• Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    That’s awesome, always loved her every since I watched her special Dressed to Kill on HBO when I was a teen. Was the first show I bought digitally on Amazon long ago too.

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      3 days ago

      I keep seeing casual mentions of “positive experiences” with fascist companies these days. This hasnt happened before. New influx of people or paid advertising?

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        I try not to mention brands explicitly, but plenty of people seem to do that. I think a big issue is that brands have become verbs. People don’t search for information, they google it. They don’t buy things, they prime them. They don’t watch generic TV they watch Netflix. I have a family member that calls all sneakers Nikes. I think branding has become “better” and marketers are making their brands an important part of the activity itself. It might just be a passive culture shift due to this difference.

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          3 days ago

          Being here and chatting to “freaks” can get you killed in the world they imagine. Good luck.

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        3 days ago

        It could be nostalgia to the days those services where not overly fascist and still seeking to cater towards the end user instead of only making money for the shareholders.

        At least that’s what this comment feels like.

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          2 days ago

          Yeah, would make sense. Interesting too how vastly different perspectives can be on lemmy from one space to the next.

          Some people understand that global warming, fascism and other dangers to humanity are real, others are deeply oblivious. Its fascinating.

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            What’s fascinating is how you turned “I bought this show a while back” into a political argument.

            I’d argue a majority of the people on this fringe platform understand the dangers you name, but not everyone wants it to be the only thing they ever discuss.

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              2 days ago

              Which is fine. In that case they could do something truly novel: move on. I know its crazy but i’ve heard that it can work if one really commits themselves.

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                2 days ago

                Not really sure how your advice is applicable here.

                People having a good time discussing things should “move on” when someone randomly turns the conversation into “you’re supporting fascist corporations”? Why doesn’t that person just move on to someone who wants to hear it?

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                  2 days ago

                  I mean you obviously want to hear and answer it. Thats fine but kinda tiring. Feel free to not mix in if you dont have anything useful to say.

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        2 days ago

        Can someone with more patience than either of us please grab 10,000 social media posts from a year ago and 10,000 posts from this week, and run them through a lightweight LLM to flag up how often it’s happened?