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I'm not a mod of any comm and I'm just a regular user. But in light of current GOP events I think we all need to be extra careful not to fedpost. We are going be under an even stronger microscope. What law enforcement (FBI, etc) views as "violent threats" is going to be far different for us than for chuds at a site like StormFront2Trump2028.com.
That's all. I don't mean to start a struggle session. I just thought it needed to be said.
Sometimes I doom because I'm not "seeing" much resistance (other than lib stuff) but then I have to remember that the internet is very censored now, and people are being careful about what they say. I'm kind of isolated and not in any condition to be in an org, so my window to the world is whatever I see online. I feel like it used to be a clearer picture but now with all the [Removed by Reddit] it's getting foggier and foggier. I have a gut feeling, and I hope it's not just cope... but when Luigi happened, the system took a few days before it could catch up and filter out the genuine reaction of the people. For a few days you could see the unfiltered, un-astroturfed reaction of regular people to what happened. They were overwhelmingly on his side. I mean, he straight up zeroed a guy. And the whole country was celebrating. That's something. Something really big. So either I'm crazy, or people are really logging off and... you know. That this quietness and libness isn't just people giving up or being helpless, but rather it's like the tide going way far out and everything getting real quiet, before the tsunami hits.
You’re absolutely correct that what you see online is not a good sample for what the general population thinks. This has never been the case but with AI presence on social media and censorship it is especially so.
I believe that the idea that social media shows what most people think is one of the things holding us back as worker class because it makes workers falsely assume that some of our positions are not popular.
For example it’s why some unions (in Europe) refuse to talk about Palestine because the internet makes it seem like a controversial topic while it actually isn’t.