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Comment So I'm all for ditching cold war nonsense (Score 1) 57

But I do wish we would keep China more at arm's length because they are a fascist dictatorship. The same goes for Saudi Arabia and basically all of the Middle East.

I mean we're not going to do that but it would be nice if we would call them out on their bullshit and try to move them towards democracy. On the other hand is an American I'm watching my country turn into a fascist hellscape so there we go...

Comment Re:I noticed the Republicans disappeared (Score 1) 169

Oh goody the Trump fucks kids bot is out, letting us all know that Trump fucks kids. Because if it's one thing AI chatbots are aware of it's Trump's commitment to pedophilia. And the commitment of every single Trump bot to make sure that Trump can continue to fuck kids. Trump Fox kids

Comment You still think things are normal (Score 2) 68

That's the problem you have. The Republican party has a massive voter suppression apparatus. Not just all that nonsense Trump is spewing that's the tip of a rotten spear. There is a huge number of volunteers that spend hours and hours of their lives illegally challenging voter registrations and signatures. The Republican party has taken over most of the county level voter administration positions like county recorders and whatnot. In places where they can't control the elections at the state level they focus on the county level and where they can do both they do.

The Democrats cannot afford to lose another election. And we can't afford for them to lose another election. Every election since 2016 has been the most important election in your life and that's going to be how it is until the fascists are beaten back. They never go away but you can beat them back.

If on the other hand we don't beat them back then there's no coming back from it anymore. There's no allied powers that are going to ride in and save us from our Nazis. Once the fascists are in control of America and us that's it, it's game over. You will live and you will die in a fascist dystopian hellscape just like the people of Russia do. And you will be sent off to die in their wars just like the people of Russia

Comment I didn't take it as a scapegoat (Score 4, Insightful) 68

To me what this is is that every single person in the Trump administration no matter how minor role they play is completely and irredeemably corrupt.

We can debate why but the evidence is as plain as they. Anyone who isn't corrupt wants nothing to do with this administration. It's all smash and grab

Comment This is a pretty typical response (Score 1) 49

Company destroys the account of somebody in the account has significant monetary value. There is fuck all the person can do because it's not enough to sue over. Unless it gets picked up by social media and the press the person is just out the account they can go fuck themselves.

It's one of the reasons I would never want to be a youtuber. You have constant griefers, grifters and trolls trying to either hack your account and stealit or doing constant illegal and fraudulent copyright claims to get your channel taken down. YouTubers have to walk on eggshells so much that there is an entire lexiconography of words like unalive to avoid getting picked up by algorithms. Not to mention the length you have to go to to avoid copyright strikes.

Comment I noticed the Republicans disappeared (Score 4, Interesting) 169

Every single Republican seems to have retreated into a safe space where their ideas can't be challenged. I suspect things are so obvious at this point that you can't remain Republican and exit your safe spaces.

I get the occasional bot here and if my comment gets modded up they will show up and call me Chinese but those are obvious nonsense AI slop.

The numbnuts yelling TDS at me and going on about Hunter Biden have all disappeared. I don't even see the over on Reddit anymore even on the single remaining conservative forum. I'm assuming they're all over on Twitter with the other Nazis getting more radicalized.

Honestly when I think of it that way it's probably not a good thing but what can you do

Comment Welcome to the wonderful world (Score 2) 169

Of survivorship bias.

With the exception of some billionaires nobody's lives have gotten better because of trump. But because of survivorship bias or the idea that the shit doesn't hit the fan for everybody all at once some people have had their lives either stay the same or improve.

Among those people you've got two groups. You have a low information voters who barely know who the president is. And you have the frothing right wing nut jobs who just really really want somebody to have it worse than them.

The best explanation I've heard is, they don't care if their kid is hungry as long as somebody else's kid is hungrier.

Comment You know you're not important enough (Score 1) 120

You're not important enough to take away other people's right to vote.

I don't think you're comment is a bot. You seem real.

Once they take away my vote your vote no longer matters because they don't need you to vote for them to win because I'm not able to vote against them.

That's kind of how this mess works. People you disagree with lose the right to vote. That means your side no longer needs elections to win. That means the people in charge of you get to tell you what to do and there's nobody around the stop them. You become their slave. And they take all your property too.

I mean not you of course. You're super cool and super important. Your company couldn't live without you and women throw themselves at you.

Comment I don't think it's going to make a huge difference (Score 1) 15

From what I can tell color OS has bloatware but it can all just be uninstalled. The major complaint with color OS is that it has a different icon set that's meant to look like ios. Also by default color OS is missing all the Google apps but that's a Chinese thing. They can be installed they just aren't there by default like they are for oxygen OS.

There are probably some oxygen OS specific features I'm not thinking of that are going to be missing from color OS because I've turned them off in order to get my 13r closer to stock Android.

Comment It's just simple Big Data math (Score 1, Informative) 120

This shit goes all the way back to the opening of fight club. You figure out how many users have actually used content and therefore are likely to notice and Sue and you figure out how likely they are to be able to sue in the first place since it's very difficult to do any sort of class action lawsuits in America anymore thanks to lobbying from large corporations. Then you figure out a dollar amount on all that and a dollar amount to pay for the licensing and Bob's your uncle whichever one is bigger wins.

This is what happens when you vote for anti-consumer, anti-regulation, anti bureaucracy politicians for 50 years.

The thing people don't seem to understand is all those bureaucrats are the white collar cops walking the beat of the corporations screwing you over.

The only reason the DMV sucks, which is the only reason anyone hates bureaucrats, is because we intentionally underfunded because you can register the vote there. Several States just passed laws requiring the legislation to fund the DMV in order to create minimum wait times and as soon as they did that the DMV was fine and there was no complaints anymore about bureaucrats.

Also more people registered to vote.

Regulations are written in blood. And if you don't have somebody there to enforce those regulations the blood isn't going to stop. That somebody is definitionally a bureaucrat. Because we don't have cops policing corporations. Funny that when you and I do something we're not supposed to a guy with a gun and a stick shows up but when a multi-millionaire CEO does the same shit it's a guy in the suit with little or no power...

Comment Red magic (Score 1) 15

If you're in the States and want an equivalent that seems to be the one. I tried the newest Samsung Galaxy but the battery life was horrible.

Qualcomm chips have by far the best modems. If you've got signal issues the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 or 5 is the way to go. But they're battery hogs so you really want that 7000+ mwh battery...

Also watch out for expensive phones with old Gen 6 and 7 chips.

Comment No they don't (Score 2) 82

People don't want the news. News consumption continues to drop. People always thought of news as a bit of a chore. Something you were supposed to keep up with but not anything you enjoyed. It got turned into 24/7 entertainment crap when Fox News took over but that's not news that's propaganda. And even that isn't very popular.

People in America are in the habit of blaming individuals for either systemic problems or what our Epstein class is doing. It's a bad habit and I wish we would stop but well, there's all that propaganda encouraging us to do it...

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