This shows that there’s really only a slight decrease from 2020/21. Considering inflation, that drop in value is even greater, and a good thing, but their monopoly will only be destroyed when the cost of lab diamonds are similar.

Don’t you know? It’s not that the Democrats are out of touch and only offer corporate-whore-lite.

It’s because the voters are all wrong!

Wait until some Trump loyalist brownshirt calls pigboy.

That was just for the growth and acquisition phase, using the network effect to capture consumers and businesses, get them addicted and dependent on the product, and then build a wall around them to lock them into your platform.

It’s a classic bait and switch, and if we didn’t live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracy” it’d be illegal.

Cultural appropriation huh

modernizing federal IT

This also might be how they permanently compromise the FEC and voting machines for future elections; considering Trump already mentioned Elon helped with “those vote counting computers”.

See this thread for why D’s will never learn, and do not deserve to govern. Still blaming everyone they failed to motivate.

“You should have accepted the continuation of the slow D genocide. Now you’ll get the extra double R genocide, and it’s all your fault!”

This is why progressives abstained; to let Trump destroy the corporate-whore duopoly and charade of “democracy” in America. It wasn’t under some fantasy that R’s would be better for Gaza, America, or the planet. It was because the D’s are captured by the corporate oligarchy — thus will never offer meaningful change — and spent the last few decades helping the R’s sow the seeds for fascism, building the surveillance state and MIC, destroying the financial and housing security of the working class, etc.

Eventually some victims will stop accepting the abuse, and lash out at their abusers; even if it means much worse abuse or death.

Most of Gaza is already leveled and uninhabitable. They didn’t need 2000 pound bombs.

About 92 per cent of housing units are destroyed, 68 per cent of the road network is destroyed or damaged, 88 per cent of school buildings need rebuilding or major repairs, and there are “zero” fuel reserves to operate generators at hospitals.

Everyone has their vices. I replaced fb with reddit over a decade ago. Never bothered with the rest of sm because it was mostly acquaintances posting boring shit and I had group chats with friends.

Now I’ve replaced 99% of my reddit usage with lemmy / hackernews, and lost half my friends due to the fascist propaganda sphere (anti-vaxer/sjw/trans dumb shit). It’d be really hard to abandon them entirely because I avoid most MSM (due to the overt corporate propaganda / censorship) and curating an rss feed is a-lot more effort. Dropping everything would result in becoming completely ignorant of the world.

Musk also shat on the American workforce with the HB1 shit. This is just Musk consolidating power.