Thank you for this detailed and ignorance-destroying response. The whole welfare queen/deserving poor mentality does seem to lie at the foundation of the struggle. I guess it’s just human nature.
Your comments on how your disdain has shifted to compassion convicts me. I’m not there yet, but I’ve been trying to make that phase transition since last November. Hate certainly isn’t going to fix anything.
Honest question, but have you guys in the UK always been dealing with the conservative morality police or is this a more recent thing? As an American, these people have been a constant detriment to a functioning society for… ever?
My understanding is that such forces have been comparatively insignificant in your country, but “comparatively insignificant” probably says more about how things are here than anything else.
“Death or Exodus,” what a fucking chode. These idiots feel so smart and mystical using words from the bee eye bee ell eeeeeeeeeee!!!
“Anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage,” Hurwitz lamented
Remind me, who built this wall? I’ll wait.
The dumbest thing they can do is create an army of people with nothing left to lose.
Strong “Biggest Fan in the Oblivion Arena” vibes.
I honestly had trouble parsing that statement until I read this comment; it was nice being stupid and ignorant for a minute.
Smell the smoke, we’re already over the edge.
Tell that to dumbass IT “managers” that think a process monitor is a hacking tool.
Does anyone have a comprehensible guide for setting all this up?
Good point. Amazon is definitely trying to make COVID issues the new normal.
As bad as those two linked incidents were, they weren’t exactly government sanctioned. Police sanctioned, sure, and the government should do more to reign that shit in, but comparing them to Tiennamen is disingenuous at best.
The Chinese government hates letting its citizens have a voice.
This may be the greatest thumbnail of all time. Nay, is.
I’m just a layman, but it has been nagging my brain how all these big tech companies seem to be turning shitty all at once. I’ve seen others propose similar explanations, but the basic idea is that the historically low rates got them addicted to “free” capital. Now the faucet has been slammed shut and they have to make up for the shortfall.
Also, it’s not just big tech at fault. The massive worldwide inflation we’ve experienced happened for the same reason - shortsighted greed.
This is the most disturbing “boring dystopia” thing yet.
What really disturbs me is how the recent tech shenanigans have been a long time coming; seems the internet we have come to know for the last 15 years only existed thanks to the ridiculous interest rates post 2008.
I think most are freeloaders mad that they finally have to pay. I expounded a bit more in another reply, but I appreciate Netflix for blazing the streaming trail, so I want to see them succeed. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, of course.
Most of the complaints sound like people upset that the gravy train has been halted and now they finally have to pay for the service instead of leaching off their parents or whatever. I’m not saying there are no legitimate concerns, but I believe the vast majority are what I’ve described, hence the jump in subs.
I want Netflix to do well. I’ve been a customer for literal decades and I applaud their innovations as the OG streaming platform. Hell, it’s still the most user friendly and smoothest experience, IMO.
Ok, fine. But this is not what people are really complaining about and you know it. I am a cheap ass, I’ll admit it. But I’m not that cheap.
Because our owners want it this way.