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[LuvLoogie]

31. On the last point.

The United States is a broken thing that needs to be exposed to a disruptive new software development in order to "make it better."
This is vague and I am probably taking it too literally, but I would agree that we specifically need a new ubiquitous social media app that is independent of the billionaire class. We also need a single Wikipedia-style authoritative reference news source.

Well first, you need to participate in the apps that are out there. Except for twitter. Fuck that bigoted hellscape.

The TikTok ban was stupid. They ate our lunch on social media, not because social media apps aren't independent enough. It's because Our politicians and political operatives weren't on the ball. The next big app isn't going to save us.

That's like saying, we just need the right car, or I need a better guitar, when you really don't know how to drive and got no chops.

Look. We just have to do the right thing always. We don't need to play nice with rapists, drunks, and Nazis. We have to lead in showing how people can become unenthralled to the traditional power structures. That's going to be difficult with so many of our own politicians invested in perpetuating those power structures. We are too invested in getting people to buy into the American Dream, when it is increasingly shown to be the bullshit it has always been.

That dream never included the indigenous, Black Americans, women as equal partners and citizens. The bigotry and greed is winning out because that is what fueled America's growth. It is in our DNA, flowery pretensions at liberty and justice for all notwithstanding. Liberty and justice for all has never been the MO of America. Not then. Not now.

Will it ever be? Not in its current state.