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Send the British Army. Half way through the inauguration ceremony the rains of Castamere starts playing

The Queen slowly rises behind Biden as he takes the oath, unhinges her jaw, and swallows him whole.

Considering some of the insane conspiracy theories in Alt-Right space, I can't help but imagine them walking up to the lefties and being all "What is up my fellow satanists? Shall we proceed to the basement of the local Pizzaria and sacrifice a child to our dark god molok?" just to be met with confused looks.

For their to be unity there must be broad agreement. There can be unity with economic discussions and disagreements therein, agreeing that X is a problem and debating the best way to solve it. But there are current issues in the moral space in the USA about which there cannot be unity, only either broad agreement or deep conflict. Examples of which are Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, climate change. The position of unity there is 'we oppose these things, how do we go about encouraging people to be less them?'.

Until the main political parties in the USA enforce Codes of Conduct which works to push away, punish and expel members who engage in those isms/phobias and a general view conductive to solving climate change rather than denial, a positrion of unity around broad agreement will not be possible. Which the means Republicans would need to abandon their active currying of the fundemntalist vote, for one.

LBRY looks like it was restored not long after being delisted, so sounds more like either whoever was auditing it after a report got overridden after they challenged back the ban or some automated 'so many reports' system kicked it off before being manually restored.

There are some grey areas and places it gets conveniently overlooked though so long as they have sufficient NSFW-warning policies and make them require external links to access (Can't join a NSFW Discord Community without an invite link from outside the app, for example). Reddit was banned years ago for pornographic content, but they restored it after Reddit made sure NSFW subreddits weren't included in the 'default views' for users.

For App Stores, you either get a process like Apples where you get vetted and challenge and explain and change prior to go-live, or you go-live quickly but could be taken down if they notice it and have doubts they want to address.

Not that I don't think there are problems with the big tech businesses, just that most of them can be understood through the lens of pursuit of increased user retention as a key metric, and fear of advertisers pulling funding, rather than active malice.

After his hype men had already come up and talked about 'cage fights' and 'kicking ass', it's hard not to take the "peacefully and righteously" as sarcasm. An equivalent comparison to my mind would be the extremist preachers who always stop juuust short or literally saying 'go do terrorism' but everyone knows that they really mean 'go do terrorism'.

Clearly "Wanting police offers to stop murdering people" and "Attempting to overthrow democracy" are equivalent stances.

You misunderstand, it's the activists and the 'cultural leanings' that hypothesis is referring to more-so than the leaders that take advantage of it. That the US never surpressed it as thoroughly as other countries amongst the populace in the following decades because it lacked that cultural wound. Instead, most of the persistent cultural wounds in the US seem to be from the Cold War (e.g national insurance-based healthcare being 'socialist' and therefore bad, patriotism = god = freedum versus the godless commies).

Obviously it's on the rise again worldwide, and that's terrifying, but there's a view that white supremacy never stopped being an integral part of American culture and that that the political culture of a lot of Americans was left to be 'a little bit too close to the fascist ideologies for comfort' because American cutlure from 1950s onwards lacked the scars that European cultures had.

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In other news...well, more of the same but more so. Is Trump flat out daring the Republicans to impeach him? It seems like the numbers may have shifted towards impeachment, especially with his most recent appearence. Either he's so psychologically incapable of admitting fault that he'd rather keep pressing their buttons, or he hopes that it prompts his base to launch Coup 2: Electric Bougaloo and that his 'best bets' are now on that succeeding. Which seems rather 'double or nothing on a bad hand' but he never had the best sense of business acumen.

This is how we do it at my job. Granted, we're doing inventory management not social media. But we never delete anything. We just flag it as deleted.

I'm specifically talking about personal/user information. A persons deleted posts would fall under that category. GDPR and similar emerging means you legally can't/shouldn't keep user data longer than it is needed to fulfil it's purpose and need to have the ability to forcefully delete it if requested by a user. Business information that is needed to be kept indefinitely for auditing purposes is a different story.

Boy, software people sure do like judging other software people based on how much of their free time they devote to their employers.

It's a craft. When I work on personal projects and try out new tools and techniques and learn the things that keep me ahead of the curve, I'm not giving free time to my employer. I'm developing my skills at my craft. My current employer pays me to put time in my craft towards them during certain hours.

And from an employee perspective, if you want to have a good chance to get the best next employer, you need to keep up with the changing times and standards. If you wanna be where you are forever, then you're going to be there until the business fails or they are forced to advance and you have a massive amount of pain and annoyance to catch up.