Imagine westerners start doing this to CCP supporters…

“Comrade, you are under arrest for subversive activities”

“What?”

“You sent an email to another general plotting to stage a coup against Chairman Xi”

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Yea, my friend asked me to ask on Lemmy if what he did in Ecuador was a bad decision

/s

Lol you posting this is what was always meant to happen, same as how I am here and read your comment and replied.

No, you owe me a million dollars! Remember that small loan I gave you?

1984 is wayyy too exaggerated. We don’t need to force people to have a “telescreen” if everyone just voluntarily spend their own resources to obtain them. (Eg: Smart Home Assistants) We don’t need to have a “ministry of truth” when people voluntarily believe in lies spread on news and social media. (Eg: Various Facebook groups, “QAnon”, Fox News)

Plot twist: In this alternate timeline, you go bankrupt for spending all your life savings on gambling

What’s your favorite Subreddit?

/s (why are you asking about proprietary corporate platforms on an open source platform?)

Social media usually has all sorts of people, even if it’s only 1% shitty people, that’s 1 in every 100 interactions. And the percentage of shitty people is probably much higher. It’s going to be difficult to avoid.

For Lemmy: You can use an account on beehaw.org to reduce negativity. Downside is that they also defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Or alternatively, you can use another instance that federates with them all, and just browse mostly on beehaw communities.

My address is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C, USA. Come fight be bro. And no, not fist-fight, that shit is boring, we’re doing this the 2nd amendment way.

Don’t worry, the 28th amendment was passed officially annexing canada, and grants “Natural Born Citizen” status to all former citizens and residents of Canada, age restrictions were also waived. Everything is fine.

That’s not jolly, that’s not jolly at all!

Okay I might sound like an idiot, but what’s the difference between a phone plan’s minutes/messages quota and internet usage quota? Aren’t they both selling a predetermined amount of usage for a predetermined amount of money?

It is a pinned post, it probably just didn’t get federated to your instance.

1 million in BTC not 1 million USD converted to BTC, is what I meant

Lol the person I replied to said it as in 1 million in whatever currency they proposed. Not as in 1 million USD converted to that currency. Unless I misread that?

Why not make it Bitcoin? Worth much more 😈

They stop giving you money, spend it on helping your opponent win. Manipulate congress to impeach you. Also they can blackmail you since you technically took a bribe, you just didn’t honor your end of the deal. Realistically, it wouldn’t be the rich person himself/herself talking to you about it, but someone that works for them. They can have one of their goons admit bribing you and they can exchange their testimoney against you for their immunity against prosecution. They might’ve made a secret recording of the conversation, but conviently left out the part of which wealthy billionaire they’re working for. You might not even know the identity of which billionaire, all of the interaction could be through messengers.

Maybe you got a cabinet position for… um idk… Secretary of Agriculture because the president knew you and decided to appoint you for some reason? And then he/she and the VP both got involved in a huge scandal or something and everyone else in the line of succession were fired by the president for snitching on him/her regarding the scandal, then you are now the next in line?

(Don’t think too hard, it’s a hypothetical 😉)

Something highly unethical, but no direct killings or anything. (Think de-regulating oil industry, directing IRS to not audit their taxes even if there’s high suspicion, etc.)