Posts by digitante@mstdn.social
 (DIR) Post #AwRDeelt4lH5SizZgm by digitante@mstdn.social
       2025-07-23T21:54:44Z
       
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       @futurebird The ideal that Republicans (and far too often, Democrats) are shooting for is to maintain a permanent underclass of people who will work for starvation wages because they cannot organize to negotiate for better wages and conditions.We've been there before. We fought a war with ourselves over it, because that was a bad situation.It's still a bad situation (nuance: it's *better*, but it's still bad).This needs to end.Immigration reform needs to meet that goal.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aze7cpPppnEJP5tvzU by digitante@mstdn.social
       2025-10-27T20:54:40Z
       
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       @futurebird As people become disillusioned with establishment news they can tell is biased and corrupt, social media gives them information with "social proof" and "ground truth".Some of that is *also* unreliable, but it can be more trustworthy than the mainstream news."Underground", "samizdat", "ktichen talk",  and "scuttlebutt".It's a defense reaction to "informational autocracy".So many believe conspiracies, because there are so many real conspiracies. Epstein begets PizzaGate.