I’m sure it is. My point is - what do Lemmy users expect out of a for-profit company operating inside of a capitalistic economic system? Saying “no” to China’s LGBT hating demands is impossible in this situation.

Please please please be a good phone. I feel like that’ll be great. I’d like a Linux phone, but I can’t see that shaping up as a Linux reliable daily driver in the next couple of years.

I’d love to give this a simple upvote. What is Tim Cook’s choice here? Operate illegally in China until the government shuts down their entire source of revenue in an entire market which, also, is the one that produces nearly all of its hardware?

If he doesn’t do it - shareholders will remove him in the blink of an eye and replace him with someone who will.

Where I’m agreeing though is - my current phone is my last Apple phone. I’ll be going with Graphene after this. I don’t want corporations telling me what software I can and can’t run on my decides while surveilling me.

Hillary Clinton 2.0. Undesirable candidate supported by a party that’ll backstab candidates more desirable to those that’ll vote Democrat.

Find out what Lee Carter who ran for governor of Virginia a few years ago - I’d camp out the night before at the polling station to vote for that guy.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the possibility of a pardon for Maxwell at an Oval Office event on Monday.
“I haven’t heard the name in so long,” the president responded. “I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look.”

Who is that? I barely even remember who that is.

jfc how has this horror show of a human being courted votes?

Fair point! I’d’ve liked something about the whole “market place of ideas” illusion that the ruling class says exists, but I guess your perspective gets right to the quick of things.

More of the same.

because it presents a slippery slope that could end with conservatives facing government censorship down the road

Silencing speech in “the Land of the Free” isn’t really the problem to him. The problem is that the sword swings both ways.

Turd continues to be turd.

I hope the predictions of this piece is accurate. But I doubt it.

A quick way to restart the exodus from the pews is to make the church even more overtly partisan, rather than spiritual.

When was an evangelical in the 90’s and the 00’s the churches my family attended were frequently GOP rallies with a veneer of Jesus over top. This change in IRS policy that seems to have never ever been enforced to start with will make no difference. The gloom and doom of this piece that suggests that political entities will start dumping money into churches to stump for their candidates - I don’t think that’s going to happen, since the churches that would be game - are already doing it.

Was hoping that guy was going to meet some success at getting geriatric, right-wing Democratic incumbents primaried out. Would be nice to have a near right or even centrist party for once in my life in the USA.