I mean we’re just now participating (i.e. discussing) socially. So what in what world isn’t that social media? I think we both agree that Facebook is bad social media, but that doesn’t mean that something like lemmy isn’t social media. Just because the term has a bad reputation because of platforms like Facebook or Instagram.
As much as I support Cannabis not being schedule 1 drug (in the US), it’s a bad comparison, as it’s a classification by the government, while social media is a cumulative term for various characteristics of an (internet) platform, in which lemmy definitely falls in…
Yes News aggregator is the sub class of that form of social media, but as it is done by the community, and there’s a lot of social interaction, it’s still social media…
After all this text-wall, I’d be interested in your political attitude.
So you agree with me? I didn’t say fascists are concentrating power, but they definitely maintain it (just look at the third Reich and literally all other fascistic states). (And in reality they definitely sought after concentrating power, yet again just look at the history of the third Reich…)
The world is much less black and white as you depict it here. True, all the (liberal) democracies to date have their flaws and at least traces of fascism (unfortunately) growing this time again. I can rant about it all day if I wanted to (but I consider that a waste of time after having wasted too much with that already).
But (true) liberalism is not fascism, say what you want. After all, it’s about being liberal (I don’t consider our late-stage-capitalism liberal btw. capitalism is as we see right now in the US also concentrating power to the rich)…
I consider liberalism closer to anarchism (not the capitalistic kind of course). There are obviously differences, but as being liberal has to do with personal freedom, and anarchism is about being against all forms of authority, it’s per definition closer to that than fascism.
How it’s interpreted is a whole different story. Same with all the “communistic” kinds of states. I don’t think we ever had “real” communism, only authoritarianism with the label of “communism”.