these where the first versions of empire that existed on this world and full of equal parts flaws and dumb luck as a result

the modern hybrid euro-colonial versions also have flaws and luck on their side, but, more importantly, they learn and adapt from each other and, as a result, have a pattern that we can now identify.

i bet this is why ice is one of the largest police forces in the world now.

… the working class is still becoming more radicalized.

you mentioned this earlier (and dose of optimism of warranted here); what evidence are you seeing for this?

only in the uto-aztecan dialects. lol

it’s just fedora and, even then, because of ibm’s acquisition of red hat.

money and american hegemony have tried to enshitify linux many times in the past; but linux keeps on chugging along anyways.

i suspect it’ll be a forever thing

my sister is married to someone like this and he also has a trump flag on the house they both live in.

i’m happy that my sister and nephews are all white-passing so that she’ll never have to suffer through an ordeal like this; but at the same time i frustrated that she thinks it’s fine and will never understand why it isn’t

apparently: the same goes for its patrons; i’m sure i’m responsible for atleast 1 percentage point. lol

– but not for enough people to cause change.

google (along with most of tech) is lousy with isreali interests.

it’s not just democrats; it’s americans in general. they have a difficult time accepting that they’ve been propagandized so thoroughly, they even deleted the comment you’re responding to for trolling even though it’s 100% the truth.

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Who else besides Waze can warn me if the police are nearby?!!!

You’re mistaken; the United States has no leftist parties.

i like how this overtook: “scotty, beam me up”. lol

i looked into it and i lost all interest once i realized it had nothing to do with bodily fluids. lol

i wish americans and other westerners weren’t so good spreading propaganda to each other without at least getting paid like the cia or fbi or homeoffice; things are tough out there and you should be paid for your work.

here are articles of americans doing the same thing with prison labor:

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/putting-legal-lens-forced-prison-labor-and-thirteenth-amendment

https://breakingac.com/news/2025/jun/17/unveiling-the-system-forced-labor-in-us-prisons-and-the-push-for-reform/

https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

downvotes are a good thing here; they prove that you’ve atleast acknowledged these facts and that the seed of doubt can now germinate in your mind.

The Democrat/Republican one would be first on my list

I wonder if the British of the early 19th century predicted that this is how it would turn out when they decided not to press their advantage after the war of 1812 in favor of detente w the young United States

dunno; the aged induced bone spurs and arthritis sometimes makes me want to welcome annihilation. lol