Not saying that a lot of people get arrested for posting their crimes on facebook, instagram, etc but a lot of people get arrested for posting their crimes on facebook, instagram, etc.
I mean - don’t use those things. Delete them. Now.
And ideally don’t commit crimes. But if you do, don’t post about them on any social media, or anywhere for that matter.
Crimes are for the poor.
The problem is when your previous posts are suddenly now crimes, and nobody cares about ex post facto any more.
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Agreed. And since Meta and Xitter are avowed fascism hubs, delete them anyway.
Sure. I deleted my Facebook >10 years ago, and I haven’t missed it.
Just make sure to solve the real problem though. The police will still eventually find your posts even if you’re using Lemmy or something else relatively niche. Just don’t post crimes.
Have you had any success connecting to old friends outside of mainstream social media? That’s what I’m struggling with.
I have a phone. They have a phone. I have their number. They have my number…
If they don’t have my number there’s a reason.
Sort of? Text and email mostly work.
Though I’m not the sentimental type and generally just make new friends. I’ve moved to a different state, so it’s not like get-togethers are happening.
Terror groups like The Heritage Foundation, Proud Boys, Turning Point, those won’t get you deported?
In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. This program relies on the AI to scrape people’s social media to revoke visa applications of people who have been protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As of early April 2025, at least 600 people have apparently had their visas revoked because of this AI monitoring, a massive incursion into people’s right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to protest.
The speed with which social media monitoring is growing is staggering. As of March 2025, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been working with web-scraping contractor ShadowDragon to pull data from over 200 different sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web to map out a person’s activity, movements, and relationships.
If they can do this to people with fewer rights than citizens now, they will do it to anyone they can, at any stage, as much as they can get away with it.
As long as you call it Freedom Points or some other pandering bullshit the super patriots will cheer for it.
it really is as simple as attaching the word “freedom” to it, lol
Freedom is slavery
Better slap a “safety” on there to show the administration is thinking about children.
…thinking about children’s safety. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
The magats will clap because this is what they want
(Apologies to parent, this is something I’ve been itching to say, but the parent isn’t the problem I’m discussing.)
They will clap because it makes them feel good. It makes them feel good because they think we don’t respect them, that we celebrate their losses (in the Laslow’s Hierarchy sense, not the political sense) and that we don’t want to lift them up with us.
So yeah, we have differences. (Stay with me for a bit.) They think a foul in basketball is something you’re allowed to do a certain number of times and then you have to stop. We think a foul in basketball is something you Should Not Do.
Is the solution more hate for the people who got duped by Trump’s team? Yeah they got played. Yeah they have cognitive dissonance. Yeah they’re on Facebook too much, fed poison by an algorithm that optimizes for engagement (you know, happy, horny, angry, anything except writing letters or volunteering or registering to vote). That’s no reason to hate them.
Help them. Love them. Even if there’s no internet points in it for you. (Certainly none for me because I’m usually a crappy communicator.)
Hey I really appreciate you and up voted your post.
However as I’ve come to understand it, fouls in basketball are very much used strategically by every team to stop the clock when they’re behind. So unless the rules are changed, I would agree with the maga that some fouls can be done a few times. Because that’s basketball, and not the future of our country.
Thank you. I stole that from Philip (I think) in Off To Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer. He was describing that book’s antagonist but I’ve taken it to describe people who casually break rules to get ahead.
And I think that’s kind of what they’re doing, flooding social media with stories of how they broke rules in ways that make me go “foul! That’s a foul! Why is the ref doing nothing? This breaks my brain and I have no idea how to respond to this!”
A big reason to hate them is because they’re racist, hate filled shit bags. You are giving them too much benefit of the doubt. Any experience I’ve had where I try to help them in good faith has always been left with me realizing they were acting in bad faith only and know better, they just have the agenda of furthering white nationalism. So no, I will not give magats any quarter. It has nothing to do with internet points btw. This site doesn’t have karma to create some false hierarchy, who the fuck cares about upvotes and downvotes
No I know you’re being genuine.
So this is going to sound really weird, because I think you’re talking about the experience of debating troll farm accounts - understandably really frustrating - but I’m talking about the people, the voters, the weird family members you can’t talk about politics with any longer. (I have some of those - they’re in rural Illinois while I’m in blue-dot Omaha, I love them very much, and I absolutely hate that we can’t talk politics any more.)
But I think you need to give them more sympathy. (The IRL humans, not the online trolls.) The worst of them grew up in a system where they only see minorities as risks, because (a) brains look for patterns, for free, factory firmware, and (b) they don’t realize evil people set things up long ago so that minorities had things on Hard Mode. And maybe © fighting against your factory defaults takes work and practice.
Like, because TLOU is back on TV I’ll share something uncomfortable. S01E03 was really uncomfortable for me to watch. I was a nerdy kid, teased for being gay in high school when I was not and am not gay. So I have some homophobia I haven’t gotten rid of yet. I’m trying. But I still look away whenever men kiss. My wife doesn’t love that part about me, but she still loves me.
Do you give up on me because my journey isn’t complete there? Am I to be hated because I look away, lumped in with the people who vote against gay rights? Clearly not. Mostly because I’m clearly making an effort.
Some people who voted for Trump don’t wear red hats. They were on the fence and they went one way and not the other. And I promise they’re not the people you’re tired of debating. They deserve your positive thoughts. Don’t let the troll farms steal those thoughts. Please.
The people I’m referring to are family members and people who I thought was close to. The people I’m talking about are people like my mom. I don’t give a shit about strangers and wouldn’t base my experiences off those interactions
That’s got to be a nightmare. I’m really sorry to hear that, and I appreciate you sharing.
I can’t think of any ways to rephrase that, that don’t sound empty or performative. You sent my thoughts towards my own parents. I’m sorry for your pain.
They will use your help to get themselves in a position to fuck you over. Again. How in the fuck have you not learned this yet ?
Which “They”? The voters or the politicians?
Centrists are all about holding hands with Nazis.
Fuck that, bash their heads in. You want to lessen their impact? Lessen their numbers.
Normies love doing big talks about shepooh and his regime doing social scores…
But when faced with the same thing domestically, he will tuck that dick and pretend like it ain’t the same 🤡
They already have credit score that you obtain by doing what they tell you to with your money.
Money changer will be paid his interest… Or you are not a “real” person
I know many of those words.
