The biggest thing is control and censorship.

On the corporate side if your posts and content are seen as too extreme in one way or another, depending on what government or group … you can be censored and have you posted either deleted, dismissed or hidden. In extreme cases, your account can also be shut down.

Xitter is already a propaganda hell hole that only pushes right wing content because they pushed out any criticism.

FB actively pushes its own content based on the highest bidder which often just means pushing right wing and conservative content in a regular basis.

Bluesky as open as it’s supposed to be has already had problems in Turkey where the government there asked bluesky to restrict access to many accounts.

The Fediverse will have these same problems and people and governments will try to censor people but due to the open non centralized nature of the system, it will be much harder for any one group or government to censor anyone. The only way they could shut it down would be to completely outlaw any platform that uses the protocol everywhere.

We’ll see what happens after WWIII

When you have hunter and gatherer tribes living in the wilderness away from anyone else for years. Young individuals who want to be with someone will be very very frustrated as to who to mate with. Incest is one answer.

But if they happen to find new individuals of mating age … then there won’t be much choice for which people are going to paired with who.

The scary part is that with this kind of sliding towards fascism …

They’ll probably come up with some weird obscure, illegal, undemocratic way to fund their ICE machine … taking over property, taking control of assets, seizing bank accounts, just generally stealing money from those they can to keep doing what they’re doing.

Look at Nazi Germany … we keep referring to that history … it keeps happening … we point it out … no one does anything.

Nazi Germany initially got direct help and financing from industrial and corporate Europe and North America to get on its feet. How the hell do you think Germany who was forbidden from building a military got to build a massive invasion force in front of everyone’s eyes for years before the start of the first invasion?

Once Nazi Germany got enough power, financing and control of everything … they just started outright stealing everyone’s money, property, bank accounts and assets starting with Jews they persecuted … then they started moving down the line to more and more people, companies and corporations to steal from everywhere.

The whole history when you look at it from the grand scale of geologic time just makes our modern morality and conservatism so absurd

Our whole ideas of sex, sexuality and sexual activity is far, far older and makes you realize that we are all just wired that way.

Look at the archaeological evidence of prehistoric ‘Venus’ dolls from our deep prehistoric past that is tens of thousands of years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine

I think we were doing it way before Sodom and Gomorrah … my favourite prehistoric sex mystery is what the details were of how we got Neanderthal DNA into our Homo Sapien genome … the most common theory is just rape but I’d like to imagine two star crossed young lovers that happen to meet each other in the savanna of post glacial Europe against their family’s and their community’s wishes. Their relationship would have been seen as a freak against nature to have someone from one species mating with another … and then embody that freaky relationship by having children. I like to imagine that they ran away with each other and lived a happy life with mixed children who went on to become our ancestors.

I don’t think they care what their family thinks of them … I think they care about how angry democratically minded citizens see them as unidentified fascists hiding behind masks

If what you are doing is legal, legitimate and moral … then you never have to mask your name or hide your face

If what you are doing is illegal, immoral and highly dangerous to everyone including you and your family and you know it … then you are more apt to want to hide your identity and avoid having to deal with the repercussions of what you know is wrong

Investors are like parasitic leeches to any business model. As soon as you add them, the business has to grow in order to satisfy the leeches who provide no benefit to the model other than to be attached to it. If you ignore the leech, they’ll drain all your lifeforce, so your only option is to satisfy them and feed them. Unfortunately, they are also ravenous creatures who are never satisfied. If you feed them a little, they’ll want more next time in an endless cycle.

Once you are infected by investors … eventually they will destroy whatever you created.

Standing around waiting IS THE FAILURE OF THE SYSTEM!!!

Both Hoffman and Hortman are Democrats. Hortman is the former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

Not surprised that it was Democrats that were shot and not Republicans.

They should rewrite everything every hundred years just to keep up with modern technology and development.

But no matter what system, someone somewhere will always find ways to abuse everything

War is peace

Peace is war

Cults and religion are the same. The only thing that differentiate them is time. If you have a systematic set of illogical beliefs that have been around for a few years or decades or even just one lifetime, it’s more likely to be called a cult. Give that group a lot more time and it will be called a religion.

As for your question … I don’t think it’s anything the opposite of religion / cult but rather which belief system. I think as humans, we will always come up with some sort of belief system because we will always want to. We’re just wired that way.

And to me the best belief system is one where we value one another no matter what, who, where, why or how. That includes honoring, respecting even those who don’t believe what you do. A belief system where we honor all life, human, animal and organic. A belief system where we do our best not to harm one another or any life around us.

If we could that, then following a religion wouldn’t be so bad because the belief system would be used to actually benefit all life.

BSOD

Bombed Spiral Of Death

Happy to join in on your cake day too … yeah that exodus two years ago was an exciting summer

They should just release it under the title Spaceballs III … and spend the entire film referencing Spaceballs II

In addictions and recovery culture … this is known as a hangover and regret

The lies only work if there are enough idiots around to believe everything that is said

Trump is only part of the problem … an entire chorus of idiots surround him and enable everything he says … while at the same time an entire audience of people are willing to believe everything …

… and at the same time a vast throng of people everywhere just watching it all without saying a word or lifting a finger to do anything about it. I’m not saying they should violently revolt but at the very least, everyone should be out in the streets wanting to get their country back to what it was.

He hasn’t got his fiddle out because the fires haven’t broken out yet

Libertarians … they care about freedom, their own personal freedom above everyone else, even other Libertarians … and they would rather watch the entire world burn down as long as no one applies any law, rule, regulation against them, no matter how scummy, racist, bigoted, violent or selfish they are.

And it’s not just rural white country loving people either … this same mentality is prevalent in minority communities as well.