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For 20+ years it's been (de facto) against the law for the stock market to go down. The only exceptions are pump & dumps to keep the poors out, but otherwise any drop in our glorious free market will be manually corrected by Uncle Sam.

Lol what? There's no profit/loss calculation between any number of consumers vs a fascist admin more than willing to chop you up and eat your corporate lunch. Their revenue could get cut in half and bending the knee is still the right business choice.

Their business model is selling media, they don't give a shit if they need to write out every minority princess protagonist for a white Jesus. So yeah, kill the scape goat, get some brownie points and wait for the media shit storm to blow over by next month.

I mean I can think of one thing: tell the truth one day and a bald faced lie the next. Repeatedly propping up a regime with one hand and denigrating it with the other causes deep fractures that you can't get from a simple one sided attack.

If you're old enough to remember the internet as it was 15-20 years ago it's fairly obvious. Even in the early days of social media a narrative wouldn't spread a fraction as quickly or with as much explosive rhetoric. In a week after a major incident we might get 4 or 5 waves of conflicting or compounding narratives.

You can imagine our social discourse as a massive pool of competing ideas going back and forth; a large disruption might cause a sizable wave. You'd expect rebound waves (opposing ideas) from the opposite fringe to naturally counteract and disperse the original and each other, keeping the water choppy but level.

With a larger network (ie: Twitter in 2025 vs Twitter in 2008) you'd expect to see more inertia and more stability, the fact that we don't is damning. Forcing the mass uniformity of rhetoric that we see these days (massive waves sweeping across hundreds of millions on multiple platforms) is not something that could be orchestrated by anything less than state actors. It takes the planning and coordination of both the initial narratives and responses.

I assume it's more to push active subs up instead of letting the large empty ones stay on top. It's better to see 90k with corresponding activity vs a 30m ghost town.

I feel like they've been shuffling chairs on the titanic to cover up their falling engagement. Their default sort is now showing things from 4+ weeks ago, "Hot" posts with 0 upvotes on massive subs, hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count, etc...

Not sure who they're trying to fool but it's not hard to tell that activity has dropped. Stale posts, niche subs have dried up, active readers in the single digits, deleted comments, etc... But their stock is higher than ever so that's nice I guess?

ITT people confuse the mathematical limits of consolidating currency with the actual unbounded consolidation of power.

No, the rich don't care about the health of the economy. Yes, they will run out of money that can be directly siphoned from your consumer pockets. That's just the beginning of the real endgame.

Short on rent money? I'll be happy to write off your rents in perpetuity if you sign this contract granting rights to your organs upon death. Can't afford clothes? A lifetime agreed employment spent sorting trash will keep you in free, durable work clothes. Can't afford to raise your kids? We'll give you a sweet deal to cover necessities and they can pay it back later. Muggers and thieves got you down? Come sign on to our secure company commune!

These are the exact conditions that historically lead to feudal systems. People didn't abandon their homesteads and independence to become serfs voluntarily. It was always out of necessity.

1. Apparently we can't disagree if your comments are anything to go by, regardless of how much reading we do
2. Calling your highly touted T h e o r y a science is laughable. It's descriptive philosophy and as such has no predictive/prescriptive value

There's a reason you have to call it theory and why that theory gets bent like a pretzel whenever something runs counter to it. It must be correct because at its core it's theology for the disillusioned. The material conditions weren't right bro, trust me bro, just one more vanguard party bro, we're gonna be stateless I promise, just need a little more critical support for these fascists bro...

Getting elected isn't the problem, it's being hamstrung by preemptively antagonizing a police force that's a major power bloc in your city. He won't be able to walk in day 1 and purge corruption from a massive, violent, broken institution.

Is there any easy way to migrate from lemmy to piefed? Would rather spend my time and donations on sane devs working to improve their platform instead of curating their own personal propoganda fiefdom.

This is the issue. They never give actual criticism of the reporting or the reporters or go into any depth on the bias. By being an English language outlet not based in Russia/China they are, ipso facto, a lying tabloid rag. It's an absurd cyclical logic.

Me knowing that you can't because windows already bricked my SSD