BakerBagel

joined 2 years ago
[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People understand that their position is getting worse and worse every year. The liberal parties are all promising to stay the course and maybe throw a couple bones to token minority groups. The conservatives are promising to punish all the dirty minorities that ruined everything and make it all better. Your average voter has no political inclination and when one group says they aren't gonna change anything, and the other offers radical change, it's not surprising why voters will go for the change option.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

That's essentially been the Republican playbook in the US for the past 40 years. Introduce heinous legislation, media and opposition hem and haw for a couple weeks, pull the heinous legislation for something that is 75% less heinous which passes. Rinse and repeat and people consider it a victory every time their rights are eroded away

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 23 points 2 months ago

Except it didn't matter if Blockbuster's headquarters had a power outage since tour physical VHS from them worked fine where ever you were. Pretty much every major web service uses AWS, so if AWS goes down, so does the Internet.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

This has been the Israeli M.O. since the 50's. Antagonize their neighbors, steal their land in the name of "securing the area", then put new Israeli settlements in that stolen land. Rinse and repeat until we get to the current day.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

The author works for business inside. He's 100 % on board with all the heinous shit tech companies are doing

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same for Israel

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

He's so detached from reality that he thinks he can do it all by himself.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

The point is that America has managed to make a lot of guys richer than God by allowing them to exploit millions of people

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The point is that America has managed to make a lot of guys richer than God by allowing them to exploit millions of people

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People have been making web crawlers for the past 30 years. Why do you need to torch an acre of forest to do the same?

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 24 points 2 months ago

originally, Wakefield put out his bogus study because he had a patent for a rubella vaccine, and wanted to discredit only the MMR vaccine, so people would buy his vaccine. Once that takes hold people run with it

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the Catholic Church was collecting money from across Europe to build oppulent fortresses and cathedrals way earlier than the 50 years ago

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