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  • The humiliation of losing to a black woman.

    The past months the mood in America has been: not these two old geezers again.

    I am honestly optimistic that it’s going to be a landslide for the Democrats without Biden. Americans are just sick of Trump and they didn’t want Biden to run again.

    So the Democrats are giving the people what they want, while the Republicans are trying to force feed them something they don’t want.

    Let’s see how this plays out.



  • While I do agree with you, I also see twitch, TikTok and Patreon presenting models that are quite competitive with YouTube.

    From a privacy perspective, free junk content like TikTok, YouTube and twitch will always be hard coupled with targeted advertising.

    But Patreon (and onlyfans for that matter) do offer a model that can work without ads.

    In fact, if Patreon also introduced an ad-supported tier and allowed you to more broadly see other content aside from the direct person you sponsor, it could probably grow quite a lot.



  • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    toMemes@lemmy.mlIsrael gotta go
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    4 months ago

    Exactly.

    If the USA tried to again be a White/European ethnostate and allow anyone with Caucasian heritage to immigrate and barred everyone else from immigrating, then no one today would accept that.

    And if they went full on apartheid and started putting natives and minorities in locked down ever-shrinking reservations, people would really lose their shit.

    When white nationalists try to advocate for such policies, they are rightfully criticized for being racist.

    I can never understand why Israel gets special treatment in that regard.



  • I didn’t think I’d find a mercantilist in 2024, but here we are.

    No, that’s not how it works, otherwise the US would be a poor country based on their massive trade deficit.

    Trade takes place because it is mutually beneficial. Each parties gets something out of each trade.

    Reducing trade therefore will always hurts both countries.

    Exactly which loses more will depend on a lot of factors, but in general smaller economies are more dependent on larger economies.






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    5 months ago

    A few days ago, a mildly critical comment of mine against Netanyahu was removed by the lemmy.world mods.

    I said something like, both Netanyahu and Hamas want this war. Not too controversial, I would think.

    It was in a thread on lemmy.ml

    Anyway, I ditched my lemmy.world account and made this alt my main.

    But yeah, the bots and propagandists have found lemmy, too. They seem to be focussing on the bigger instances.