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  • Because like absolutely all public companies, they need to grow their revenues every year without ever a pause, and once you have reached the maximum number of subscribers you think you can get, the only path left to increase your revenues is to increase the revenues per subscriber.

    Besides, these companies have been enshittifying their services so badly over the years that there is no one left among managers who can imagine they wouldn’t get away with it.

    I don’t give them 5 years before they resolve to shady tactics like phone calls during which they trick you in agreeing to upgrade to a higher grade subscription, or make the cancellation so difficult that you end up paying a few more months, etc.




  • No, he won’t try to “cancel” the elections. First he’s trying to rig them through gerrymandering and voters suppression.
    If that’s not enough, he’ll make crazy claims of frauds at different places, and will try to reverse some results.

    But I can guarantee you that if none of that work, you’ll have a showdown. He knows well what awaits him would the GOP lose and he’s getting impeached. He won’t accept the results.

    Just note that he’s currently using the war to kick out generals he deems not loyal enough.


  • To win elections, you need a candidate who brings voters from their side. Trump brought the MAGA, an inconsistent alliance of all kind of deplorables. But they were all enthusiastic about him. Neither Clinton nor Harris had that, neither did Biden by the way. Their main platform was to be not Trump, and the rest was the status quo.

    At some point, the Dems need a candidate that voters actually support rather than pick as the least bad choice. So what will it be this time? Yet another meh-candidate backed by the “good” oligarchs or a candidate people actually want in power?








  • In one word: neoliberalism. It inevitably and inexorably leads to this.

    Decades of defunding education, maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the workers at the bottom, making life worse and worse for commoners.

    You end up with a large group of poorly educated, humiliated angry voters. And they’ll get fooled easy by the most populist guy who “say it like it is” and offe simplistic solutions and scapegoats.

    That’s why it’s happening. And US is not a single case. They just have a much higher power of nuisance.