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Some of them are actual people who believe what they're saying. Those are the same people who live in the Venn diagram intersection between "lives in a western country" and "has never lived in China or Russia". It takes a special kind of ignorant to vehemently deny that the grass might not be greener on the other side.

Oh, no, no. You misunderstand. They want small government as in physical size, not organizational size. The smaller it is, the more places they can fit it in your daily life. /s

Well, that explains a lot about the product quality. Their entire development workflow is a complete fucking mess.

• Long-lived feature branches.
• Creating merge commits to main just for the sole purpose of tagging them as releases while also maintaining separate release branches.
• Force-pushing tags to incorporate post-release hotfixes instead of releasing minor patch updates.
• Taking bugfixes from releases and merging them back into the development branch (have they not heard of cherry-pick?)
• Always using merges even when a rebase would be easier to follow and keep the history more straightforward.

I am a different person. For the record, I don't condone making the uncensored videos public either.

Investigators need to see them

The ones at the DOJ, which is led by a corrupt loyalist?
The ones at the FBI, which is led by a different corrupt loyalist?

The public doesn't need to see them, but investigators won't do shit if/when they see them.

Record the flip, of course /s

“I’m pivoting now to focus on e-bike safety — with all my knowledge of building here in USA — I’m going to now use that to make e-bikes safer, especially for kids, and get laws and legal requirements to be enforced,” he said. “Without proper tariff protection and legit safety standard enforcement, no one will ever be able to make an e-bike in the USA in my opinion.”

Suuuuuure. It's totally about safety, and not just you throwing a tantrum of "if I can't have it, nobody can."

To be fair, he has some things going for him: the uncanny ability to get away with false advertising and stock manipulation.

Somehow, "{Super far-fetched thing} will be available NEXT YEAR!" manages to keep working despite the clear history of his promises being even more overhyped and overpromised than even Peter Mollineaux's.

I'm sure the official statement will read more like

"Voters, they LOVE me. The approvals, my approval ratings, just tremendous. The BEST ratings anyone ever saw. So great they said to ME, "President Trump, we won't do this anymore". No more ratings. I FIXED ratings. Just like I fixed the ECONOMY and CRIME. Crooked Hillary could NEVER do that. Obama tried. He tried long and tried hard, I give him that. He COULDN'T do it. Only ME. Only I can fix it. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION."

Using a reskinned Google Chrome protects you from malicious Chrome extensions how, exactly?

He also created JavaScript, IIRC.

Big no thanks /j

I can hear the responses already...

• "Empathy ain't shit in a gunfight."
• "Mexican food won't help with that, dumbass."
• "Fucking commie"

Because they don't care about evidence or facts unless it fits into their narrative.

You can point to posts advocating for violence or censorship coming from their ilk and they'll just attribute it back to the other side because "we wouldn't need to if they didn't do it to us first." It's just the abuser justification, "look at what you made me do".

Or they will just outright deny reality, dismissing opposing evidence as conspiracies, exaggerated, or misunderstood. Did Elon really do a Nazi salute? "No, no. He was just sending his heart out to Americans!"

And when there's overwhelming evidence that they can't do mental gymnastics around? They shut down the conversation. They stop talking about it. They ignore it. They bury it. Out of sight, out of mind.

When someone is indoctrinated into that way of thinking and makes their politics a part of their personality, you are not going to beat them at their own game. Their sense of identity is tied to their beliefs and their ego will not let them accept anything that goes against those beliefs. They need to be deprogrammed.