A few dozen Luigi’s is all it’d take

OP also completely neglects the geopolitical and demographic history that lead to the rise of US tech companies, and the continuous brain drain from elsewhere to the US.

After WW2 Europe and Asia were destroyed. It took decades to rebuild. The benefit of this to America can’t be overstated. A significant proportion of the worlds scientific community emigrated throughout the 20th Century because of this. US tech companies had the wealthiest capitalists/investors, and the most skilled labor pool. America also had a much higher wealth inequality, so all companies that came after benefited enormously from a comparatively wealthier and experienced skilled labor pool. Then add the neoliberal low tax, low minimum wage, and undocumented slave labor funneling money to all these companies.

Capital — especially preexisting capital — is the greatest determinator for success. The EU is not doing it wrong. The US is! It’s a corporate dictatorship, now descending into totalitarian fascist dictatorship.

I used a 360 camera app on iOS for years. Probably 2010 to 2016. Don’t think there’s been a decent replacement or alternative since it was removed from the app store.

iOS is enshittifying too.

Where’s Luigi at?

The entirety of global capitalism is lining up to bend the knee and gargle fascist balls.

This is what leftists have been warning forever. Capitalism wants the monopolies, bailouts — the political, financial and military backing, etc — that state-capitalist dictatorships provide. Democratically elected governments, acting in the interests of the people, are really the only threat to the corporate oligarchies wealth and power.

All of the wests “enemies” are equally supportive of fascism, because state-capitalist dictators are easier to influence (bribe).

You are why humanity will end up with fascist dystopian big brother, and you’re probably too ignorant to even understand how or why.

Start criminal proceedings to imprison the leadership responsible for non-compliance. Seize their assets to pay for any fine.

Why do we accept that all solutions to corporate crimes should be fines and kiddie gloves?

Freedom and privacy were cancelled with Citizens United. I suggest you take up your concerns with the corporate dictatorship who doesn’t give a shit.

Fun genocide fact! Israel has killed at least 10x as many Palestinian children as Hamas killed total in the initial attack.

Considering the real figures are likely 1.5-2x what is confirmed, the IDF has killed more children in the last 13 months than all Israeli’s killed by Palestinians since the 1948 war! Ain’t fascism a blast!?!

This is a prime example of how the Overton window has shifted so far right, the average person has a political amnesia, and how strong the US corporate dictatorships propaganda is.

Joe Biden — the lifelong neoliberal who sowed the seeds for fascism, financed by corporate Americas plutocracy — had his history rewritten and reframed as though he’s a progressive. While he may have adopted progressive policies in the last decade, he shifted with the political wind of the average voter, and didn’t hold those beliefs until they became politically advantageous.

He’s historically been more “traditionally conservative” and neoliberal than anywhere near progressive. Conservatism/neoliberalism has destroyed the middle class and crushed the entire working class; sowing the seeds for fascism.

Long history of support for Israel’s genocide too. Very pro military industrial complex.

Unless you own the AI model, and can run it on your own hardware, it’s profoundly stupid. People will become slaves to the corporation who holds their AI relationship hostage. They can kill your “loved one” at any time, for any reason.

Just a heavily self propagandized corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it’s a corporate dictatorship.

No politician can topple the power of hundreds of corporations, and the armies they employ, backed by trillions of dollars in capital… no matter how hard they want to, even if they wanted to. All they can do is virtue signal.

All of our modeling doesn’t account for enormous (potentially catastrophic) confounding and compounding variables which are too hard to estimate because we have a rudimentary understanding of the system. One example is the fact forests have already stopped absorbing carbon (something all our climate goals depended on).

What I’m saying is that the 2070-2090 window will in reality probably end up starting in 2030 or 2040. Remember, we weren’t supposed to exceed 1.5c for another 10-15 years, but we’re already there. At the end of the day we’re talking chimps attempting to understand a system many orders of magnitude more complex than we’re capable of understanding anytime soon… and our entire civilization is structured around the thing causing its own destruction.

I’m guessing 3M — the billion dollar corporation who poisoned these people with it’s product — will be forced to pay the medical costs for their crimes?

Lol. Jokes. I know we live in capitalist dictatorships.

I dunno what’s worse. Lying about Republicans being “for the little guy”, or actually believing it. Both point to significant logic, reasoning, and judgmental flaws in Proton’s leadership.

I’ve been calling America a corporate dictatorship for well over a decade, so Yen/Proton realizing the Dem’s are captured is welcomed, but the belief that R’s are better in 2025 is completely insane.

I’ve got 18 months left on my current plan, so that’ll give me time to see how deep this clusterfuck goes and transition away if need be.

The things we find cute are not necessarily the things which we associate with predators. We find prey animals cute too.

The peacock jumping spider is cute af.

What makes you think your beliefs represent the majority, or have any relevance to what the most successful criminally corrupt predators want?

That’s because the US is a corporate dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy”.

Fascism wants an internet where you have to verify your identity to use it at all. Capitalists want the same, and they’ve already built a turnkey totalitarianism mass surveillance precursor to big brother on behalf of neoliberal “democracies”. They will 100% finish the job for fascism. This was always the endgame of mass surveillance.