Except the “Small government” is even bigger. The only difference is that all the money gets handed to oligarchs. The Republicans have never reduced spending while in power.

This kind of shit is why the right keeps winning. Even the people that oppose them buy into their framing and repeat their lies and propaganda.

Nobody under the age of 60 watches tv news or reads newspapers, never mind that most of those are owned by right-wing billionaires and are managed opposition at best. They also have a paywall around them that keep out most people.

Compare that to the right-wing propaganda machine that infects absolutely every type of media. There are dozens of bullshit “news” sites with no paywall that get top billing in news aggregators, they’ve gamed the YouTube, Facebook, etc algorithms to promote their propaganda, right wing podcasts like Joe Rogan get promoted front and center on Spotify and so on

Ah yes, let’s listen to the guy who supports Ukrainian and Tibetan genocide.

The Tea Party was an astro turf campaign created by the propaganda machine I spoke off. It was funded and promoted by the Koch billionaires.

The main problem is that Democrats do not have a propaganda machine like the Republicans do. It does not matter what the message is if it constantly gets drowned out by the unceasing flood of propaganda coming from the right.

Because it’s Microsoft and they have to compulsively rename things every few years.

Just imagine if he had stuck to his promise of being a one term president and didn’t try to run for reelection.

Idk, as a white guy, that’s more cringe than offensive. Maybe that’s because I live in the South and can pass for a redneck, but I hear some vile shit from those other white guys fairly often.

You mind linking me to that ad?

Obama was a unique situation in that he was both an incredibly charismatic JFK-style figure and ran after the Republicans had managed to both start a very unpopular war and destroy the world economy.

I doubt most of the accounts saying that are actual living, breathing Americans.

I hate to say it, but the only way I could see it happen is if both parties simultaneously see significant 3rd/4th party challengers acting as spoilers. In that situation, RCV would be the short term solution to remove the effect of spoiler votes. Basically the situation the UK is in right now with both the Lib Dems and Reform.

That’s only going to happen if the side in favor of democracy is given a decisive victory. Squeaking out another win isn’t going to be enough.

No, but the whole point of Doctorow’s Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs due to convergent evolution, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

Boffins coming up with a magical new solution to a problem that they somehow know will 100% work despite having done zero experimentation or testing.

It’s what has literally happened to ships that violated the Russian and Iranian sanctions in the last couple years.

The company would be prosecuted and the ship seized the next time it docked at port. If the company was based in literally any other country, nothing would happen.

There is no blockade of Cuba. It’s an embargo. There are no military ships blowing up anyone trying to trade with Cuba.

You are wrong. Some random guy said that on Twitter and people ran with it. It was never officially stated by Microsoft.

Every OS has a limited life span of support. Linux is no different. Every distro I’m aware of does 5 years or less of support vs Microsoft’s 10 years.