@argumento you have to say it because USians are totally brainwashed, live in a basically totalitarian media environment where it's impossible to reflect upon history, and can't even imagine doing politics beyond their 2 party system
there are many less compliant alternatives: Misskey / Sharkey / IceShrimp, Pleroma / Akkoma, Diaspora still exists somehow but doesn't use activitypub. Also Friendica and Hubzilla which federate with both ActivityPub and Diaspora, but no one uses those
personalseriously getting force masc'd by capitalism, having to do physically intensive manual labour next to heavy machinery, on top of actively loosing my hearing, increasing muscle mass / testosterone, getting all moody, having to give all my money to dependants and just turning into a ball of misery and resentment