Far-right leaders are winning across the globe.

How does it map to income inequality? Only authoritarianism can support higher levels of income inequality. Arab Spring. Western Fall.

There’s not one single reason when the election went the way it did, just like there is not one demographic that made the election go the way it did.
But the argument “It wasn’t the economy. The economy is great, just look at these numbers [published by the government]!” is just politicians falling for their own rhetoric.
The US governments have been skewing official statistics for decades. I’ve lived through decades of “Oh, X is fine” when my lived experience has been quite the contrary.
I suspect that a significant source of D’s sitting this election out is similar to a lot of R’s thoughts: “You’ve ignored us for decades telling us that things are getting better, but they never do. We’re done. Burn it down.”
Maybe they don’t expect things to get better after this election, but maybe their hoping that spreading the suffering will prompt more people to demand change as well.
Just a thought.

No knock on Proton, but there have been a lot of “lifetime membership” deals these last few years that wind up forgotten after corporate decides number should go up.
I’ll consider “lifetime payments” when corpos offer a legal contract specifying what their remedy will be when “lifetime” winds up meaning “when corporate loses interest”.

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As long as they continue to help him overthrow democracy, it’s performative bullshit.

Sadly, a lot of Americans couldn’t name the states correctly either.

General rule amongst those groups: “If you can’t be good, be loud.”

My theory is: free publicity. Just like the fashion industry comes up with ridiculous clothes that no one would ever wear, attention whores will constantly do outrageous things so that people will talk about them. The number of electrons spilled over this stupid mouse port placement over the years is uncountable. But the repeated conversations keep Apple in the public consciousness as a fashionista.

In the early days it seems pike Stack Overflow tried to regulate engagement from trolls. They encouraged support for dumb/newbie questions and discouraged obnoxious behaviors.

I’m guessing that’s just a losing battle. I don’t think there’s much hope of keeping a good moderator for free. It’s a tough, thankless job. Troll/poor moderators are free.

If I didn’t know better, I would say this sounds like Farley giggling and winking in order to make a play for his next CEO gig.

One Youtube channel suggested it was tax incentives. Cities give tax incentives to large corporate offices in order to bring customers, er… employees to the cities.

Work from home means offices no longer meet qualifications for tax breaks. Ergo CEO freakouts.

Don’t know if it’s true, but it does sound plausible to me.

All those teachers over at the middle school ARE pretty elitist.

/s

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That is the nature of greed. There is no thought of the future or consequence.

The Saw anniversary DVD.

Uber Black is “Luxury rides with professional driver.”

“Professional” insinuates “paid”, so the other Uber drivers aren’t paid?

Nah, it’s corruption only when poor people do it. When rich people do it it’s just “smart business”.

It’s likely you won’t find a rock this big when digging a basement, but as we can see here, it’s not something you can safely take for granite.

We’re raised by parents that must be obeyed for our own safety. Some people eventually learn to accept their parents are imperfect people and not gods. Many people do not. They look to kings and gods to protect and provide for them.

Those that have power negotiate with kings and gods. People without power attempt to use the only techniques they know to negotiate with their kings and gods: begging and/or pledging loyalty and service in exchange for scraps.

Of course this is but one of many reasons many people worship power.

We don’t have to know how to fly a plane to know flying one into the ground is bad technique.