[FrustratedMonky]

I'm also tired of someone saying both sides are the same, as if this justifies anything either side does. When we are obviously worse off now under one particular side.

Yeah, both sides have problems. And we are caught in the same systems. The sides are not equally bad.

[kev009]

They are equally bad because they are actually the same people playing both sides. Do you think Palantir is conservative and Netflix is liberal? Neither actually care about either of these things. The differences are a basic misdirection playing to natural inclinations to control the population I would argue all the way to illusions of choice. And the sooner people grow out of their public school educations, the sooner it'll change.

[WickyNilliams]

Netflix are not putting out manfiestos that read like a monologue from a movie villain, at least

[mock-possum]

Nobody would bat an eye if they did though

What does Netflix stand for? What lines do they draw?

[FrustratedMonky]

Typically I would agree.

Biden and Bush were nearly identical.

But this time around, things seem a bit more 'near the end'. The president is taking jumbo jet sized bribes, manipulating markets. Literally doing more self harm than an enemy agent could ever accomplish. Like the country could really collapse any day.

Forget free speech. I literally am a little scared just posting here. People are being rounded up. Even with a fake name, I'm sure Palantir can put the pieces together.

[kev009]

Yeah, shitcoins and fake product launches are new territory. Some of the others were a little more circumspect in graft or more likely it was others driving the larger graft to more careful benefactors. This Iran tarpit really blew open the reality of Trump the man: he is a sock puppet, and I think his graft is probably something like an O(1) problem while the republic faces an O(n^m) problem including unmitigated foreign influence.

It makes me ponder an interesting philosophical question about raking a pyramid scheme along proximal real vs perceived valuation. I guess the damage is all the same, but things get more flagrant the longer it goes on.

[warmedcookie]

Indeed, how could it not have been more obvious than when Biden made it illegal for the railroad workers to strike in Dec. 2022. The sides are the same when it comes to an actual threat to the status quo.