barrio_libre

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[–] barrio_libre 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what comes after McConnell? Won’t Kentucky just go full MAGA?

[–] barrio_libre 1 points 1 year ago

I remember rather enjoying hating Tipper Gore and all that ludicrous PMRC bullshit. I don’t think we ever took it that seriously… it’s not like they actually managed to ban anything; they just slapped some really effective “buy me!” labels on a few records.

Today’s version feels more insidious. I never felt like Tipper Gore was one step from decompensating and starting a race war. These folks, though—there’s violence just under the surface.

[–] barrio_libre 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which sounds funny until you hear a British person say Sax-O-phonist

[–] barrio_libre 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he’d had any insight, he’d have realized Reddit’s structure wasn’t a good vehicle for monetization and gone the way of Wikipedia/Jimmy Wales. He’d be popular and respected now and probably able to extract a decent living from it.

But his insistence that a square peg be pounded into a round hole will end up with him being neither popular nor respected—and he’ll never sniff that moonshot IPO.

[–] barrio_libre 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who says they’re not running exactly the way their ownership wants them to run?

[–] barrio_libre 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was referring to Toyota’s strategy being cynical, not the comment.

[–] barrio_libre 1 points 1 year ago

Traditionally true, but I think they see the writing on the wall. They are now just breaking as much stuff as they can in the time that they have, so they can try to blame Labour for the fallout. They can break more things with a few extra months.

[–] barrio_libre 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately it’s only Alastair Campbell

[–] barrio_libre 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s depressing how cynical that is.

[–] barrio_libre 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This clown was elected state-wide to be superintendent of public education….so that he could run around Oklahoma holding meetings about banning books in public libraries. If you’d written a George Orwell rip-off with this plot-line 20 years ago, it would have been dismissed as hyperbolic and absurd.

[–] barrio_libre 8 points 1 year ago

Seems unlikely. He doesn’t even know who Ron DeSantis is.

[–] barrio_libre 15 points 1 year ago

I totally respect the stay-and-fight position. Godspeed.

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