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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by kmeisthax on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:46PM (#37201338)
Back during OWS the main point of outrage was large banks using government money to subsidize their bad bets. Nobody liked this, not even the people giving the banks that government money. But we did it anyway, and the resulting moral hazards of over a decade of 0% interest rates and no antitrust enforcement gave us something even more insane than capitalism: techno-feudalism[0].

I question your read of MeToo's effects, mostly because it does not jive with my experience. What line of work are you in where women are a liability to work with?

Twitter causing the Arab Spring was largely marketing to westerners and not truth. The Arab Spring happened because the price of food spiked, not because Twitter was magically easier to access than the hundreds of other forms of communication people had access to.

[0] As coined by Cory Doctorow. Some other left-wingers call it "late-stage capitalism".

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