Yeah of course industries will collapse. 100 car factories will close, 5 superyacht factories will open, tying up the same amount of productivity. Owned by the same guy.

There will be tons of spacecraft launchpads, private jet hangars, etc.

And wars of course.

The rich. Companies will stop targeting products to wider and wider swathes of people, just like nobody caters to the homeless now.

All the other crazyness does not make this normal.

Isn’t the whole genocide and people’s reactions to it political?

Not yet. But Trump might make it one. That’s my point, electing someone that makes the US more equitable is unrealistic, but electing someone who will make it a dictatorship is not unrealistic.

Care to argue the point?

Yeah I never know with this guy if his stupidity or his criminality won any particular day.

The point is noone cares why the dems went towards the corporate right. Noone cares if Bernie got kneecapped or had no chance to begin with.

We can argue back and forth as long as we go crazy whether a more progressive administration would have been realistic.

The cold hard truth is a US dictatorship now is. It’s not edgy, it’s sad is what it is. Hillary got us Trump, and Biden will get us Trump.

No, the story ends with King Donald Trump.

Benefit of the doubt here, weren’t the casinos some criminal conspiracy to dodge taxes or sg?

When did megacorps, billionaires and insider trading political dynasties ever have to compromise?

Oh fuck me

Bay Area has insanely low local purchase power though.

Also owned by Google, so this change might make it over

Xi could cut out the middleman and just buy Congress. They are already privatised.

Wonder if the rest of the sane world will have to make a deal with the devil, just not with the Soviets but the Chinese.

Imagine the Reichstag flag picture with a Chinese flag on the White House. Except everyone is in NBC suits and knows we’ll go extinct in years.

The case is basically that having a non-tracking paid tier makes no difference, the free tier if it exists can’t include mandatory tracking.

So they can offer a paid tier with no tracking, but they must also offer no tracking on the free tier.

The question would more likely be, why is it too late to have a different candidate run against Trump?

The socialist left of Europe wants a UBI, forced dismantlement of megacorps in favour of cooperatives, harsh wealth taxes on net worth, separation of investment and commercial banking and so on. In comparison, Bernie wants a functional public healthcare system, and US oligarchs to pay at least some taxes.

The problem is that it kneecaps the experience for people who newly join, because they get faced with an unopposed blender of fascist propaganda, and may be immediately turned off the whole platform.