Just cause someone has a shitty door doesn’t mean its cool to just walk in their home and mess with stuff/them

Yes, that is why I said you have to question everything.

I do recall Kamala and other establishment Dems going to a rally a while back and everyone here just getting salty about how she’s riding coat tails. I understand the skepticism but SOME have supported for longer than this last week.

Not everything, but enough that you have to question everything. Which is what makes the process so exhaustive and thus the end goal of those that use those tactics.

Didn’t say it wasn’t still Capitalism. But there is still nuance between one company doing everything it can to squeeze alout as much ‘potential profit’ possible at the expense of their products and the consumers v one that maintains the quality of product and service a the expense of ‘potential profit’.

Whatever Ism you prefer still requires people to set and maintain a standard. The lack of standards and accountability is how you get the race to the bottom.

It takes zero political will to say that people should be treated fairly by the government regardless of who they are.

He is being tapped to replace another future kicker likely to run for office right wing dork

The point is that you can participate and thrive in capitalism without doing every resource extracting enshittification strategy in the book, which seems to be just Business 101 these days.

Is Steam perfect? Probably not. But most other major players in this space seem to leap at every chance to charge people more while worsening their product and then we get thought pieces wondering how Steam remains popular by virtue of not actively making things worse.

Its like holding a cup of coffee in your hands but your hands are more likely to smell like balls after

Do voters bear no responsibility for whom they vote for?

Yeah he’s been openly suggesting a 3rd term for a while now. Selling hats and other merch. There have been multiple officials throughout the past 2 years publicly comment that they are looking for ways around the term limits. Every justification is some weasely attempt at semantics. Every criticism is met with ‘he isn’t serious’ or some such hand wave.

Yet here we are. Some folks still pretending like it ain’t plain as day.

The fact is, one party has an active and stated goal of stripping the US for parts and the people of their rights. The other is headed up by milque toast corpo stooges. I shouldn’t have to write a manifesto detailing the ills and failures of both parties to point out that basic but distinct difference in approaches. Dems are political mercenaries at best, Repubs actively campaign on removing rights.

And I’d love to see the D Party actually run on holding people accountable. Let’s not pretend that is an active campaign goal for the Dems. I’d die to hear basic patter like that from Dem leadership. 99% of the time they run to the middle like you pointed out.

Of all things to ‘both sides’ this is stupid. One group is actually following due process, the other is literally ignoring due process and intercepting any attempt to reign in corruption.

And none of that ‘controlled opposition’ patter, due process was moving forward until Trump was re-elected and every bit of opposition was summarily dismantled and dismissed.

I mean investigations are the first part of due process. I agree the rest needs to follow, but an investigation is the start of things.

We also need to quit electing people who like to scuttle investigations, destroy evidence, and stymie witnesses/victims. That is the bigger hindrance to due process.

And yet he is inexplicably relaxing sanctions on Russia while they are invading our ally, Ukraine (whom we signed a pact with to protect them from Russia when they denuclearized). Russia also supports Iran. So we’re harming our ally to benefit our enemy, who also supports our other enemy who we are also at war with.

So if he can’t be blackmailed, then he’s just doing it for money/love of treason.

They had people light ballot boxes on fire in blue districts last election, no reason to think they won’t do that and more this time

Hey sidewalks are public, therefore there is zero issue. Glad that is resolved.

Damn AI bots taking away jobs from paid trolls

Trans Rights are absolutely important. But it is only an issue because right wingers say it is, there is no real substance behind their position. Moral panic and facebook shitposts are the backbone of the anti-trans movement.

US had these stats making the rounds 10 years ago. Right wingers loved to say X amount of the population does Y amount of crime. Then you dive into the numbers a little and its because charges against minorities are less likely to be dropped, their neighborhoods patrolled more heavily, etc.

Crime happens everywhere, but it isn’t enforced evenly. When you decide who you prefer to arrest, you can make the numbers say whatever you want.