To be fair, they had to Nerf us, and it wasn't just RH. The complex gambling mechanics the wealthy set up to enrich themselves would have collapsed and hurt some rich people if market mechanics had been allowed to play out.

States' rights are only for hurting people. If the federal government is doing something that keeps people alive, the states have a right to exploit or kill them instead. If the federal government is doing something to exploit or kill people, the states don't have a right to do anything. "States rights" can really be summed up as "maximum torture and death rights."

Good job half-understanding the concept of global markets, dumbfuck.

That may be their public justification. But the nonsensicality of it smells more like a face-saving legal fiction. Someone told them it was never going to happen on Linux, and they jumped to keep from showing their whole ass.

How many allies and partners have we threatened since Jan '25? How many have we waged economic warfare against, while rewarding dictators? How many have we threatened with fucking annexation like some tin pot shit hole? At this point, any liberal democracy would have to be suicidal to let this nation acquire so much as an ounce more leverage over them.

For starters, it's entirely unworkable. The source code is public. Not only can I just strip out whatever age-verification bullshit is included before I compile, but I can even write a short script that does the same for anyone who wants the spyware out of their OS. Linus ain't putting that BS in the kernel. The GNU environment doesn't have a good place for it. Systemd maybe? Same as anything. Strip and script.
Carve it out or don't. It makes zero functional difference. Wasting their time and our money tilting at fucking windmills.

Having a memory that lasts more than 5 seconds is "adorable."

Can we just shoot them both into the sun and be done with it?

2026, and Harvard just invented the grading curve.

I'm with the AI here.

Fascism has *always* relied on false equivalence.

The title of the post is, in fact, about trying to keep poop off the plate.

You must be talking to me. I'm the only one here.

Hit that cope harder. Harris wasn't perfect by a stretch, but she wasn't an incompetent silver-spoon bitch boy who grew up shitting in a gold toilet and never hearing the word "no." She definitely hasn't bankrupted 6 fucking businesses. The "Kamala would be worse" talking point is just unsupported cope.

The point is that people like you keep making the problem worse and worse and worse while denying it exists. And then when it overflows, you want to pretend you're the adults in the situation instead of acknowledging you're the the assheads who intentionally did everything you could to make their living environment unstable in the first place. Cunt.