The Republicans wrecked the world economy in 2008, destroying half the wealth in the world, and were only out of power for 2 years. No matter how bad it is, there is nothing that can pierce the reality distortion field generated by the right wing propaganda machine.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all the party members who aren’t loyal to him get charged with corruption and thrown in prison. All modern dictators put up a charade of legitimacy. Even North Korea pretends to have elections.

Also, despite how much Trump wants to pretend he’s a dictator, he’s not. Both Congress and the Supreme Court have the power to stop this tariff idiocy at any point if the consequences get to be too bad. Xi is actually a dictator and the likelihood of any other power base overriding him is slim to none.

You have to work within the reality you have, not the one you wish you had.

It’s pretty easy to identify tankies. Here, I’ll draw some out for you:

Mao and Stalin were just as evil as Hitler. China is engaging in a genocide of the Uyghur people. Putin is a genocidal war criminal fighting a war of imperialism.

If they weren’t willing to do the bare minimum to stop Trump in 2024, we’re not on the same side. At best, they’re useful idiots for the fascists.

Then please enlighten us.

It’s because the stock market doesn’t care about anything except the next quarter. Valve can think long term because they’re privately owned.

Also hard to do anything when the people only give you 50 senators and 2 of them are Manchin and Sinema.

I doubt they’ll care, if only due to self-interest. Most of the corporate sites are trying to ban or deprioritize links because they don’t want people to leave their site and stop viewing their ads.

Of course they did. When it comes to voting, silence is consent.

You act like Epic, GoG and itch.io don’t exist. Steam has plenty of competition. They just suck in comparison.

The Steam Next Fest is how I found most of the good indie games I’ve played. Making a good demo will put you above 99% of the cruft out there.

Which is stupid because the government already provides the majority of healthcare in this country and is doing it quite well. Medicare has a 90+% approval rate from the people who use it and it is far more efficient than private insurance.

I looked up the MX records and they’re using the non-government version of Office365. The big difference between the gov and non-gov versions is that the former is staffed with only US citizens, whereas the latter is mostly poorly paid foreign nationals who I’m sure would love a big payday from China, Russia or Iran.

It’s about a 20% mortality rate for someone her age.

You’d think Trump and Giuliani selling pardons for $2 million a piece would be a much bigger example.

Biden already pardoned everyone convicted of possessing weed. The only “non-violent” cannabis offenders in federal prison are dealers.