Don’t see an issue here. The advantages of the Steam Machine is that it requires no assembly, looks nice and is optimized for standing in a living room. If you build it DIY you’ll as usual have lower costs, more performance, but higher assembly time and probably also less good looks. People who value performance or price over the rest will do it DIY, otherwise they’ll take the pre-built option.

Standard fascism playbook. Attach false labels to your opponents (if they already radicalized enough parts of their base, their base is going to go with it), then start oppressing them (or worse).

Trump also regularly attaches labels like “Radical Leftist X” or “communist activist judge Y” to people he doesn’t like. It’s to spread these false accusations, establish these falsehoods as a new reality in the public minds through constant repetition of such propaganda lies (see Goebbel’s dictionary, he mentioned that large parts of the population can be made to believe any false claim if you just repeat it enough times), and then to radicalize their followers to start oppressing these people.

Law, order, truth, science, it all doesn’t matter anymore. Fascism is all about creating its own warped reality in which everyone who is against the fascists is a ripe target for oppression (or worse).

It’s also going to get worse as time goes by because they want to remain in power even when their terms are limited, i.e. they need to establish a dictatorship-like form of corrupt and criminal government which also fuses with ruthless mega corps and other ruthless, powerful billionaires on the other side (who benefit from corrupt, right-wing extremist governments). And thanks to the internet and billionaire-controlled proprietary social media platforms and some other media companies, it doesn’t stay local to the USA - the brown propaganda spreads to all western democratic countries, turning a significant portion of citizens into fascists who will then vote right-wing extremists into power.

Next to climate change, this is the biggest problem we have in the western world right now.

Miller is 100% pure Nazi. De-nazification needs to happen soon.

They probably reached their goal. It was never about efficiency. That was just the PR spin to sell it to the public. It was about getting rid of pesky regulatory bodies which stood in the way of making more money. Especially those who hindered Musk’s companies.

The USA is currently experiencing the end phase of capitalism: massive corruption turning into open corruption with an economic oligarch class fusing with the government, massive income gaps and problems for regular citizens, class and culture wars plus reappearance of fascism to keep the population busy with culture wars among themselves instead of uniting against the exploiters, and so on. But it just started in USA. It’s already swapping over to other western democratic countries as well.

You becoming a neo-nazi by constantly being served right-wing propaganda on company-controlled social media channels is better for their business than if you were a neutral, critical thinker. It’s why Twitter was worth the 40 billion for Musk. Not because he expects it to ever repay itself. But because he can produce more loyalists by influencing what the algorithm shows and hides for you. Nazis are great for them because they’re busy fighting against other parts of the population while giving the wealthy class a free pass to do what they want. Which is more money, more influence, more exploitation.