@randahl Just take the opportunity to repeal Article 6 of the Copyright Directive and make it illegal for providers to block users from using a service that extracts your feed from Facebook or X and show you only what you actually want to see.

@randahl "Algorithmic manipulation", ooooh, I like how they are thinking, that term should be on everybody's tongue!

@hpod16 ️

@rvedotrc @thomholwerda Exactly. What Trump says is not the story.

The story is what he's doing or what you think he is trying to do. Tell us that story, - if it's news. Use his words as evidence when relevant.

@gsymon @thomholwerda Simply unbelievable, if not for the fact that we've seen it and it's true.

@thomholwerda I'm so tired of media quoting Trump religiously as if what he says is inherently important.

This little twist on the habit cheers me up

@msh @randahl Absolutely, consider it accepted!

@Tarnport I don't doubt it.

But I also don't think that if it hadn't been Trump, it would have been somebody else. Very few would have had the luck AND the skills to turn whatever it was into the force it is now, actively eroding the democratic defenses that should have prevented this outcome.

And right now, if we are on the brink of "war", we're on the brink of "war" with Trump and his administration, not the American people.

But everything you said is true as well.

@Tarnport @randahl Sure, not letting anyone of the hook

There are plenty of people to blame both here and there, but I prefer to point to the root actor which is Trump, as it is.
Not sure how productive use of time it is to fight between ourselves.

@randahl
It stuns me however that it had to come to this, before sentiment flipped, when there's been so many previous examples of the same kind of disrespect.

To be fair, it's not so much the US as a whole (the majority do not agree with the administration), but Trump and his fascist pack.

@FediTips Thank you for calling it out and making this recommendation