As to why, sure it’s patriarchy, but they keep putting out duds and using it essentially say “audiences don’t want female-led content”…

You’ve answered you’re own question - they put it out there so they can say they tried, people didn’t like it, so we’ll continue as we were, with them (patriarchal entertainment execs and the patriarchal capitalists who fund them) maintaining their positions.

The people who complain about this shit are running governments and corporations and controlling society, wtf are you talking about?

You’re really narrowing down a much much bigger issue to try and make it digestible. But the patriarchy is systemic. Misogyny is systemic. Male privilege is systemic. Gamergate is a symptom, and honestly, a mild one at that.

Patriarchy.

Privilege and with it an overinflated sense of entitlement, which result in the most fragile of egos (E: see downvote ration lmao).

That’s at best.

At worst, and on top of the above, is conscious and deliberate misogyny and the unwillingness to give the privileges up.

This is the teeny-tiniest tip of the iceberg, but it sounds like you are willing to challenge your views and perceptions, so jump in, it (E: patriarchy, misogyny, feminism, intersectionality, and on and on…) is a terrifying, but also extremely well documented rabbit hole, just start looking…

A feature, not a bug.

The differential between high and low tides in Alaska is crazy to me

Canada apparently get the highest with 11.7 metres (38.4 feet) mean tidal range, which I found out by accident because I was actually looking up the range specifically for the UK out of curiosity, knowing it was high but not realising it would be on the top 3 list (E: with maximum range in the Bristol Channel being 15 metres (49 feet)! ) lol

TIL

Propaganda machine be propaganda machining… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They can transfer the moderation of the community in question to you.

To add to this, if OP doesn’t actually want to become moderator of the community themselves, there are still other options - the instance admins can transfer the community moderation to a third person (I seem to remember there was even a dedicated community for finding new mods to take over dead communities), or they could potentially find a similar community on another instance.

As if we haven’t all (or at least many) been under mass surveillance for at least 20 years…

Not defending anything, just fuck, I wish people started noticing shit before it came knocking on their individual door…

I think we can see from the reaction to the hitler salute, that cognitive dissonance (or flat out support for nazism) is a hell of a drug, and will produce an endless stream of excuses and justifications to avoid acknowledging/admitting the truth.

This. How people are only now suddenly “discovering” he’s a nazi (or knew, but for whatever reason are only now drawing the line), when he’s been spouting this shit for years at this point, is a bit ridiculous…

I’m glad someone got the reference lol

Nothing as American as the exploitation of Black bodies…

https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/plantation-logics-at-the-nfl-combine/

But those doing the blaming (E: liberals) aren’t on the left, and those who are on the left who wouldn’t vote for a liberal have no reason to be divided by a lib licking a boot. Libs might be dividing themselves, those who now see through the bullshit will move further to the left, and those who buy in to it will continue moving along with them to the right.

Rhetoric like this only divides the left further.

Liberals aren’t left, and the democratic party served its purpose to a T. These people who continue to defend it are too. Both of their purpose is to shift the overton window all the way in to fascism, which they are doing successfully, and have no reason to stop (until the fascist come for them, at which point they will wonder why no one is interested in or even around to help them).

And despite all of that, you still focus the blame on the voters, instead of on the system which is working exactly as intended, including your part in it which you are actively playing while convinced you are really opposing it somehow (you’re not).

I say feed the Wally (username checks out lmao) to the bears… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So… Be as bad as they are to people trying to escape fascism?

I personally downvoted it because it’s a terrible idea, op wants to leave the US, not sign their life and soul away to it.

In case anyone is unfamiliar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era