They clearly don’t want to have any say in the matter at all.

No, the Democrats didn’t do enough… but they’re hardly alone in that. America is a country of “I want what I want, and fuck everything else”. You can see it in the people who vote conservative against their own interest… but you can also see in the people who’d rather stay home than fight for something that’s a little better instead of a lot.

No answer is perfect. And waiting for perfection to land in your lap so you can start acting on it is exactly what the GOP and Trump coalitions are capitalizing on.

The system sucks, but refusing to participate, or pretending you can change it by force, is only going to make things worse for you and everyone around you.

Congress is mostly Republicans.

Or did you think that the presidency was the only thing that mattered in the US?

Try telling someone working 40 hours a week who can afford to go to Disney every year that they aren’t.

The system is unfair, but that does not mean all unfairness is equally distributed. It also doesn’t mean that all systems with unfairness are the same. Telling people that they are is lying to their face to try and justify your own inaction.

Apparently she plays Mac games.

It’s sending a sacrificial pawn so the tyrant doesn’t think of their absence.

Yeah, but to them he’s the “anti-government”.

It flies in the face of rationality, of course, but so does most conservative ideology.

These days “conservatives” despise anything that has a hint of government smell on it. Not because of anything meaningful or anything, of course, just that “government bad”.

What about the lonely milfs in my area? You can’t tell me they don’t actually want my body…

Cooking takes time, ingredients, and if you want it palatable, ability. Fast food takes driving up to a location and saying “give me something easy”.

It’s not as fast as it used to be, but it’s still relatively quick, especially if it’s on your way home from wherever you are. Any extra time is just spent doomscrolling on your phone or listening to your preferred media pundit.

Don’t forget his terrorist fist jab.

So you agree with my entire point, but don’t want to admit as such?

That was literally my entire point. That corporations effectively have carte blanche to do what they want, then the tools they use are the ones to take the blame.

Video games are an escape, which can be a problem in and of itself even without exploitative tactics meant to squeeze them of profit… but again, that is a societal problem. The danger of escapism is not so great without something to escape from.

This is blaming the tool for the actions of the person using them.

This is not a video game problem, this is a societal motivation problem. The motivation of corporations is to make money, so they employ whatever means they can to achieve that.

In this case it’s targeting kids playing video games.

The tool is not the problem, the wielder is. Saying otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

Ah yes, the games are the problem, not the system in which they are created.

It’s the video games that are the problem. Clearly.

Indeed, he didn’t create the party, he just says the quiet part out loud.

Because it’s nothing more than a popularity contest for them. This isn’t the future of the country (or world) for them, it’s junior prom.

So… three monkeys?

I guess repeating continuing to make analogies in what appears to be a serious tone seems like an odd way to make the argument that the original analogy is broken. You’re not pointing out any flaws, using the current analogy to show how it doesn’t work… just changing the setting while keeping the overall analogy completely the same.

It’s like going to a brothel and continuing to have sex with prostitutes then saying the brothel is broken… sorry, I had to.

…except this isn’t explicitly a Linux website. Sure, it’s probably run by people who use it extensively and populated mostly by people who use it at least regularly… but it’s in no way a Linux dealership. I came here specifically because it wasn’t trying to sell me something.

If you’re trying to say that’s not the case, and that the fediverse only exists as a mechanism to sell people on linux… it might be time to give up on it, I suppose.

And as we all know, only extremes exist! The middle ground is an illusion!

Because the bar you’d normally go to removed all the comfortable chairs and started selling ad space directly in front of your face.