Mint was made for you.

It worked with Pakistan-India.

That's a great point. We should focus on this detail to derail the conversation away from how fucking stupid it is to tank a green energy project while facing an energy crisis and an environmental crisis.

Well done, Mr. Troll! Get in the weeds! Drag them down in the muck with you. Don't look at the forest, look at the trees.

You're quite adept at this. You probably don't even realize you're doing it because you've staked out such an insane position that your mind is desperate for a way to cope. You've continued to support this idiot politician as he continues doing everything in his power to show you how stupid that decision was, so how do you mentally handle it? Those red herrings aren't just for the OP! You've got to distract yourself, lest you come to the unbearable but obvious conclusion that all of your core values are beliefs you've been scammed into believing by an impulsive demagogue. And if you've joined some idiot's cult, what does that make you? What does that say about you?

Quick! Find another distraction!

The OP wasn't going down the "free market" path, he was just pointing out what major hypocrites Republicans are because when their platform and campaign speeches all boast about how they're the "free market" party and then when they're actually in office all they do is shovel out corporate welfare to whoever payed the most bribes.

Stability, peace, and a thriving economy are such terrible things.

Since I was a child, ever Republican presidency came to an unceremonious end as something that president did completely fucked up the economy and destabilized the world. Every Democratic president left the office with the country in better shape than when he took it. I wouldn't even call that an opinion, it's just basic history that the policies of Republican presidents consistently leads to recessions, interventionism that doesn't work out well, and out of control spending for corporate welfare. That's just looking at the easily quantifiable stuff, not all the other stupid bullshit.

But you do you, taking pride in being stupid, because god forbid you get labeled "Democrat."

That is a pretty ridiculous assertion. Framework is the type of hardware that specifically appeals to Linux users. It makes sense that most of their customers would use Linux.

No, it will open up the door for the Saudi lenders to scoop it up as they continue their scheme reinvesting their oil money into American capital. The Saudis are taking advantage of short-term thinking American capitalists so they can have long-term ownership of our economy.

The diseased brain continues undeterred. Looking into things yourself. . .gee, I wonder what type of sources you're using.

One major problem with your train of logic (as Anamon points out) is that you actually believe in this thing you call a "media narrative." There is no media narrative, there's just a narrative you constructed out of bits and pieces of various media stories. When you find inconsistencies with the "media narrative" you're only finding inconsistencies with a fiction you have constructed.

You have lost touch with reality. While no one can perfectly understand the world, your mind has veered so far off into fictions that it cannot be trusted to relay even the most basic facts. In other words, you are a lunatic.

You do realize that no normal person understands what point your post is trying to make, right?

Your mindset is exactly what authoritarians want. It's basically the Putin model: get people to distrust any official concepts of truth so they will 1) be skeptical of any criticism of the authoritarian 2) be cynical enough to believe any alternative to the authoritarian will be equally as bad or worse.

Your post is riddled with these beliefs you have formed based on the speculation of your insular online communities and you don't even realize that a normal person has no idea what you're talking about. Worse yet, that previous sentence probably made you feel proud, like, "Yeah, I know the REAL TRUTH." No, you believe in fictions. You have become so absorbed in a fictional worldview that anytime you read about something in traditional media, your mind immediately starts speculating about the REAL TRUTH underlying the supposed lie, because in your fucked up mind everything you read in traditional media is a lie that only you and your super special online communities can decode into truth (by speculating and then turning that speculation into a fiction).

Your concept of the world has become completely detached from reality. You are an insane person.

You think that BlueSky users scare people, and then you admit to being part of a community that consistently produces mass murderers. You live in a severely fucked up funhouse mirror type of world.

Tell someone you are an active BlueSky users and they will assume you vote a certain way. Tell someone you participated in 4chan at any point in its history and they immediately become afraid that you will go on a killing spree.

You had enough awareness to post AC because this post is so absurdly dumb, but you still felt compelled to post it anyway. Hmmm. . .

This has to be the weirdest conspiracy theory I have ever heard. He must really get under your skin. I do not usually mod rsilvergun up (posts are too long, often teetering on the edge of off-topic), but now I am going to start doing it just to mess with you jack-offs.

You just conflated desktop environments with a specific application. Linux has probably a dozen desktop environments that are superior to Windows.

Linux does not have a raster image program on par with Photoshop, but that is probably why you do not see any graphic designers using Linux. It is easy to take shots at GIMP because this community developed program cannot match up, feature for feature, with a multi-billion dollar Photoshop. But there are a great number of community led projects that blow their proprietary counterparts out of the water.

I'm pretty sure it was all his idea, including the smug marketing-driven leadership. Sounds like he had exactly the team he wanted working on this thing.