Agreed.
They're all looking to roll back Henry Ford's plan of paying the workers enough to become customers. They expect the market to continue unchanged even as they strip out employees and paychecks from it, like climbing a rope into the sky and pulling it up after yourself.
As someone with a batshit crazy mother, it takes effort to escape a bad mother's orbit, just because of the behavioral conditioning you receive as a child. The metric I was told was 'a year apart for a year together' based on your childhood, that could easily be DECADES. I would expect a lot of very deep mid-life crises for the men who decide Transing is the answer, with a percentage detransing and a larger percentage ending themselves.
There were a number of scripts that would take your login, work backwards, editing each comment in your history to something generic and useless before deleting that comment. After all the comments were edited & deleted, the script randomized your PW and deleted your account.
There were sites to do this during the '14-'18 reddit revolts. (I believe these sites used the reddit API, prior to the API being locked down.) These days, you'd have to go looking in gits for the raw code to execute, which gets a bit sketchy.
I had to make the argument that Halfdan 'the Black' referred to hair color not skin color. I was rebuffed, with the argument that Norsemen raided for their wives, and I 'couldn't be sure' he was white.
Have no doubt that the intersectional nonsense is layered quite deeply.
As useful as Lindsay's translations from the wokish are, I can't recommend him any further than that. He has zero policy prescriptions, since he falls into the liberal trap of saying that things have gone to far without ever addressing the specifics of 'how' or 'why.' He even argued the left cannot go too far by taking the Woke position in an Oxford debate. (Note that he did so to reduce the position to absurdity.)
Lindsay clearly sees that the left will not stop, but refuses to acknowledge that liberalism breaking up traditional society enables the endless push leftward. Trust his vision of the far left and his translations, but realize that the man has no answers.
The thing about Ubisoft is that they're at the government tit. Skull & Bones was the product of subsidies in Singapore, because canceling would have voided the subsidy agreements and triggered penalty clauses. My search of "Ubisoft subsidies" also kicked up Quebec and Berlin as further hits.
Even if the company is digging into operating profits, Ubisoft is large enough that creative accounting marking losses against taxes and suckling on subsidies can keep their moribund corpse trundling along for years. Yeah, they're walking wounded, but that just means they need to kowtow for more ESG money, right?
I want off Mr. Bone's Wild Ride.
Watching 'the Narrative' Ouroboros reach the point of citogenesis, where the bullshit they spout is sourced in bullshit they spouted, has been the biggest awakening moment of my adult life.
Recognizing that there is no end to the rabbit-hole of agreed-upon lies is foundational to what remains of my world view.
I am left thinking: "If the truth can kill it, it deserves to die" as the fires rise.
The shit heads' obsession with online DRM is going to be their downfall.
I do hope pushing DRM boils the frog too quickly. We're already well along the way to physical media being less and less useful.
Paywalling and day one DLC have already hamstrung game preservation. Case in point: the next Yakuza game has New Game+ paywalled behind a purchase. Mutahar is 100% right. What happens in 20 years when you install that game and there's no server to validate a DLC purchase? There will effectively be no New Game+ mode playable from the OG disk.
And that's where we stand. Everything enshittifies though subscriptions; live-services require always-on DRM-- which means when servers sunset due to the profit margin shrinking, everything breaks.
If the 'blowback' happens after the election has been influenced by the over 9000 indictments, then what difference does the supreme court ruling against them make?
The process has punished, the election been influenced. There is no effect a supreme court ruling can have which undoes the damage the lawfare has already inflicted. Given this effectiveness, why would it ever stop?
do you think we'd have AS MUCH lawfare against trump when they have 4 confirmed right leaning judge and one that is mostly right 90% of the time?
Yes.
Because process is punishment, and the point of lawfare is to increase the cost of opposition by forcing our side to mount expensive legal defenses. As long as the left is waging total war, lawfare will continue to escalate.
Look at the way capital gains works, and how someone on the tier Elon Musk is at operates. The assets they have (say a large percentage of Twitter/X and Tesla) can be used as collateral for a loan, the interest on which is a loss for actual income purposes. Meanwhile, when they pay the loan back by selling off assets, they do so at the capital gains rate, vs income tax. That's provided they don't take out another loan using assets as collateral to pay off the first loan.
That's assuming you don't incorporate and have everything run through your organization as a business expense. Like Trump. That's another layer.
What we're talking about are variants of the same financialization as shell game.
I'd think that having had the Panama Papers in our collective rear view mirror, this kind of corruption would be common knowledge, but yes. The rich are playing with insider rules. DEI, too, is a way to deal in sponsored minorities including the vapid social media addicts you noticed.
As you're realizing, it's a big club and we ain't in it.
I have a lot of fun listening to An Aristocratic Utensil: He's a rabidly anti-democratic monarchist from south africa, and an absolute blast to listen to when he opens up on someone.
You say that like NY isn't full of blue hellholes that each fortify the vote.
Past a certain point, you can't expect to vote your way out. NY is well past that event horizon.