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Comment Re:Saved from the Ellisons, at least (Score 1) 66

You right wingers live in an alternate reality. Seriously.

1. Biden wasn't fascist.

2. Netflix never supported Biden in any meaningful way. Netflix in the meantime has promoted almost exclusively right wing content, from brainless action flicks to "comedy specials" that are dumb culture war bullshit and almost always promote the idea that cancellation culture is a thing. I watched an unfunny Gabriel Iglesias special on it and even he decided to spend five minutes on a presumably mandated "cancelled" section where he tried to argue he was "cancelled" (really? He's still getting gigs last I checked) because someone criticized him on Twitter. Yes, really. No boycott. No "I couldn't get gigs or had to have them in secret". Purely "I promoted an organization that funds lobbying campaigns to get the death penalty imposed on gay people, and someone I've never heard of said I was a jerk!" And he was serious. And that's about the most left wing you'll find comedy on Netflix.

3. The left has no media. The best we might sort of have is MS Fucking Now which is a joke and still has a morning show run by an ex-Republican Congressman, and while, technically, yes he's against the Republicans today, that's not because he's a Democrat any more than Dick Cheney was a fucking Democrat. Meanwhile the right has, on the extreme end, OANN, Fox, and Newsmax, all three of which regularly make shit up - the recent "Actor who plays former member of Antifa and who also played former member of Mexican mafia" nonsense on Fox being a would be hilarious example if (1) right wing nutbags didn't believe it and (2) it didn't show Fox was actively trying to fan hatred and misinformation. Meanwhile CNN is owned by a right wing lunatic, NBC is run by Trump sycophants. CBS is being bought by Larry Fucking Ellison, ABC is running scared and bribing Trump and suspending TV shows in an effort to stay on his good side - and was never left wing, just pro-corporate.

4. Soros is barely consequential. You've hyped him up for decades as some kind of left wing bogeyman and pretended he's in charge of numerous things, but the reality is that he's one person, and he barely funds anything compared to the avalanche of right wing money the last 3 decades.

5. Nobody is supporting "illegals". And the only party that's come out intentionally in favor of destroying America is the Republican party. Project 2025 is a blueprint for destroying America. SCOTUS's P25 supporters have made it clear they believe the President is above the law, which is as un-American as you can get. Trump has taken full advantage, which is as Un-American as you can get. Trump's goons are invading peaceful cities and attacking ordinary Americans, which is as un-American as you can get.

And you know what? Whenever this happens, he can count on un-Americans like yourself to cheerlead and support, because you literally hate America. You hate the idea of a democratically accountable government that has to operated under the law. You hate Americans who aren't white, male, and supportive of the hateful thing you call Christianity that no real Christian would recognize in a million years. You want to impose the shitty version of your religion that you believe in on everyone else like some crazed Iranian cleric.

So you have some gall criticizing everyone else for wanting to destroy America. What next? Gonna claim that you're the ones that "support the troops" when you're supporting having them invade American cities, pointing guns at American citizens, and simultaneously supporting removing veteran's benefits and destroying VA hospitals?

You fuckers make every real American sick. Nazi fuck-ups, every one of you.

Comment Re: Huh? (Score 1) 141

He's just being a typical American MORE BIGGER FASTER tool. I drive an 08 Versa with a 1.8l with 122hp and I have absolutely no problem being one of the fastest people on the road, because even a slow ass car by modern standards can do all the things. I never have trouble getting up to speed on a ramp or whatever.

Comment Re:From Volkswagon to Trumptruck (Score 1) 142

Honestly if it gets Americans to stop driving oversized pedestrian murdermachines then it may actually be something positive to come out of his administration. I mean to be clear it won't happen, and even if it did this isn't the intention, but still wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where America's pedestrian accident rate was *not* increasing?

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 142

and barely had enough power to get out of its own way.

Why do you need power? How badly designed are your roads that a small 3 cylinder 1000cc engine car can't safely reach highway speeds on the onramp? You want a racing car fine, but don't pretend that power is something anyone actually *needs* to commute to work.

Also I knew someone with a Mirage back in the day. The fit and finish matched every other car in its price range and was perfectly adequate for the purposes of going from A-B. I recommend not living in it, and maybe not using it to ferry Saudi Princes around, but beyond that it was a fuckload better than the Tesla of the day.

People like to imagine there's some great conspiracy that killed cheap cars in the USA, but the fact just was that the segment of the market that had the means to buy them, didn't want them.

There's no imagining here. There was a very specific action from the car companies lobbying to have exclusions for classes of vehicles from certain rules that resulted in a massive push to larger trucks becoming the standard.

Size matters, and by that I mean big things are often more expensive to produce. You complain about fit, finish, and price, but the Mirage given its size and engine in every way is much cheaper to put on the road than a large pickup or sedan. The fact that it isn't reflected in the price itself *IS THE CONSPIRACY*. You literally described it to us just now.

Comment Re:Never buy any product that requires... (Score 1) 112

It's not a necessity, but it certainly makes it a lot easier.

You contradict yourself. A product that isn't easy to use or setup in one or two clicks fails in the market. Hence cloud.

Optional cloud integration so you can control it remotely, fine, but the base functionality should be local.

While I agree, see the whole ease of use thing. Enshitification and dumbing down of everything is done because quite frankly most people are frigging useless when it comes to technology. The more options you have, the more rope you gave idiots with which to hang themselves. Most products are unfortunately designed for the commoner, not the techie in mind.

Actually my bigger gripe than this is that products which *do* have this functionality are often locked down to "professional installers". Like wtf. I bought the device, give me the god damn service code so I can configure it myself.

Comment Re:fuck this guy (Score 0) 42

You didn't have gopher?

I did. You know who didn't? Most people. Which meant the Internet was largely a source of information by a handful of nerds for a handful of nerds covering little more than a handful of nerd topics.

Yeah great you can find out how to compile a new Linux kernel. Whoope de fucking do. Where's a Dutch language video guide to how to replumb your shower? I could find great information to help my hobby of amateur radio, but how does it help the wife who has an interest in creating fancy cakes? It doesn't, because the content wasn't there.

The Internet was, and still is, more than http/https.

The internet's usefulness has nothing to do with the protocol. The point is the content, and back in its infancy it was a niche product for niche audiences with niche topics. Today it's being shat on by AI slop. But around the early 2010s it was a world of information about everything and anything you could imagine which made it most useful.

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