The system is working perfectly, precisely as was intended.

Microsoft and its gaming division are a target of the ongoing Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement. Furthermore, numerous Microsoft employees have called for the company to stop supporting Israel during its ongoing war in Gaza, which a UN Special Committee said was “consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”

“We think that Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide, and as Microsoft employees, we don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza,” Microsoft employees wrote in an open letter to the company. “Moreover, we think it’s our responsibility, as tech workers, to raise the alarm, and to ensure that our technologies are used to make the voices of the oppressed heard, and not facilitate their demise.”

I wholeheartedly believe Democratic leaders from this time period will be remembered through acidic caricature as a way to grapple with the damage that was locked in hundreds of years ago during their lifetime. They will become essentially comedia dell’arte characters used to point out how foolish more modern analogues of them are and to remind people how dangerous it is to rely upon ideologically bankrupt centrist cowards to fight fascism.

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If that Fourth Turning thing turns out to be right - and Zeus help us if it does, the boomer generation will be viewed as a Renaissance era

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I highly doubt that. It seems younger generations have learned neither the lessons of vaccination nor the lessons of fascism from WWII.

The damage is already locked in, to do a greater amount is impossible, for in the wake of the damage Boomers have witnessed in their lives there will be far less left to destroy.

Barely? It should have been a landslide and Biden was able to scrape his way into office as an old white guy DEI hire because of how catastrophically Trump dropped the ball on Covid.

Yes, and so is the controlled opposition.

Hi FBI please try harder to get me to support violence against specific people! I need to be a bit more radicalized before I will support actionable violence against individuals in a public setting!

Maybe a FBI agent could reach out and help me reach a point where I will actually take action on my insane beliefs?

Sometimes when I think about watching porn I feel guilty and bad about myself and then other times I see somebody rejoice in the righteousness of banning porn and I think “This feels good! This is a good thing!” and I pump my fist in rhythm to the speaker as I masturbate to righteousness and self hatred, ah yes this feels deeper and more spiritual than just physically pleasuring myself! Here is our path forward, here is MY path forward :)

I disagree, no generation will be able to do more damage to the earth than the Boomer generation, this period of time will be remembered and talked about in stories, history and parables for hundreds if not thousands of years. The damage is that acute that is being locked in right now, so no, I think people will be VERY interested in the villains, especially the “quiet” ones from this period, in the same way people are interested in the ways in which the Roman Empire could have avoided collapse to some degree but did not.

Trump is in many ways a boring character, he is easy to diagnose, he telegraphs his intentions with everything he does and projects every internal insecurity he has on to his enemies. There is nothing to discover, nothing creative to Trump’s bigotry and fascism. There are no cliffhangers to the story of Trump, no interesting twists or turns, it is all just a base reduction, a cynical exclusion of all else but a worship of might makes right and narcissism.

People will be far more interested in the ways in which the DNC and Democratic Leadership made the catastrophe of fascism inevitable in their failures to meet the reality of the moment or pass even marginal reforms to improve the quality of life of people in the US.

There is little to learn peering into a figure like Trump, but Biden, Schumer, Jeffries… Nancy Pelosi… those characters are much more historically relevant because they occupied positions that could have ostensibly headed off the descent to fascism in a way that would have been massively popular with the general public, the question of why they didn’t is far more fruitful for historians than why did Trump start another dumb as fuck war.

Is it really gambling if you aren’t chain smoking while doing it?

Good for you, that is irrelevant because empty centrist, corporate politicians like her will never win against MAGA.

The study that I think of is the one that attempted to quantify how much a 45+ minute commute was worth to employees vs. an equivalent job that had a trivial commut but paid less. It came out to at least $15,000 a year and that was awhile ago.

Imagine a Ubisoft game and imagine how much of a premium you would pay over the price it sells for in order to NOT have Ubisoft involved with it at all. If you are anything like me, it is a non-zero number.

Now explain to me how Ubisoft is a profitable business when it reduces the value of products it is associated with…

No, unfortunately for him and his family, I do not think he will be forgotten at all. People will remember who was in power who could have stopped this, they will burn it into their memories like a brand so they never forget. I know I already have.

This sounds like a scene right out of Infinite Jest and I did not like that book.

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Gambling? Insider trading? Those are the prime movers of souls to the afterlife.

Chuck Schumer will go down in history as one of the most vehemently hated political figures from this time period in US politics and for good reason.

Fuck prediction markets more!