It was the straw that broke the camels back to get me to switch to Linux.

It's not sad, there is a direct connection.

They are the top games because of the psychological manipulation being successful.

This is proof they don't understand the endgame here. The only (legal) type of slavery left in the United States is prisoner labour. It is not a coincidence that the right wants to make so many things criminal. It's also not a coincidence they want to keep poor people desperate because it makes them more likely to commit crime. It's not a coincidence they support minimum sentences.

More crime, more free labour, more for profit prisons selling services.....

Because it's never been about anything other than control. The right to choose anything is abhorrent to them. The only rights they want you to have are the right to be dictated to and the right to be like them.

Secretly?

The Lincoln Project goes hard every election.

Asus made me handwrite a note with a picture of the card in the computer in frame, and the box and receipt, just to register the warranty.

Assholes.

For me it is. I migrated my wife last week and mine is next week. AI spying is the last straw for me.

Elon Musk makes lots of claims.....

Isn't that just paying the debt?

We don't know that it is. This smacks of desperation.

No. But I should. Probably time to start.

You are completely discounting accidental racism. Every person at every level involved could have had no bad intentions and still have the sum total be so.

All that said, you didn't mention the actual problem with the movie that led to the commentary... total shitty dumpster fire levels of writing.

George Lucas has always been clear that a major influence on Star Wars was old serials like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. You know what was extremely common in those old serials? Racist stereotypes for villains and racist stereotypes for side kicks, also often cartoonish buffoons.

Again, not saying he was intentionally racist, but with the lack of quality writing skills, it's clear he fell back to tropes from his favourite stories from his childhood. Those tropes usually horribly racist. A better writer could have done better with those tropes.