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lp4v4n 1 hours ago [-]
Interference with an election is so in line with the current president's character that nobody has any reason to think otherwise.
The political atmosphere in the USA, and worldwide let's be honest, has become so cynical that people aligned with the American president don't really see any issue with doing morally wrong things or downright illegal acts if that means a political victory for them.
dozerly 41 minutes ago [-]
I sincerely hope we can recover from this moral bankruptcy in some way, it’s going to be pretty dismal if not.
sippingabonedry 3 minutes ago [-]
We long for the simpler, morally un-bankrupt times when people were flashing their bolt-ons on the White House lawn:
Why are you people so obsessed with the genitals of others over the bald-faced corruption of the most powerful nation in the world?
sippingabonedry 1 minutes ago [-]
There was literally more outrage over the new helipad on the WH lawn.
The melodrama about "moral bankruptcy" is performative.
augment_me 19 minutes ago [-]
What's the incentives to not do it this way? Are there punishments for companies to lobby or influence things? How is the everyday voter affected by this?
ClearZ 9 minutes ago [-]
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Avicebron 41 minutes ago [-]
> The political atmosphere in the USA, and worldwide let's be honest, has become so cynical that...
We've redefined our communication medium worldwide in ~30 years. It's going to have consequences, the question is what we do about it. The edge lord cynicism came about because of economic issues, fix those first..
King-Aaron 32 minutes ago [-]
No one will fix these issues, because the issues are in fact features for those in charge of the media companies/government.
Avicebron 30 minutes ago [-]
Sounds like an issue.
gchamonlive 39 minutes ago [-]
Yes but it's very hard when those that make the rules are the same as those benefiting from them, as it's the case in olygarchies.
wiseowise 19 minutes ago [-]
> The edge lord cynicism came about because of economic issues, fix those first..
“Just fix the hunger and poverty, duh”
I also thought like that. When I was twelve.
Gabriel_Martin 17 minutes ago [-]
let's not make this place glib like everywhere, it's one of the few places people stay mostly decent to each other.
adastra22 12 minutes ago [-]
I do feel like we are entering the eternal September on HN :(
fcarraldo 16 minutes ago [-]
The last people in history who had as much wealth as Elon Musk were emperors.
Perhaps something can change to help prevent poverty and hunger if the economic value produced by society results in such enormous gains by such few people.
57 minutes ago [-]
__rito__ 1 hours ago [-]
Meta (Instagram) certainly pushes one side in India. I am sure of it.
I didn't quite believe its involvement with things in Myanmar where media, people vowed left and right of Meta's involvement.
But seeing it now firsthand, I certainly believe it.
- Accounts, posts from one cabal being pushed to your feed even if you don't follow any of them.
- If you open a fresh account, the accounts from those cabal are recommended at top.
- Relentlessly showing posts from one side and promoting them like hell.
Suspected bot activities. There were posts that are sans merit clearly, but Insta pushed it and had the unvelievable amount of likes, like Messi would have, had he posted his wedding reels.
I don't have publishable evidence, but I ask you to trust me. Human to human.
I read newspapers, I don't trust megaliked reels. But most don't nowaday, and I saw real people fall to blatant lies and propaganda. It's real. You can say anything, but I am convinced fully.
throwaway27448 56 minutes ago [-]
Presumably the side is BJP?
jordanb 1 hours ago [-]
> Meta (Instagram) certainly pushes one side in India. I am sure of it.
Watching all the techbros trying to crowd the stage to get in the shot with Modi when he went to SF was a precursor to them all crowding around Trump.
smallerfish 50 minutes ago [-]
Even though I've shilled the book before, it's an opportune thread to repeat the recommendation: if you haven't, read Careless People. For much of her career at Facebook, the author worked for Joel Kaplan, who was VP of Global Public Policy and is now Chief Global Affairs Officer. She's not particularly complimentary.
Barbing 48 minutes ago [-]
Is the author still under gag order?
silverFork 42 minutes ago [-]
Americans don't like any entity to interfere in their elections but the reality is that their corporations are knee deep in interference in other countries never mind what they themselves call the deep state!
Does anyone remember Cambridge Analytica activity on Facebook during US elections in 2016.. Look it up if you don't remember. The same entity was also active in South America aka Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.. Cambridge Analytica was never charged and Facebook was never charged because it was all made legal. After the revelations, some laws changed but has it really changed. Is it stopping American interference in other countries? it doesn't look like it. What about at home? You know better than I do if you have an account; I don't.
kbbgl87 2 hours ago [-]
Nao Se Meta, that's clever
johnhamlin 2 hours ago [-]
Roughly translates to “stay out of it?”
airstrike 51 minutes ago [-]
Exactly! It's a common expression to shoo someone off.
Literally it translates to "Don't put yourself" where "put" is the closest I can think of to the verb "meter", which is sort of what you do when you insert something haphazardly instead of carefully.
Truly literally the words are "No + self + put" and the conjugation of "meter" into "meta" makes it clear the subject is "you"
N_Lens 2 hours ago [-]
It means "Don't get involved" in Brazilian Portuguese.
germandiago 42 minutes ago [-]
Well, actually it would be, more literally "do not get into it".
ricardobeat 1 hours ago [-]
A note on Meta AI was making the rounds the past few days: it will happily generate images featuring the right-wing candidate, logo or party number, while consistently refusing to generate anything related to the opposition Lula/PT/13.
They claimed it was a 'technical error'.
In September, as the elections geared up, they also suspened Lula's campaign account due to another 'technical error'. There are also thousands of complaints from users having their posts blocked.
throwaway27448 58 minutes ago [-]
They should probably protest with the structural integrity pf their nearest courthouse or prison
lift2027 16 minutes ago [-]
When has the US not interfere in other countries' elections, especially those taking place in its "backyard"? Nothing is off limits. Everything comes from the CIA playbook: bribes, threats, assassinations, social media trolling, censorship, etc. Of course, these days, interference is no longer limited to international affairs but has fully entered the domestic arena. Trump's top donors have already contributed billions to the midterm elections, but it may not be enough to sway voters. This coming midterm election, brace for the unexpected.
plandis 1 hours ago [-]
It sure is a coincidence that parties in opposition to right wing political movements in different countries keep getting silenced on Meta.
It gives the appearance that Meta is not an impartial platform like they try to claim for regulatory purposes.
draxen 43 minutes ago [-]
There is really no "global right wing alliance"
I remember NYTimes/WaPost pieces being concerned about Hindu nationalist influence on the Republican party. Anyone who has spend 2 seconds online know it's more likely the Republican party nukes India than forming alliances with the BJP.
adlotsof 1 hours ago [-]
I am quite sure meta does support the german AfD. Rage causes engagement. AfD (and Trump and Orban and le Pen) communicate in such emotional ways that algorithms prefer them. Facebook does not care about truth, it cares about active users
aliasxneo 1 hours ago [-]
Both extremes on the political spectrum use and heavily rely on emotions over nuance/truth. Probably why both have been steadily growing and that the clashes tend to be explosive.
skippyboxedhero 1 hours ago [-]
How dare you. It is only the people that I disagree with that are unstable. I am a stable genius. I am furious.
aliasxneo 40 minutes ago [-]
Yeah. Some things never change on the orange site.
ryan_lane 1 hours ago [-]
Political manipulation by Russia, China, etc, have been using wedge issues to push people into extreme sides on issues, but they throw support behind the far-right political parties, because conservative voters unite their votes and because they're more willing to accept mistruths.
Liberal voters don't unite well, and they also tend to have lower trust when it comes to misinformation.
skippyboxedhero 51 minutes ago [-]
This isn't the case. People assume this is the case because only one side is reported for various reasons.
Just to be clear though: the Communist Party of China is not a massive fan of far-right parties, there are certain ideological barriers there.
Russia employed the former left-wing German Chancellor as part of their strategy making an invasion of Ukraine economically viable for them (it is worth pointing out that when right-wing politicians pointed this out, it was received as a crazy conspiracy theory..."liberal voters" distinguish themselves as people who believe themselves particularly unlikely to believe in "misinformation" whilst simultaneously believing in things that make no sense, most people who have a knowledge of politics are required to believe things that aren't true...if they were in touch with reality, they wouldn't vote).
knowaveragejoe 10 minutes ago [-]
My casual read is that the CCP can tolerate both the far left and right in the US, but only the far right is near the levers of power, and the far right is apt to leave them alone entirely(America first).
arximboldi 38 minutes ago [-]
To call Scholz left-wing is quite a stretch. But what can one expect of someone that believes that not voting is the natural consequence of "being in touch with reality".
wiseowise 14 minutes ago [-]
Schröder, not Scholz.
olcarl75 1 hours ago [-]
this is turning out to be a disaster for the tech communities and powering technology fearmongers because people do not understadn the case here.
From what I can see, the meta cutoff data was from a time where one candidate was confirmed and the other wasn't. The political interference here was actually the timely manner for them to fix this. It took weeks of public pressure / federal government pressure for Meta to act.
lifeisloving 2 hours ago [-]
People should look up the North American Technate, because we're living in it. Its been a mission of techno-fascist for a couple decades, they're finally succeeding. They will get rid of democracy altogether
(they may have already, they can basically do mind control with recommendations algorithms and get swaths of people to do whatever they want).
someothherguyy 43 minutes ago [-]
> because we're living in it
i don't see the correlation with current events. do you have a source that establishes this based on evidence?
N_Lens 2 hours ago [-]
At long last! A Global Torment Nexus!!
cwnyth 1 hours ago [-]
If someone thinks they can profit off of or otherwise control the Torment Nexus, they will build it as fast as they can.
morkalork 1 hours ago [-]
Some kind of a uh Prison Planet you say? Seems familiar. Oh, he's in on it and wants to sell me some boner pills instead?
neom 2 hours ago [-]
Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a leader of that movement in Canada.
From that article: "Haldeman died in a plane crash in 1974, when he was 72 years old. His grandson, Elon Musk, was just three."
treapassing-sil 1 hours ago [-]
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slibhb 2 hours ago [-]
A large minority of people cannot cope with losing elections. Shadowy forces are behind every loss. Ironically, it's this attitude that undermines democracy. More than Facebook at any rate...
scheme271 23 minutes ago [-]
At least in certain parts of the world, there has been consistent efforts to manipulate the government and political movements for close to a century. It's not as if the US hasn't supported coup d'etats in Brazil, Chile, and other governments in South and Central America.
mullingitover 1 hours ago [-]
> Shadowy forces are behind every loss. Ironically, it's this attitude that undermines democracy.
I mean, this is South America we're talking about. It's not attitudes that undermine their democracy, it's very notoriously US-based three letter agencies.[1][2][3][4][5]
I mean, if they have secret mind control powers that they've hid from the rest of the world for years, it seems kinda pointless to try and oppose them?
At that point, they've already won, neh?
(this is mostly to object that hyperbolic phrases like "basically mind control" don't do your argument any favor)
tomalbrc 2 hours ago [-]
> secret mind control powers
Secret? Its called "X" and Facebook.
rnd0 60 minutes ago [-]
don't forget youtube
nielsbot 2 hours ago [-]
Meta has interfered with elections before, we know the Trump admin wants Bolsonaro Jr in power, and the US establishment has supported anti-socialism in Brazil in the past. (The CIA agitated against Lula under Reagan, for example)
Is it overly conspiratorial to think the Meta is doing what they're accused of on behalf of the US?
missmewiththatl 2 hours ago [-]
Trump should focus on America. In 15 days, he's going to wish he didn't.
rnd0 58 minutes ago [-]
As much as I wish I could say you're right -I think that's unlikely. Please feel free to say "I told you so" in fifteen days, however. I'd love to be wrong!
rectang 12 minutes ago [-]
If you’re someone who treasures the scientific method and the scientific approach to understanding the world, you have to become comfortable with uncertainty. Particularly in the Senate are several possible outcomes with wildly different consequences, all of which are plausible.
Don’t let either loss aversion or irrational exuberance rule you. Weigh every possibility and prepare yourself for it psychologically. The result could be crushing defeat, but it could also be stunning triumph.
cute_boi 2 hours ago [-]
Hopefully, trump loses so badly republican will get some sense.
rectang 1 hours ago [-]
The majority of the Republican primary electorate demands Trump and won’t stand for elected Republicans who challenge him. There have been a fair number of Republicans who have stood up to him, but most of them are already out or on their way out.
It’s basically impossible for elected Republicans to hold Trump to account without losing office, and even if Republicans get wiped out in the coming election (I’m skeptical), I doubt that dynamic will change. If the price of gas weren’t so high, Republicans would be fairly happy with Trump — he’s basically kept his promise to be a hard-ass on immigration and other culture war issues.
I don’t expect a Republican reckoning that would please Democrats. Future Republican standard bearers will probably be very similar to Trump but more competent — akin to Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Orban, Modi, and others.
ryandrake 30 minutes ago [-]
Exactly. Even if Trump disappeared today, the voters/mentality who elected him is not going anywhere. All they need is someone else to say "I am exactly like Trump and will keep doing everything he did," and that politician will be their top candidate. (R) is no longer the party of guys like Mitt Romney and John McCain.
crummy 55 minutes ago [-]
> If the price of gas weren’t so high, Republicans would be fairly happy with Trump
This is the sad truth. Imagine if he hadn't invaded Iran. He probably would manage to finagle a third term.
hackyhacky 2 hours ago [-]
It doesn't matter whether Republicans lose the election or not. Trump will just ignore/dismiss the election results, or ignore/dismiss Congress, as he did has done for the last two years.
georgemcbay 1 hours ago [-]
Republicans will not get any sense regardless of what happens.
The only important question is whether Democrats will get any sense if they win.
The worst outcome is actually Democrats winning and then keeping the status quo and continuing to serve corporations and special interest groups over the needs of their own constituents.
They won't have any real power to force through legislation even if they win, but if they win and don't use this time to shake up their own party and instead keep Schumer/Jeffries/et al in charge and keep towing the center-right Third Way-esque line then in a few years time we will find out that actually, yes, there are worse people that could be president than Trump (all of the malevolence, but perhaps with competence too next time).
Every election for over a decade has been a change election and the Democratic party refusing to understand this (because the consultant class and their high value donors don't want to understand it) is one of the primary factors in creating and enabling Trump. And it isn't yet clear they intend to address this. I mean, people are still taking a Gavin Newsom run in 2028 seriously ffs.
colordrops 2 hours ago [-]
Conspiracies are hidden. It's a confirmed fact that they banned his account during the election. This is no conspiracy - it's out in the open.
idontwantthis 2 hours ago [-]
A conspiracy is just people talking to each other about a crime. It doesn’t have to be hidden. Conspiracies can be in the open.
colordrops 1 hours ago [-]
No, that just isn't true. It's almost always used to indicate secret coordination, both in idiomatic usage and formal definitions.
And it doesn't have to be criminal. You are hallucinating more than a 2024 LLM.
howunfortunate 2 hours ago [-]
By this logic, old Twitter interfered with US elections by banning Trump.
Edit: the point about Trump was facetious, but old Twitter actually DID actively interfere in the 2020 election by censoring all sharing (even in DMs!) the New York Post Biden laptop story.
techblueberry 1 hours ago [-]
Why is the argument we should race to the bottom?
howunfortunate 53 minutes ago [-]
I am not making that argument, I just dislike double standards, especially considering that right wing voices have been repeatedly and consistently scrubbed from social media for years.
hackyhacky 2 hours ago [-]
> Twitter interfered with US elections by banning Trump.
You mean when Twitter "permanently" banned Trump in January of 2021, after the 2020 election (which he lost)? Which election do you suppose that interfered with?
treapassing-sil 1 hours ago [-]
Nothing will shut him up. My god.. I wish killing his twitter account could do that.
He lost because he is a POS and people where tired of his blabbering and complaining.
hackernud3s 52 minutes ago [-]
They interfered with him trying to steal that election. That doesn't count?
morkalork 1 hours ago [-]
All the future ones. Don't you see? If you're a big enough public figure and announce any ambition for public office, every attempt at holding you accountable for crimes is interference!
hackyhacky 60 minutes ago [-]
I understand you're being ironic/sarcastic here, but please keep in mind Poe's law [0].
You think people should be held accountable for their crimes by...being censored from social media?
alexandre_m 32 minutes ago [-]
That is correct, both Twitter and Meta actively suppressed the Biden laptop story. That was clear election interference.
knowaveragejoe 6 minutes ago [-]
That's not the entire story and anyone who has done their diligence on it knows this.
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owebmaster 2 hours ago [-]
> Is it overly conspiratorial to think the Meta is doing what they're accused of on behalf of the US?
Not at all. We all know it. There's just literally nothing we can do. The whole world is an US dictatorship
catlikesshrimp 1 hours ago [-]
Or russian dictatorship or chinese dictatorship?
I would still pick US, If I could choose.
cwnyth 1 hours ago [-]
AKA, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia.
SadErn 20 minutes ago [-]
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daishi55 1 hours ago [-]
Gosh, it’s really so sad what has happened to you. Totally brainwashed.
E: oh it’s a 1 day old account. Sad troll.
bakies 1 hours ago [-]
Scary healthcare!!!
howunfortunate 1 hours ago [-]
I laughed out loud recently when I saw someone made a similar joke on Twitter.
I didn't laugh at the joke.
I laughed because their username was "We Need More Luigis" with a Palestine flag.
recroad 2 hours ago [-]
It would be conspiratorial to not think that.
jojobas 1 hours ago [-]
Those evil US imperialists and CIA agitators, not letting any new countries prosper like DPRK, Cuba and Venezuela, or be free of tyranny like PRC and Venezuela!
daishi55 1 hours ago [-]
Sorry, are you suggesting that the CIA hasn’t done its best to prevent left-wing governments from succeeding in many cases? Because that would be very silly and ahistorical.
jojobas 1 hours ago [-]
If by "succeeding" you mean destroying thousands or millions of people's lives by famine, labor camps and executions, then yes, it sure has.
Everyone remembers evil Pinochet who killed some 3k out of 11 million, nobody cares about kind Hoxha who killed at least 6k (likely closer to 100k) out of 2 million, or plushy Castro (10k killed + 70k dead trying to flee out of 10 million).
Meta chose to be a platform for political ad campaigns, and part of that money comes from the taxpayers. They have the responsibility to prove they are treating both sides fairly, and to ensure their automated systems don’t favor either candidate, intentionally or not.
mrtksn 1 hours ago [-]
The fun part about protesting is that you don’t need proof, lawyers or judges. It’s not a court. Suspecting or believing is enough.
gradus_ad 55 minutes ago [-]
Agreed! Protest is always about the assertion of power and identity, like all politics. But protest, like physical violence, attempts to assert power by sidestepping the mechanics of government. So it does not need evidence reason or logic, it is operating on an entirely different plane!
draxen 52 minutes ago [-]
Surprisingly the Brazilian left has embraced post-Musk Twitter instead of starting their own sovereign alternative platform.
One problem the Brazilian left is facing is that the non-Musk platforms are not too fond of death threats against Protestants, landlords, farmers etc.
decidu0us9034 36 minutes ago [-]
People being edgy on X seems unrelated. Comment seems completely off-topic. Or are you implying Meta suppressed Lula's account because he threatened to murder Protestants? I don't get it.
The political atmosphere in the USA, and worldwide let's be honest, has become so cynical that people aligned with the American president don't really see any issue with doing morally wrong things or downright illegal acts if that means a political victory for them.
https://www.newsweek.com/topless-trans-woman-white-house-pri...
Why are you people so obsessed with the genitals of others over the bald-faced corruption of the most powerful nation in the world?
The melodrama about "moral bankruptcy" is performative.
We've redefined our communication medium worldwide in ~30 years. It's going to have consequences, the question is what we do about it. The edge lord cynicism came about because of economic issues, fix those first..
“Just fix the hunger and poverty, duh”
I also thought like that. When I was twelve.
Perhaps something can change to help prevent poverty and hunger if the economic value produced by society results in such enormous gains by such few people.
I didn't quite believe its involvement with things in Myanmar where media, people vowed left and right of Meta's involvement.
But seeing it now firsthand, I certainly believe it.
- Accounts, posts from one cabal being pushed to your feed even if you don't follow any of them.
- If you open a fresh account, the accounts from those cabal are recommended at top.
- Relentlessly showing posts from one side and promoting them like hell.
Suspected bot activities. There were posts that are sans merit clearly, but Insta pushed it and had the unvelievable amount of likes, like Messi would have, had he posted his wedding reels.
I don't have publishable evidence, but I ask you to trust me. Human to human.
I read newspapers, I don't trust megaliked reels. But most don't nowaday, and I saw real people fall to blatant lies and propaganda. It's real. You can say anything, but I am convinced fully.
Watching all the techbros trying to crowd the stage to get in the shot with Modi when he went to SF was a precursor to them all crowding around Trump.
Does anyone remember Cambridge Analytica activity on Facebook during US elections in 2016.. Look it up if you don't remember. The same entity was also active in South America aka Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.. Cambridge Analytica was never charged and Facebook was never charged because it was all made legal. After the revelations, some laws changed but has it really changed. Is it stopping American interference in other countries? it doesn't look like it. What about at home? You know better than I do if you have an account; I don't.
Literally it translates to "Don't put yourself" where "put" is the closest I can think of to the verb "meter", which is sort of what you do when you insert something haphazardly instead of carefully.
Truly literally the words are "No + self + put" and the conjugation of "meter" into "meta" makes it clear the subject is "you"
They claimed it was a 'technical error'.
In September, as the elections geared up, they also suspened Lula's campaign account due to another 'technical error'. There are also thousands of complaints from users having their posts blocked.
It gives the appearance that Meta is not an impartial platform like they try to claim for regulatory purposes.
I remember NYTimes/WaPost pieces being concerned about Hindu nationalist influence on the Republican party. Anyone who has spend 2 seconds online know it's more likely the Republican party nukes India than forming alliances with the BJP.
Liberal voters don't unite well, and they also tend to have lower trust when it comes to misinformation.
Just to be clear though: the Communist Party of China is not a massive fan of far-right parties, there are certain ideological barriers there.
Russia employed the former left-wing German Chancellor as part of their strategy making an invasion of Ukraine economically viable for them (it is worth pointing out that when right-wing politicians pointed this out, it was received as a crazy conspiracy theory..."liberal voters" distinguish themselves as people who believe themselves particularly unlikely to believe in "misinformation" whilst simultaneously believing in things that make no sense, most people who have a knowledge of politics are required to believe things that aren't true...if they were in touch with reality, they wouldn't vote).
From what I can see, the meta cutoff data was from a time where one candidate was confirmed and the other wasn't. The political interference here was actually the timely manner for them to fix this. It took weeks of public pressure / federal government pressure for Meta to act.
(they may have already, they can basically do mind control with recommendations algorithms and get swaths of people to do whatever they want).
i don't see the correlation with current events. do you have a source that establishes this based on evidence?
Fun read: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/joshua-haldeman...
I mean, this is South America we're talking about. It's not attitudes that undermine their democracy, it's very notoriously US-based three letter agencies.[1][2][3][4][5]
[1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/legacy-posting/chile-united-states...
[2] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/southern-cone/2025-1...
[3] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB133/index.htm
[4] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB465/
[5] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/events/operation-condor-1975-1980
At that point, they've already won, neh?
(this is mostly to object that hyperbolic phrases like "basically mind control" don't do your argument any favor)
Secret? Its called "X" and Facebook.
Is it overly conspiratorial to think the Meta is doing what they're accused of on behalf of the US?
Don’t let either loss aversion or irrational exuberance rule you. Weigh every possibility and prepare yourself for it psychologically. The result could be crushing defeat, but it could also be stunning triumph.
It’s basically impossible for elected Republicans to hold Trump to account without losing office, and even if Republicans get wiped out in the coming election (I’m skeptical), I doubt that dynamic will change. If the price of gas weren’t so high, Republicans would be fairly happy with Trump — he’s basically kept his promise to be a hard-ass on immigration and other culture war issues.
I don’t expect a Republican reckoning that would please Democrats. Future Republican standard bearers will probably be very similar to Trump but more competent — akin to Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Orban, Modi, and others.
This is the sad truth. Imagine if he hadn't invaded Iran. He probably would manage to finagle a third term.
The only important question is whether Democrats will get any sense if they win.
The worst outcome is actually Democrats winning and then keeping the status quo and continuing to serve corporations and special interest groups over the needs of their own constituents.
They won't have any real power to force through legislation even if they win, but if they win and don't use this time to shake up their own party and instead keep Schumer/Jeffries/et al in charge and keep towing the center-right Third Way-esque line then in a few years time we will find out that actually, yes, there are worse people that could be president than Trump (all of the malevolence, but perhaps with competence too next time).
Every election for over a decade has been a change election and the Democratic party refusing to understand this (because the consultant class and their high value donors don't want to understand it) is one of the primary factors in creating and enabling Trump. And it isn't yet clear they intend to address this. I mean, people are still taking a Gavin Newsom run in 2028 seriously ffs.
And it doesn't have to be criminal. You are hallucinating more than a 2024 LLM.
Edit: the point about Trump was facetious, but old Twitter actually DID actively interfere in the 2020 election by censoring all sharing (even in DMs!) the New York Post Biden laptop story.
You mean when Twitter "permanently" banned Trump in January of 2021, after the 2020 election (which he lost)? Which election do you suppose that interfered with?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Not at all. We all know it. There's just literally nothing we can do. The whole world is an US dictatorship
E: oh it’s a 1 day old account. Sad troll.
I didn't laugh at the joke.
I laughed because their username was "We Need More Luigis" with a Palestine flag.
Everyone remembers evil Pinochet who killed some 3k out of 11 million, nobody cares about kind Hoxha who killed at least 6k (likely closer to 100k) out of 2 million, or plushy Castro (10k killed + 70k dead trying to flee out of 10 million).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-l...
It’s their platform, they can boost who they want.
That and the fact that US is actively putting money into favouring the candidate that's offering them access to Brazilian rare earth reserves (https://valorinternational.globo.com/politics/news/2026/09/3..., https://amadomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/memorando-... and https://youtu.be/xPlKzqiYH5c?si=Cw4YGXU8B2Xb2EHY) we are looking at a direct attack against Brazil's right to self determination by the US and its corporations.
One problem the Brazilian left is facing is that the non-Musk platforms are not too fond of death threats against Protestants, landlords, farmers etc.