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  • Jesus fucking Christ. I swear that there are bots to repost the exact same thing you post.

    This is NOT the time to harp on that particular thing.

    Those people are going to be some of the easiest potential allies to make, and this is an all hands on deck situation. We NEED them.

    Posting this shit benefits the people opposing the idea that the comment is supposedly trying to support.

  • I read today that one of his secretaries said that China had miscalculated, because China exports roughly four times as much to the U.S. as the U.S. imports to China, and he said that that makes the U.S. a lot stronger than China, that it would give the U.S. a better bargaining position.

    That's like a wealthy family in a small town saying they can outlast the grocery store if the grocery store decides to stop selling food to you.

    I mean, good luck with that...

  • I think we should change our strategy here. Let the currently popular instances be popular, but instead create a site to suggest lemmy instances and then randomize the order they show up in the suggestions.

    Don't try and pull people who already have accounts from the existing instances to build the smaller instances. Try and direct the incoming growth to the smaller instances, instead.

    Aim for growth instead of cannibalism.

  • I haven't been banned from Reddit.

    I want Lemmy to succeed because I want to interact more with people who are not from the U.S., and I don't want to use platforms from the people who were sitting behind him on inauguration day.

    Since Elon feels that he can interfere in Reddit and since Reddit seems open to letting that happen, that's a good sign to me that I should limit my use of Reddit and should use alternatives instead. Lemmy seems to be the most Reddit-like of those alternative platforms, so here I am.

  • This time may be different because the police may have a lot greater reason to join the people than they did in the past. The police's retirements were also wiped out, and the police's family members are a lot more likely to have been affected by those tariffs. I think it's too pessimistic to say what you're saying, because the number of people affected now is significantly greater.

    An uprising seems likely, and an attempt at brutal suppression also seems likely, but the United States regime has also made enemies of almost every other country on the planet, and the groundswell of people is very large. The number of people in the protests today was massive:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/

    If you see the sheer numbers, it's enough to give hope.