[mingus88]

You don’t have to look very hard to see an enormous number of people expressing discontent at the latter.

To speak to your examples, the right to repair, farmers vs John Deere, the exodus from X to Bluesky, the rise of alternative messaging platforms, the outright murder of CEOs on the street and the beatification of the primary suspect on social media…just to scratch the surface

These are all headlines straight from HN and the fact that you even know about them is the difference.

The fundamental difference is while we both lack any real power to change this, under an actual dictatorship people get jailed or worse for that expression.

Let’s touch base on this again when Dictatorship from big capital means Disney puts me in prison for dissent against the mouse and then offers me clemency if I go to the front lines in their next special military operation.

[micik]

oh boy. you served GP a portion so generous they'll have plenty left over to take home and chew on for a while.

that last sentence rung like a bell & will reverberate until Larry Ellison's police drones follow you home because you blocked the drive-in of a Larry-owned fastfood franchise by way of a peaceful sit-in, protesting the mistreatment of human workers by robot overseers at Larry's Lasagna, nation-wide.

orwell it not come to that?