Yeah … it is wild. I think part of it is they tied sooo much of their identity and feeling of value to trump that admitting they were / are wrong would be invalidating themselves and their artificially constructed value but it is unbelievably dogmatic.
Please no more ‘winning’… please.
Joking aside , some of my extended family still thinks the US is winning and that a lot of these ‘pain points’ are required to Larger-winning. I am not certain how to unpack the cope but the cope is strong.
I suspect things are going to get even wilder ( hard to believe that is possible ) as the US lead up to the mid terms. The writing seems to be on the wall for Trump and Co. which is going to scary and dangerous for a lot of people. Honestly wont be surprised if he tries to use ICE to implement some sort of facsimile of martial law to prevent the county / finalization of the Vote. I don’t think they will wait for post midterms to try and prevent / change the outcome. Buckle in people , stay safe.
My one hope with all this nonsense is that it will drive people away from centeralized products and toward more open , democratized options ( and that those options will remain excluded from these laws. )… but the world doesn’t normally go the way that I want.
Cool!! i was literally just thinking about this as part of my effort to be more analogue. I will follow this hungrily.
Maybe these type of things will finally push people away from these platforms and toward more open / non-centeralized platforms.
I assume this will result in a slap on the wrist and maybe some lawyers will make a bunch of money but the people harmed will get like a dollar and Meta will view this as the ‘cost of doing business’ and just harder to not get caught next time. These types of things have to be company ending for them to keep people in line…