“Google is making it easier for Google to pry into your personal data.”

“Water is making it easier for water to make you wet.”

Do you have any more pictures of him

The list of previous searches on his iPhone included “Which month is april in islam,” “Festivals happening near me,” “are suicide attacks haram in islam,” “ginger isis member,” “lone wolf terrorists isis,” and “can tou kill a woman who foesnt[sic] wear hijab.”

lol of course he’s a fucking idiot

Fetterman is a fucking turncoat bitch

I mean, I’d disagree. The fact that work has taken over so much of our lives that we have no community and solidarity outside of selling our lives by the day so we can eat is beyond sad

You mean three weeks into summer? We started our summer with a massive heatwave where I am.

Fuck yes. It’s more than performative infighting, it’s some self-congratulating back patting nonsense while ALSO accomplishing nothing and making a cohesive resistance much less realistic. It’s so fucking self-serving and pointless. A self ego stroke.

I think they were saying it was stunningly stupid and tone deaf. No one is actually stunned, it’s more that it’s unbelievable to everyone that he actually said it. It was a bit tongue in cheek.

I like beef and broccoli, motherfucka.
Mind your goddamn business!
Matter of fact, you know what? I’m out.**
I feel like some arroz con pollo a banana daiquiri, and a motherfuckin bistec empanado.

lol what? You just enjoy running cover for genocide that much that you’ll do it in your free time? Fuckin sad

Not even close

Do you not follow tankie circles at all? A not insignificant subsection of “leftists” (read: western e-commies) kowtow to any country that has ever claimed to be communist or socialist. They’ll run cover for everything they’ve ever done.

The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence

It is a mystery why their shares didn’t tank more

Because the stock market is a fucking scam.

I mean, fuck Hamas too. They’re far right fundamentalists. But fuck Israel so much harder. And for the time being the enemy of my enemy, etc.

I’m in one of the bluest. Our police and FBI are not “blue.” American spy forces and “committee on anti-American activities”-ass motherfuckers are not kind or just, no matter the voting tendencies of the populace.

How many decades have we seen far right terror groups overlooked for anti-capitalist leftists? The left threatens the status quo, the right fortifies it. The blue and red dichotomy is the status quo. The democrats support the genocide in Palestine. Going against that status quo makes you not safe from government crackdowns, the party in power is completely irrelevant.

You guys can’t think there are seriously paid bots on lemmy. There are like 10,000 users. It’s basically a niche message board. Reddit is a valuable target because it has millions of users. Facebook, instagram, Twitter. These places are being astroturfed. But lemmy? I honestly don’t believe it. It doesn’t even have a core of users in any particular country. The small user base is spread all over the world. It just isn’t a target of these campaigns.

People are complicated. Everyone always points to “all that anti Kamala talk ended right after the election!” Yeah, maybe a lot of the pro-Palestinian anti Kamala people saying they wouldn’t vote for her stopped speaking so publicly because the reality of the other option sunk in. That doesn’t mean those people are paid trolls or bots. It means their argument got much more difficult when trump started plotting out his Gaza hotel. Those feelings are still legitimate. The feeling of not being able to sign your name to the lesser of two evils when that “lesser” is still funding and arming the genocidal force. People couldn’t swallow that on a personal level. But as soon as trump was elected, because it was one of two options, for the sake of not being angrily brigades, people stopped talking about it.

It’s a much more nuanced issue than bots on lemmy.

Yeah, I mean outside the US WhatsApp is basically texting for everyone I’ve met. It’s definitely accomplished that. I just can’t imagine something that massive not being used to spy. Especially given that it’s free. I don’t imagine they’re above reading messages. Because all of that server power and access worldwide, they’re definitely prying somehow. Like we are just now finding out they’ve been circumventing VPNs and all methods to block their cookies? It’s literally impossible they’re not prying data out of WhatsApp users.

But google and Gmail are massive spying machines. They’re not just cultural impact loss leaders.