Yes and no. 1.4k? Out of hundreds of millions of online users. Literal raindrop in an ocean.

It means there’s still too many people supporting the same corporations willing to manipulate them through stealth advertising, data harvesting/selling, and misinformation.

It means that there’s still not enough people who care about privacy.

It means that there’s still a lot of educational work to do in society.

I did, and you’re full of shit.

It’s not just the salute that shows this being the case (which is extremely obvious and intentional, again just by watching the video). It’s the history of anti-union practices, the history of lying and being caught lying, the history of supporting far-right movements. Over time this seems to form what’s called a “pattern”.

You’re literally sleep-walking through life or intentionally trying to mislead the conversation.

On another note though, 9 hours, 1k upvotes, 300 comments. It’s a shame more people don’t migrate away from Reddit, which is just as bad as all these other social media platforms currently courting the U.S. administration.

How do we encourage more people to join a Lemmy?

Let’s see the videos side by side and vote on which one is the closest to a nazi salute / gesture.

Or go shill your propaganda somewhere else, maybe with the rest of the nazi sympathizers.

Nothing will be done because nobody can hold this cabal of the world’s wealthiest men accountable.

It’s not just the U.S. that’s going to suffer here either. This cabal is in charge of one of the worlds largest militaries.

Glad you’re above it all though, best of luck.

I don’t know, this reads like a CIA document. I’m not signing a pledge to activism (that’s literally in the doc btw).

FR though there’s some good stuff in here lol

I think this kind of thing might work in a civil society, and let’s hope we stay in a civil society, but once the boots start hitting the ground, once onlookers start saluting back, peaceful protests won’t work.

Stay vigilant o7

I don’t know, wait for leadership to arrive.

Keep speaking out, speaking up, and pointing out that it’s really us workers against the billionaire corporation class.

Bring people together, IRL, and have actual conversations. Apes really are strong together, it’s not a meme, it’s real life.

This really is how fascists rise to power.

The liberal minded can’t find the leadership to organize change. Maybe too many people are too comfortable, but it seems to me a lack of a strong message and organization. A lack of left-leaning, anti-corporation, for the people kind of leadership.

Why are they running a memecoin scam, and nobody is regulating that for a sitting U.S. president?

If you still have your Amazon Prime subscription, Facebook Account, Twitter Account. The literal, very least you could do, is not support the companies of these literal Billionaires, with a capital B.

We need to bring back community, actual in person communities. Supporting local businesses and bring people together for discussions and socializing. As a society, we are too disconnected. It’s too easy to just throw a comment online (what I’m doing now) and move on. Actual change comes from society, and as a society we need to make change together.

Real talk.

The richest men on the planet Earth are surrounding and and giving gifts/favors to a man who holds the highest position in a World Superpower with one of the largest militaries on the planet.

What can we realistically do to fight a possible incoming Nazi regime?

We’re gonna be ethnically cleansed by old, poorly dressed, unatheltic losers 😭

Specifically because they have accumulated so much wealth that they can pay people to do terrible things in seemingly unterrible ways.

The Dems are going to win. It’s painfully clear that Trump (and his cabinet members) are unfit to lead and do not have the best interest of our nation’s people. We’ll have to wait til November to what degree that is.

A better approach I think is voting more progressive thinkers into congress and other places of power and authority.

It feels like a long con. The years of eroding the educational budget have finally paid off. It’s going to be an upward battle to bring back logical thinking and media literacy.

Tyrannical governments rise from apathy. The final governmental check is its people.

How is this going to “shift votes”? How exactly? From who? Who’s really on the fence between the “Old man” and the convicted felon suspected to be a pedophile attempting to become king? No sane person is shifting vote over this and the insane are already vehemently R.

Probably not every single solitary person, but the majority. I think politics have been too divisive to the point where the middle is too slim to make a difference. These aren’t new political candidates. Nothing has changed.

From the NYTs - what a bunch of lame-ass ragebait.

There’s no wide middle, who is actually still undecisive in this election? Actual people, IRL I want to meet them. Not some twitter jockeys or media talking heads, not some podcast. Actual voters.

Do you actually know those people IRL? People on the fence? I haven’t talked to anyone who hasn’t already had their vote decided. The political climate has been the most divisive in my lifetime, to the point where the people I’ve spoken with IRL are either dug in with Trump or dug in against Trump. This scene doesn’t change Trumps degressive views or awful policies. It doesn’t change Trump from being a Felon or suspected pedophile.

If there are swing voters it’s likely a really small number. At the end of the day the Democrats are dug in on Not Trump, and they have the numbers. They showed up for the last election, and the divisive politics have kept it in their peripheral since. RvW was huge, 2025 has been getting traction. There ain’t many left that don’t have their political compass set.