VikingHippie

I technically have an account, but I haven't logged into it since a month or so after Musk started destroying it.

The final straw was getting banned for a full week for "hate speech" just for pointing out that Bill Burr probably wouldn't want to participate in a Tucker Carlson "special report" about how "humor isn't allowed anymore", nor give permission for clips of him to be included in a promo for it 🤦

Yup!

The initial source (or at least the one linked to in the reddit post) is the vastly inferior microblogging version of xvideos though, so skipping reddit would have been even worse 🤷

To be even more fair though, not having to "serve and protect" like they lie about on their cars is not the same thing as not being ALLOWED TO.

They COULD choose to be decent humans who try to use their position of power to help people because it's the right thing to do rather than an obligation, but of course, that's not how a cop brain works.

Also, to be slightly less fair but no less truthful, the current scotus makes a mockery of the very concept of justice and most of them should be recalled and prosecuted for gross corruption.

Yup. I have a younger brother who's like that. Gets pretty damn exhausting tbh..

And if that's not what they're looking for, I have a lovely mountain chalet in Florida or some oceanfront property in Wyoming right by a major metropolitan area

That guy DID say that there's no such thing as a free market, though, so it's not like they even trust what HE says when it's inconvenient to their Gordon Gecko style arguments 🤷

This just in from the Department of "DUH! Obviously!"

Correct. Opportunity cost being a bunch of bullshit invented by rich people greedy for more, of course.

I'm actually not American and you didn't make it at all obvious to a bunch of complete strangers that you were being sarcastic rather than an idiot 🤷

Once again for those who didn't know or forgot: just like with every other industry making the same complaint, when they say that it "costs billions", that's true in the exact same way as losing a random lottery ticket would cost me millions: completely hypothetically.

In their calculations, every person who watches an illegal stream would, had the stream not been available, pay their ridiculously high prices to watch legally rather than not watch at all.

In reality, the opposite is many times more common and it's frankly journalistic malpractice that mainstream media always just regurgitate that claim as if it was indisputably true.

Like with copaganda, they're covering for predatory practices, in this case charging much more than your target customers can afford and then using draconian measures against those providing an alternative solution that wouldn't have been necessary if the product had been reasonably priced.

That's not how it works. They're not an oppressed minority, they're the oppressive tool of the political and economic elite.