People are buying these books while they’re still allowed to.
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It won’t be gone. How else will they make good on their threat of shutting down media companies that say things they don’t like?
“And you know, I’m not somebody that says, 'No, you can’t come in.' We want people to come in."
“We just want them to leave again unless they think and act and look just like us.”
That’s the point; the different groups are just as likely to fight each other as the far right, which now has an entire party to itself.
Don’t forget Obama!
Remember that half of the population is below average.
I’m assuming that other 2% had other motivations.
They’ll use proxies, unfortunately. Hire out of work Democrats to do the actual fighting.
He got non-fascists voting for him too though. I’m totally amazed at how much total misinformation people were fully believing even AFTER the vote. Amazingly, some people think he’s just another Republican that the Democrats are smearing, who got the economy running better when he was in power last than Biden did in his first term, so they voted Trump instead of Biden this time.
I have no idea how there are so many rocks that all those voters had room to live under them.
The problem is, once the middlemen gain power, they’re never gonna give you up. Music producers are a great example of this, as are telecoms companies.
All the current SaaS stuff is similar; the offerings LOOK similar, but they’re explicitly designed not to be a 1:1 match, so you can’t just take your business elsewhere, just like the mattress companies of old.
We’re even seeing this play out in the streaming video market, where each player has its own differentiator, moreso than we ever saw with traditional cable TV.
Standards are great, but middlemen have no incentives to not subvert them.
He won because he got more people to get out and vote for him.
The reasons for this are varied.
You describe how things work in 2024. I’m pretty sure we’re going to see Trump stomping hard on state’s rights pretty early in 2025.
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As someone outside the US who’s reasonably centrist from a global perspective…
The Democrats have been inching further right for decades. Every four years, the party picks one or two “progressive” topics, dials them back a bit, and campaigns on change, while supporting a general platform that is similar to conservative platforms in most countries.
That said, the population seems to be shifting along with them, so campaigning on a centrist platform would get them branded as pinko commie socialists and result in the majority of the population abandoning them.
The problem is, they’re the “not Republicans” party, which covers a huge swathe of political opinions that usually aren’t in agreement with each other.