That’s the thing… NOT the majority elected him. A lot of people abstained from voting because they didn’t like Kamala. The majority didn’t vote for Trump.

Besides, even those who voted for Trump have remorse.

As for the black panthers, you can still form local armed militias to protect protesters. This is a second amendment right. I’d love to see the republicans go against that.

No. Absolutely not. The ship ain’t sinking. It’s being hijacked.

No! What the fuck kind of defeatist analogy is this?

THEY are the captain of their ship, but it’s being hijacked. It’s up to them to regain control over it.

Bro just let’s his hands down saying “what do you want me to do?” Fucking fight! Organize protests. Go to town halls and yell at them. Run them the fuck out of building. Others have done it.

The French do it all the time. Are you saying you’re not as capable as those you call “cheese eating surrender monkeys”? You keep making fun of them, but if you don’t act, they’ll be making fun of you.

Fix your own damn country. You actually have power to fix it over there. The rest of the world doesn’t.

Through legal actions probably. They’ll sue and the volunteers who manage these instances will cave in because they have a mortgage/lease to pay and possibly a family to take care of, etc.

Democorporation

You’re thinking of coops.

I’m thinking of starting a grocery co-op in my neighborhood to provide low cost food to everyone. A co-op is a democratic organization where all its members have av equal say on how to run things and how to manage profits.

It can be a financial institution, a store, a housing complex, etc.

Co-ops are the answer to escape corporations and capitalism.

Good point.

I use Mastodon and Pixelfed mainly. But I also have an account on Friendica and Loops.video, but I rarely use them. And does Matrix count?

Oh and I forgot about Funkwhale for putting your music collection online.

You mean, people who operate a platform where people’s privacy constantly gets violated should have a right to their own privacy?

I dunno. I understand your point, but @Telorand@reddthat.com is also kind of right.

He must’ve gotten threats from Trump and his goons if he sent him back.

Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t know it had events,

Yeah, same. I tried getting people to switch, but it was like pulling teeth. It’s even worse now, even with all the Meta Zuckerberg Trump bullshit and the obvious privacy problems.

The circles feature was awesome. Could post stuff for specific groups of people. Sometimes your posts aren’t for all your friends to see.

At first Diaspora seemed to propose a good alternative to Facebook ang G+. It has “aspects” which work similarly to circles. And the interface is similar to Facebook’s. However, it didn’t take off as much as anyone would’ve expected.

Now there’s also Friendica which closely resembles Facebook, but it appears limited in functionality. It looks more like a Facebook-UI to the fediverse, like Mastodon is a Twitter-UI to the fediverse. It’s missing the whole “circles/aspects” feature, and we still don’t have the groups feature either, which I think is very useful and much appreciated by Facebook users.

EDIT: Actually I just double checked and it does have circles actually.

This is probably controversial, but Google Plus was better than Facebook in every way.

Don’t gaslight me. My comment was a joke and you reported it just to fuck with me. You’re just harassing me at this point. Stop.

Yeah, you’re right. The whole system in the U.S. seems to be set up to enable these kinds of events.

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I think what they’re implying is that this kind of thing doesn’t really happen in France. At least not at the rate it’s happening in the U.S. So they don’t really need to worry about not having cell phones.

To an extent it’s the same with Canada. We’re pretty lucky school shootings aren’t a common occurrence. What’s the worst that can happen here? The school runs out of maple syrup? (Of course I’m joking!)

Uh… I’m actually French Canadian. My comment was meant as a joke.

Edit: I really didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings. And if that happened, I apologize.

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