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Cake day: January 10th, 2021

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  • The US is cooked.

    It has been for quite a while.

    It needs a completely new political system, full stop.

    Absolutely!

    The propaganda is so deep that it may take decades more deterioration before we even get to that point.

    Nope. Just getting people to wake up from the dream state is not enough to facilitate change.

    To get a new political system, the framework of a new one has to be ready to replace it. You cannot just stop capitalism and expect everyone to reach enlightenment and go forth into the future. You’ll just have collapse and the rise of warlords as seen in every country that the US has destabilised beyond a certain point.

    As for seeing through the propaganda, all it takes is instability, a removed (<- they removed a word that is also seen as a slur for Chinese people but the my usage was “a small cleft, slit, or fissure”) in the armour of the establishment, for it all to come tumbling down and we are currently in a moment of instability.

    Trumps regime is not fully in control, they are running around making contingency plans because the orange emperors health is failing and the daily revelations of things like Epstein emails is chipping away at the facade. Even republicans are calling for the full release of the files!

    The party is not a united body.

    The grass roots support is unstable as people can see that none of his promises have materialised: Prices are higher, so is unemployment, the economy is in recession and despite his blathering, nothing is trickling down to those red cap wearing poor folk but corporate profits are at a record high!

    People can’t live on vapours and they’ll soon come down from the high.


















    • signal to noise ratio

    It feels a bit like how Reddit was prior to the digg exodus when overnight pun & lyric threads, ascii art and terminally shit one word responses appeared.

    There is the awareness to the benefit of building slowly will bring, rather than having a an uncontrolled mass exodus, that risks little to no integration to the current curated culture.

    • Transparency

    You can see who the mods are and a mod log and currently, people are giving time to grow the communities rather than welding power.

    • Quality content

    It’s not the same stories getting posted by karma farmers or by bots. It’s more curated.

    • Interactions

    They’re more conversational than adversarial