If you think that's the reason for the war in any way, you are staggeringly uninformed.

I don't see a third option and I hope I'm dead before the worst of it.

I suspect that the third option that is only really viable one left in the USA and other neoliberal shitholes like here in the UK involves guillotines and dragging the 1,000 or so monsters responsible for the downturn since the 1980s out of their penthouses, boardrooms & political buildings and getting rid of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This is handy, thanks!

What the hell does the market cap have to do with whether they're struggling? Do they make a profit or not?

sounds like you're talking about the USA, which doesn't really have a left. Just center-right.

left groups across the ocean are very much alive and still anti-establishment.

This whole thing was the exact plot of Altered Carbon (the TV programme and the books)

That sounds like designers are doing terrible work already if everything out there is crap! ;P

(disclaimer: i hate all this AI and slop stuff too)

So if you run a casino, and every time someone loses you give them a lollipop--then it's no longer gambling?

Without regulation, even the weak shit in the USA, Linux would've been crushed by Microsoft very early on. The USA's own antitrust trials against MS probably made them cautious of any moves like that...

The only reason that other governments are turning fascist is because of the USA. Over there you let absolute bellends get mega-wealthy and have a culture that pushes people to the right and far-right.

They then turn their huge, ill-gotten gains on the rest of the world to drag them down with you. They're afraid, all the time, of most things--and the idea of an alternative system flourishing anywhere else that erodes their wealth and power terrifies them most of all.

It'd just be pathetic if it wasn't so destructive.

This is mental, I live in the UK (itself, falling apart) and just paid £40 for a good concert ticket to see a contemporary band!

I had some American friends fly over to Sweden for a week to see Taylor Swift there. That whole trip (flights, hotels, concert tickets etc.) was cheaper than just the tickets to see her in the USA.

I do feel bad for you all.

The obvious thing to do is just to kill immunity for platforms that have an algorithm decide what you see (maybe only those over a certain size)

Chronological feeds of everything you follow / choose to look at? immunity remains

WW2 was already won by the time the USA officially joined in. They waited to see which way it went before choosing a side. Not to say there weren't heroes from the USA that helped out, but the uniquely American myth that they won the war is delusional.

It's sad, the "Citizens" united decision marked the end of American democracy. It enshrined two absolutely abhorrent concepts in law: 1. that corporations are people and 2. that money is speech. :|

Correct framing is that elites remove wealth from the rest of us BY MEANS of unrestricted immigration.

Bullshit. They removed it by any means necessary. Yeah, sometimes that means importing cheaper workers, offshoring, and underpaying poor undocumented immigrants who are generally fleeing war or poverty the UK directly caused. It also means bribing politicians, committing massive fraud, wage theft etc.

Plenty of developed countries within the EU have high migration and better economies.

We have a collapsing (sabotaged) health service that depends on immigrants, same for agriculture because we simply do not have enough people and rich cunts are huge parasites sucking all of the wealth away from us. The consequence of 40+ years of neoliberalism and right-wing rule.