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The article is written in pidgin since it is from the pidgin version of the BBC.

The head was the center of Charlie Kirk’s mass.

It is pretty telling when the bar for doing politics the ‘right way’ would apply to Hitler since he didn’t physically attack people. Libs are fucking useless.

This is why I think it is likely to be a right winger that did it, he is just one in the crowd of chuds from a left perspective. The only thing that made him stand out was his big head and small face.

They may as well put his cell in a hospital as that is where he spends 90% of his time anyways.

The only thing he loves more than fascism is being hospitalised.

The only way this stays in the media is if they find a way to blame it on a non-white or transsexual person. If it is just another right wing crash out it’ll fall away.

Remember Donald Trump getting shot? That was able to fall out of the popular consciousness. Charlie Kirk is a nobody in comparison

This guy literally argued that people getting shot is an acceptable price to pay for loose gun control. Getting shot while defending the right of people to be able to shoot him is what he would have wanted.

Oh, he died. Neat. He may not have agreed with your views but he will defend your right to guns to shoot him with until he is shot.

It is kind of funny how this will be entirely gone from the news cycle in a month. Nobody will care after that other than possibly the murder trial (if there is one), the only reason that the pharma boss getting shot stayed relevant for so long is because people are horny for Luigi Mangione.

The enshittification was already in full swing by the point wheee Google was pushing paid advertising to the top, charging more for it didn’t change the dynamic. The argument was already lost before they increased ad fees.

I don’t understand how the allocation of ads is supposed to work any other way than hiking prices until the breaking point, speaking of tendencies. If it cost 5 cents to publish ads it would either result in being close to useless if you are only allowed one ad per company or big companies flooding it with a huge amount of 5 cent ads giving the same result as the price hike.

The fundamental problem is the ads themselves (or capitalism if you wanna push it that far) forcing people to pay for exposure that would otherwise be organic. I think hiking ad fees might be the single worst example you could give of ‘treating business partners badly’ in this context.

The development of the toy poodle coloured the expectations for all poodles. I’ve been in a melee pulling one off my dog and that one was about the size of a German Shepherd.

They are not naturally vicious or anything but a lot of poodle owners think that they can just not train them and they’ll be fine due to their reputation as prissy companion dogs (same thing happens with Labrador owners and even worse with Golden Retrievers). This is also true for toy class dogs, but they are a lot easier to manage at least.

Just gonna throw out that I’ve never seen an ad for a local bridge tournament, your friends rock band playing a show etc as a paid ad (which the top post is about). It is the same people that are ‘pushing ads’ on the users that are being ‘squeezed’.

Posting about it and getting it shared is a different thing, and you’re describing in the second paragraph isn’t about paid advertising, it is raising a fee for access (like the blue check mark on twitter for example). Part 2 where ‘business partners’ come in to pay for ads is where that system is already dying since they will promote the ads over organic content leading to what you describe. The people paying for the ads being charged more isn’t the issue, the issue is that the ads are there in the first place.

Ads become less useful? How are cheap ads more useful?

No business has been bankrupted by increased ad fees, that is a simple win loss calculation. It isn’t vital for any business other than the ones that produce ads, but they are going to continue producing ads either way unless the platform loses all advertising in which case it will lower the fees or simply hemorrage money.

Business partners, not people putting up ads. Something like a platform becoming dominant (like apple, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft or steam for example) and then forcing anyone who is selling stuff via the platform to pay an increasing cut to them. Competitors can try to push them out with better models for those using the app to sell goods or services but it takes a lot to remove you from that position.

Paying for advertising space never comes into the picture.

Yeah, but the thing here is ad space, not vital infrastructure. The ads are part of the enshittification, charging more for them doesn’t make the platform worse.

How is raising prices for ads part of enshittification and why is charging more for ad space framed as underhanded? Would the platform be better if the ads were cheaper?

Just very confused by that part. The business guys would simply stop paying for ads if they thought it was too expensive.

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I just saw a clip of RFK jr speaking. Has he always sounded like that or is it recent?

That burger also looks kind of shit, not gonna lie.

One of the unifying traits among the global right wing (Majority Muslim countries excluded) is Islamophobia. The people this appeals to are the people who see liberal as a slur for the wrong reasons.

Some of Nethanyahu’s closest allies are also anti-Semitic, but they are supportive of Israel killing Muslims since it normalises ethno-states and Islamophobia.