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  • It's quite the opposite actually. Actual policy and history demonstrate that they absolutely do not follow through with their claims and promises. You seem to be ignorant of both of these while basing your opinion off the empty rhetoric they spout in the media.

    Their most landmark legislation in the past 20 years was the ACA, which they passed when they held a supermajority in government and didn't need any Republican support, and yet they decided to drop single-payer in order to pass a Republican healthcare plan that cemented the private insurance model into law while increasing government subsidies to insurance companies meaning even more of our tax dollars are funneled into executive and shareholder pockets while people are still struggling to afford skyrocketing healthcare costs. They didn't need any Republican support (nor did they receive it) yet they still chose to screw the American people with this bill. How do you explain that?

    They also just unanimously voted to pass an internet censorship bill along with all but two Republicans. Trump has stated that he will use this bill to silence his critics and every single Dem Representative voted in favor of it.

    They also passed the Republican government spending bill which retroactively legalized all the illegal DOGE cuts they'd been making.

    Maybe you should stop listening to the empty promises and virtue signaling and start looking at their actual actions. Modern Dems are to the right of Reagan even if they claim otherwise.

  • We gradually lost the chip business, and now it's almost exclusively in Taiwan. They stole it from us." This is one of the US president's regular refrains.

    This coming from the guy who canceled the CHIPS Act that saw investments going toward US chip manufacturing needed by companies like US based Intel Corp? What a maroon.

    Also this author seems to think that this AZ fab is "the most important in the world" yet TSMC has already stated that they will not bring their bleeding edge processes to the US or any other fab outside of Taiwan. This fab will be producing older nodes not the latest and greatest. I don't think it will go as badly as the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin, but it's not going to be a state of the art R&D facility or anything.

  • And yet none of that has ever happened regardless of how well the Dems do at the ballot box.

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  • It's been happening in the US for a long time too.

  • Yes this is how I have mine setup to do just like OP is wanting.

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  • This reminds me to go leave a review on their refresh of the app. I just got off a plane and Plex wouldn't load once I lost service for me or my wife to watch our downloaded media.

  • Maybe you should actually read my comments in this thread before jumping on the reply button to give your hot takes about things that aren't even happening.

  • Have they also ran a campaign asking to be nominated as the political representative of others? I doubt it, but these politicians have, so maybe they should act like it.

  • Caught in for, you mean?

    Almost there 😆

  • I didn't use AI to make my argument for me. I used AI to make their argument since nobody was willing to actually make an argument outside of saying the movie is a "deconstruction" three separate times without stating what they mean or how it isn't just a blatant ripoff of the older films.

  • I'm really curious what they claim would be evidence of genocide.

  • It gives the facade of public input but the prosecutor is who controls the show and writes the narrative. The opposite example of this is all the cops who are never held accountable for their crimes because prosecutors decide to only show evidence exhonerating them, the grand jury comes back deciding not to indict, and these sleazeballs then point to the process and say "justice in action!"

  • I used to use it to sync my watch history between Plex and Emby but stopped years ago when I dropped Emby. I can't imagine what they're offering that people would want to pay for though.

  • Well, I mean nobody has actually made any defense for the movie here other than repeating the word "deconstruction" without elaborating any further, and I'm not going to do a deep dive and write out a counter argument to my own position, so the machine will have to do. For all we know this is the same machine that Disney used to recycle these old plot points for TLJ 😆

  • That seems like a distinction without a difference.

    Just for the fun of it, I took a screenshot of Google AIs take on the "deconstruction" argument:

    "Challenging the Chosen One narrative"

    Rey's parents were "nobody" yet so were Luke Skywalker's parents. The final film is titled "The Rise of Skywalker" on her path to becoming the chosen one.

    "Revisiting Luke's Heroism"

    Rehashes the same failures Obi Wan felt for not preventing Anakin from going to the dark side.

    "Undermining Jedi Ideals"

    Irrelevant point that could just as easily signify the film's creator's not being familiar with the intricacies of the source material.

    "Exploration of Failure and Complexity"

    Throughout all the films, the rebels are constantly facing failures. They get attacked, captured, fail to prevent events from occurring, etc.

    "Subverting Expectations"

    An expression ripped straight from the final season of GoT and widely mocked. This film didn't subvert any of my expectations as it all plays out quite predictably in Disney fashion where the "good guys" come out on top in the end. The fact that this argument is even made illustrates the similarity to the previous films which set an expectation for how things are going to play out. I don't see how they really differed in any meaningful way as it all plays out the same in the end.

  • TLJ takes a bunch of the exact same elements from the original trilogy including the young jedi training in a remote location, the empire/first order finding the secret rebel base with the main characters escaping at the last moment, the protagonist being captured by their rival and being brought before the sith leader where they wind up battling, the protagonist finding out that they're related to their rival, the hermit jedi master sacrificing themselves etc, etc, etc. The last trilogy is just a recycling of the original to the point that they had to add stupid dialog like "it's salt" in a vain attempt to convince people that they aren't just copy and pasting major plot points from the original

  • gotcha arguments in bad faith.

    Pretty much sums up all of hexbear here.

    I did come across someone's explanation that they think Putin isn't a bad guy just because he invaded Ukraine but that argument doesn't really hold any water with me. I suppose the last hexbear users that i interacted with who wished death upon me for once again pointing out their lies and disinformation were also extremely empathetic? They've been defederated from most of lemmy because they're super empathetic people too? Do you think people actually believe this stuff?

  • with a fan base that wants to be stuck in the past reliving the hero's journey ad nauseam

    This seems counter to most complaints I've seen about the movie that they just rehashed the original trilogy.