To conservatives, "handling" a region where the population is a different skin color and religion is removing it. So—if you asked Trump's supporters, you would get an enthusiastic "yes" as a response.

More likely: it goes to debt collectors, and debt collectors being the scum of the earth they are will try to trick her family into taking on the debt.

Might be. It is definitely a thing, though.

When I used to work for a large American corporation that sold products to consumers, they took it extremely seriously and breaking it would result in disciplinary action. It probably had something to do with advertisement laws, but it also easily could have just been because it makes the company look very bad.

one place even asked people to write fake reviews on Trustpilot/job sites

That sounds unethical, to say the least. Did they verify if you actually did it, or just "suggest" you do?

Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.

Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.

"No there isn't. Evidence is fake, unless it agrees with my narrative" /s

Crucify? Oh, no, no, no.

They would have him arrested and detained by plain-clothes ICE agents, held in a Texas concentration camp where he would be bundled with the "illegals," then shipped off to El Salvador to be starved and worked to death... Twice.

In her case, that's even worse.

Buddy, quit while you're ahead not too far behind. You're just proving what @Tattorack@lemmy.world said: you don't understand the difference between patents, copyright, and trademarks.

Another great post as usual!

For people interested in what's been going on with Limited Run, here's a 90-minute video that goes into a lot of detail about the sketchy stuff they did before this latest controversy:

https://youtu.be/MvkZkgmpg2w

A real shame the article omits the part about GameStop (the former parent company) being led by an absolute piece of shit.

https://xcancel.com/ryancohen/status/1891884823465103698

Email M&A@gamestop.com if you’re interested in buying GameStop Canada or Micromania France. High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today!

Them actually selling it, and to Canadian business no less, is a blessing for y'all.

You're making a very big leap in assuming I don't condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.

They're a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on "the economy is fine" didn't work—they don't understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.

The failings of the Democrat Party don't absolve rural conservatives and undereducated voters of their part in this, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. The economy was doing fine because we had our lovely billionaires and mega corporations consolidating all the wealth and skewing that number while the average person was under growing financial pressure.

The problem was—and still is—the wealth disparity. We have multimillionaires and billionaires absorbing more and more money from the 99% while paying a pittance back towards helping the people they're screwing. They get to dodge taxes by reinvesting their profits into assets they own, hoard resources, and act with impunity.

A voter base that took the time to understand what they were asking for would have seen straight through Trump's sensationalist bullshit, not barreled straight into it. It should have been obvious that he wasn't going to fix wealth disparity. He associates himself with the billionaires, he sees himself as one of them, and he wants to keep it that way. He doesn't give a single shit about wealth disparity, let alone ever acknowledge it as the problem. Instead, he won his campaign on vague promises about a word that means something completely different to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that cast their ballot for him.

The economy wasn't "doing fine" for more than half the population.

People who think like that are the reason Trump got elected.

the economy ≠ standard of living

The problem was purchasing power, wages, and inflation. People's standard of living was suffering, but the "economy" wasn't. Conflating the two is why Trump's stupid rhetoric resonated so much with the uneducated Magats that voted him in: they thought he was promising to fix their standard of living, while the reality was that he was promising to "fix" something that wasn't broken.

plus these are benches too it looks like

This part is the most surprising. For something meant to go in urban areas, where's the hostile architecture? No railings between seats? No spikes?

Between EmuDeck and RetroDECK and having used both, I 100% prefer RetroDECK these days. It's a single Flatpak install, it Just Works™ out of the box, and it doesn't clutter my system with random crap sprawled everywhere. I also appreciate that it has a Steam Input template providing a way to do basically everything emulator-related that I could've ever wanted.

Major props to the team behind RetroDECK and the excellent work they're doing. The future is looking bright, and I can't wait to see what's in store!

If you consider Republicans centrist, sure. They're roughly equivalent.

That must make the corporate neoliberal Democrats sound like downright communists, though.

Tomorrow:

ACTIVIST judges HATE America! The Democrats, corrupt Hillary, they call it "checks and balances". LIES. Checks and balances are NOT politics. Checks and balances are MONEY. The founding fathers, they told me themselves. "Mr. President, make big checks and tremendous balances. We made America great. You make the best deals, make it great again." CANCEL the FRAUD checks and cut Democrat balances! America writes the checks! Stop the ILLEGAL DEI spending!

Edit: Attempt 2

ACTIVIST judges HATE America! The Democrats, NASTY WOMAN HILLARY. They call it "checks and balances". LIES. It's not politics, it's MONEY. Big checks. The biggest, even. These things, they make the BEST nation in the world. Tremendous balances, That's why America is great. The greatest, even. The founding fathers, they wanted it that way: the BIGGEST economy. They told me themselves, you know. "President Trump, make big checks and tremendous balances. You make the BEST deals." They're right. Nobody makes deals like I do. Tariffs, they're fixing things. CUSMA, what a BAD deal. TERRIBLE. This is why you don't elect DEMOCRATS. They get ripped off, they want to give AMERICAN money to TERRORISTS. I'm fixing it, you know. China, China. They're begging me "Mr. Trump, we need your business." We're making a deal. The BEST deal in the history of deals. But the Democrats, they want to stop it. Try to make ILLEGAL deals behind America's back. Terrible deals. Truly BAD deals. Anti-American DEI spending. And they got away with it under BIDEN. NO MORE. CANCEL the FRAUD checks and cut Democrat balances! America writes the checks! Stop the ILLEGAL DEI spending!

The silver quicksilver lining is that plague doctor masks might be making a comeback, at least?

It's better than letting him milk it from the shadows.

With the way he's set up his own companies to benefit from DOGE "inefficiency" fixes and government contracts, Tesla has a safety net and path to perceived growth. And unfortunately, the public has a short memory. If he leaves and decides to stop interfering with global politics for a while and people move on to boycotting something else, Tesla's already-overvalued hype stock will have a chance to recover even more.

It's also against his interests to sell his Tesla stock since he used it to help secure those massive loans when buying Twitter. If he's forced to divest, he would actually have to eat that massive multi-billion loss in a tangible way.

Anyhow, I brought up the idea more so as a reminder that we must not stop with the boycotts until he does finally sell. While he still gains personal wealth from the company, it's not enough for him to just step down as CEO.

Not good enough. His personal wealth is still backed by his ownership in Tesla stocks, and he'll keep profiting and using them to bankroll his fascist fuckery and geopolitical interference.

Force him to sell his shares and divest.

“China probably will eat those tariffs.”

Lucky China, they at least get to eat something.