• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    21 hours ago

    At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits. Trump will gladly blow the whole thing up regardless of consequences just to feed his ego. Like with the tariffs.

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      20 hours ago

      Not an american but personally i would most definitely prefer an absolute fuckwad with little self control in charge than an evil mastermind entity hellbent on squeezing me for every cent.

      The former is too stupid not to ruin his lever of power, which would cause the system to decentralize and/or contribute to said fuckwad’s downfall. The latter employs a huge amount of people specifically trained to maintain and increase the amount of profits extracted while maintaining their stranglehold.

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        19 hours ago

        That is why I am hoping that if America has a 2nd Civil War or does a WW3, it would start off with Trump in charge of the bad guys. It would hurt, but at least victory over the Orange One would be almost guaranteed. Thiel or Bezos? More iffy, they have some grasp of logistics, patience, and other fundamentals.

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      19 hours ago

      At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits

      Such as sharing ALL of its customer data with the government in exchange for subsidies? Which effectively means having a government entity in control of the data but with zero oversight or control from the public?

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        19 hours ago

        It’s not ideal but at least people aren’t getting their credit cancelled because they said something mean about Trump online.

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            17 hours ago

            I already said it wasn’t ideal. At least Trump had to do some shit first to fuck with tiktok. You think that wouldn’t have been immediate if tiktok was controlled by the government?

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              17 hours ago

              No, I don’t think so. Because - up until Trump - people in governments know that if they pull shit like this off, they risk the same shit being pulled against them, after they’re gone and the opposition takes over.

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                17 hours ago

                And Trump has proven that reasoning invalid. Things are never going back to the way they were before now that he’s shown just how much you can get away with. Until mechanisms are put in place to prevent such corruption and deal with his kind we can’t trust the government to handle anything.