They’re shitty cars though.

It’s honestly pretty amazing how they started making them when physical media was nearly dead and then rode triumphantly up and down the market longer than they should have been able to. They had a death grip on consumers.

It’s the Sony approach. Betamax was beaten by VHS (despite being better), and then Video8 was beaten by pretty much every competing format, so their strategy to defeat HD-DVD with Blu-ray was to methodically shove it up every consumer’s ass no matter how much they kicked and screamed. They spent a lot of money doing it, but they came out of it with market dominance.

And piracy isn’t an answer to this question. Because then you are saying you have the right to all of them. Do you have a similar right to every video game? Every movie? Every song? Every written word?

All media should enter the public domain after 10 years, so yeah, I do.

Disinterested voters ultimately need to pull their heads out of their asses one way or another. We’ve been Mister Nice Guy with people who refuse to question the legitimacy of their feelings, and did it produce results? Care to take a guess?
It’s time for the stick. When you tell someone they’re acting like an asshole; when you tell them they royally fucked up, scorn their idiotic motivations, and then demand that they shape up; you at least treat them like an equal, a free individual capable of being selfish and stupid. Putting them on the level of children by coaxing and cajoling and borderline tricking them into insincere imitations of empathy, while stroking their hair and plying them with praise, is debasing. And it doesn’t work.

They had every opportunity, ignorance is a choice.

Fuck that. No more being conciliatory, non-voters need to be ashamed of themselves. Shame has its place. Every non-voter knew about Project 2025, and then made the clear-eyed, full-chested decision to be complicit with every single consequence of a Trump victory. They need to be humbled, to feel deep shame, to be wracked with literally physically painful guilt, and to change their ways. If you’re a non-voter you can work your fucking ass off for absolution, throw 110% into volunteering and activism to undo some of the mischief and horror Trump is working on vulnerable people, or you can go straight to Hell. No mercy for collaborators or quislings.