Agreed. Plus most people pay companies for the support and trust they have, rather than for the simple functionality of a component or product. There’s always been cheaper and even free alternatives to lots of established products, but companies understand there’s value in having support when things go badly, and in having a different set of eyes handling that component instead of having to dedicate your own workers in house. So even from a business proposition cloning these apps doesn’t do shit. We need either more work in existing foss projects (if they’re designed well enough) or make new ones with extreme care if we ever want to make good replacements for proprietary stuff.

Unless energy prices go down a bunch I don’t see it being profitable, but I could be wrong

You do realize Bolsonaro tried to do a coup, right?

No, the reason why Milei won here is that the previous government did terribly during the pandemic. Most people voted against Alberto Fernandez’ government, not for Milei’s. It’s still stupid, and it shows most people here are politically uneducated and naive enough to think this could EVER work out for them, but that is all there is.

If you’re not familiar with Argentina to make this assessment, then you probably shouldn’t. There’s already way too much anti-Argentina slop, which is insane considering we’re seeing actual genocides and ethnic cleansing unfolding right now, even in the US.

Thank you for being grounded yet optimistic, I appreciate your analysis o7

That’s concerning, considering the attempted coup and all that

A lot of people don’t think about it much, they just think “it’s an alternative to the current person in power, maybe it will work for the economy!”, while overlooking the giant red flags. Same reason why Milei won in Argentina.

Thank God

Also in color revolutions, bombs detonated on children, etc

Are all your takes based on tiktok like this? I assumed you were a somewhat informed ML based on your name.

Can’t wait for them to kick out the US corpos again, even if it probably won’t be anytime soon.

Leftists aren’t a misery cult, when we can win we should so that less people are harmed, what’s the point of performing idealism if it’s the most marginalized that get harmed?

That’s appalling, and very relevant.

They frequently give them to gusanos who advocate for bombing their own countries, and they gave one to Kissinger, so I don’t think that matters much to them.

Are you being ironic or

The propaganda got completely wild, but the day to day operations didn’t change a whole lot, it’s just more public now

The downfall of imperialism can’t come soon enough.

I love your snark o7

It’s not confusing if you have been paying attention this year.

You’re thinking of OP (or the original article’s title), the person you’ve been talking to here is someone else