If you compare all the problems Adam Smith highlights when planning out Capitalism to what we currently have you’ll see that we never changed away from feudalism, the new lords just successfully marketed a transition while replacing the old lords.
I am somewhat amused that the empire is crumbling and most people are like: well, it was already kinda fucked.
I’m absolutely horrified by the inevitable sectarianism and accompanying violence that has already started.
The US is going to make the Balkins look like a peace march.
In a few years, all American media will be government owned
Green Ranger:
One Luigi is no longer enough, we need a whole army of Luigies.
I bet you a dozen would be more than enough to shift things. The public is already on their side.
Time to assemble the Megazord
God, Machiko Soga does things for me that billionaires just cant
I don’t think that the Gilded age was “stopped”… The oligarchs just learned better marketing and how to better appease the masses. Their fear of the spread of socialism led to concessions that they’ve been vindictive about ever since.
and they’ve been trying to deny which things made them do it ever since. the union won those concessions in blood in West Virginia, Colorado, and Philadelphia
I mean what the fuck are we supposed to do about it? All of our checks and balances have failed, the next thing is just committing to massive violence and loss of life. And any who thinks that’s just an easy decision is either a psycho path or an edge lord who thinks they would totally get some guns and start a revolution totally, cause they are totally badass bro
You can’t have a two party system and a functioning government when one parties parties core ethos is that government doesn’t work and a election isn’t valid if they don’t win.
The only way this ends is in violence.
What is sad is that Trump is an open book. We’ve seen all this happen before.
I just hope the effects of climate change will soon topple this corrupt system. Many underestimate how far along we really are and with the super El Nino on the horizon we are already looking at millions of deaths globally next year alone.
Or to put it another way: the house of cards is starting to collapse.The problem is none of those millions of deaths from climate change are going to be the rich people most responsible.
The house of cards is about to face a fucking lead blower
I would correct you to leaf blower but I think we need the lead one for this giant rotting corpse.
If we don’t stop it here in the US, the rest of the developed world will follow. Our plutocrats are actually that rich.
Heck, with the AfD gains in Germany and the LGBT+ raids in Turkey / Türkiye, it looks like the transformation is already happening.
I’m not saying your wrong - I’m saying we are fucked
Decades of pendulum swings between lesser and greater evil will do that. But looking around, capitalism is just going down the drain everywhere. So, don’t be too hard on yourself.
AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s
I’m excited to go back to piracy. I’m hoping things are easier in 2026 than even I last did it 20 years ago.
I’m annoyed when i decided to ditch pirating and go legit, only to find out legit cost more to do, limited in whatever i wanna watch, and will be taken down. Gaben is on to something when he said it’s a service problem.
Um yeah, that’s what it does
Much easier. Stremio with the Torrentio and/or MediaFusion plugins. RealDebrid is like $3/mo, don’t even need a VPN. It works pretty much identically to one of the corpo streaming apps, and it has everything in one place!
Only thing with stremio is that the tv app has been crashing a lot recently-- I moved over to Nuvio (which can import stremio addons and watch history) and am very impressed with it so far!
Another option is Usenet with the *arr suite. Super easy program flow.
Only that you pay the same in HDD costs as for a billion streaming services, these days, to feed another billionaires pockets 😢.
But at least you decide when, where and under which conditions you watch your media.
I can’t help but notice your use of “another” rather than “an easier”
Yeah, very sore at Rob Bonta right now cracking like Republicans for the Todd Blanche confirmation.
It almost seems like the people have no friends in government at all.
The merger is still in process but is expected to be finalized October 5th. Because we need a megacorporation to control all our media. CNN to become a right-wing propaganda font in 5… 4… 3… 2…
CNN was pretty much already right wing.
Which is why it’s so funny when MAGAs call it leftist media or liberal media. It’s just moving the window.
it turned around 2016, when malone took over , because zaslav wants more money.
Silver lining is every one of them that’s taken advantage of the last decade to do so are essentially putting themselves on a list of co.paniea that can’t manage itself.
Dividing them up into a bunch of pieces is the compromise.
We need to start pushing for full on nationalization of corporations once trump is out of office.
Just seize a couple health insurance agencies and use that blood money to fund u I ersal healthcare.
Start doing shit like that, and suddenly all the corporations start falling in line.
I think we need to turn a few billionaires to a meat slurry on live tv first. Just put them in a fucking snow machine and watch the red spray over the crowd.
I bet they’d be cheering.
Microsoft hollowing out every Xbox studio.
So, what do Americans care for instead?
