As to why, sure it’s patriarchy, but they keep putting out duds and using it essentially say “audiences don’t want female-led content”…

You’ve answered you’re own question - they put it out there so they can say they tried, people didn’t like it, so we’ll continue as we were, with them (patriarchal entertainment execs and the patriarchal capitalists who fund them) maintaining their positions.

The people who complain about this shit are running governments and corporations and controlling society, wtf are you talking about?

You’re really narrowing down a much much bigger issue to try and make it digestible. But the patriarchy is systemic. Misogyny is systemic. Male privilege is systemic. Gamergate is a symptom, and honestly, a mild one at that.

Patriarchy.

Privilege and with it an overinflated sense of entitlement, which result in the most fragile of egos (E: see downvote ration lmao).

That’s at best.

At worst, and on top of the above, is conscious and deliberate misogyny and the unwillingness to give the privileges up.

This is the teeny-tiniest tip of the iceberg, but it sounds like you are willing to challenge your views and perceptions, so jump in, it (E: patriarchy, misogyny, feminism, intersectionality, and on and on…) is a terrifying, but also extremely well documented rabbit hole, just start looking…

A feature, not a bug.

War is a racket

They can transfer the moderation of the community in question to you.

To add to this, if OP doesn’t actually want to become moderator of the community themselves, there are still other options - the instance admins can transfer the community moderation to a third person (I seem to remember there was even a dedicated community for finding new mods to take over dead communities), or they could potentially find a similar community on another instance.

Nothing as American as the exploitation of Black bodies…

https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/plantation-logics-at-the-nfl-combine/

No, you don’t get to suddenly now distance yourself and those you serve, the threshold was crossed a long long time ago, war has always been a racket, those making and selling weapons have always been complicit in war crimes, hell, massively responsible for them since they don’t just make and sell, and advertise and test (hint: on oppressed populations) (E: and how could I forget - lobby bribe politicians and other policy makers), but most importantly profit from war. Fuck this noise.

It isn’t the metoo that is the crisis, it’s the rapists and abusers that cause it, that are.

I personally downvoted it because it’s a terrible idea, op wants to leave the US, not sign their life and soul away to it.

Yup, and in his specific case not just for profit, but for a place at the “big boys table” along with who I can only assume are his idols, musk and zuc.

And bend his knee faster than you can blink

This was 20-25 years ago, I don’t think it matters anymore, but I appreciate the sentiment lol

I somehow managed to get through to a radio show that was having a giveaway, and answered their question correctly. I won tickets to a concert, and a load of their sponsor’s merch. I was still young, but even then I knew my luck was shit, so I was really excited even though I didn’t like the band I was going to see lol

Didn’t matter.

The tickets arrived the day after the concert had happened, and the merch was all either factory seconds or used (so all slightly damaged in some way - a stain, an undone seam, a broken clasp). I tried calling to let them know, but all they did was send another load of damaged merch.

Off the top of my head, that’s the one and only thing I’ve ever won.

I really do have shit luck lol

Meta have already tried, and in an almost unanimous move, users of the fediverse decided to defederate from them to not give them the opportunity to.

Of course they’ll keep trying, but the whole point of decentralisation is that if or when that happens, those who don’t want anything to do with it, just move on to a virtual space away from the corporation.

Sure, it sucks to always be “on the run”, but at least here we can be, vs on a centralised network, where the corporations control 100% of it and we as users have no viable alternative.

To solve the core problem, FOR THE EU, THR ORGANISATION we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in independent digital alternatives.

They are categorically not interested in solving the core problem of society, and why and how we got to this point in the first place, but simply to maintain the status quo where they are the ones in control (which, while better than active fascism, has and always will be a placeholder for it, as long as they refuse to abolish capitalism).

Don’t be fooled.

pEOpLe rEFuSINg To bE aROunD NAzIs aRe the ONeS whO crEAte ThE reAL hOSTILitY 🙄

…and boiling them to death with their combined body heat.

I’m just going to leave this here

Profits by the Billion, A report on war prosperity