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It's only been one week and I'm already fucking tired. There's going to be four fucking years of this fucking bullshit. That's if we're lucky and he doesn't transform the US into a full blown dictatorship with president for life status.
This will not happen, due to the end goal of what they want being directly against the constitution. And even if it did we would see a full reversal of power in the other direction. There is no way that they would be able to accomplish something like that without a full Civil War again, but this time I'd be even worse because instead of just fighting the South in the North you'd be fighting your neighbors cuz it'd be red versus blue.
I may be hitting the copium, but I feel like this will not happen. It feels like having influence over social media platforms is really powerful, but the Internet is still there. It's easy to send or find information if you want to, much easier than before the Internet. It's much easier for set up or use a new information outlet than it was to start a TV station or newspaper. I thought no retailers could beat Sears, until Walmart came. People protested Walmart saying if they don't like your CD for political reasons, people just won't buy it. No one can touch Walmart. Then came Amazon. I think social media platforms will be even more short-lived in their influence, especially considering how easy it is to "change the channel" or start a new "channel".
The people in China, and to a lesser extent Russia, want to have a word with you about how the government can control the internet.
(Unrelated, but in order to have a newline appear in Lemmy, for some reason you need to have two carriage returns. Example:
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