can totally envision that thing to be more common.
I am not fucking kidding, I will stop using websites if I cannot block ads. This is non negotiable. I don't care about your business model, I have zero money to give you. I tried the official reddit app, and uninstalled within a week.
Stalin and communism are different things
What? Where?
I was joking, its a meme and star wars is fantasy
You can see a lot of communities being closed or not back to normal. My feeling is that this whole thing will leave a big scar on reddit for a long time, and it will probably never heal, because it was mostly hitting core users who were there for a long time. Maybe they calculated that most users are lurkers who use mobile, and the rest is people using old reddit?
The problem is that it's not a good idea to upset the mods, but reddit also works with content, and it's a complex chemistry between people who post new things and how the mods regulate it to make sure their sub has quality. I guess that a lot of mods don't care, or maybe they don't care now but will care later? Maybe new subreddits will open with other mods.
Eitherway, reddit is ready to sacrifice a good fraction of its quality and trust to extract money out of it, but reddit users are not instagram users.
It was more and more difficult to make reddit interesting by avoiding some subreddits and searching for subreddits that were more and more niche, but at some point you feel that something is lost after the whole "increase quantity, dilute quality" phase.
Reddit is also getting more polarized and politics have really poisoned the site to a degree never seen before, Trumpists were present there for waaaaay too long, and it attracted a lot of conservatives and right wing users who don't fit with the usual reddit crowds. It managed to survive after a looooot of drama, but after all this, maybe the core users of reddit are just tired, and might slowly quit the ship, and maybe reddit will see the same problems twitter is currently having, with conservative etc running rampant.
I wish reddit would have stood up with its core users who are mostly liberals/leftists, instead of compromising and letting fascists thrive there.
I use my country's subreddit and it seems the right wing phase is being felt more and more, I'm feeling even the mods start to get tired because of it. every month I'm surprised by the opinions of the comments I see on this sub. Maybe it also reflects world politics, but I'm not sure. Sometimes I get paranoid and I imagine that astroturfers are often around to leave a mean comment, or downvote things that doesn't fit their agenda.
The upside is that reddit still managed to hold up for much longer than digg.
You'll never believe my startup idea
Communities with videos of violence and assault, justice porn etc. I hate those, this is honey for conservatives and fascists, they love it and it disgusts me.
I cannot wait for reddit going public, it's going to generate so much drama, that's going to be soooo good.
Lemmy instances brace yourself