Ancestors

Written by Ben Werdmuller on 2025-01-20 at 04:23

Twitter/X is right wing controlled.

Meta (Instagram, Threads, Facebook) is right wing aligned.

TikTok is aligning itself with Trump.

Crypto-centric decentralized platforms are right wing aligned (the jury's out about whether crypto-funded ones are too).

Major newspapers are aligning themselves around the right wing.

Whoever controls the narrative has the ability to obfuscate and overwrite the truth.

The Fediverse is more important for freedom than ever before.

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Written by Nandor 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-20 at 04:44

@ben I think about this all the time--and it's not coincidental that Trump is giving Bezos (owner of THE WASHINGTON POST), Musk, and Zuckerberg prominent seating in his inauguration tomorrow.

When the hell are Democrats in power going to take this information problem seriously??

And also: Could any rich Democrats step up and fund an information source--including a Mastodon server (with a campaign to get more users).

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Toot

Written by Everyday Freethought on 2025-01-20 at 04:53

@nandor @ben

"Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg"

What is the point of all that money if you are just going to suck up to a horrible person like Trump?

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Descendants

Written by Nandor 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-20 at 04:59

@EFreethought @ben I think about this as well. Each of them could form a foundation like Bill Gates did and focus on a worldwide problem like eradicating a disease. Or, like Dale Carnegie, set up a system of libraries around the country.

But no, all of them choose to suck up to Trump instead and make the world a much worse place. So fucking pathetic.

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Written by Mathias Hasselmann on 2025-01-20 at 18:14

@EFreethought What's the point of all this greed in general? I understand, if someone aims for 5, 10, 20, 100 million... But somewhere above it simply becomes absurd.

@nandor @ben

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Written by Nandor 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-21 at 02:05

@taschenorakel @EFreethought @ben Right! What kind of a psychopath becomes among the 50 or so richest people in the world and thinks "This is great, but I want more!"

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Written by Janis on 2025-02-01 at 05:31

@taschenorakel @EFreethought @nandor @ben OK, so you make a LOT. You don't stuff the cash under your mattress. You put it in investment accounts. So you want to get adventurous and do good in the world, you find Venture Capital opportunities, where you lose some money, and you make some. If you're going to build, though, you don't put it toward money-losing ventures that exist entirely on the dole and will inevitably fizzle. You build capital, like in Africa.

That's the thinking, anyway.

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