Also how nice would your poor people shit be if you had it anyway? Jeff Bezos’ yacht has sub-yachts that are nicer than a poor could conceive!

Was JUST about to post basically this 😂

I mean, in theory you could overpay Raytheon execs to provide free school lunches or something. Using weapons of mass destruction as your specific grift to funnel money to the overlords is a choice.

True, but Israel isn’t profitable. If it was a US citizen they’d let it die homeless on the street with no healthcare or food.

I think people can be more warmed by number go up on ad revenue supported screen longer than one might expect, but we’re in a real life social experiment by our betters right now, so we’ll see if I’m wrong!

I’ve worked for a major US media company and this 100% tracks with the kinds of things that would happen tech-wise v what the suits say

Plenty of non-neolib lefties on Rumble

You have said the actual truth

While materially true that there are finite resources, I see little evidence anyone in DC sees that when no american benefits from spending the dollar in question. It allll just goes on the tab and I bet Trump will spend $30+ trillion unpaid. I don’t think the tech oligarchs are becoming republican because of China, they’re following raw corruption for profit and some weird crypto-ey mass dumb trend thing (see Zuck’s weird nod to rightwing podcast incels latin shirt thing). All of tech from AI to crypto is scams now. There are no 1000x yield social media-style markets left out there, so they’re going for the con and just hoping something else comes along imminently. Which having worked on the web longer than I’d like to admit was kind of always the case, but like, 20/20 hindsight, pets.com was a viable model and the internet DID change everything. But I don’t think there are any imminent new horizons, so the tech oligarchs are going with Trump because he’s been grifting since before they were born and game recognize game.

I love how when an actual american needs help, it’s a waste, and you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you mooch, but there’s always infinite money to defend countries with better standards of living… I’m skeptical that will actually end. Trump talks a big game, but he CRAVES elite approval.

Neolib himbo proposes policy nobody believes he will even attempt

As per when Clinton normalized cutting benefits and Obama normalized killing American citizens via drone, the “resistance” Clintonian shit will only be used against us to stifle the left. Any “radicalism” that preserves capital will be allowed to thrive like Trump, any that doesn’t will be killed on the vine like Occupy and Bernie

This kind of analysis… I can tell you as a leftist… The NYT is closer to the GOP on everything but the DEI shit the Hillary dems used against Bernie that has metastasized into a cancer on their for nothing but paying Neera Tanden and Donna Brazil’s bills party. The Left is labor solidarity forever and nothing else. DNC need not apply.

A first miss from the paper known for the reliable reporting of Judy Miller. SAD!

Sweet summer child… it’s a LOT! Especially now. Tl;dr FOSS is your friend, EVERY actor you engage with in a capitalist system, even the state itself is an adversary… You WILL be spied on doing modern anything online, you basically need to do a cost/reward calculation about what you are willing to do. There are many reputable online privacy guides, there are communities here on Lemmy, but sadly there’s no good one size fits all solution here in the modern chaotic landscape.

(Glossary: FOSS is FREE open source software, like Linux, among a galaxy of great projects run by humans for humans and not for capital, and all free as in speech, not beer)

No leader of a “democracy” has more deserved the guillotine than this “human-animal” to borrow the nomenclature of his klezmer nazism

Yup. I look forward to next general election where they’ll notice Starmer actually underperformed Corbyn '19 in the vote count WITH 40+% other party members voting strategically just to punish the Tories this one cycle. It’s going to be a Tories-this-cycle-level Labour BLOODBATH.

Is there an axis on which Starmer is an improvement over ANYTHING? Seems like the lowest level of neoliberal scum possible.

Pour one out for random regional parties with anachronistic ballot access who put their third party faith in that… idk what to even call RFK Jr… a quixotic bon vivant, who takes roadkill to steak houses? A recovered addict who won’t admit his habit fucked his voice up and not a flu vaccine? Rich kid is perhaps most apt.

They don’t care about winning. They care about being cool at the right DC removedtail parties,which they have achieved by extracting their own base from the party in favor of a war criminal who left office with 13% approval.