The realm in which he picks his fights is full of people who get off on being “above the fray.” Every time he attacks someone who can defend themselves, he quietly stops in a hurry.

More intelligence could do the guy some good. He can’t answer basic questions about things like his responsibility to abide by his sworn oath as well as how many signal leaks there have been at any given moment.

Lol, yes – Let’s hear from a conservative opinion piece and also the founder of Citizens United’s pet propaganda project to make our point about a factual event. I do appreciate the citing though, please keep doing that just with real sources.

Dejoy was step one. This is definitely step 2 or 3 at least. Arguably not making Amazon pay taxes when they’re one of the heaviest users of interstates was also a step…

The irony of that being hosted on NYT is palpable.

2 things missing that are more important than any of that:

Endless money and the freedom to lie endlessly. When you have standards, things take longer. Doing otherwise forms a weak government akin to fascism where you need an enemy at all times.

I guess definitionally Trump sycophants are extremely tolerant of the smell of shit.

It’s almost always a far right individual, even when the target is also far right.

If I’m not mistaken, a large component of Nintendo’s power comes from Japanese copyright laws being far more pro-copyright holder and Nintendo uses it to its full potential. In Japan, this sometimes results in prison sentences and often big fines. it’s also applied outside the country against a consortium of universal copyright recognizing countries and so it can affect you regardless of your location although I forget how exactly.

To @AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 's point, perhaps it is the weak qualifications for Japanese patents which have allowed Nintendo to bully everyone.

Probably the same symbolic back and forth “will he won’t he” that Bezos and Trump play.

They definitely are, although the most fetishized thing by them is black bulls cucking white men. Seems easy enough to see their criteria is things that flare up their enormous sexual insecurity. Femboys stuff fits that criteria for some of them.

It’s a classic case of, “I made this song for a small audience, and now it has a big audience.” Resulting in wanting to remove things that aren’t acceptable to the big audience, even if they’re obvious. I feel like the right way to handle it was to show regret rather than pretend it’s something else.

They’re being exploited to avoid death, compare that to what Macron wants from them. If anything, the good news is that EU won’t abandon Ukraine.

If you think a president who extorts the lives of Ukrainians for capital during a war will not extort the lives of Americans for capital at home, you’re unreachable.

You could argue “Brought to your courtesy of the red white and blue” song after 911 was conservative. It’s still devoid of symbolism except for patriotic slop everyone understands

I am very dubious of Oliver Anthony’s attempts to retcon his words. If he didn’t come out and try to gaslight us into thinking it’s about how government food stamps aren’t enough to eat healthy or pigeonholing mental health in there then I’d be more amicable to his childish over simplifications and both-sidisms. It’s fine if you don’t know about politics, but when you lie about your lyrics, your narratives inherently take on new meanings. The lyrics were not symbolic enough to be misinterpreted. He said the government ought not pay for your unhealthy food choices… He meandered about other bullshit in the lyrics, but I guess he forgot to mention the actual thing he was talking about.

I’ve noticed every conservative song can’t quite keep their lack of skills for symbolism for the whole song. The closest they ever came was the dude singing about the rich men north of richmond, but even then, he had to shit on poor people in poor health. Truly a man of the people.

You are the first trans person I’ve ever seen using that slur to describe themselves. Is it a reclaimed word thing?

Egg and chilli crisp both work equally well to elevate ramen. I still use their powder pack, but I’m sure there are good recipes without so much salt.

I believe you’re thinking of a ToS change where the wording was incredibly vague, leading to some outlets to claim they were selling browsing data to 3rd parties and AI modelers. They changed it right after to specify that the data they were using wasn’t browsing data, and the data they did gather wouldn’t be used for AI. They are not as invasive as google, but you’re subject to Google on Firefox because of the ubiquity of their telemetry and search optimizations across websites. Firefox with an add-on such as noscript is much better than Chrome still, in my opinion. At the very least, it’s nice to have a browser that doesn’t work to undermine its own add-on functionalities.