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@micahflee

Can somebody point to the exact part of their commentary I'm meant to be outraged about?

Their official response is a pretty perfect summary of how little Democrats actually did on the issues of anti-trust... and although I have no faith in Republicans to be better in practice, I don't think the comparison on the surface level is a bad one.

@DroidPort

"Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses."

Dems sucked, but this is obviously nonsense right-wing propaganda considering that all of Big Tech is on team MAGA, and they fired Lina Khan, the only hope for actual anti-trust reform.

Also, promising to be "politically neutral" and praising the fascist party while fascism is on the rise is pretty bad.

@micahflee @DroidPort I don't know if you've noticed this, but Big Tech is on the side of whoever is in power so they can get their sweet sweet tax breaks, cheap labor, and make sure they're not held accountable for their skeevy and monopolistic behavior

Biden likes DEI? Everyone is now doing DEI and towing the line

Trump doesn't like DEI? Ok, time to wipe out those DEI departments

They have no morals or loyalty. Shareholder value is their north star. They will suck up to customers if customers are upset about something. They will kowtow before the current government if it makes their revenue rise even 0.0001%.

@feld @DroidPort this is entirely true. It doesn't make Proton praising the fascist party as being the party of anti-trust any better.

@micahflee @DroidPort If Dems were the party of anti-trust they'd have at least sent someone to meet with Vance like he said in the original thread. And the current anti-trust progress was started under Trump

It's OK to acknowledge when people you absolutely loathe do something good. It doesn't erase their sins.
DroidPort

@feld @micahflee

"It's OK to acknowledge when people you absolutely loathe do something good. It doesn't erase their sins."

This is what so much of the Left (which I am firmly a part of on basically every issue) don't seem to grapple with.

It's the reason the right "Big-Tent" Politics translates to election victories and the Left's version translates to in-fighting.

@DroidPort @feld sorry, what are you referring to? Do you have examples of e.g. Trump acknowledging that immigrants or trans people have done good for US?

The Right's big tent politics is based around shared hatred of LGBTQ people, immigrants, diversity initiatives, "elites", etc. It's based on lies and disinformation. They never acknowledge anything good about their enemies.

@micahflee @feld

I'm not saying they are the same Big Tents.

They are firmly different voters with different priorities in each

What I mean is that the Republicans can fit Anti-Vaxxers, Racists, Transphobes, Gun Nuts, etc... who care about different things while not concerning themselves in what they differ on.

The left spends more time arguing about the minutia of what they don't agree with... which results in less time focused on the macro they agree on.