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We quickly being put back into a pre 80's PC as a luxury era.

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[โ€“] meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

With what public goodwill/political capital? There would be riots. There nearly were riots after the '08 bailouts and this would be a bailout of the most hated collection of companies in the country by the least popular administration since we started polling for that. That shit is actually not going to fly, it is simply not an option realistically available to them (unless they like shooting themselves in the foot with a submachine gun)