Individualism is a right wing ideology dawg

We don’t have men’s brains. Scans actually show that our brain structures are more similar with our gender identity than our assigned gender at birth, especially after hormonal and social transitioning.

It does do something? It orders how comments and posts appear in the hot sorting algo. That’s good enough imo

Also… at noon during the work week? 😒

you can enforce your data rights in rule of law countries

😂

China is not illegally busting down US residents’ doors and killing them lol

Okay but now we aren’t really talking about privacy anymore, are we? We’re talking about the monopolization of social media by a few corporations as we’re siloed into platforms. Bad, for sure, but a different problem.

The election interference is coming from inside the house and privacy is only tangentially related to a larger problem.

I’ll continue to be more worried that my DMs will be used to put me in prison.

Okay, but they can’t literally bust down my door and kill me.

Well, only one of those governments can actually do anything to me. Hint: it’s the one I live under

They’re outsourcing development of their platform onto independents who will work for free to advance the project, which then improves the value of their platform. It’s the same design philosophy behind the Android Open Source Project.

Seems efficient and not at all stupid.

Good.

Long term Trump probably won’t benefit from this, but it does give him a strong boost right at the start of his term while he’s also passing a bunch of controversial executive orders.

So they’re fucking stupid?

So why did Democrats fall for it?

I’ll continue to call the US a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It’s not like anyone else is allowed to run the country.

Okay, so you’ll admit that the DPRK is a democracy since it has democratic elements.

And I’m saying that, because voting in the US doesn’t actually determine policy, we shouldn’t call it democracy.

I only said to apply the logic of liberal democracy to itself, not to apply it to all countries.

I think your insistence on using a fuzzy spectrum to define concrete terms results in words not meaning anything at all. The “99% monarchy 1% democracy” gets to call itself a democracy by your fuzzy logic because it has democratic elements. That’s clearly not a good heuristic. There must be a point where the antidemocratic elements in a society disqualify it from being a democracy.

Why are you applying this fuzzy logic to democracy when democracy, itself, does not? If one candidate gets 49% of the vote and the other gets 51% of the vote then the candidate with the most votes wins. Nothing fuzzy about it. If we apply liberal democracy’s logic to itself then a country that isn’t at least 50% democratic can not be called a democracy.