I’m a big fan of employee owned companies and I think that should be encouraged.
At the same time, there IS a place for investors.
But all 3 factors of production (land, labor, capital) are supposed to have equal seats at the table. In recent years capital owns the table and chairs and decides when land and labor are allowed to speak, which is not what successful capitalism looks like.
If anything this shows how totally fucked equity markets are.
So they’re making way more money than expected, but they haven’t sold out their users fast enough so dump the stock?
Fighting an uphill battle with the biggest opponents being their own party. :\
Oh I have no hopes at all. I’d hope that Dems might press it but they seem consistently determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by ignoring their voters’ calls for reform and nominating boring, status-quo candidates like Kamala Harris while actively sidelining more energetic reform-minded candidates. Not to mention half the shit GW Bush did was actively unconstitutional if not actively classifiable as a war crime, IE torture memos, warrantless wiretapping, etc, and the Dems did fuck all about it when they took power.
Assuming what’s happening is what we all think/know is happening I would really love to see someone go to jail over this.
There’s like 20 things he could do all the way from a public appearance down to simply releasing medical records. He’s doing none of them.
When evaluating such things, I look at motivation. I put myself in the other person’s shoes, and ask what set of circumstances or motivations would cause me to act as I am?
Take for example the lot of people who make outlandish claims about hover propulsion, free energy from drinking water, etc.
I put myself in those shoes, and I say ‘okay, I just built a device that turns water into power. What do I do?’
Most likely I patent the thing, build 50 of them, and send them off to research labs for evaluation. When everyone concludes my thing works, I start licensing the patents for $billions and I retire.
On the other hand, let’s say I invent a water-to-power machine but it doesn’t work. What do I do? I act sketchy, try to appeal to people without much sense, try to get their money.
Which one more matches the behavior of the person advertising the free energy machine? The second one? Then I guess it’s probably bullshit.
Same deal here. If I was McConnell or his staff and I was alive and was going to return to the Senate, I’d post a video, I’d release medical records, I’d do something to reassure my constituents that I will continue to represent them.
On the other hand if I was a political director for a dead or brain-dead or almost-dead Senator, and I didn’t want the opposing Governor to appoint a successor, I’d do whatever it took to delay the world realizing that the Senator won’t be returning ever. Delay, Deny, Defend. Then once the deadline passes, we announce the Senator has ‘made an unfortunate turn for the worse’ and no longer is able to return. And our defense against fraud is someone we pay off to swear that when our brain-dead comatose Senator was asked if he’d return, his eyelids twitched twice for yes.
Honestly at this point I think the governor should just declare Mitch to be either deceased or unable to serve and start the process of appointing a successor. Then if Mitch’s team challenges him, say look I want to be wrong please produce the Senator for an in person visit or appearance of any kind, or shut up.
Because if you strip away the politics, McConnell is there to represent the interests of his constituents. If he is unwilling or unable to do so then he should be replaced.
There is supposed to be. AUMF (authorization for use of military force) broke it by delegating to the President the authority to unilaterally engage in military action without Congressional approval.
AUMF should be repealed.
Okay I dig, as the old quote goes all that is requires for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
So what do you consider meaningful opposition?
So what action are you suggesting? We do demonstrations and protests and letters and all that but Trump has made it very clear he does not give one single shit what other people think.
We have a Congressional election coming up later this year and it is currently expected that those who oppose Trump will win significant numbers.
Or are you suggesting forget about peaceful action within the bounds of the Constitution and go straight to armed rebellion?
Personally I would rather have the country reject Trump in elections and walk away from this whole thing with a bad taste in its mouth that would make it harder for someone like him to gain power in the future, than to have some kind of violent illegal uprising that would only strengthen Trump’s supporters.
I think there’s a difference between logically knowing that some undefined but non zero number of Americans oppose MAGA, and actually seeing one of them stand up publicly against what the government is saying.
If anything I wish more people would do what I am doing. I would love if every time Trump says one of these bullshit things there was a loud outcry online of Americans disavowing his awful international relations.
If you were going to do this, I think the only way to make it work would be some sort of blockchain based crypto system.
You create your fediverse account and then also some sort of blockchain transaction that consumes some nominal amount of cryptocurrency. Then each of your posts gets a signature which authenticates it against that original transaction.
That said, this is a horrible idea and we shouldn’t do it. It would absolutely solve a lot of spam problems, at the cost of making fediverse participation out of reach for an awful lot of the world’s population. Unless we make it cheap enough for them, in which case it is also cheap enough that those in developed countries can create dozens or hundreds of accounts without concern for cost.
From what I have seen of Trump, it is pretty clear he does not care what anyone else thinks and his vindictive as hell. So rather than writing him I think I could use my time more productively by repeatedly slamming my face in the refrigerator door. At least that way I’m less likely to end up on some sort of list.
What I do instead is vote for candidates in Congress that oppose Trump and his ideology. And spend time in online discussions like this one making it clear the American people are not in lockstep behind him.
Fair enough 🙂
Participating in the political process, opposing Trump and his ideology in discussions and debates, promoting and contributing to political candidates who oppose Trump and MAGA ideology, and of course voting against Trump and for candidates that oppose him and his ideology.
And, from time to time, using my own voice to speak out against some of the things Trump says. Such as 4his thread right here.
Genuine question, what more would you have a person do?
My comfort is irrelevant. I’m just another idiot on the internet.
But genuine question, you say I am a fascist enabling coward who cares little about democracy.
So what would you have me do? Like, you have a single American who has never voted for or supported Trump, for such a person what does ‘caring about democracy’ look like? What might that single American say or do that would make you say ‘that person right there is no coward, that is a stand-up human being who values democracy’?
I’m asking because you say I do it wrong, I am curious what doing it right looks like?
Your opinion of me is quite irrelevant.
The only thing I want people to take away from this whole thread is that there are a lot of Americans who strongly oppose Trump, who love and support Canada, and who find the current messages coming out of Washington abhorrent. It certainly doesn’t make anything better. My only hope is when you watch the news and you see the crap coming out of Washington, you keep in mind that crap is coming out of Washington and not most of the rest of the country. You have friends here.
I realize that means scant little when your country is on fire and your neighbor’s government is telling you to fuck off and threatening to tax or conquer you.
And those are the only two options?
I assure you we are trying. Our election structure does not allow us to replace the executive government for another couple years. Congress, our legislative body, is the only ones that can forcibly remove a sitting President. Multiple decades of having Congressional elections ignored by voters attentions has left our Congress thoroughly dysfunctional.
So that means short of some real smoking gun there is little option for rapid change.
A small blip. Not enough to trigger a sell-off, but also if it was a reason that would be the stated reason not just ‘no new AI deals’.
As a user, the decline in DAU I think is representative of a series of user-unfriendly policies and changes that the users have clearly communicated dislike of but management insists on anyway.