Between the motors and batteries, there’s some good scrap value at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_(Plane_Wreck_at_Los_Gatos)

About 18 TB.

This person is desperately trying to convince themself. Once the finance capitalists gain control they will be steering the company. They don’t care about long term profits if they can squeeze high short term profits. They don’t give a shit about the company, especially in tech. They’ll sell off any IP (or keep it for their collection) when it’s time for bankruptcy and move on to the next target.

My mama also told me that if someone locks you up, then you just lock them up right back.

My mama always told me, that if someone makes a deepfake of you, then you make a deepfake of them right back!

We aren’t going to get to any of these policy reform ideas without the guillotines, actually. Why would any of the people who can’t help their greedy selves from accumulating absolutely everything, ever just willingly give up that power? We will never vote ourselves out of this hole we’re in. Even if we all went on a general strike, they would shoot us and enslave us.

All this discussion about captchas raises a question for me: if fingerprinting is so accurate and easy, that ublock, no cookies and a VPN don’t help… then why the fuck do I have to keep doing captchas?

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Apparently they are revolutionary ideas to democrats.

Absolutely. It is crystal fucking clear that Iran will never be safe until it has nuclear deterrence.

So you do understand part of what I’m saying, but not all of it. Yes, you can win with lies and you can win with the truth. You can also lose with either of them. Whichever way you go, you have to do it convincingly. Trump was convincing in his lies, and won. Kamala wasn’t, and didn’t. Does it do you any good to tell the truth unconvincingly in politics? This isn’t a criticism of truth, it’s a criticism of messaging and perception.

You can’t paste it because I didn’t say it. I said that you can win by lying. Is that not a fact?

I think you’re arguing with a figment of your own imagination. Nowhere have I said anything about winning at all costs for its own sake. I’m observing that the current dem strategy isn’t a winning one (indisputable), and I’m telling you why. Look, here’s a good example from the last election: people were not feeling good about the economy. Trump has an answer for them. It’s the wrong answer (tariffs and deportations), but he is engaging with a real concern. The democrat answer was “actually you’re wrong, the economy is great, look at the stock market”. They’re stuck, because as the party of the status quo, they can’t propose any radical changes to the system. They don’t want any radical changes to the system. This means that in effect, they aren’t even competing with republicans! I’m asking you to demand that your party compete.

https://genius.com/Woody-guthrie-lindbergh-lyrics

“America First” was a slogan used by US fascists (like Charles Lindbergh) before WW2. The more things change, eh?

“They say America first, but what they mean is America next!”

The status quo is fascism. Civility with fascists is fascism. Your team gives the impression that as long as the bad stuff happens overseas or in poor neighborhoods, and you aren’t forced to look at it, then all is right with the world. You’re upset because a few million people refuse to cosign terror and genocide, while I’m upset that hundreds of millions are so willing.

If you read back through these honestly, I’m sure you see which of us comes off as whiny. Also, best I can tell, your solution is to build a time machine, and go back to November and yell at people even harder.

No, you’ve misunderstood me. You can’t enact policies if you don’t win, right? And you won’t get reelected if people feel you bullshitted about your promises. So first step is winning, right? As I said, there’s different ways to win, including lying or telling the truth. Has nothing to do with being “cool” or not. I’m just saying that dem messaging sucks, and their track record sucks.