Hahah! I didn't know this one and it indeed made me laugh. Yeah, it's precisely like that.
Same for me. Boost and Sync.
Lurking in Lemmy makes me realise how toxic Reddit was becoming these latest years. I like it here. It feels warm and comfy.
Have you read "Christian Nation", by Frederick C. Rich?
It won't. Sometimes it feels like some people have been reading certain dystopian science fiction and alternate history novels and stories as if they were a blueprint instead of a warning.
My old person traits are most of all posted here because I am an old person.
But I'll add that my old person traits is that I think a living wage should support... er... living, including a place to live, food to eat, paying for services, buying clothes, getting decent public health and education, and even have spare money for your free time (hobbies, eat out, theatre, concerts, etc.).
Civil war in contemporary USA. And the right manipulating the system to give itself perpetual, absolute power.
It's an interesting alternate history novel.