NutWrench

Middle-of-the-road person: “You are not in a culture war or an ideology war. You are both in a CLASS war, run by billionaires who are the REAL source of your pain. They use the six corporations that control all the news to distract you and keep you fighting with each other so that they . . . the rich . . . can run off with all the f*cking money.”

This. Musk disabled Starlink to fark over the Ukrainians. He should not be trusted with any military contracts. Ever.

" . . . for U.S. intelligence."

Yeah. Sure. Right. Musk will sell Intelligence to ANYONE who pays for it and US taxpayers will foot the entire bill for constructing the satellite network.

And then all the contractors and politicians will all pretend to be surprised by this and Musk will get the finger-wagging of a lifetime.

Schumer (re: Israel) “losing their way” Biden (re: huge civilian death toll in Gaza) “hurting Israel”

You weak, pathetic sons of b*tches. Your government is contributing militarily and financially to a genocidal ethno state and THIS is the best you can come up with? This is what your “criticism” looks like when someone’s got you by the balls.

Most of “The Anarchist’s Cookbook” wouldn’t work today because of the Internet and electronic receipts.

Yup. News sources have been consolidating for the last 50 years. It used to be that every news outlets you watched was ultimately owned by one of 40 companies. Today, that number is 5. So if five billionaires get together and decide something is not going to be talked about, then it DOESN’T get talked about. This is why the Internet has them so freaked out. They can’t control it (yet) so it’s a threat to their version of reality.

This is also why our “liberal news media” does such a terrible job of speaking truth to bullshit. It’s not necessary to report “both sides of an argument” if one side of the argument is insane, woo-woo dipshiterry. What they’re doing there is gaslighting you into thinking that babbling nonsense is “just another point of view” It’s not in the interest of billionaires to have informed citizens, capable of critical thinking, so the point of this exercise is to keep us fighting with each other about where the REAL source of our problems come from while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the f*cking money.

Bernie is an example of what a progressive politician actually looks like.

American politicians (Republicans AND Democrats) have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s, boring corporatists and friends of banks, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.

And the Republicans have moved all the way into an insane asylum. They long for the “good old days” of company towns, run by 19th century robber barons and worry that the six corporations that control all our news are the “liberal news media.”

This reminds me of a stunt a company pulled a few years ago, where they sold a bunch of bald Bratz dolls and claimed they were “undergoing chemotherapy.”

They were really taking a bunch of unfinished dolls and trying to dump them for a quick buck.

Agreed. You shouldn’t have to trust that some third party software built into your TV won’t abuse your trust and shut everything down until you do what it’s owners want.

I’ve got an external Roku and if it starts being a dick, I can just unplug it and toss it in the trash and I still have a working TV.

Whenever I’m stressed out about too many ads, I take Fark-It-All. Ask your doctor if Fark-It-All is right for YOU.

Lead paint was banned in the U.S. in 1978 because of its toxicity. This stuff can and will kill you.

Conservatives need to stop treating every deadly poison like a “who can chug the most beer contest.” This isn’t a game (unless you’re a company seeking to bypass lead restrictions, in which case it’s totally a game to YOU).