Eggyhead

It’s like they’re so corporate-plagued over there that the extent of their innovation is to buy other companies, rebrand things, and sell subscriptions to stuff. Microsoft HQ is like Dunder Mifflin of the 2020s

I f*cking called it, almost. I expected Elon to be the first megalomaniac to do this shit, but Zuck was the obvious other option. These oligarchs see themselves as pharaohs with their own version of immortality. We’ll be dead and gone and our great grandchildren will still be putting up with their bullshit.

Would it apply to politics?

That’s a really important question to ask, because anything can be made into politics.

I never said the left is immune to disinformation, just that a 5 year plan would likely land its fruition under a democratic president, which automatically makes it a bad thing from a republican perspective. Even though the process begins under Trump. It’s a nice setup for another round of anti-left propaganda when the timing is perfect for it, don’t you think?

5 year plan. It’ll happen under a democrat president and the right will be screaming bloody murder that their right to ~~misinform~~ free speech is being encroached, and build a their political platform on it.

I’ve heard that the “smart” feature services actually help subsidize the overall cost of the TV, but if that’s true, I doubt any of those savings are being passed to the consumer.

3 . I deserve to know what you’re doing, though… even though I already know what people like you do anyway. I just need to prove it.

1. Some of the US had a vote. Voter suppression tactics is pretty much how Trump eked out his 2nd “victory.” We had election interference: closing down poll stations in areas with low income people more likely to vote democratic, forcing them out of the election process through economic pressure. Passing rules that basically ensured you couldn’t vote unless you could take the whole day off and and be well fed for it (since people providing people water in line now broke the rules), long lines meant polls closed before everyone got to vote on Election Day, casting doubt on the integrity of the election and vote by mail system (which he’s still doing), making quid-pro-quo threats and demands for states to “find” votes, people finding their voter registrations mysteriously removed or changed, forcing them to reregister and possibly miss their chance to vote, rampant gerrymandering so democratic districts where divvied into majority Republican districts. Then there was foreign interference on social media, social manipulation experimentation from social media conglomerates like meta, domestic spying, met a new generation of e-propaganda… Trust me, most Americans know what he is and despise him. Real Americans are the people who brought you Friends and How I Met Your Mother. We believe in liberty and civil rights. We’re proud of our kinship with our historic allies, and now many of us ashamed to even admit we’re American when abroad. I lived in Malta for four years, and I was constantly referred to as “one of the good ones” because I wasn’t shy about my opinions on Trump. The more I ponder on this the longer this part of my response gets so I’ll leave it here.

2. Nobody’s saying other countries should suffer consequences of US elections, it’s just an unfortunate circumstance of US global dominance. I believe other counties are doing the smart thing by reducing their reliance on US corporations and embracing more open-source alternatives. And anyone saying that Americans should be exempt from those consequences is irrelevant, because the fact of the matter is that Americans ARE suffering the consequences. People are getting brutalized and murdered by ICE in illegal raids, protesters are getting cataloged on ICE devices… which could be convenient for more voter suppression measures by the Trump regime.

So let’s revisit the original question. What is maga’ish in that comment?

It is dismissive, judgmental and standoffish. It is vengeful. It lacks understanding of cultural and historical context. It is narrow minded. It stereotypes all Americans into a singular group of voter. It encourages others to hate Americans.

And finally, you’re not doing yourself any favors with the “yanks always…” crash out comment. This is precisely the kind of sentiment you’d expect a mag-hat would have if you just replace “yank” with the n word or some other derogatory term.

Does this make sense?

You’d fit right in with maga with logic like that.

What a conning linguist!

For the record, I concur with you 100%. But to play devil’s advocate here, it seems like those who are meant to uphold the laws have forgotten why they existed in the first place, and likely won’t even comprehend them unless they or someone they know experience first hand the injustice of others disregarding those laws.

Basically, maybe they need to be reminded why rules matter.