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  • I think it’s actually worse.

    I don’t see how this doesn’t lead to the removal of the HBO brand from the marketplace, and the transfer of all IP, to Netflix’s algorithm driven slop machine.

    Both were shitty options, this is all speculation, but something tells me that at least HBO would have survived a Comcast or Paramount acquisition, and not been converted into whatever the hell you want to call Netflix’s category of entertainment.

    I only hope is that this is killed by regulators, and somehow Paramount and Comcast aren’t able to put together new bids.

    But, I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen.














  • Well, yeah.

    Europe is continent sized piece of land. Russian tanks rolling into Moldova is a bit different than Poland, or Germany.

    Different politically, militarily, and strategically.

    Even then, I can’t see Putin biting off any more at this particular moment. Time will tell if Trump significantly eases sanctions to a degree that would enable him to speedily recapitialize.

    Of course, I didn’t believe he’d actually try and take Kiev, so I’m not going to sit here and cosplay as a Kreminologist.


  • Part of explaining why these policies are bad, means explaining alternative policies, which for Democrats means “means tested”, some “undefined consensus policy”, or something else equally as idiotic.

    So while I mostly agree with your sentiment, the DNC is structurally incapable of doing what you’re suggesting.

    People didn’t vote in Trump because the status quo was working, and the DNC won’t change, because it’s working well enough for their short term interests.