I got ridiculed for talking about how you have to keep a conveyor belt of multiple accounts baking and ready to go (age, karma, post history). A thing that was once normally accepted mode of operation on reddit. Now the perspective has inverted. Reddit has managed to pivot itselt 180 degrees to a different class of internet user. They are totally naive though just as self-righteous as older reddit users.

Apparently now that MO is considered chronically online basement dweller behavior. I know it’s not that deep. The newer reddit users are largely there for low brow entertainment. Including harassment/mockery/ridicule of any reddit user they find that is different from them.

They use reddit by scrolling their phone chasing dopamine hits. It’s reddits version of the slot machine mechanics that just about every facet of the tech world has been implementing in their own way.

As for the “why was I banned” shenanigans. I think it’s mostly automated trip wires every where. It’s rats nest of it. Second to that is bad actors gaming it. That’s a whole rant in itself.

The newer reddit users are technologically illiterate. They have no idea about bans or shadow bans. They’ll keep engaging even though their activity is going into a shadowban blackhole.

Economically like the post-Soviet states. Socially and culturally like Iran after the revolution.

I don’t think there will be a civil war. It seems like this is popular idea because the American narrative is programmed like Hollywood blockbusters that need to resolve itself between one to two hours. That means a setup, the big conflict, and the brief resolution. Where the righteous American hero prevails in the end as he walks away from the explosions without looking back.

Reality is slower. It’s not a linear point A to B story. There’s not necessarily the big event that immediately leads to victorious conclusion.

End stage capitalism is going to slowly get worse over the coming decades. The everyone for themselves mind-rot leads to the natural conclusion of economic decay for the lower majority as wealth and power further concentrates. There will effectively be commie blocks. Urban centers once the marvel of American economic and democratic might. Built when there was ample money, resources, and more functional civic systems to maintain it. The effects of the wealthy gutting social systems leaves a helpless population. This compounds a vicious cycle of urban decay.

The conservative supreme court supermajority is going to play out over the next several decades leading to deeply entrenched conservative backlash against secularization of the late 20th / early 21st century.

A saying I’ve seen a lot lately is that Americans have always had things work out for them. So they think it will continue to work out. It’s made them complacent. They sit at home and watch MTV / Youtube while their country kept on winning just like that.

Sometimes there are situations where there is no coming back from. That’s just individual life and world history. I think there’s a very real possibility America just fades away.

I think sometimes the author is hoping it may reach certain readers as opposed to preaching to the choir.

Sounds like an out of touch tech bro.

Twitter uses top posting.

Twitter threading does not make any sense to me.

Wasn’t this known? long before the election. All these things have been earmarked for privatization. Something about some guy who already kissed Trumps ass so he has dibs on government weather data so he can sell it back to you. I remember hearing about his.

Except they have the largest nuclear arsenal and the world biggest navy. They can’t be ignored.

World leaders have figured out he’s functionally a toddler. Starmer and Trudeau took the same approach.

Reports out of Tehran, military commanders could not stop laughing for long enough to mount a serious retaliation.

Why would you post such an obvious and easily verifiably false statement.

Then leave them alone to nuke themselves.

So is the red line crossed yet or is the goal post once again some indeterminate point in the future.

History won’t tell the beginning of the Trump regime at that indeterminate point. It began when he rode down that piss yellow escalator.

15 years ago millennials were cast in the generic framework of lazy younger generation. Now we have hindsight for them to be able to observe what actually happened. Millennials absolutely became a workaholic play hard generation.

Finally someone else who gets it. I kinda hoped lemmy would have a crowd that would at least be able to talk about this calmly but it looks like it’s no less rabid about this topic than reddit.

They don’t have to agree with conservatives. They just have to go so far as establishment Democrat. The “moderate” who keeps kicking the can down the road. ‘Wait till midterms’. Wait till the next red line so we can move the red line to some time in the future.

The dream is not to become a billionaire. The dream is to become upper middle class. So you can sit in the middle and expound on virtues of those beneath you while reaping the benefits of those above.

Yes. Of course the big platforms actively seek to undermine competitors. There’s billions of dollars at stake. Something that really convinced me was reading about how Facebook ran VPN services to spy on traffic so they could spot budding competitor platforms.

We know reddit used bots at the beginning to generate activity to make the site look popular. Something I’m not convinced they ever stopped doing. I believe reddit corporate still bots their own site for whatever purpose they require in the moment. I absolutely believe they troll their own site. Remember spez is the guy who live edits the production database.

You’re a professional victim.

Point taken. Looks like the guy is standing pat with his full blown alternate reality narraive. And he’s still gotten more upvotes inspite of being so unabashedly in bad faith.

Ah well I wish mods would have nuked the whole comment chain.

I say let it stand as a testament. Incels bring out the big guns when you get too close to reality. I’ve noticed this pattern over the years.

The propaganda is something to behold. This is the kind of thing young men are being bombarded with.

beat the shit out of people

It’s not literal. You seriously don’t know what social conditioning is???

gay bashing

I have no clue how you derived homophobia from this.

This is either a troll or poor reading comprehension.

edit: I just saw your other replies. You’re being deliberately obtuse to derail the thread.

The internet is raising them. They aren’t going outside and saying these things where at least one man would smack him upside the head in order to correct bad behavior. They aren’t going outside and trying this shit on women who will reject their bad behaviors. Or worse running to legal trouble for harassing or assaulting women. Whereby it used to be the guy would self reflect and realize he’s doing it wrong.

The internet is telling them stories about how these behaviors are what the “alpha” males are doing to successfully get all the women. What is the bullshit stat? Like 1% of top men get 99% of women or some stupid shit.

The internet lies to them, painting a dark twisted world. And then these guys go out to the real world to treat women in the way they think the world is some kind of dark world. They get extreme negative experiences. Which to them proves that the internet was right about everything.