Tankies feel like they push pseudo communism with the bourgeoisie still at the top giving scraps to the proletariat and passing it off as paltry socialism. There’s no societal change to the hierarchy, balance of power, or wealth. Usually some power of personality to rally around as their God who’s surrounded themselves with oligarchs who are enriching themselves and providing scraps to pass off as communist enough.

It’s more a weird ultra nationalism where proletariats are being tricked into thinking power has been given to the people when the ones at top are abusing their power to oppress forms of counter thought to seize whatever they want and retain their wealth. I wouldn’t consider them left just because there’s some form of socialism. Lot of countries do if at the very least they fix roads and have fire fighters.

The integration of authoritarianism just conflicts with my idea of communism, since my idea of communism is power to the people and one where the government fears the people because people control the means of production and they choose who stays in power. Not trading the usual suspects of kings, dictators, warlords, or whatever they call themselves for a different coat of paint.

No he didn’t. He just says this kind of stuff to seem impartial but continues to push the same right wing agenda to his cult followers.

I found it odd back then that they shifted to strategy of saying how could he support Trump if Yen isnt sexist and isnt homophobic when uproar was Slater’s anti consumer past being ignored. And they kept shifting away from Slater career criticism like some form of gaslighting and ignoring it. And it worked on some people, since they forgot about the positive endorsement of Trump’s pick while omitting Slater’s murky past because look how not racist Yen is.

But, Tim Cook groveling before Trump showed that people who’s goal is to make more money will sell themselves out to try and get within the inner circle if it is more financially advantageous to do so regardless of their personal ideologies. Money and power rules them. It’s fortunate for Proton the sucking up didn’t get them any further, since who knows if Yen would be giving golden gifts at Trump’s dinners if he’d been invited into the fold. “Dear Mr. President you are the most privacy respecting leader in the world and here is a golden statue as a gift.”

That article is such bullshit. That anonymously submitted medium article that gets floated around ignores Internet Association, so wouldn’t be shocking if it was from proton attempting to do PR damage fixating on identity politics with intentional omission of Internet Association involvement.

Yen conveniently ignored that after working at the FTC, Slater become the vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association lobby group. Which was founded by “small business” like Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook.

And involved in trying to infringe upon privacy rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-association-weaken-california-consumer-privacy-act

So yeah, proton founder cherry picked information that tried to make it seem like it was acceptable to praise the pick when reality is the past is too murky to endorse in any manner.

Now seeing straight up bribing and gifts from corporations not even hiding it the whole thing aged like milk.

RSS app of choice still remains my preferred method to retrieve articles from sources I want.

Seeing as how they’ve taken over and their influence is spreading seems it’s been very effective.

There is something to learn from them when it comes to their ability to win over the masses with their approach and no middleground tactics. They don’t seem to get swept up into trying to appeal to both sides.

Right wingers seem way far ahead of the curve when it comes to media outreach.

The hatred towards non whites really resonated with her. They were supposed to go after them not people like her.

That would make the most sense haha

Slater became the vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association lobby group. Which was founded by “small business” like Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook.

And involved in trying to infringe upon privacy rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-association-weaken-california-consumer-privacy-act So yeah, was weird and suspicious he omitted that when trying to use her to praise trump and sell her as some champion against big corporations.

Then that anonymous medium article that floated around defending Andy completely omitting her involvement with the lobby group for big tech, and just focusing on how he isn’t a racist back then seems like it was written by Andy himself haha.

Apple is pushing AI even for their Mac lineup. Apple is a US company and had to be forced to allow Sideloading in select regions. Jumping to another US company seems like a lateral move.

Moving to dumb phones or custom ROMs is the best alternative available.

And even if they express disapproval they will vote or not vote in the same manner because the other side is worse or both are bad.

I think working out and eating healthy is a good trend and blood work is happy for it, and don’t need some super crazy work out plan to look better.

But the whole cosmetic surgeries and steroids which aren’t needed to be healthy is definitely overboard for the regular person who aren’t making living off their looks or athletic performance is overboard.

So basically the same outcome as the election. People haven’t changed.

Wasn’t the shocking thing about trump election results was that he gained votes from non whites so assumptions on racial demographics ended up being unreliable?

In 2016 Hillary Clinton won Hispanic voters by a margin of 38 percentage points, according to exit polls. By 2020 Joe Biden’s margin had shrunk to 33 points. This year early exit polling conducted by CNN suggests that Ms Harris’s margin of victory among Hispanic voters is just eight percentage points—a remarkable collapse if right.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/11/06/hispanic-men-helped-propel-donald-trump-back-to-the-white-house

Assumptions about how younger people would vote is also what led to the shocking results

Trump picked up a larger proportion of voters under 30 than any Republican presidential candidate since 2008, according to NBC News exit polling, improving with both young men and young women.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/yes-trump-improved-young-men-drew-young-women-rcna179019

Men still make up the majority of military

the percentage of women serving in uniform has increased slightly from 17.5% in 2022 to 17.7% in 2023. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4006144/dods-2023-demographics-report-indicates-more-women-fewer-separations/

So question would be are active military members more likely to lean liberal or conservative compared to their demographic?

I got apple devices, but it is more a take or leave it type situation where I wouldn’t feel like I’m missing out if I didn’t have them. Its just one of those nice options, but not irreplaceable tech to me.

It also probably helps that it is easy to ignore Apple and there might not be a feeling of missing out for those who don’t care for the Apple ecosystem. As big as Apple is it is kind of niche in the sense that a Windows or Linux user can just ignore its existence and not feel affected.

But, when it comes to Windows there’s lot of mainstream software, games, and even hardware compatibility that is affected by Windows dominance. Stuff like wine and proton being needed and not getting the same video card driver support leads to more resentment Windows actually having offerings people who tend to complain want.

It is a stereotype but Apple diehards seem to go along with whatever Apple pushes, and people who don’t like them don’t use them anyways. Meanwhile Windows and Linux seems to have more people who are nitpicky about what they use, so group that tends to complain is going to be complaining more loudly about the OS they use would be my guess.

You got downvoted but stats do show they did heavily lean towards voting for this

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/

These days companies have started removing them after a year, since denuvo went to subscription route over a one time fee.

Yeah duck is all over bothered with since it came out since you don’t even need to login to use it.