I follow updates on their policies. Its entirely culture war, using protecting children as an excuse to target and oppress minority groups that the vast majority of GOP voters have not and will never interact with in real life. And using that as camouflage they gut any institution they can to shrink the government in an effort to divert more of that money into their donors through government purchases.

And the Dem’s just use the same tired ole “At least we don’t target minorities” as their entire campaign, because they are incapable of following through with any of the possibly meaningful changes they campaign on because anything Dem voters truly want is not allowed in our pay to win system of government.

Hitching your wagon to either is how you become a sheep that is guided by the system of pitting us against each other, evaluate choices each election, you will learn real quick both parties sell the country to the highest bidder and do nothing to protect the people, both sides only enact token gestures of protection that do nothing to help our endless growing list of systemic problems, and are made purely to do the bare minimum to satisfy voters so they will stay divided into two camps that hate each other and continue to vote on wedge issues instead of demanding the change we need.

You even automatically assumed that because i spoke about the poor education of the voting public I was talking about GOP specifically, which immediately made you feel defensive. This is exactly how we stay divided, we continue to villainize the voters and leaders of the other side, which ensures whenever we learn from each other because we are playing defense, which is proven to make sure we cant learn from each other. All this to prevent us from joining together and demanding the government do literally anything at all to stop this system that pushes the general population closer and closer to poverty just to allow the richest people in the world to become even richer.

If ever a time comes where the people put aside wedge issues and focus on the betterment of the citizens the country will begin to rapidly improve, but sadly as i said in my first comment, we are a weak willed unresearched and uneducated population that is too easily tricked into playing a game about identity politics, while the real game being played is to keep us so focused on wedge issues that we dont notice them going through our pockets and stealing the copper out of our walls.

Bizarre, I guess their business has been running on hopes and dreams instead of money for the past 30 years lol.

Yes but people will pay redhat Linux to use a distro with support. Also almost the entire US internet server infrastructure runs on Linux.

So yeah a company can provide an open source product with commercial support

Good detail added, I did not know that. But they’re still doing so with a much smaller payout than if they tried to compete the way a US capitalist would through a closed source full ownership model.

Because an angry and stupid population votes GOP.

It’s simple really. People vote on culture war issues, and respect posture more than reason, we are a weak species that is easily manipulated, moreso when you gut education.

He’s not wrong. He was speaking in the implied scope of capitalism. Where u can’t do something that cheap because without the ability to hit a huge payout for investors noone will fund you.

We’re just seeing that capitalism can’t compete with an economy that can produce stuff without making investors rich.

Yeah you’re right, I couldn’t remember the exact wording only the general sentiment, so i went with something close enough lol

Sadly though this was never going to be avoided, sure they’re leaning hard into conservative cult nonsense, but they were still on a downword optics trajectory. Its impossible not to have this happen in capitalism, it will always be inevitable that enshitifcation happens to milk profit from anywhere it can, and that will always look bad.

One of my favorite lines from early on in trumps rise to cult leader was “Conservatives would let Trump shit in their mouth just to watch liberals become disgusted”