We had a pretty close call there. For a while, the president was pushing hard for a federal online censorship program that got caught lying as soon as it was formed, and also trying to get votes counted with no voter ID unlike every single other democratic country. The administration was also paying bail for protestors who burned down random businesses and pushing for prosecution of people who acted in self defense. Luckily we didn’t re-elect him and his handlers after that.

It threw off everybody’s bullshit calibration when the FBI announced in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which included implications of Joe Biden taking foreign bribe money, was “Russian Disinformation”.

They also ordered (technically only “asked nicely”) Facebook and Twitter to engage in censorship campaigns based on this.

Later, after helping Biden win the election, they admitted that the laptop was real and not a Russian psyop as publicly claimed. Internal text messages revealed even later prove that while the FBI may have thought the laptop was not real at first, they did not believe it was a Russian plant, in other words, they lied.

So stuff like that might be why Republicans tend to believe “Russian Misinformation”.

What a worthless article. But we have a saying, the flak is heaviest when you’re over the target.

Ironically, thats the exact idea behind the whole trade war thing. It has lead to TSMC already accelerating their plans to expand the Arizona microchip fabrication lab, which means… Factory jobs, the thing we used to have in the 70’s.

I am sure no unnatural forces outside the free market caused this drastic shift in the last 20 years.

“Uhhh, yes ALL MEN, why would you say not all men?”

“Uh not all of them obviously, I don’t mean the good ones. If you thought I was targeting you when I said all men are bad, threats to innocent people, and need to be kept out of public spaces and valuable positions. Obviously you are a bad person.”

More like Facebook worked overtime to tip the 2020 election towards Biden and Trump is still mad about it.

Well, FOIA requests revealed Facebook was extremely cooperative with both enacting government censorship requests, and keeping them secret, when those same censorship requests would have been utterly illegal if they were an official order, so…

Some deal like “You give us control over information and we leave your monopoly alone”, even unspoken, seems to be the gist of it.

I definitely remember reading about it a while before release in Game Informer, and I think the game was originally going to just be an RTS. At some point they made 3rd person gameplay most of the playtime and the RTS separate. As far as I remember the RTS battles are all in the main story and theres no way to play more RTS battles if you wanted to (theyre mid anyway).

The game was also obviously incomplete, with the whole middle act being especially bare bones.

Based on the age of the original, they probably toned down the one gay/bi party member a lot.

I think in the west, we mostly only hear from the government, and not regular people because they don’t speak English and aren’t on western websites. Regular people probably have a lot of the same concerns we do. Of course, the government wants to increase total productivity and don’t care if it causes an upset for regular people.

Keep in mind, one example of “more productive” to the Chinese is passing AI generated bullshit through as peer reviewed academic articles, like nobody is gonna notice the rat with a dick larger than its own body.

So I’d say people who care about ethics, or academic integrity, or whatever, still have something to worry about. China just doesn’t care.

4chan today is more moderated than Reddit in 2012.

Probably because the people who made the show experienced Christmas that exact way for themselves, where for the other holidays they read a book or asked a practicing religious person what it was like.

God bless your heart.

I don’t understand why Linux users are like this.

Admit it, China and Russia gave up on “real communist” central planning because it just does not work. The remaining communist countries today like Cuba and North Korea are propped up by goods made by privately owned companies in larger states.

This statement manages to be sorta true while also missing that there’s more great games on steam than the entire, mature Switch 1 library.

Country of India burned by this comment.

Nah you don’t get it, right wingers are “liberals” to them. In the old sense of the word (“free-market liberal”) anyone who doesn’t want central planning is a “liberal”, they want to be free to so economic activity without a state official’s oversight.

Plus, since they know righties call their opponents “liberals” they think they’re doing a slick reversal or tricking right wingers into listening to them or something.

Of course, they really just actually hate liberty since they are more authoritarian than most of the lefties on this site. But thats tankies for you.

“Cancel your tariffs on us or we will place tariffs on you” is like, the most reasonable ask ever?

It’s also not exactly the situation, (trump received just such a counter offer and rejected it, he wants trading partners to balance the trade deficit somehow?) But the offer displayed in the meme makes sense.