Freight rail is a lot less than it should be as well.

It is also owned by Private Industry without clear rules on what they can charge in that more than it should be.

The rails were only made with eminent domain, Private Industry should not be able to screw people on it, or give preference to large companies over people and small ones.

The thing is the rail network was pretty comprehensive at one point. Only a few remain.

That remains to be seen. A cop just full out blasted a chick in the eyeball requiring surgery.

Why did the cop feel justified in doing that? Something is rotten in the culture, and I bet any consequences get downgraded to paid vacation.

Connected influence ops are given free reign, absolutely. Big money to polits.

If I can spot them they can, and they choose not to shut them down, even as those ops abuse actual people in bullying them away from reality and use the system to get the real users violated, mass flagging and whatnot.

You are writing like they’re involved in good faith efforts to stop inauthentic behavior and that is just laughable. Completely false as well.

Connected influence ops are given free reign, absolutely. Big money to polits.

If I can spot them they can, and they choose not to shut them down, even as those ops abuse actual people in bullying them away from reality and use the system to get the real users violated, mass flagging and whatnot.

You are writing like they’re involved in good faith efforts to stop inauthentic behavior and that is just laughable. Completely false as well.

Connected influence ops are given free reign, absolutely. Big money to polits.

If I can spot them they can, and they choose not to shut them down, even as those ops abuse actual people in bullying them away from reality and use the system to get the real users violated, mass flagging and whatnot.

You are writing like they’re involved in good faith efforts to stop inauthentic behavior and that is just laughable. Completely false as well.

Do tankies hate porn?

I actually think we could take the country in 2028 if we organized. Outside of traditional social media, maybe on some new Federated social media not run by douchebags which may or may not control many of these forums. With a slate of populist candidates offering real reform, a new deal, we could trounce whomever is going to replace the president in the next election. But after that? The fix will be in completely. The fix is already in in many ways but we could still overcome it with an overwhelmingly popular mandate. Not with Gavin newsom.

In the United States voting is done at the state level. As such this is something many of us are working on, many of us have voters sponsored ballot initiatives where enough votes can get an issue on a ballot for an up or down vote, it is how we legalize marijuana. Anyway we have one of those coming up here in Michigan and other states for ranked Choice voting.

The United States is a shit show though, too little too late I fear.

Ha ha, I know, They’re not working for the left wing or four causes, they are looking to as you say stir up shit, make left-wing people look bad, and often to reduce turnout, which is an all too easy sell given how much the Democrats suck

You could replace Democrats with the left Center option of almost any Western Country here. They will all fall like dominoes if we do not get a viable reform alternative. Don’t fool yourselves, Russia and the United States will be helping behind the scenes to get their own right-wing hacks in to put a permanent fix in on elections just as they’re planning on doing here. A fix on elections, on the media, preventing any criticism, there is no bottom to this.

Seeing as I without any tools or information in able to spot influence operations left and right operating in Broad daylight, often in arrogant impunity of the actual rules and abusing real users trying to stand up for reality, I know the social media companies with all of their tools and all the data can see these influence operations.

Any they remove or restrict would be the exception not the rule. As I said, why would they? It makes their advertising more valuable, all of society is based on lies at this point. Nothing matters outside of their own self-advancement. No matter the harm that results. Millions of people going to be thrown into concentration camps and exterminated? Tough shit. Apparently.

Social media has no incentive to get rid of the networks or slow them down. And they do not.

You are assuming social media wants to get rid of these influence operations. Not only do they not want powerful enemies in the case of many of them, they do not want the decrease in traffic. Inauthentic behavior is like over half of everything.

Only the ones they cannot ignore that are disfavored will get canceled at all. In fact they could notice influence operations are targeting you, a real user with mass flagging, and they would be more likely to violate you than that influence operation depending on whom it was.

There are not. Only accounts pretending to be left to mislead leftists. I was wondering whether it was worth the trouble explaining this to the preceding commenter or not.

Believe it or not, George Soros does not employ bot farms. The United States and Israel do, Russia does, a myriad of financial interests do, political groups. I don’t think there is a single left-wing anything that does.

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