“People were very ARROUSED…”

I completely agree, and frankly I think most working class people would welcome the access regardless of where the manufacturing is being done, because the need of transportation isn’t going away. In an actual free market Chinese EVs simply would be adopted due to the compltete lack of a comparable product with reasonable pricing, or alternatives, which is part of why you’re seeing the market shifting in Canada, not that it’s an actual free market either but it is being helped by a response to aggressive US imperialism. The US market is artifically ‘free’ and constantly manipulated, so I’d think it’s more likely administrators will cling to the albatross of legacy manufacturing and prop it up to the detriment of the economy and general quality of life for the working class to appease fossil fuel interests. This is what extreme isolationism gets you I guess; The big auto manufacturers bought in to the regime selling tarrifs as some kind of cheat code to their industry dominance extending eternally, which to me suggests their leaders and inverstors are desperate or delusional. I’d like to see more of a move toward mass transport systems investment and infrastructure personally, but the required shift in ideology in the political and governing space is definitely not there right now. Change can come fast, but hope is also scarce in this current staus quo.

Cold Take:
Good. They don’t deserve to survive. Demand will ensure industry bounceback and stability long term, at least nationally as new buniesses fill the void and labour recovers. Mind you, the US industry will probably never compete globally again having collectively chosen to just lag behind technological trends toward efficiency and sustainability to appease fossil fuel entanglements. These companies made the decisions they did not to adapt at a critical turning point and this is the result, and their current rhetoric is an artifact of decades of coddling by a lopsided nanny state spoon-feeding subsidies and bailouts to shitty investors and executives with garbage management practices at the expense of public services and infrastructure. There is no too big to fail, that’s capitalist coping propped up by a corrupt and captured economy that THEY lobbied for.

In short, get fucked, and take your CEOs with you.

Tepid take: The only people calling Steam a monopoly are the loser competitors who can’t find a more extortive business model that will actually compete in their quest to syphon wealth out of the gaming ecosystem. Also ‘news’ outlets that are being paid to assert this narrative, and dumbshit reactionaries who believe those narratives. Sorry Epic CEO, you can’t cry and shit your pants into forcing a successful company to make room and give you a cut. The market will ony respond to a better product here, and Epic ain’t it. EA learned this lesson with their shit-ass Origin product years ago, brand loyalty takes a long time to build and is a powerful variable, and steam is good at not fucking with the gamers, or at least only within parameters of acceptability, it appears.

Cool, but you see how that’s still a deep condemnation of tRump and the Whitehouse admin for letting that happen right? There’s no letting either of those greedy soulless criminals throw the other under the bus, they’re both getting run over or justice isn’t real. This also goes for politicans who have enabled this regime and the corrupt memebers of the US supreme court who made this all possible. This IS a rico case whether people want to admit it or not, the alternative is pretending like it was all this one guy and letting the Republicans slink into the shadows to play nice and bide their time for another 40 years. Prosecution and jail terms are the ONLY way to even pretend to still mantain a representative democracy and justice system.

Let them go, with this leadership having them part of NATO when they ideologically oppse it only gives them power to damage it from within, it is clear tRump is more aligned with Putin, and that makes him an implicit threat to stability. Eject US based on their leadership under existing rules, or create new ones to do it, and tell them they can reapply when they get someone rational in power.

Yeah, furiously shitting their pants and screeching as they destroy the country for optics and glazing pedoligarchs. Media outlets should stop treating these ideological terrorists like a real party, but they’re owned by the same oligarchy. Oh well.

I agree with you, I fully support whatever mechanism that can handle and managed to provided the best path to success and exact the most pain and punishment to these companies in the name of restoring the most victims of their ongoing crimes. I assumed that was class action but I’m all for a million separate trials too, however that happens.

CLASS ACTION NOW! Gut these psychotic corporations that are experimenting on our fucking minds in real time, and nationalize their digital infrastructure so it can be run for the betterment of society rather than the profits of shareholders. Make us all the stakeholders in what can be a transformational tool for social good if freed from endless technoligarchical greed.

Canadian Conservatives keep propping up PP, they can shut the fuck up about what they want.

People have to stop asking me to meet this fictitious bigot, the answer will always be no.

Sure, that’s why so many people are calling it world war epstein right? This article is pure, concentrated cope. The only strategy they have is telling you you aren’t thinking about something, which by the way makes you think about that thing. So… mission accomplished?

Forgive me for not believing one unaccountable analyst. I still see and hear people talking about the files all around me constantly.

“Oh Geeze Bibi…”

“Don -wet belch Don’t be a pussy Donny”

I’m confident that’s exactly how it played out in reality.

This is what martyrdom looks like, deserved or otherwise… Good job tRumpanyahu crime syndicate.

Make it arrests and potentially executions for the egregious extremity of the nature of misuse of state power against citizens, and something might actually change. Nothing else resonates with this regime, clearly, why would they stop now?

Hey that’s that guy who can’t open an olive jar!

Oh hi, Russ. I’m not your mate govnah.

If Sky were being honest in this headline they would not launder his reputation by invoking decades old labels for him, and instead say serial sex pest and known grifter Russel Brand. That’s what I’m fucking on about.

That sex criminal hasn’t been comical in any form for decades, and personally I’d argue never was. Not that I expect anything from Sky, but they’re really diving deep in the muck to protect a notable sex pest this time. It’s almost like people shouldn’t be linking tabloid slop on here.

Huh, I wonder why they would do that… So Weird ™. Surely unrelated to the tRump republicans axeing PBS funding in this current term…