I understand that self identification is more convenient than a list of policy questions, but I kind of wonder how many of them count as conservative by the standards of twenty years ago, or even by the standards of people twenty years older than themselves

Do these conservative teenagers believe that gay people shouldn’t be allowed to marry? That a war against Islam is a good idea? That wives should submit to their husbands?

Just a tiny startup hoping to become profitable one day

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

Meta has contributed to genocide, which is worse than I can (currently) say about musk

A group of Russian mercenaries betrayed Putin and now seems to be trying to overthrow him (though the mercenary group claims they’re only fighting the leadership of the military)

From what I’ve heard the reaction is split. Some people want to federate as much as possible, other people are arguing that meta will screw over the fediverse (and I agree with the second group)

There’s also some pact thing, fedipact if I recall correctly, to defederate from meta if it tries to join the fediverse

His arrest? I thought this was the point where they’d try to kill him

Does the Russian upper class have access to sufficient military power oppose the Wagner group?

But he also added: “This is not a military coup.”

My “this is not a military coup” t shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Ah that explains why their biggest streaming category is gambling

I think this is the time to bring up the Umberto Eco quote:

“Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

-Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco

honestly I figured it’d be the result of all those people running deletion scripts on their accounts

Discord is a likely contender, but I think it’s likely to be Instagram. It’s got a very dissatisfied userbase, and there’s already a few reasonably active pixelfed servers

Cities are too car-oriented