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> in part because of the "political landscape," People really should be more explicit about this. The "political landscape" here is the desire to pay fealty t
by slg 2y ago
> in part because of the "political landscape,"
People really should be more explicit about this. The "political landscape" here is the desire to pay fealty to an incoming administration in hopes of currying favor. American culture didn't drastically change. Trump got 3 million more votes in 2024 than he got in 2020 which is largely in line with overall population growth. That 3 million also amounts to less than 1% of the US population. If that causes you to drastically change your opinion of the culture of this country, you weren't paying very much attention beforehand. The only thing that markedly changed was who is going to be leading the government and thereby the regulators that Meta wants to butter up. That is all Meta is doing with these recent moves.
- curtisblaine 2y ago> The "political landscape" here is the desire to pay fealty to an incoming administration in hopes of currying favor. Exactly as it was when DEI practices were introduced.
- slg 2y agoYou must have a short memory if you actually believe that. Diversity programs didn’t all coincidentally spring up in January 2021 the way they are coincidentally disappearing in January 2025. I won’t argue if you call them performative, but they absolutely weren’t just blatant appeals to an incoming presidential administration.
- hydrogen7800 2y agoWas that in response to a new incoming administration, or a series of social and cultural events?
- insane_dreamer 2y agoActually, these practices were mostly introduced under Trump, and ramped up with the Floyd protests, which also took place under Trump.
- dinkumthinkum 2y agoAmerican culture did not drastically change but mainstream media outlets and the entertainment industry attempted to make it seem as if it had shifted quite dramatically when it really had not. You can't simply say that all the people that voted for Harris support all this stuff. There were many people that voted for Harris or against Trump for many reasons but still don't fall into the far-left camp. It's just paying fealty. Is what has happened to AAA games and example of consumers paying fealty to Trump? Let's be serious.
- slg 2y agoI don't really follow what point you are trying to make. The stuff that Meta has reversed in the last few days is literally decades of slow cultural change. It isn't all DEI and trans folks. They are now allowing the use of "retard" for example. Almost every corner of mainstream American society outside those dominated by 13-year-old boys had left that word behind at least a decade ago.
- dinkumthinkum 2y agoA lot more people use that word in reality than you might think, as shocking as the that will seem.
- corimaith 2y agoTruth be speaking, that's not the direction the rest of the world outside the West has gone though, they'd actually be more aligned with those "13-year old" boys on those cultural issues.
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- insane_dreamer 2y agoIt's not just that Trump is in power now. It's that Trump, unlike any US President before him (at least in the modern era) is highly and publicly vindictive.