Karen demands to talk to the manager, while adding fuel to the fire.

It’s actually getting kind of hard to think of new, stupider ways to ruin the economy and raise the cost of living. Parody is getting close to being indistinguishable from reality.

• Blanket tariffs for goods with low domestic production? Done.
• Imprisoning laborers who do domestic farming? Yes.
• Deporting legal, tax-paying noncitizens? Yep.
• Pissing off citizens of countries that contribute significantly to local tourism? Indeed.
• Asking potential tourists to pay extra for the privilege of visiting a to-be-sold-for-industrial-logging park? Why not.
• Cutting healthcare and replacing it with a bonus for the 0.001%? Might as well!

As long as the kernel keeps supporting loading and executing processes with 32-bit code, they don’t even need to go that far. There shouldn’t be much stopping Valve from just supplying libraries themselves inside a container. In fact, that’s what the Steam Linux Runtime “Sniper” does.

going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response

More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal. With that in mind, he’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses.

Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.

Preventing admission of anyone who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.

Any reasonable interpretation of this means that he just gave the order to keep himself from returning.

Those who work forces…

Corpos are skilled at wringing any and all interesting bits out of something and reducing it to harmless, overdone slop that still sells. They don’t take risks because that may make them $5 less. But indies do.

I’m still amazed at how Gearbox managed to royally fuck up Risk of Rain 2. They had a great game with solid foundations handed to them, and they somehow managed to both regress the game logic into being tied to framerate and release a buggy mess of a DLC in one fell swoop.

It’s not that they’re allergic to money but rather the inflated sense of self-importance and ego. To rightsholders and executives, it’s unthinkable that fans could come up with something better and profitable using the intellectual property that they earned (read: bought) fair and square. And if someone somehow did, it’s a threat to the bottom line, not something to embrace and encourage.

He doesn’t give a shit about women in heels, but he doesn’t mind women in heels. It’s so much harder to run away when wearing heels, you know?

I think we should be subsidizing people’s poor reading comprehension.

Why should the poor subsidize their income with our labor?

the poor … our = us
their = the rich

This commenter was asking for someone to try and justify why we (the working class) should have our labor contribute to the income of people whose existence is based on exploiting others. A perfectly reasonable question.

They probably do and just don’t care.

I’m sure they have a whole guidebook on how to present them to a judge in such a way that they can be used as evidence for baseless search warrants.

Only one? “Ukrainian liberal trans communists” is probably pretty high up there in his scapegoat list.

Crucify? Oh, no, no, no.

They would have him arrested and detained by plain-clothes ICE agents, held in a Texas concentration camp where he would be bundled with the “illegals,” then shipped off to El Salvador to be starved and worked to death… Twice.

That’s not fair. Starlink is more than just a private enterprise—it’s a Russian intelligence gathering mechanism.

You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.

They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.

The failings of the Democrat Party don’t absolve rural conservatives and undereducated voters of their part in this, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. The economy was doing fine because we had our lovely billionaires and mega corporations consolidating all the wealth and skewing that number while the average person was under growing financial pressure.

The problem was—and still is—the wealth disparity. We have multimillionaires and billionaires absorbing more and more money from the 99% while paying a pittance back towards helping the people they’re screwing. They get to dodge taxes by reinvesting their profits into assets they own, hoard resources, and act with impunity.

A voter base that took the time to understand what they were asking for would have seen straight through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled straight into it. It should have been obvious that he wasn’t going to fix wealth disparity. He associates himself with the billionaires, he sees himself as one of them, and he wants to keep it that way. He doesn’t give a single shit about wealth disparity, let alone ever acknowledge it as the problem. Instead, he won his campaign on vague promises about a word that means something completely different to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that cast their ballot for him.

The economy wasn’t “doing fine” for more than half the population.

People who think like that are the reason Trump got elected.

the economy ≠ standard of living

The problem was purchasing power, wages, and inflation. People’s standard of living was suffering, but the “economy” wasn’t. Conflating the two is why Trump’s stupid rhetoric resonated so much with the uneducated Magats that voted him in: they thought he was promising to fix their standard of living, while the reality was that he was promising to “fix” something that wasn’t broken.

Tomorrow:

ACTIVIST judges HATE America! The Democrats, corrupt Hillary, they call it “checks and balances”. LIES. Checks and balances are NOT politics. Checks and balances are MONEY. The founding fathers, they told me themselves. “Mr. President, make big checks and tremendous balances. We made America great. You make the best deals, make it great again.” CANCEL the FRAUD checks and cut Democrat balances! America writes the checks! Stop the ILLEGAL DEI spending!

Edit: Attempt 2

ACTIVIST judges HATE America! The Democrats, NASTY WOMAN HILLARY. They call it “checks and balances”. LIES. It’s not politics, it’s MONEY. Big checks. The biggest, even. These things, they make the BEST nation in the world. Tremendous balances, That’s why America is great. The greatest, even. The founding fathers, they wanted it that way: the BIGGEST economy. They told me themselves, you know. “President Trump, make big checks and tremendous balances. You make the BEST deals.” They’re right. Nobody makes deals like I do. Tariffs, they’re fixing things. CUSMA, what a BAD deal. TERRIBLE. This is why you don’t elect DEMOCRATS. They get ripped off, they want to give AMERICAN money to TERRORISTS. I’m fixing it, you know. China, China. They’re begging me “Mr. Trump, we need your business.” We’re making a deal. The BEST deal in the history of deals. But the Democrats, they want to stop it. Try to make ILLEGAL deals behind America’s back. Terrible deals. Truly BAD deals. Anti-American DEI spending. And they got away with it under BIDEN. NO MORE. CANCEL the FRAUD checks and cut Democrat balances! America writes the checks! Stop the ILLEGAL DEI spending!

The silver quicksilver lining is that plague doctor masks might be making a comeback, at least?

Not good enough. His personal wealth is still backed by his ownership in Tesla stocks, and he’ll keep profiting and using them to bankroll his fascist fuckery and geopolitical interference.

Force him to sell his shares and divest.

A more depressing and less bat shit insane take I heard from a few of them is that “it will hurt but it needs to happen” and “everybody takes advantage of America and Trump will change that”.

Where cult stupidity doesn’t work, propaganda still does.