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Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/10/facebook-cambridge-analytica-new-mexico-trial
Replying to @Wurzl@lemmy.zip
I don't see how no one is talking about a how Republican Billionaire bought out Dominion, and now has control of all those voting machines.
Replying to @ShadowRam@fedia.io
Would it be better if a Democrat billionaire bought out Dominion?
Well…probably. But the crux of the problem is that voting machine companies are a thing that a billionaire can own.
Replying to @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
Depends on whether or not you’re a partisan ideologue.
Both parties are united in keeping Greens off the ballot, so my vote is worthless.
Replying to @FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Wdym? Republicans love the Greens, just like Democrats love the Liberterians.
Republicans can thank Nader just as much for Bush as Democrats can thank Perot for Clinton.
Replying to @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
No. You are factually incorrect.
You’re assuming we’d vote Dem if Greens weren’t on the ballot.
Which is bullshit. I’ll write in the Green candidate before I vote for Blue MAGA. Further, Bush I and Gore lost because they were weak candidates who didn’t appeal to enough people to win, regardless of your excuses.
Replying to @FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Bravo, ideologically. Functionally, boo.
Replying to @Bristlecone@lemmy.world
shrugs
Get your Blue MAGA friends to do something about the fact that, under Obama, my dad’s business regressed because he indulged his billionaire buddies and let them get off scot-free for pillaging the economy, and then under Biden my mom and dad, at age 80, had to drive for DoorDash to survive in a car they borrow from me.
I don’t care that Democrats say nice things. People can’t fucking eat in this country, and they did their part to make that happen just as Republicans did.
Both ruling parties are fascist turds. Pretending otherwise is silly now that people’s basic standard of living no longer exists.
Replying to @FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Yes, but the real question is do you want fascism-lite or a more traditional fascism?
What a choice!
Replying to @Doomsider@lemmy.world
That’s what they don’t get.
Most Americans can’t even afford groceries now. Many are living out of their cars. They’re IN fascism, and it happened when Blue MAGA had the power to change things.
People didn’t vote for Donald because they like him. They just hated the other side more.
Replying to @FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
I totally agree with you except for when it happened. The US was always a proto-fascist country, but after the rise of the MIC it truly became fascist. We are clearly deep into Neofascism at this point and it seems like we are harkening back to some good old fashion fascism.
The other major issue is the whole world joined us including our once sworn enemies. We live in a fascist world.
Replying to @Doomsider@lemmy.world
It’s a fair point.
Really this has been a 40-year process, with Reagan being the progenitor, and every president since doing their part to move us incrementally to the fascist right.
Biden’s presidency sticks out in my mind because that’s the one where my 80 year-old parents had to start borrowing my car to drive for DoorDash in order to survive.