First law of privacy policies: if someone feels compelled to start out by ensuring that your privacy is important to them, it’s not.

If it actually is, their policies will demonstrate that clearly and unambiguously, and they won’t have to be so defensive about it.

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While it won’t solve the systemic problem of sheer evil and complete idiocy in the Republican Party, I cannot wait until this asshole is dead and gone

Agreed on both counts.

While Trump is an especially malignant tumor rather than the underlying cancer, a tumor can still itself kill you if not excised in time.

Corporate welfare IS an inevitable consequence of capitalism.

Capitalism is an ideology that venerates the accumulation of capital over everything else.

Nothing helps with capital accumulation like under-regulated and over-advantaged corporations.

The corruption isn’t a feature of the system, it’s a sickness

The system is a sickness, of which corruption is a symptom.

what we’re doing now isn’t capitalism, it’s corporatocracy.

Capitalism is an ideology that favors the accumulation of capital over all else and, corporations being the most effective vehicle for doing so, corporatocracy is an inevitable component of it.

It’s the end stage of capitalism, the part of the Monopoly game where one guy has all the properties except the dude with the railroads, and the rest of us are hoping to land on Free Parking.

AKA the goal of capitalism.

Monopoly was originally called The Landlord’s Game, and was created by a Georgist as a critique of and warning against the inevitable consequences of capitalism and rent seeking as well as an education tool about Georgism.

It even had a cooperative game mode where the goal was to beat the bank by engaging in the kind of mutually beneficial trade that’s antithetical to capitalism.

That Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) took it and turned it into a popular CELEBRATION of rent seeking is exactly the kind of bullshit Elizabeth Magie was trying to warn people about.

There’s no (beneficial) innovation. There’s no competition.

And that’s a natural consequence of capitalism.

Contrary to the pro-capitalism gaslighting, capitalism is NOT about improving conditions for the many via healthy competition. It’s about increasing the wealth of the privileged few by eliminating competition.

This article is just the usual red scare propaganda from the pro-establishment rag NYT trying to convince the public that horseshoe theory isn’t bullshit and that voters in “purple” state care as little about the working class as the DNC leadership does, thus demoralizing the left.

That being said, I hope it works out EXACTLY as well for the fascists as boosting Trump did for Hillary.

What could America have done with a spare ~17 billion?

COULD have done a lot, WOULD probably just squander it on wars, tax breaks for billionaires, and subsidies for the companies of billionaires.

Judging from 2024, the angry voters unpopular Dems will do ABSOULTELY NOTHING

Fixed it for you.

Also, more recent events such as Mamdani and candidates he endorsed beating “Centrist” (actually right wing to far right) establishment Dems who had the backing of the entire DNC machine would indicate that the angry voters ARE doing something.

Least surprising headline of the day.

“WITH a deathclaw!”

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As a mod dev

Not all heroes wear capes 🫡

Reminder: this walking human rights violation was confirmed unanimously with no abstentions by the Senate.

Yes, even Bernie voted yes to this worm of a religious fundamentalist hypocrite bigot demagogue.

That’s the nifty part: once it becomes the only one, “daylight saving time” BECOMES standard time.

Whether you choose that or the current “standard” time is almost completely arbitrary, and thus nothing to be sad about 🤷🏻

I like the idea of how infuriating removing the paywall must be to FORTUNE of all publications, almost as much as I loathe reading what they consider worthwhile journalism/opinion…

Plus their $5 rotisserie chicken is the envy of the world.

Or at least the envy of this guy who lives hundreds of kilometers from the nearest Costco, over 1600 when avoiding Sweden 🤷🏻

Here you go

That’s pretty much 90% of his public statements.

The rest are bigotry and weird bible interpretations, often at the same time.

Plus it’s just going to become filthy again when he shits his diaper again a couple hours (minutes?) later.