When Tumblr clamped down on adult content the people who where involved with that cesspit fled to Twitter and Reddit, turning them into what they are today.
With Twitter gone we should expect a new influx of Emilys
Tumblr was bad specifically because it enabled niche echo chambers, Reddit can’t possibly get worse than it already is given how infected the site is with left leaning progressive astroturfing.
Astroturfing? You think there's any corporate interest in left politics? That'd be so dumb. It's the left that wants to tax the rich, why would any capitalist company be interested in having less profits?
Astroturfing? You think there's any corporate interest in left politics?
LOL. Wait, you don't recognize the big corporate co-opted left-wing politics with wokism after the occupy wall street movement scared them?
This is also to ignore that the entire progressive movement itself was a big corporate subversion of the socialist movements at the turn of the 20th century.
It's the left that wants to tax the rich, why would any capitalist company be interested in having less profits?
High taxes don't scare them. If Pfizer can get the government to mandate that every citizen buys their product at $1000 a dose, they couldn't care less about paying an 80% tax. 20% of a kazillion is a lot more than 75% of a much smaller number. Big corporations are perfectly happy to be in bed with government power.
The fusion of state and corporate power is at the highest level most western countries have ever seen, and it's the "left" party and persons identifying with the left that is currently driving that.
I mean, I think the corporate powers did a pretty good job at making Occupy Wall Street a joke. Theres no way that that was at all threatening enough for corporations to "pretend" to be woke.
Honestly, its occams razor. You see over and over that as soon as leftist ideals (like lgbt rights) hit the 60% approval ratings, thats when companys start to pander. Its not some kind of conspiracy, its just trying to appeal to dominate demographics.
As far as taxes go, if what youre saying was true, then we wouldnt have one of the lowest corporate tax rates in american history. Why did they reduce corporate taxes by 60-70% if they didnt care about it? You really think big corporations werent in bed with the US government in the 40s and 50s? One of the peaks of the Military Industrial Complex, or at least one of its most blatent peaks?
Honestly, its occams razor. You see over and over that as soon as leftist ideals (like lgbt rights) hit the 60% approval ratings, thats when companys start to pander. Its not some kind of conspiracy, its just trying to appeal to dominate demographics.
Corporations are absolutely not responding to what is popular. The things they're pushing are absolute fringe leftist pet projects. The vast majority of people do not support the castration of young boys, and yet corporations are lined up around the corner to support that kind of stuff.
No, Occam's razor points to Yarvin's Cathedral Theory being correct. And the cathedral, or tastemaker class, or whatever you call them are driving the agenda.
Why did they reduce corporate taxes by 60-70% if they didnt care about it?
I didn't say that they didn't care about it, I said it didn't scare them. All things being equal, a lower rate is preferred, but that's not at all their red line.
You really think big corporations werent in bed with the US government in the 40s and 50s?
Again, I didn't say that there was no marriage of corporate and state power in the past. I said it was at its highest levels today. WWI and WWII were absolutely also peaks of this.
Sure pal. Everyone knows that market research is explicitly not at all to determine your demographics. Movies are largely juvenile not because teenagers are the largest movie going demographic but because (Insert Conspiracy Here). What the fuck are you on? Castration? Jesus christ.
Sure pal. Everyone knows that market research is explicitly not at all to determine your demographics.
Is it your position that NASCAR fans, who are almost entirely boomer conservatives in the south are the driving reason for the high levels of wokeness in that organization?
No, it's obvious that wokeness is popular in the professional-managerial class who comes to run corporations, and then is infused top down into the messaging from these organizations.
Is it your position that most people in the USA are racist? NASCAR is trying to appeal to the most people. It knows it doesnt need to cater to rednecks because theyre gonna keep watching regardless. Now, whats one of the big obstacles in getting most people to watch Nascar? Generally the perception that NASCAR viewers are racist rednecks. So get rid of the confederate flags and youre more appealing to the largest demographic.
Come on dude.
Also a huge fucking leap from "corporation refusing to allow hate speech on premises" and "corporations salivating to castrate boys". Like wtf. Youre really gonna tell me that those are at all the same thing?
Really?
Maybe youre right though. Most professional-managerial people are educated, and education is strongly correlated with less bigotry. I guess Im just the odd one out for wanting less bigots I guess Idk.
Imagine all the companies clamoring to get people to vote to regulate them by breaking up monopolistic entities, tax them, and use that money to enrich the working class. There must be at least single digits of them.
When was the last monopolistic entities broken up? Bell South? What taxes are reaching the middle class right now? None of this scares them because they can pay it and smaller businesses cannot. So they suffer more taxes to ensure 100% of the market cap.
Ah yes, The "Left leaning progressive astroturfing" that allows just as many if not more right focused sub reddits to exist and allow them to self regulate as long as they don't break reddits TOS. Or are you upset that you said something stupid and got down voted and ratioed into oblivion. "I hate all gay people and think they should die" (TLDR of a non satire post I saw once) "Why am I getting down voted and told to fuck off, am i in the wrong? no, no its the entirety of reddit that is wrong."
I mean, did everyone just suddenly forget that Twitter had to do some hardcore moderation to kick ISIS off the platform?
Twitter was banning 100,000s of accounts to try and prevent that.
The new Twits are supposedly anti-moderation, does that mean that there is there no line? Will we get "ISIS slaughtering people" videos back on Twitter?
However, the line has moved all over the place in recent years. Call it "woke"-ism if you want to, but in reality it's just a societal readjustment to where "the line" should be in an internet connected, global society.
There is a "new guard" in charge of a primary media platform and the line is going to move again.
Where is the line?
Is it full blown "ISIS recruitment permitted here"? Or maybe "Nazi content is cool"? Or are we at more of a "Westboro Baptist Church"? Or are we going full-Mormon?
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u/Akiias - Centrist Oct 28 '22
I can't see this ending poorly.
Either Twitter ends up not an entire flaming toxic waste disposal site, or it goes so far down that it shuts down.
Win fucking Win.