Dude, "loot the treasury" wasn't a thing until about 18 months ago. Just because the cult members excuse the orange god emperor of any wrongdoing doesn't mean we have to accept that.

Was there grift happening before the orange guy showed up? I'd be surprised if it weren't, but his arrival opened the floodgates. They aren't ignoring the nailed-down stuff either, since they're using crowbars now.

Hate? I doubt that. I would say that Sony's relationship to their "customers" is like that of a farmer to a herd of cattle: something to be dispassionately harvested for monetary gain.

Because rules are for little unimportant peons like Perez. The orange guy and his immediate minions are above such restrictions.

Pick one and stay there!

Actual smart people don't need to claim they're smart, nor do they avoid interacting with their fellow man. It's usually the aforementioned fellow man that says one is smart.

Actual smart people don't just know something; they look at the evidence. They also show their evidence when making claims. Neither of which you have done here. What you have here is a belief, and it's done in spite of the evidence. An orange con man's claims are not evidence.

Privacy has been under attack for decades now, and the attacks just don't stop. At this rate we might as well throw it out and make it so that if our privacy is for sale, then we better be getting compensated for it. If my activities are for sale then I better be getting a cut!

Radical changes: Anything that will get rid of systemic bigotry that doesn't affect me at all.

That being said, I'm quite sure that both sides would just as soon not fight culture wars; unfortunately the oligarchy can't have us getting along, so they bombard us with culture war bullshit to stir the pot. Enough lefties and righties take the bait, and they get to sit back and snicker while they do what they want while everyone is distracted.

They are all about THEIR freedom. Everyone else's freedom is at best nothing to them, and at worst something to take away.

Yes, let's completely forget about the only entity that has the power to make these companies behave themselves. I'm sure those companies won't boil the frog yet with their anti-consumer policies.

Then those companies need to stop calling it "buying" or "purchasing" as if they were actually going to own the item. Call it "renting" or "monthly subscription" instead, so there's no confusion.

Neither do I, or most any other person who wants them to Stop Killing Games. What we want is that if said company doesn't want to support the game anymore, that they make it so their game can continue to be played. Whether someone would need to run a server of their own, or to just remove the online connection requirement instead of shutting it down completely and getting pissy when someone hacks the game to do just that.

You're even more naive if you believe that nonsense. "bOtHsIdEs" is a dishonest argument that attempts to equate the rather "meh" Democrats with the democracy subverting dumpster fire of the modern Republican Party in an attempt to excuse the GOP of the abhorrent shit that they do. They are NOT the same.

Nixon didn't have a cult following him, nor did he have a complicit Congress letting him get away with his BS, and he also didn't have a SCOTUS that wants to let him get away with more BS. SCOTUS at least isn't rubberstamping all his activities, but they're done so on far too many cases.

7. Massively increased prices on practically everything due to tariffs and oil prices. Oops, that's not a good point on the economy now, is it?

Your list itemizes why the economy is doing great for the owner class, and has everything to do with why it's not doing great for those on the lower end of the scale.

Hyperbole at it's finest. Compare the monetary amounts of those grants to the amount of money involved in the fossil fuel industry and you'll see an orders of magnitude difference. It is incredibly foolish to sacrifice the planet we live on for the sake of making money.

The harm that your deliberate obtuseness and stubborn ignorance won't be forgotten either. But it's OK, you won't have to care because you'll be dead and gone before the shit really hits the fan. The planet may become uninhabitable, but your rotting corpse can rest easy that you didn't have to do anything.

Or it's simply financial motivation. Any steps taken will cost them money, and the problem is likely not going to really become a problem until after they are dead and gone. They'll be spending the money, but will personally get no ROI from it. Therefore, they choose to do nothing.

Why would they lament about the AI failing to train juniors? Isn't that who the AI would be best used to replace?

I take that back; the best people to replace would be the CxOs.