Jeremy [Iowa]

Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days

Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.

Like about how that… doesn’t actually change anything that was said?

Right, so anyone adopting such a “buy for a month and binge watch” strategy can still pay ~75% more and not receive a ~75% increase in value.

Nothing is changed.

Well, when the price increases by ~75% and the value does not increase by ~75%, this sentiment isn’t exactly surprising.

Yarr intensifies

I see we can mark off “double down on wartime economy boost” on the recession check list.

I consider the privilege of choice in taste of one’s preferred stimulant to be one of the few small joys to late stage capitalism.

Username checks out.

For real. I’ve begun to associate “@lemmy.world” with the most average r/Politics liberal takes and talking points.

They’re too busy clutching pearls because we dare defend the right to bear arms. At this point, it really can’t be good for the pearls.

There’s a little irony in that the only way to break the partisan deadlock - which has shifted from anything voters give a shit about to the parties’ own favorite stances and issues - is to introduce a third party wild card.

They hate that argument - likely because they’re well-aware on some level.

By continuing to prop up a given candidate not for their actual policies and skills but instead simply because they’re our party / they’re not other party, they’ve enabled mediocrity and incompetence for many cycles now - and we’re seeing the predictable results of that strategy.

This is the brain on partisanship.

You are aware that was a generalized observation, right?

You seem to be the exact type of unthinking blue-team diehard called-out for bizarre, near-vitriol reactions.

I suspect you’re just not liking being in this comment.

You’ve managed to avoid the knee-jerk “useful idiot” etc vitriol? I’m impressed and envious.

The lack of Google/Microsoft enshittification is a huge draw.

How does that in any way explain the bizarre, near-vitriol reactions of blue team participants to criticisms and jokes about Biden?

A relative excess of funny would just explain more jokes, and poorly.

“safety”

The various @politics communities are currently chock full of a weird deflection of all jokes and criticisms of Biden and a focus on jokes and criticisms about Trump. It’s pretty hard to see how the blue team part to this pans out at all.

Frankly, this seems to be the natural culmination of a trend in how liberals define themselves as not the other team to such an extent they lose all self-reflection and totally miss how they’re incidentally letting the other team shape them. They’ve pretty much entirely lost touch with the reality that exists outside upper-middle-class suburbia.

You nailed it in that they suddenly care about not dedicated proud Democrats long enough to try and doom-and-gloom you into voting for them - with the ironic fire and brimstone messaging lost on them - but once the election ends, at best, you cease to exist. At worst, you’re part of a bloc that didn’t unanimously vote blue therefore are to blame for the loss.

Does it scare me? Not overly much - I still suspect we’re equal parts just seeing brought to the surface what was always there via social media and idiocy amplification, and the unfortunate endgame of partisanship and the resulting ideological and governmental deadlocks. It’s unfortunate and saddening but not overly worrying.

What does worry me is their tendency to mirror their opponents in rhetorical patterns, messaging patterns, dogpiling, groupthink, etc. with absolute unawareness of such. ~2/3 the country is so deadlocked on fuck the other team they can’t even fathom they’re both getting fleeced. I’m not sure how much longer that is going to be sustainable… but throw that into the bucket of things they don’t actually care about and don’t want to think about.