Sick of apologists arguing for those in power to gain approval from he masses by clobbering small factions over the head.

Art is expression is speech, and government censoring it is wrong for the exact same reasonzas words.

Microsoft learned to placate government officials by donating to them. They sought power so they could gin up memes like "anti-competitive behavior" and sic true believers AKA their meme enforcement cogs, until the politicians git paid to get back out of the way.

Now, having placated the US federal government, most state governments, and most individual EU countries, they must now focus on placating the EU parliament AKA European Federal Government, whose politicians now are wondering why they, too, can't get a piece of the pie.

Well, the Russians bring this on themselves by continuously electing a "strong leader" who can "stand up to the West" because it has relegated them to a has-been world power.

Oh, you meant transgendered people.

And the Chinese will move in from the oceans slowly over 100-300 years, with an ongoing, powerful economy, continuint to drive science and engineering rapidly forward, as Europe, and eventually the US, fall further and further behind, their overbearing, if well-intentioned regulatory burden being scarcely different, burdenwise, from political corruption in 3rd woorld nations.

"And how are the students using their bottomless bandwidth?"

(Looks at screens) " Too much bottomless! Too much bottomless!"

Of course they had their own religion, so to speak, that they wanted to force on unbeliievers.

Hence religion and politics are actually the same phenomenon, and are about expanding control.
The correct solution is to recognize this and let people be free from capture by either, for the exact same reason.

You already know this reason...for classical religion.

Capitalism will arise naturally in an economically free world. Politics, a religion, has to actively work to stop it.

As for Libertarianism, as it wants you to be free from government control, and for government to only secure your freedoms so you can pursue them without interference, it is the political equivalent of atheism -- believe what you want, Mr. Other Politics guy, but when you force me into your ism, you're going too far, just as a religion forcing you to join does.

Sadly, a bare 51% transient majority suffices as memetic justification for adherants to feel good about themselves when forcing their politics on others.

Marxism is a large memeplex whose purpose is to gather enough followers so they can seize control over those who choose not to follow, and force its tenets on them as well.

Politics and religions are the exact same phenomenon. The correct solution to both is inherent freedom from compusion to join them.

Actually Man here. Actually, whoosh on you. He was being sarcastic, too.

Ahhh, the old Ireland apologist response. That didn't take long.

Ireland was a political split along religious factions. While awful, it's not the same thing as this, which is a religion per se attempting dominance to force its beliefs on everyone.

Ahh, the old "people who disagree with me must be mentally unbalanced based on that disagreement" meme, a common one in a memeplex's mass control mechanism, and a modern variant on "if you disagree, you are in league with the Devil" of antiquity.

Well, I best not disagree with you lest the lemming feature initiate thousands like you to tsk tsk me, which obviously I do not want, as I seek approval from you like Lisa Simpson does, giving emotional certainty to my positions in a feedback loop.

Gods, what's happened to this place? A few years ago, this would have +5'd no problemo.

Has Microsoft sunk so low you all are feeliing sorry for it?

Or are large corporations just getting more skilled with astroturfing public opinion, a sad eventuality?

There is a special place inHell for people who downmod comedy.

Half a dozen responses show many people should keep their hands well away from the controls.

"Ha ha, very funny. If you really hacked her, what was your coding strategy?"

"Top-down, Bottom-up."

Because it's another example of religion being ignored and silenced by yet another left-wing, commie journal.