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Inspired by a comment in another thread, what was the path you took over your life, through the various online social media we've had?

By way of example, I started in Yahoo chatrooms, to a little bit of Myspace and private forums, to ICQ and IRC, to no online socials for awhile, to facebook, to 4chan, to reddit, ending up here on lemmy.

I've never used twitter, insta, tiktok, etc for any length of time.

If you'd like, your native language and a rough estimate of your age can be included for additional context.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 165 points 1 year ago

No, they've been getting progressively crazier since 2016.

2000 was fairly divisive, it went to the Supreme Court after all. But it wasn't even a fraction this dramatic, people mostly shrugged and figured GWB would be like his father, which was unfortunate, but sane at any rate. Nobody was really predicting 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.

2004 was pretty dull. John Kerry challenged GWB but felt sort of like an empty suit.

2008 was nice, Obama was a strong and exciting candidate vs the very known quantity of McCain, who was a moderate repub known for bipartisanship. Sarah Palin provided for hours of entertaining impersonations by people like Tina Fey, but since she was the VP candidate nobody really cared.

2012 was dull. Romney was a strong candidate, another moderate repub. But Obama was fine, he hadn't broken the country or anything. Brought us out of a recession, even if people were upset about bank bailouts and stuff. Lot of people got health insurance.

Then it starts getting spicy.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 152 points 2 years ago

I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 223 points 2 years ago

"If I have to create stories so that ~~the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people~~ we win, then that's what I'm going to do."

Yea, we already knew that JD, thanks.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 121 points 2 years ago

It is admittedly a little ironic that the Greens' existence has likely resulted in the rollback of environmental regulations. It's almost like their top leadership post-Nader is just accelerationist in philosophy.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 166 points 2 years ago

Eh, there's one additional way we can stop them. A landslide victory that puts her massively over the electoral college threshold would make a handful of compromised counties completely irrelevant.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 192 points 2 years ago

lol This is almost as good as getting him to say out loud that he's never had sexual relations with any living room furniture.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 134 points 2 years ago

Just glad they're not messing around with this one, and went ahead with the three charges of first degree murder.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 125 points 2 years ago

Was a pretty good ~10 min speech too, on the House floor.

https://youtu.be/3KZy3NSqnkg

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 139 points 2 years ago

Whoever added the citations to this is doing extremely important work. It needs to be finished though.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 194 points 2 years ago

Ah, LinkedIn, exactly where I want to get nuanced answers to weird questions from.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 141 points 2 years ago

Israel's survival is not threatened by anything short of large-scale pre-emptive Iranian nuclear barrage, or civil war.

Claiming your actions are necessary for survival is a very old trick, commonly used by authoritarian regimes as a convenient excuse.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 148 points 2 years ago

Have to admit, Extinction Rebellion is a pretty good name for an activist group.

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