I think they were just expressing empathy. If so, I agree with that sentiment. Your family done you dirty. Hope things are better now, or shortly will be.

I really hope it will turn out that they got a bunch of useful stuff from Alex Jones’ cell phone data.

To be fair, the hand wringing activities around exploding heads probably included a lot of soul searching and deciding what is and is not important to the admins. Stands to reason that having learned and made some decisions from that would make the process faster next time around.

It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.

I still remember the first time someone told me about EverQuest. I legit thought they were trying to trick me.

I don’t recall the ACLU ever fighting to compel a private business to promote or facilitate hate speech.

15 years for me. I’m not the type to go scorched earth, so I’ll still pop in briefly from time to time from a Google search or to look for something specific, but I don’t use Reddit for near-constant idle browsing anymore, like I used to. Now I have Lemmy for that, although it would probably be healthier to just cut out social media altogether (or severely reduce it).

It’s also worth considering that this high-level definition is describing the circumstances after the system takes hold and becomes dominant. Thankfully, the US is not a fascist state yet, so whatever policies are currently being pushed by Trump and the GOP should be seen as part of an effort to gain power, not as an accurate reflection of what policies to expect after uncontested power has been seized.

And, historically, the followers who benefit from fascism tend to be the ones most closely aligned with and actively involved in promoting and enforcing the fascist regime - not necessarily the patsies who got them there in the early stages.

It’s true, but it only applies to the stuff you don’t want there anymore.