It feels like almost everything has become a race to the bottom. Who can cut corners and exploit everyone else the most effectively?

It’s one of the many freedoms we enjoy in the USA. Freedom from law, order, and regulation reigning in the worst excesses of capitalist greed.

I don’t disagree. I’m just frustrated that most of them are big and shitty because they’ve eaten everything else.

My trimmer just died recently. I researched a replacement… best reviewed and best fitting my needs… only available on Amazon. A similar model was available at Walmart or Target… Eventually found one at Best Buy (not aware of whatever horrible shit they’ve done recently). Couldn’t pick it up at any store nearby before I’d need it, but they delivered… using Doordash.

While I make quite an effort to avoid unethical companies, the list has only grown since I started. I suspect the only reason it hasn’t grown exponentially to include the vast majority of companies I still use is that I haven’t dug into every single company to find out how unethical it is.

Run by Technofascists? Run by regular fascists? Supports fascists hoping for quid-pro-quo benefits? Human rights abuses? Exploits workers? Pollutes the environment as much as it can get away with? Busts unions? Dodges taxes? Embraced AI? Exploits customers? Embraces surveillance capitalism? Collects and sells personal data? Heavily enshittified? I could go on and on.

There truly is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

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The only threat worth bothering with is “The rabidly corrupt Zionist puppet should immediately resign.” If not that, just release it or time its release for his next election.

If something was clearly, precisely defined in the constitution it would still be worthless if some group of rich cunts came to a consensus that it would be better for them if the courts were to interpret it differently.

The US legal system has a terminal case of corruption.

That’s quite an achievement. We’re so awesome!

After all this time humanity finally created a world with high life expectancy…

…and it only cost the sustainability of the lower class and the entire global south.

Looking for some easy good PR after meeting with Kushner.

I don’t think they are talking about the average person. I think they are talking about those in leadership roles.

I should have been more clear. I know they are being manipulated. I don’t blame them for everything.

I’m trying to acknowledge a justified and legitimate frustration, not discourage everyone from focusing on the real source of the problem.

While I agree that those hoarding wealth and power are the primary target, a lot of boomers keep voting for fucking fascists and refuse to acknowledge the leopards eating their faces.

As I’ve said numerous times and will continue to say… The Republican Party is beyond hypocrisy. It’s beyond double standards. The is no objective reality. There is only what definitions, interpretations, or perspectives serve them. Whether or not they are currently emphasizing long-term, short-term, or something in between or what audience they are aiming their disinformation at might influence what they say but the truth itself is irrelevant. There is no good-faith, only an attempt to influence how they are seen so that they can abuse that misconception later. They are wholely disingenuous.

Unfortunately, some corporate and Zionist Democrats are also picking up the strategy and we’ve started living in a country where trust and the rule of law is just another avenue by which to exploit others. Admittedly, it’s been like that for most of the nations history but there was at least a pretense that people could believe in, albeit naively.

Things need to change, fast, before the entire population descends into might (and power, money) makes right at all levels of society.

Agree to disagree. Marxism wasn’t the driving force behind the failure of Communist/Socialist endeavor that I’ve heard of.

Americans are backing progressives not because they want socialism, but because they want candidates who will fight for the working class

That’s the literal goal of socialism though…

They’re voting for progressive Democrats not because they want socialism, support the Democratic Socialists of America, or reject candidates called “moderate”.

They’re voting for candidates whom they believe will fight to make housing, food, healthcare and childcare affordable to average working families. And who’ll take on Trump’s billionaire backers, CEOs and Wall Street titans who are rigging the economy against them.

So they are voting for socialists not because they want socialism, but because the alternatives are refusing to reign in, or are overtly in favor of, unfettered capitalism…

Well, being disingenuous with literally ever fucking word they speak has worked wonders for Republicans. Turns out to be an effective technique for Corporate and Zionist Democrats too. It’s almost like a class war or something.

Recently, my Steam shader processes have gobbled up every scrap of my excessive 64GB of RAM and 16GB of swap until the executioner kills it… or kills system monitor or btop or whatever I’m using to monitor or document it like a bloodthirsty monster.

Best we can do is up to 3 months a year of unpaid leave.

One interesting and fucked up related fact is that when Amazon expands its delivery network it has a bunch of last-mile delivery services spin up to their specifications, promising them business. Then, after it analyzes its output and determines how much excess delivery bandwidth it has, it just leaves whatever last mile delivery businesses it doesn’t need holding the bag (and a bunch of Amazon branded delivery trucks, because of course Amazon doesn’t front the cost for that necessary investment).

I’m in the closed beta. Its great! I pay extra for the premium tier - I only have to subject myself to free use by any random shareholder visiting my town on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The base-tier peasants have to give up their whole weekends to shareholders like fuckin losers lol.