The world’s boycott of Russia resulted in Chinese brands getting a super strong foothood there. Shows how important maintaining a country’s manufacturing base is.

CEOs will be able to crowd source a replacement. Their financial position allows them the upper hand in a highly corrupt pay-to-play political system.

Society will thus go in the direction they choose, which will be to always have people like Trump around. People who are willing to use their reputation and efforts to steal from the poor and give to the wealthy.

Killing Trump is not just a good idea, but a necessary social control… and there still needs to be actions beyond that too.

The bill to make things more difficult.

Those ones tend to stake themselves eventually, or get obsessed with seeing sunlight “for real though”. They’re not in it for the long haul.

Or it’s not, and that’s the problem. The organised rightwing forces of state repression can easily push around a left that’s been trained and groomed to function as entirely beholden to corporate sponsors and big money donors.

…to the point it’s now visible and blatant that the establishment left cannot stand and legitimately claim even the possibility they are the solution.

Because the solution is something more revolutionary that will cause bloodshed and more regular interruptions to people’s daily lives.

So of course, keep your head down, hope none of this effects you. Ignore that it already has. The dems will fix it later, ect…

It’s understandable to ignore the civil war even though it’s not rational to.

Terrorists (freedom fighters) are made as needed, they’re not born ready. Trump’s administration will be looking to stay under that threshold.

The problem with this, and so many other problems in America right now - is that they’ll only ever be fixed by Democrats swinging the other direction.

The majority of whom will only go as far as they believe their corporate sponsors will allow. Preventing real progress.

This is the mechanism and economic base structure of “democracy” in the west which prevents real progress and real change from happening to the structures and systems we have.

The result? An ever increasing risk of populist fascism, which may become increasingly systemic in its use of deadly force and violent repression (yes, things can go further unless the structure itself is forced in the other direction - in a revolutionary manner).

To clarify: Only leftwing revolution can fix and prevent this happening again. Hence why Biden and establishment “leftists” were unable to prevent the current era - because it requires a revolutionary movement much further left to do these adjustments to democracy, rights, and the state of western politics.

We all know that scene in Robo Cop 2 is going to happen eventually.

Yeah, but the question was as to whether Gemini is listed as an app. The answer is no, Google have snuck it in whether you like it or not.

Yes, it’s on there. I have a phone, never downloaded or installed Gemini, but because it’s a motorola with a special extra button… I can push that button and up pops Gemini.

The only way I can stop it is by disabling the Google app, then the button becomes innert again (which is how I like it).

So yes, it’s embedded in the Google app. Disabling the Google app may aslo cause other issues (such as Google Home/Chromecast not working).

The EU making a joke at their own expense.

“And the Libertarian founding fathers defeated the woke pro-slavery communists, to get rid of the DEI british and found America (which was uninhabited at the time)” -Grok

The tech bro corporate class is kind of in bed with each other. Individuals at Palantir and Meta were given the rank of Lt. Colonel the other day. They all contribute to each other’s data (selling and trading it to the same data brokers). Have similar people funding them, using and buying their products. Lots of the messaging and cultural stances they take are similar. Their heads know each other, or have ways to contact each other. Some have histories of working at the same companies, knowing the same people. Occupying the same end of the class war.

No human needs this, this is the march of the companies against humanity.

You shouldn’t be glad. The getting rid of government scope and distribution is a way to consolidate power with the office of the president.

The various offices in a democracy, the span of government is a kind of hidden balance built into liberal beurocracies. More complicated power distribution, harder to subvert.

Tyrannies tend to be very straight forward and direct in their power distributions.

He’s making the ultimate take over easier.

Each office he destroys is one less person who might help depose him.

When is the US switching from English to Russian? Because this is very Russian.

Can’t wait until we figure out that improving society for the people in it, improves society overall.

Everyone aopears to be supporting the same cause: Iran not having Nuclear autonomy.

President Rapist.

Different business models.

Spies from other nations.