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You know how bullshit rent is? Elon Musk hasn't paid rent on Twitter's main offices in, like, 6 months, and has Twitter been evicted? Of course not. Apparently, when you're rich or a company, you can just tell your landlords to fuck off and the gov won't do shit to you.
Seems like every music video I click on youtube these days is some undeclared automated "mix for you" and I'm fucking sick of it.
Sinners(2025), by Ryan Coogler, proves that the ACTUAL reason Hollywood corps prefer ~IP~ films isn't because they're "Safer" or "More Profitable" or even "What the People Want", like pretty much everyone has been saying for the last decade; it's because they can *OWN* the underlying Idea, so all the artists involved are just "hired help" they can boss around as they please.
The dominance of ~IP~ films in Hollywood over the last 25 years, like so much of what's gone wrong with the US economy over the same period, ultimately boils down to Corporate Execs 1) caring more about Hierarchy and Power than profits, and 2)not wanting to pay artists for their art.
Republican pols couldn't be happier to see Trump acting like a dictator:
They love dictators and hate the Constitution
It lets them ignore that pesky legislating they've always hated and focus on Stunting for their voters all day
They've wanted to kill every program and department that helps anyone but rich white assholes since they were created, but never had the votes to do it and know they never will
Turning the US, the country whose founding is usually credited with kickstarting the post-Enlightenment democratic revolution in world politics, into a dictatorship is the ultimate "Stick it to the Libs" move.
These last few weeks have had Everything, from their perspective, and all they've had to do is sit on their asses and tweet about it.
Every Conservative accusation is a Confession, but it's also a Justification.
Elon Musk did not build a reputation for himself as a Genius, world-bettering technologist by being savvy; he did it by having a midlife crisis in his 40s over the fact that he was Super-Rich and yet no one knew who the fuck he was, divorcing his first wife, and hiring at least one media firm to increase his public profile, which they did by throwing lots and lots of his money around to get him on the lecture circuit, the interview circuit and in, or mentioned in, movies and tv shows.
That's It. He was rich, he wanted to be famous, so he spent allot of money to get famous. They're nothing mysterious or impressive here; there's just Marketing.
tumblr's made plenty of user-unfriendly decisions in its time but, in regards to Sheer Annoyance, it's difficult to top "when you click on the address bar on your actual blog page we will randomly delete the final backslash so whatever site-functionality you're trying to use wont work" >:( >:( >:(
In They Live(1988), alien capitalists secretly invade the United States disguising themselves with hypnotic suggestion, and lulling the populace into passively accepting their exploitation for the enrichment of evil galactic capitalism with subliminal messages such as "STAY ASLEEP" and "NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT" hidden in advertisements and the media, which they controlled.
In the 2010s, the Republican party and US News Media straight-up-openly started telling the US right to their fucking faces "Being Awake is Evil, actually" and "People who Think for Themselves are Tryhard Losers", and a plurality of USians nodded along like it was the goddamn gospel.
