To conservatives, “handling” a region where the population is a different skin color and religion is removing it. So—if you asked Trump’s supporters, you would get an enthusiastic “yes” as a response.

Might be. It is definitely a thing, though.

When I used to work for a large American corporation that sold products to consumers, they took it extremely seriously and breaking it would result in disciplinary action. It probably had something to do with advertisement laws, but it also easily could have just been because it makes the company look very bad.

one place even asked people to write fake reviews on Trustpilot/job sites

That sounds unethical, to say the least. Did they verify if you actually did it, or just “suggest” you do?

Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.

Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.

Buddy, quit while you’re ahead not too far behind. You’re just proving what @[email protected] said: you don’t understand the difference between patents, copyright, and trademarks.

Another great post as usual!

For people interested in what’s been going on with Limited Run, here’s a 90-minute video that goes into a lot of detail about the sketchy stuff they did before this latest controversy:

https://youtu.be/MvkZkgmpg2w

You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.

They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.

The failings of the Democrat Party don’t absolve rural conservatives and undereducated voters of their part in this, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. The economy was doing fine because we had our lovely billionaires and mega corporations consolidating all the wealth and skewing that number while the average person was under growing financial pressure.

The problem was—and still is—the wealth disparity. We have multimillionaires and billionaires absorbing more and more money from the 99% while paying a pittance back towards helping the people they’re screwing. They get to dodge taxes by reinvesting their profits into assets they own, hoard resources, and act with impunity.

A voter base that took the time to understand what they were asking for would have seen straight through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled straight into it. It should have been obvious that he wasn’t going to fix wealth disparity. He associates himself with the billionaires, he sees himself as one of them, and he wants to keep it that way. He doesn’t give a single shit about wealth disparity, let alone ever acknowledge it as the problem. Instead, he won his campaign on vague promises about a word that means something completely different to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that cast their ballot for him.

If you grew up in the south, yes.

The economy wasn’t “doing fine” for more than half the population.

People who think like that are the reason Trump got elected.

the economy ≠ standard of living

The problem was purchasing power, wages, and inflation. People’s standard of living was suffering, but the “economy” wasn’t. Conflating the two is why Trump’s stupid rhetoric resonated so much with the uneducated Magats that voted him in: they thought he was promising to fix their standard of living, while the reality was that he was promising to “fix” something that wasn’t broken.

plus these are benches too it looks like

This part is the most surprising. For something meant to go in urban areas, where’s the hostile architecture? No railings between seats? No spikes?

I prefer removing the -french language pack on every install. The command comes with a typo though, so you need to fix that for it by adding /* at the end

“China probably will eat those tariffs.”

Lucky China, they at least get to eat something.

Not be that guy, but the person you’re replying to isn’t exactly wrong in saying “every vote counts is wrong” in some cases.

Being pedantically literal, yes, every vote is counted.

The reality of First Past The Post voting and the Electoral College is that the only votes that “count” insofar that they actually affect the outcome of an election are votes for the winning party. Now add on to that the common understanding that both major parties only care about what their corporate donors have to say, and that individual voter participation isn’t likely to influence anything other than the party campaign strategy for the next election.

That means that if enough people vote as a collective to flip which party wins, then and only then does their vote count for anything meaningful. People should vote anyways, but it’s not hard to see why someone might be just a little bit disenfranchised when their participation in the democratic process seems to result in nothing but wasted time because they live next to a bunch of a conservative hicks.

You are absolutely right about smaller state and local elections, though. Those are where each vote actually has a chance to be meaningful.

The only difference would be his location.

If it means collecting more taxes and finding new excuses to send minorities to the El Salvador concentration camp, it will magically find funding before next week.

A tankie is a hardcore authoritarian communist. They’re people who support governments and politics like Russia, China, and North Korea. Nearly everyone who learns of them can’t stand them, and they don’t have any support outside their own echo chambers or as “useful idiots” to authoritarian governments.

Anyone who says tankies are a bigger threat to the US than the Trump administration is either stupid or using it as a strawman to tactily support Trump.

If you do, better hope it’s not loaded.

In a Musk-approved world:

• You’re hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
• You’re hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
• You’re the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
• You’re the owner and the car hits someone while you’re not in it, you get sued for owning it.
• You’re the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for “not maintaining it”.

Is there no law enforcements with weapons in your courts?

American cops don’t protect American people. First and foremost, they protect their own. Beyond that, they protect the establishment that gives them their authority.

Same. We got not-the-onioned

Bro, if people hate you and you company enough to employ and pay others to protest, then you and your company must be an all new level of shitty.

His people—conservatives—don’t follow logic. They have a victim complex and see anything that negatively affects them as someone else’s fault and not the consequences of their own actions. If there isn’t an obvious perpetrator, they scapegoat one into existence.

I’ve debated some of these people and it’s hopeless trying to get them to connect the dots. You can keep presenting them with logic and evidence, and they keep shifting the goalposts and changing the topic to justify their beliefs. A summary of one of my attempts to convince someone that Trump isn’t universally beloved by average Americans went roughly like this:

• “Trump has improved the average citizen’s quality of life”
• “Then why are there 5 million protesters coming out every month?”
• “I haven’t heard of any large protests”
• (links to 50501 Wikipedia page)
• “They’re ‘protesters’ funded by the left”
• “All 5 million of them? That would be extremely expensive, even if it’s just $100 a person. Nobody could afford that.”
• “Remember, all the billionaires are Democrats” (Thiel? Musk?)
• “That’s not even their playbook. It’s cheaper and more effective for them to lobby for changes that benefit themselves.”
• “But they can’t do that anymore because Trump is in charge, so now paid protesters are their preferred choice”
• “Suppose they are paid. With 5 million people, there’s absolutely no way that they’re being paid will remain secret.”
• “OK fine, maybe it’s only a couple hundred thousand being paid.”

I don’t doubt that some tiny handful of people would be paid to protest for some reason or another, but I highly doubt it’s anywhere close to what MAGA conservatives think. IMO, it’s more likely that protesters would be paid by the other side to make the protest violent so they could crack down on them.