That’s the way the fediverse works.

Someone posts something to a community on one instance, then it’s mirrored to all of the federated instances, and people on all of those different instances see it and, if so inclined, reply to it. It doesn’t really matter which instance it’s posted to or which instance the response comes from - it’s all shared throughout all of the federated instances.

I think the oppression was sort of secondary and that the most important thing to keep was the corruption.

In fact, I think that that was exactly how they each sold the reforms to the rest of their respective governments - by convincing the politicians that they could implement some measure of capitalism without losing any of their privilege - that in fact, if they played it right, they could do even better collecting bribes from private business owners than they ever did siphoning off public funds.

Better than average, but that’s not saying much.

I built my last three computers ( which basically means I can read and follow instructions and successfully match up plugs and sockets and devices and slots), and I can generally track down and sort out simple bugs. And I can generally work out how to use software (I taught myself to do 3D modeling, for instance). But that’s the extent of it - as soon as it gets more complex than that, I’m hopelessly lost.

Wow… people are turned off by genocide. Who’da thunk it?

Which neatly illustrates why it is that I say that Trump snd the Republicans are either impossibly stupid or are actively trying to destroy the US economy and position in the world.

EVs and alternative energy are the future - fossil fuels are the past.

So Trump and the Republicans are effectively handing future hegemony to China.

And the reality is that the genocide will not end until the Palestinians are eliminated and Israel rules over everything from the river to the sea, and it doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference what Trump proposes or even what Israel pretends to accept. They will not stop.

Yes. That’s because they want people to die.

It’s not a coincidence that they first eliminated employment opportunities for minorities, are now cutting Medicaid, which is the only alternative to employee health insurance, and next want to implement job requirements for Medicaid. The goal is to make it so that “undesirables” cannot meet the employment requirements and are thus entirely denied health care and will die.

Unsurprisingly, it’s essentially replacement theory, but in reverse and very much for real. As is generally the case, Republicans project - they believe that there’s some sort of sinister plan to eliminate white people because they’re in the middle of their own sinister plan to eliminate non-white (non-cis, non-het, non- christian, etc.) people, and they just presume that we’re as evil as they are.

I think one of the most concise ways to conceptualize the current conservative project is that they looked at the French Revolution and the collapse of the Ancien Regime and drew the wrong conclusions.

Rather than seeing it as the inevitable result of the systemstic oppression of the majority for the obscene privilege of a select few, they see it as a failure of the select few to sufficiently protect their privilege. And their goal is to recreate the conditions of the Ancien Regime, but this time around to prevent the peasants from successfully rebelling.

Yes, though with a feudal system mixed in.

Corporations and wealthy individuals will be the sole property-owners and will play the roles of feudal lords, and the people will be serfs, allowed to live on the lords’ estates only if they serve the lords.

Since homelessness will be criminalized while all property will be owned by the feudal lords, those who won’t serve the lords “willingly” will be imprisoned, and yes, they will then be slaves.

And they put razor blades in Halloween candy too!

And further - the establishment of a single, fediverse-wide account for each user would make it far too easy for those so inclined to silence anyone they wanted merely by banning their one and only account.

It’s not a matter of how ones profile would be accessed, but how it would be created in the first place snd how it would be managed.

Necessarily, those who implement the creation of accounts have control over how they’re created, who is allowed to create them and how they will be handled after creation.

Any scheme to establish one “central” (your own term) account for the entire fediverse will necessarily be managed by one “central” service, which means one “central” authority over account creation and management

At this point, all it would take would be to successfully establish the precedent that legal citizens can have their citizenship revoked (which just requires a case getting to the Supreme Court, where the corrupt majority has already demonstrated that they’re going to just rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants), then to issue an executive order declaring that [whatever quality] is [whatever has been deemed to be acceptable grounds to have ones citizenship revoked]. It would undoubtedly be challenged, but again, it would wind up in front of the Supreme Court sooner or later, and they’d rubber-stamp it

Decentralization is a feature - not a bug.

And here’s a bit of a hint for the slow people out there - they don’t need that many agents or that big of a budget if they’re only dealing with immigrants.

Meaning is subjective and not intrinsic, so there can be no such thing as “the” meaning of anything.

The artist can have an intended meaning, but the audience not only can but will find their own meaning in it. It might be the case that the audience gets the same meaning from it that the creator intended, but it might just as easily be the case that they get some entirely different meaning from it.

None of them are right or wrong - that’s not even a coherent concept in that context. They just are whatever they are.

Oh yeah - absolutely.

That’s why even as housing costs get further out of reach for more people, the politicians, at the behest of their wealthy cronies and patrons, are criminalizing homelessness. The goal is to essentially recreate 18th century workhouses.

And you’ll count yourself lucky if you get sent to a workhouse instead of a foreign torture prison.

Trump has never had a “deportation” agenda.

What he’s had, from the start, is a “send anyone who opposes me to a concentration camp” agenda.

The “deportation” of immigrants was just a cenvenient base from which to start establishing precedents.

Those two things are connected.

Admitting that climate change is real and a threat would not coincidentally have consequences for the scumbags who have gotten rich off of causing climate change, and Trump and the broligarchs and their Republican lackies are greedy and dishonest, so they won’t allow that.

But at this point there isn’t even any make believe debate left - there’s no way to even simply examine the data and avoid the conclusion that climate change is both real and a threat.

So those lying, greedy sacks of psychopathic shit are just hiding the data.

Now that you mention it…