it’s hard to blame them: the entirety of technology is trying to adopt AI due to all of the money that’s being flashed at them for doing so; our entire economy is based on it right now.

most of the fediverse is dedicated to mainstream “general interest” sharing and hobbyism requires a passion that usually doesn’t align with the mainstream.

the people who engage in hobbies share it fellow enthusiasts and they seek out niche places where it can be shared and, currently, the dominant niche interests on the fediverse are either technology, privacy, identity or politics. the mainstream doesn’t like any (especially the latter) so most ignore it at best or block it at worst and then complain that there’s no niche content.

my last linux rig died and i had to buy a new one and system76 price tag made me go with ordinary windows laptop and putting linux on it.

i’m currently getting reminded of how much headache buying a from a linux-first company alleviates too; it’s taken me over a week to setup an encrypted installation to dual boot with windows. lol

i have to start all over, the motherboard died; but then again it was almost 15 years old by this point so it was probably going to happen anyways. lol

i’m convinced that it’s the filibuster too; it’s way too much of a popular tool for lobbyists to let go.

americans are told what to be freaked out about by american propaganda and that’s controlled by the american right-wing.

that’s very true. capitalism has changed throughout the centuries and the version that we have now is significantly different than how it existed in the past.

when i use the words like capitalism or liberalism i’m referring to their present day incarnations because that’s how the world uses them; but there’s definitely a disconnect between westerners and the rest of the world. the western world (americans in particular) use the centuries old definitions of both words that conflates capitalism and liberalism together; but the present day situation is very different and those old definitions are incapable of lending themselves to political analysis of the modern day world because of these old definitions.

in other words: liberalism was the leftist movement that could “liberate” the world from its monarchical hegemony and capitalism was its most dominant political theory. liberalism slowly became the world’s hegemony, but now it’s become neoliberalism and leftism now stands in opposition to neoliberal hegemony.

“thriving on mutual cooperation” speaks to time long before the ancient greeks or romans. recognizable modern humanity (ie toolmaking, painting, sculptures, religion, trade, etc.) has existed for roughly 70 thousand years and the existence of the greeks, romans, or even capitalism is roughly less than 6,000 years old. in other words capitalism has existed for roughly less than 8% of humanity’s history and even then, the version of capitalism practiced back then was very different than the version we practice now.

mutual cooperation for tens of thousands of years speaks to the human prehistory; long before tsarist russia was a thing.

also the type of capitalism that existed during feudalism/serfdom is not the same as the one we have now; it wasn’t the dominant hegemony at the time.

and it’s clear that you went to school at trump university or prager u you since you’re responding with a very maga talking point that tries to conflate ordinary slavery with the american slave trade.

on the off chance that you’re genuinely ignore of it; i would recommend googling or asking chatgpt why the transatlantic slave trade was different that ordinary slavery.

one of the good things about american propaganda is that it’s sometimes easy to spot because so many americans repeat it to each other despite multiple examples to the contrary that keep popping up every other decade or so; maybe i’m getting better at calling it out. lol.

this isn’t the first time mexico has managed to shake off colonial control and; if the historical pattern holds; the united states will invade again like it did the last 3 times to force the political situation to change back, as it’s done dozens of times throughout the world to other countries. this time however, american soft power as at an all time low thanks to the freedom of information available online (and especially so with live-streaming the gazan genocide on social media) and it’s hard power is currently stretched thin due to ukraine, taiwan, isreal, and venezuela at the same time, as well as president that’s souring relations with our allies (and fellow colonial masters); so there’s a chance that mexico might be left unscathed.

developments like the new ownership of tikok and censorship happening on facebook, reddit, bluesky, etc. and the europeans capitulating to trump’s economic and military demands make me pessimistic.

fascism is right wing and a big part of late stage capitalism.

until 2018 mexico only technically had a multi-party system in the same way that the united states also technically has a multi-party system with the green, psl, libertarians, independence, etc. parties; with only the two of the parties overwhelmingly dominating the rest of the parties like democrats and republicans do in the united states. the policies that i think you’re referring to were only put in place to give legitimacy to mexican elections and even then they only did it because the americans pushed them into doing it to alleviate criticisms of their support for the pri.

during his first campaign, obama espoused a progressive agenda like amlo did and both politicians proved how effected they were at getting young people to vote, which means that we already know how to get young people engaged. clinton did the same thing back in the 1990’s for the united states, so it also means we’re pretty good at getting young people to vote whenever we feel like pulling that lever; but we chose to appeal to “moderates” instead because they don’t challenge the status quo.

obama’s lower second election results proved what happens when you drop that progressive agenda and sheinbaum proves that the youth will reliably come out to support your party if you don’t drop that progressive agenda like obama did.

i think you’re right in that too many people are too comfortable in their living situations to ever effect change and i also agree that this sentiment is mostly shared by older generations; the same is true to a very large degree in mexico so that’s only part of the problem.

however, the change didn’t come from fixing the system from within one of the dominant parties; it happened when people ditched the “liberal” party that was co-opting progressive movement like the democrats do in the united states and voted 3rd party instead.

this overton ratcheting effect that the democrats enable coupled with their unwillingness to push back against republican voter suppression is the yin to the yin-and-yang of our political reality and that, along with the self fulfilling third party propaganda is the yang that keeps americans vacillating between democrat and republicans with things continuing to get worse for the world.

the american system’s inherent contradictions will be the only thing to degrade people’s material conditions enough to vote third party if we don’ t change our collective mindset and; by then; the world will be in a very sorry state that i’m glad i won’t get to live through.

also: he would have proudly claimed it if it were true and spend another 6 hours explaining why. lol

aoc is guilty of more than that: she’s parroting the same isreali talking point that isreal has a right to exist (like bernie is doing) and she voted to add fuel to the active gazan fire rather than the emerging but still unlit kindling that is theil’s dragnet; democrats pride themselves on pride themselves on kicking critical and unaddressed cans down the road, but she couldn’t bring herself to do that in this instance.

add this to her vote on the resolution redefining antisemitism and you can see a pattern starting to emerge if you care to look.

the mexicans didn’t overcome the media. mexico’s status at the periphery of the global north ensured that enough of them had shitty enough material existences that their protests took on a genuine form and it galvanized the public to try voting for morena instead of pri or pan like they had been doing for almost a century by that point.

in fact: it was social media giving attention to these protests that made the younger mexicans aware that they weren’t alone in their suffering and they turned out in droves to vote like they sometimes do in the united states.

“overcoming the media” is another manufactured threshold like that other manufactured threshold of tens of millions of voters and only serves to re-enforce this self fulfilling propaganda when something a simple as basic media literacy will do the trick.

the global north has come to recognize the impact that social media has on the youth and that’s why isreal & the united states now have full control over tiktok and why europe is trying to impose age verification mechanisms on social media.

waiting for some mythical time when people stop relying on the media for change to happen is no different than repeating other fallacies like spoiler-voting or throwing-your-vote-away.

it happened in our lifetime under the same conditions and it’s living and breathing at our southern border… for now.

the mexican example happened in 2018 and proves that it’s possible without attention from the media and the number of people who didn’t vote in 2024 because of gaza; but did vote in 2020; as well as 3rd party voters combined already exceeds this tens of millions of american threshold.

the elections last week and the popularity of the no kings protests prove that we’re ripe for this sort of change; but we keep repeating this sort of propaganda to such a degree that it becomes self fulfilling prophecy.

we need to change our mindset; not a change in unchanging institutions like the media or the political duopoly.

i agree that the money is either going back; one way or another; to either the military industrial complex or silicon valley and aoc is guilty of more than indirectly helping isreal avoid criticism.

also: it is indeed spreading throughout the world and people like aoc are helping to make it happen under some (hopefully misguided) attempts to help genociders & capitalists do it.

two things can be true at the same time.

or you can just jump into it like mexico and the other historical examples have done and witness a dramatic improvements in your lifetime without the huge amounts of deaths.

that is until the americans reverse it… again.