Labour in the UK haven’t offered anything new since Tony Blair, and even then it wasn’t new in a good way. It almost looked like they might with Corbyn, but they destroyed him themselves.

I liked the old aibnb one.

Microsoft went from “boring with a bit of attitude” to just plain boring

Except eBay, that was always trash.

JaGUar

Sorry, but cherry-picking some good quotes from trump doesn’t prove anything. I’m sure if you searched hard enough you could find equally “good” quotes from Hitler. You are using the same flawed logic (extrapolating from small amounts of data) that you’re accusing everyone else of.

Optimism does not seem like a good defence against creeping fascism. What if you’re wrong?

Why? There is a long list of suspicious deaths of people who have been recently critical of Putin, including multiple falling out of windows. It seems weirdly credulous to believe there’s nothing connecting them. Seems to me you’re the one making the strong claim that needs to be backed up.

Why pick two of his better quotes to make your point? It just make your argument look weak.

What about the constant resist dog whistling? The “eating the dogs” stuff? The wearing proud boys colours?

I get what you’re saying, but would people in germany in 1932 have been able to predict what was going to happen in between 1934-9?

What do you think is a normal rate of death-by-falling-from-a-window for well known people who criticise the leader of the nation, in most countries?

The conversation here is about mastodon

The vast majority of users are on general instances without demands like that. If you don’t want to join an exclusive club, just pick a sever that is not intended to be an exclusive club (I.e. nearly any of the big ones).

If bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?