I prefer removing the -french language pack on every install. The command comes with a typo though, so you need to fix that for it by adding /* at the end
You're not giving capitalism enough credit. Corporations and businesses are not altruistic. If they can get away with slowly raising prices to increase profit margins, they will.
That's a hell of a lot easier to actually achieve when you don't have foreign produce acting as competition and consequently sanity-checking domestic prices. Foreign suppliers implicitly set a ceiling for how much a product can cost since the market would shift to using them if they became the cheaper option.
To make matters worse, tariffs are a very nice excuse for retailers to raise prices across the board using the excuse that "it costs us more to get it, so it has to cost you more to buy it." If we're lucky, they'll raise foreign goods by the exact amount they're paying more for them and only choose to raise domestic good prices (for profit) by only some fraction of that amount.
It's better than letting him milk it from the shadows.
With the way he's set up his own companies to benefit from DOGE "inefficiency" fixes and government contracts, Tesla has a safety net and path to perceived growth. And unfortunately, the public has a short memory. If he leaves and decides to stop interfering with global politics for a while and people move on to boycotting something else, Tesla's already-overvalued hype stock will have a chance to recover even more.
It's also against his interests to sell his Tesla stock since he used it to help secure those massive loans when buying Twitter. If he's forced to divest, he would actually have to eat that massive multi-billion loss in a tangible way.
Anyhow, I brought up the idea more so as a reminder that we must not stop with the boycotts until he does finally sell. While he still gains personal wealth from the company, it's not enough for him to just step down as CEO.
Not good enough. His personal wealth is still backed by his ownership in Tesla stocks, and he'll keep profiting and using them to bankroll his fascist fuckery and geopolitical interference.
Not be that guy, but the person you're replying to isn't exactly wrong in saying "every vote counts is wrong" in some cases.
Being pedantically literal, yes, every vote is counted.
The reality of First Past The Post voting and the Electoral College is that the only votes that "count" insofar that they actually affect the outcome of an election are votes for the winning party. Now add on to that the common understanding that both major parties only care about what their corporate donors have to say, and that individual voter participation isn't likely to influence anything other than the party campaign strategy for the next election.
That means that if enough people vote as a collective to flip which party wins, then and only then does their vote count for anything meaningful. People should vote anyways, but it's not hard to see why someone might be just a little bit disenfranchised when their participation in the democratic process seems to result in nothing but wasted time because they live next to a bunch of a conservative hicks.
You are absolutely right about smaller state and local elections, though. Those are where each vote actually has a chance to be meaningful.
A more depressing and less bat shit insane take I heard from a few of them is that "it will hurt but it needs to happen" and "everybody takes advantage of America and Trump will change that".
Where cult stupidity doesn't work, propaganda still does.
Trump kept insisting: “No, no: He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted.’"
That is astonishingly—but unsurprisingly—stupid.
It's one thing to insist that tattoos of a weed leaf, a smily face with "x" for its eyes, a cross, and a skull are pictographs for "M S 1 3". It's another to be such a dumbass that you think the superimposed text trying to explain that interpretation is the tattoo.
If it means collecting more taxes and finding new excuses to send minorities to the El Salvador concentration camp, it will magically find funding before next week.
It's not what they don't teach. It's that what they do teach is immediately and unobjectionally discarded by the oligarch paying their salary.
If something doesn't benefit the ownership or the ideals promoted by the ownership, it won't be published. If it's in opposition to the ownership or their ability to retain wealth and power, the journalists behind it won't be employed any longer. Outside of publicly-funded or independent journalism, journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting are practically dead.
This is what happens when news and media are consolidated into a few large conglomerates owned by a wealthy few.
I think it would depend on whether Canada's new government is willing to play ball. If they're not willing to kiss Trump's ass and give America the preferential treatment that he's trying to extort from the country, there's going to be more than just a one-off passing comment about it. Probably a woe-is-me "Canada is taking advantage of us" campaign, I reckon.
They railroaded Clinton into being the 2016 candidate and appointed Harris as the 2024 one. The DNC leadership doesn't care what their constituents actually want.
Uncoincidentally, that's why said leadership needs to be replaced.
Of course, most Americans don't realize it's an intensely offensive thing. That's a major part of the problem.
"America is the greatest nation on earth, why wouldn't another country want to be part of it?"
That's what happens when a population is spoon-fed "patriotism" from birth. All the nationalism and propaganda is doing its job promoting American exceptionalism while diminishing empathy and critical thinking.
A) Reporting facts of public opinion is never illegal.
So far. If the crybaby gets what he wants, it will be.
D) YOU CANNOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN YOU FUCKING RUBE!
Alas, when has the constitution actually stopped him? His supporters fully support this blantantly corrupt crap, and he's even selling "Trump 2028" merch.
China might not be the worst option if you had to pick any of the BRICS countries. Lots of people, not landlocked, and huge potential for business. Canada absolutely shouldn't trust them for anything involving defense or global politics, but they at least have more stability than we do as a trade partner.
As for trusting BRICS as a whole... fuck no. Least of all, Russia.
A tankie. To her credit, though, sometimes she makes good points about topics related to communism like class warfare and how exploitative capitalism is. This was not one of those times, unfortunately.
Just a really bad shill take of supporting the authoritarian-"communist" countries that conveniently ignore the communist ideals of no hierarchical power structures and being run by the people.
I prefer removing the -french language pack on every install. The command comes with a typo though, so you need to fix that for it by adding
/*at the end