People are surely going to believe you alarmist lefties. Russia collusion, pee pee gate, Trump watching chimps all day, Trump selling documents to Russia, everything is a lie or at least a twist designed to damage Trump, and in the last 8 years all unproven. (muh but he did ubstruktion!! but but jan6! but but mean tweets!)

When trying to engage with people like you, the usual reply is an unsourced quote from some Reddit sticky pointing to more alleged accusations, sourced by publications such as the Guardian, NYT or HuffPost. You're not interested in discussing the facts, you only want to express your political POV. You are part of the "I only like democracy when the outcome is my preferred candidate" crowd.

OTOH, I didn't see Trump's children sell "artwork" to the highest "anonymous" bidder during the first months in office. But I'm sure you have a perfect explanation why that is morally fine and should even be lauded.

> Customers have the option of paying an additional $2.99 per month to keep avoiding advertisements.

Customers have the option to tell Amazon to go fuck itself as well

"Someone older than me pointed out that I was incorrect so I now call him boomer and won't admit I was mistaken". Just like how a 40-year old should respond.

I guess that says more about the prophetic skill of the WSJ. Did they advice to invest in pre-war Germany as well?

Do you have an example of multiple generations blocking new entrants in a capitalist system? Because I don't think that's a thing. It's not like the Ford family has cornered the automobile market for generations to come, Hilton has a monopoly on hotels, or the Walton family owns all grocery stores.
Rich families tend to move on to more profitable markets, until they either have all their money in passive income or the offspring blows it all on hookers, blow and crypto. Anyway, the pie is large enough for everyone to get a piece.

Yeah, not really. The Chinese economy is on the brink of collapse. Their property market is crashing hard, foreign investors are not interested, banking is a shit show and their population is rapidly growing old. Don't you watch Zeihan??

Ads are evil. Google's motto was "don't be evil". They failed.

If I really cannot block an ad, I open it in a background tab and mute that tab. But some ads have become so smart that they pause when put in a background tab. So I put those in a new window which I place behind another window. I then revisit that window after some time, after all ads have passed, and then restart the video.

Quite annoying but never underestimate the effort I am willing to undertake to prevent seeing ads.

Agree. Never, ever accept a CBDC. No privacy and too much chance on government abuse.

He had a brief moment of fame during Greece's financial crisis. But over the years it has become clear he's a communist with a pro-Russia agenda. So you don't.

Well, if you project an operational profit where you have a 100 million loss, it may be partly due to bad financial management.

That's just a baseless claim. Plenty reputable companies and institutes have been named after their founder.

"nobody" - sure, there were haters back then as well. Most people were simply amazed and appreciated the upgrade from Windows 3.1. Bill gates didn't become a billionaire because nobody liked his software.

Everyone ultimately profited from the oil. Shell paid massive amounts for the exploration rights. Every liter of fuel that has been sold has brought many times that in taxes and levies, all in the name of environment and climate. Then use those taxes for what they were intended for, clean up the environment. Shell does not own the fields, it is just extracting the oil and gas.

People always bitch about Microsoft abusing the market but the truly evil corp is Google