• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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    I feel like if people like this person were in power, they would also start checking people’s social media for wrongthink. I found over the years that the people who care about social media the most tend to be the most fragile and sensitive people you’ll ever come across. Trump’s check this box, but so do so many other people.

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    I’ve been vocally anti-american for nearly 10 years, but the real question is “why would I want to be friends with someone called ‘Tindertranslator’?”

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    I can show them my social media stuff and give my DNA if Trump gives me the Espstein files without censorship.

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    Given that Trump’s USA is no longer an ally to us in Europe, I’ll never set foot in that country again.

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      It’s not “Trump’s USA”, he’s just one tiny, orange facet of the same beast, which is world-wide (with USA being the source).

      NVIDIA, Apple, Amazon, Walmart, et al find Trump very useful as he is motivated by greed alone.

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          How so? USA is money central, the capital of the biggest economy since at least WW2.

          I’m not saying the original source, I didn’t mean to imply that. I think that would be the banks if I had to pick just one.

          Who do you think is the source today or how far do you go back?

          Ha! I guess.

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            Based on what we learned in the very short window when Twitter let people see location information about specific accounts, I think we can trace a lot of Trump’s “grassroots” support back to Russia.

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              Russia has a much smaller economy, not even equivalent to California.

              I think you give them too much credit, Trump even played a rich businessman on TV; he’s an “ideal” Republican candidate (name recognition and for sale to highest bidder)

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    Is lemmy social media?

    If not, i have no social media in the last 5 years except 1 post on facebook trying to rehome a dog.

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      I don’t consider reddit/lemmy as social media. The lack of ‘necessity’ of having your personal info plastered about and inserted into every exchange makes them something different. They’re just a different form of forum, in my opinion, with nested comments instead of a long chain.

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        I never considered reddit/lemmy social media myself. The anonymity of it just feels different. Just because im online doesnt mean its social media (to me.)

        I can play video games online, and post in their group chats, but thats not social media either. I tend to draw the line around anonymity and topics. If were not talking about individuals, and their experiences, and interests, in the target to promote that person, i dont think its social media

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          Yeah I never really got the whole “forums aren’t social media” thing. Only difference I’ve ever seen is lacking a need for followers which I guess for a lot of people is enough.

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            I am a bit torn. I think social media has kinda moved from things like forums and chatrooms, to twitter/Instagram and so on.

            Forums are a part of social media, but when asking about someones social media accounts or activity, you don’t really go to what forums they are on, it’s always ticktok or Facebook.

            You could also say that comment sections under articles are social media as well, but that’s not the typical association with the term.

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              The term ‘social media’ became popularized when ‘online bulletin boards’ started to really incentivize building a strong personal profile (with lots of social connections, likes et.c.). Even if a traditional forum is technically social media, it’s not what we associate with the term and the psychology of using it is quite different.

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              You could also say that comment sections under articles are social media as well

              I think that comes down to what the primary purpose of the site is. News media is mostly about disseminating information with their comment sections being a sad, withering afterthought where nothing of value ever happens.

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          But you can also be anti social and just bark on lemmy. So it’s not 100% social media (at least I don’t consider it as such).

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    US boarder agents - show me you Facebook

    ME: I deleted it in 2016

    BA: okay show me your insta

    ME: I don’t have insta

    BA: wtf.jpg, okay Twitter?

    ME: nope.

    BA: visibly frustrated … Reddit then?

    ME: deleted that account when they fucked over 3rd party apps.

    BA: writing refused to comply, rejected.

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      Same, but if they’re trained to look for the Voyager icon I could be in “trouble”

      But for now, this is the last place I can say it:

      I hope Trump is hanged for treason and violently shits himself to death out of fear and panic in the seconds before the noose snaps. And then a buncha hand-scrawled notes confessing his pedophelia, sexual assaults, rapes, and love for AOC’s feet fall from his pockets

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    I wish Charlie Kirk was alive to see this. Only so he could be shot through the throat. Again.

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      I’m a citizen, y’all can’t deport me.

      Considering how ICE ignores things like “Due Process”, you won’t even get the chance to prove that you’re a citizen.

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          I think you have a very optimistic view of the US if you think the people that don’t care if one group of non-white citizens are deported is suddenly going to be shocked and appalled when a different group of non-white citizens is on the chopping block.

          I sincerely hope that it never comes to that, but thinking that your deportation is going to be the straw to break the camels back is a little arrogant.

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          Considering the categories of people that have already been deported in the last year, I think you’re not taking the threat seriously enough.

          • I mean I’ve been avoiding going outside, that’s my way to reduce risk.

            It’s because of this very political issue that I feel so anxious and even more depressed, which is why it’s hard to make plans.

            What am I supposed to do?

            Its like nuclear war, shit can go down at anything. It’s outside of my control.

            Canada won’t take me. EU won’t take me

            I hate PRC.

            Moving isn’t so simple, I don’t have the advantage of being young when I learned English, I’d stuggle a lot. Moving take a lot of effort, something I’d struggle to do with depression.

            I think you are overestimating the amount of things someone can actually do.

            You realized during the Wong Kim Ark era, my people faced worse? They still have the guts to continue living. I mean… am I supposed to run every time there’s a problem? It’s not like there is anywhere to run to.

            (cant think clearly right now, sorry if I’m rambling)

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              Since you deleted your comment, I can’t really address exactly what you said and I’ll have to sort of do it by memory of what tone you had, but don’t be caught without a plan. Even if the plan is just running when you see ice approach, it’s better than just being a deer in the headlights because you’ve blithely told yourself you won’t be targeted.

              I wish we would see the equivalent of the la riots where shopowners banded together with guns on top of their shops, but perhaps even consider what you can do if you see someone you’re vaguely familiar with being taken by ice. The golden ideal would be a community driven communication of ice tracking, from the moment they leave their little compounds until they get to the rental car place and then their targeted areas, but things will have to get a lot worse before there’s enough people to band together for that. You could start (I have four of us in my area) with just your friends and you tracing where they’re going from news reports or social media in your area.

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    Mine would get me barred, which is why I deleted voyager and metatext from my phone as I prepare to travel abroad. If they want to look at the facebook account I have not updated the past decade, then whatever.

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    Honestly true. Especially with how angry these snowflakes get about the smallest things.

    Did you truly life, if you didn’t make at lease one passing reference to that “I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” quote about Trump? Don’t think so.