Yup, that’s a major reason why people didn’t want to leave twitter. They’d built a following that they didn’t want to rebuilt.

I know people who hated elon Musk and had accounts on other microblogging platforms, but continued to post on twitter because that’s where they got their fill of engagement.

Shifting away from reddit to lemmy is fundamentally easier than it is from Twitter to mastadon. I think it’s part in due to the nature of the type of social media platforms they are.

There’s no attribution as well. No artist does that.

Unless it’s stolen, but again, the art style is very current AIesque.

And billionaires, especially the Nazis variety.

I quite enjoyed Elon getting bullied over POE2 stream.

Pay for the image generation? (Like you said it’s limited and not free).

free" (ignoring the negligible electricity cost) on your home computer if you want to

Stable diffusion is alright, but it’s not very accessible, you can literally put stuff together in paint.

But this AI slop has recently started getting more prevalent (after the scam altman Ghibli trend shit) and this is most definitely the chatgpt AI slop.

I just don’t want to support those corporate pieces of shit anymore than I have to.

Don’t you have to pay for this?

Can we not have AI slop be the normal for memes? It’s not that difficult to make this.

Basic history told me that?

Here, check under modern - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine

Yes, true that.

I’ll even concede that you can find some common ground with them short term.

Sure, harm reduction is good. That’s what’s been happening for the past century.

But you give the liberals an inch and they’ll take a mile. They’re only “liberals” as long as they’re making money of others, as soon as something goes wrong they’re first in line asking for government handouts. That’s why the liberals will always prefer fascist over left wing idealists, because they’re opportunists more than anything else. They’ll backstab you and vote in fascists if they think they can make more money with them. That’s exactly what’s happening in the US.

We need new politics where hating on the LGBTQ+, immigrants, women, and putting money over the lives of few isn’t considered a political leaning.

We also didn’t have modern medicine for 99.9% of human existence. Want to return to that?

Look at what you made me do!

I wouldn’t have considered genocide, if you weren’t so idealistic!!

If you had only partnered up with the people who only care about money, we could have returned to the status quo.

Mate, the goal is to be idealistic. No one is perfect, but we want to strive for what’s the best and hope we reach there some day.

Most people like trump, because “strong man”. No one really even knows who JD vance or Usha are. But I guess they’d like her, they like rishi sunak. Being rich is seen as a virtue. There’s also a weird obsession with seeing indians in powerful positions, some sort repressed complex.

She’s fine with the racism because “she’s one of the good ones”. She and vance are neoliberalists, opportunists. Watch them try and make as much money as they can before they get kicked out.

You are right, it’s true everywhere. It’s human nature to be wary of people you don’t understand. But, for some things, you’d expect countries that are a lot further ahead in progressivism to be “nicer”, especially since, you know, they industrialised and became richer on the backs of poorer countries.

Though I suppose that’s very difficult to quantitatively measure exactly - how progressive someone is (on the scale of a country). How more accepting they are than other countries.

But there’s also room for letting people air out their issues without being told that “everyone is like this, stop whining”. That’s literally what the Russian goverment does, they implicitly tell their populace that democracy doesn’t work and that this is the best deal they’ll ever get.

A lot of Americans support Trump or have no willingness to do anything about his facism.

A lot of Germans support Afd.

A lot of french support le pen.

A lot of British folks support reform and Tommy robinson.

So, do all the people from these countries also not deserve any sympathy? You know the ones who can’t do anything about who rules over them? Because they are too busy bogged down in trying to make a living?

Do nothing

How do you expect the regular russian to rise up against putin when they can barely can provide anything for their family? But also, When their only source of truth has been the state media, ofcourse it’s brainwashing.

Americans are not doing anything about the horrific things trump is doing and is that okay? Should we start calling Americans burger pigs and paint them all as racist caricatures of fat blonde pigs?

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At least don’t dehumanise the Russians. There are plenty who hate what’s happening and have died to free their country.

Poor person gets brainwashed, coerced and joins military to earn money.

“Haha, orc!!! They all deserve to die a pigs death!!”

Fuck. This is true. There are no dream jobs.