Facebook came from somewhere. It replaced MySpace. Google was started in a garage. It was almost sold to yahoo. AOL gave way to Comcast which might give out to Starlink. Remember your internet history. Saying you can’t build websites or buy servers is a cop out. Don’t treat these companies like irreplaceable institutions. Tik Tok and Discord are already replacing them. Something else will replace those. You can absolutely take your business elsewhere. I keep reading that there are 80 million of them, they can bail each other out of jail but can’t buy a server room? They can’t develop wireless technology further? If the deepstate is coming for them, why do they keep relying on its own tools? There is a thing called the deep web Ive heard of. Somehow sites survive out there in the internet badlands in-spite of google delisting them. Somehow they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and sold heroin online for years. Yeah, you can take your business elsewhere. If you build it. They will come.
The Zoomer generation. Where calling someone a simp is the lowest, dirtiest insult (for some reason). @AKS Many of these people could easily start their own platforms. Isn’t Trump supposed to be some hotshot multimillionaire? They don’t want that. The point was to turn lots of people into raging fascists, conspiracy nutjobs, and white supremacists and you can’t do that on a large scale with fringe websites. You do that by putting your propaganda on the same platforms people use for celebrity gossip and sharing pictures of their kids with grandma.
You can make a website and post whatever you want to it. But Facebook and Twitter can curate what you market to their users. The are a marketing platform itself marketed as "social media". Personally, I don't think they do enough. YouTube is overrun with scammers that used to only be allowed airtime between 2-5am on local access TV.
@supersonic Youtube personalities are just the modern equivalent of the ShamWow guy or Billy Mays from OxiClean. They all want to sell you something.
McConnell is saying the mob was "fed lies and provoked by Trump." Rats fleeing a sinking ship. I'd say McConnell found his spine, but turtles have shells. So I guess he found his shell again.
Absolutely. The only way the GOP remains viable is if it distances itself from Trump, white nationalism, and QAnon insanity.
Trump won't be attending the inauguration and it sounds like he left a nasty note for Biden. I'd really like to know what's in it. He's talked about forming his own party. That would be amazing. The GOP would be split into two parties, neither of which would be viable.
Well, Biden wasn’t my ideal candidate but as long as he doesn’t kill like 400k Americans in a year he should be ok. Maybe 200-250? Leave some room for improvement.
I'll take a mediocre status quo president who will surround himself with competent people over whatever that clown show was
He's definitely a huge flight risk. I do wonder where he would go. It would have to be somewhere that won't extradite. I don't know if the Russians would want him at this point.
Surprise Surprise, Operation Deep Space Warp Speed 2: The Next Generation was total bullshit and there was no real plan at the federal level for vaccine distribution I feel like we elected a villain from a Simpson's episode. Trump was basically the monorail scammer or The Leader from the cult episode.
It’s going to take nothing less than JEB BUSH to rehabilitate the GOP. People are saying look out in two years... I think the Ds might get a supermajority at this rate.
It's anecdotal but every Trump sign in my neighborhood disappeared after 1/6. And there were a lot of them.
I heard on the radio one guy saying he wouldn’t vote Trump again because he didn’t attend the inauguration. I think most people will rationalize and justify anything in the moment. But once the dust settles they accept defeat and move on. Everyone left are nut jobs. I’ve never seen this level of fanaticism in my life. Over a politician at that. Apple doesn’t have this level of crazy.
So what you're saying is that Trump is an even better con man and cult leader than Steve Jobs. That's high praise.