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Dbzer0 is stable, relaxed with the rules, and perfect for a topic like this.

Haha, perfectly put in the original post too.

Sorry Diva they have got a temp ban.

Diva didn't do anything to deserve this type of response. I noticed you misgendering here and removed your post. It's not acceptable behaviour on our instance.

is that andrew tate's cigar shop in the background and if so does he become a leftist in the future?

i figured the punchline would come eventually

Key few paragraphs below:

But the two groups also want different things. The nationalist right wants an economy that prioritizes and assists American-born families (specifically, traditional nuclear ones), sometimes at the expense of business interests; the tech right wants a deregulated economy that bolsters its bottom line. The nationalist right wants to stop almost all immigration; the tech right wants to bring in immigrant workers as it pleases. The nationalist right wants to return America to a pre-internet era that it perceives as stable and prosperous; the tech right wants to usher in a bold, globally focused new economy.

Already, the cracks have started to show. Last month, Trump’s pick of the Silicon Valley venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan as an AI adviser led to a bitter and very public spat between the two camps over visas for highly skilled immigrants. (“FUCK YOURSELF in the face,” Musk at one point told his critics on the right.) At the time, I argued that the MAGA honeymoon is over. The disagreements have only intensified. Last week, after former President Joe Biden used his farewell speech to warn about the influence of Silicon Valley oligarchs and the “tech industrial complex,” the white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes posted on X that “Biden is right.” Bannon in particular has not relented: Earlier this month, he told an Italian newspaper that Musk is a “truly evil person” and that would get the billionaire “kicked out” of Trump’s orbit by Inauguration Day. (Considering that Musk is reportedly getting an office in the West Wing, Bannon does not seem to have been successful in that quest.) In an interview with my colleagues Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, Bannon described the tech titans as “nerds” whom Trump was humiliating. Seeing them on Inauguration Day was “like walking into Teddy Roosevelt’s lodge and seeing the mounted heads of all the big game he shot,” Bannon said.

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We already can guess how this will end. During his first administration, despite making populist promises on the campaign trail, Trump eventually sided with the wealthy. Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist during the start of his first term, pushed for tax hikes on the wealthy. Seven months into his presidency, Trump fired him, and then proceeded to pass tax cuts. In his new administration, the nationalist right will certainly make gains—it is thrilled with Trump’s moves around birthright citizenship and his pledge to push forward with mass deportations. But if it’s ever in conflict with what Trump’s rich advisers in the tech world want, good luck.

Remember, it was Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk who sat on the dais at Trump’s inauguration. Bannon, Keeperman, and Kirk were nowhere in sight.

Human decency.

This is nothing, wait until the Trump tariffs kick in and everything gets more expensive.

Somebody certainly is.

YDI.

Are they both supposed to be the exact same repack? I looked at your previous post and a virustotal result like that can be quite normal for certain types of patchers. But it could be a virus (you never know) so if you have the option of a cleaner looking repack then I'd say go for that one!

Here you go, and thanks!

Please help cover server costs

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mom's meth recipe? lmao but I don't think it qualifies as a meme.

In reality Trump and Biden/Kamala are both perceived as being terrible candidates. The public thinks it doesn't matter too much which one they vote for, they are just gonna continue to get fucked over by the rich and powerful no matter what. Fact is, both major US parties primarily represent the interests of capital, not the interests of the public who are just grist to the mill of capitalism. Yes, there is the matter of the degree to which each party capitulates to the rich and powerful, but they are both all-in on it.

Its true the Democrats have been more progressive than the Republicans on certain social issues, but only where those issues were no threat to the status quo. But the moment progressivism butts up against the interests of capital, it loses. Just look at how universal basic income is going, or housing the homeless, or universal free healthcare and education is going. Anything that requires a shift of capital from the rich to the poor is immediately off the table whether the Republicans or Democrats are in power. But allowing gay marriage (for example) cost the Democrats nothing, so why wouldn't they support it? And it doesn't give them the moral high ground either, because they only conceded it begrudgingly after dragging their heels until it looked like it wouldn't negatively impact the vote.

I agree with you that things will get worse under Trump, but then they will continue to get worse under the next government too if all we have to choose from is oligarchy extra strength or oligarchy normal strength.

It's the party of the status quo, even if the status quo includes elements of fascism and oligarchy.

Thanks, I've got so used to using lemmyverse.link lately that I didn't even think of that.

I know right? It's utter madness. And they already tried and failed to clamp down the support for Luigi on LW before this. It's got, "this is gonna backfire" written all over it.