And, of course, those with “real work ethic” who are able to live comfortably only because of their “hard work” and definitely no other social programs.

Weird, it comes up for me:

gog-games is a piracy site that hosts torrents for games on GOG. The real GOG isn’t shutting down.

The fediverse isn’t one singular entity. It’s a bunch of individual independently managed instances that link with each other (or don’t, if they so choose) via a shared protocol. Think of it like email.

You seem to have the wrong idea of what the fediverse is and how it works.

Oh, I’m well aware there are some ulterior motives, as always. I’m concerned about the voters that will only take it at face value and be like “this is good for us! How can you possibly be against it?”

At least he said some vaguely leftist things before launching into hours of racist anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy that’ll get a lot of people killed. Preventing corporations from buying homes might be good if there’s not some stupid loophole baked in. A universal 401k sounds okay at face value, but it’s clearly a way to pump money into a collapsing stock market. Making AI companies pay for their own power would have been nice if it didn’t mean that we would just be spending more tax money for them to build their own power plants (bonus: looks like company towns are coming back!)

Asking the 5-year-old girl that is currently relearning how to walk to stand up was some Parks and Rec-level shit.

Yes. Namely, the dissolution of the capitalist system.

It takes a lot more to get through the propaganda:

“Why should we punish billionaires for working hard and being successful? They’ll use that money to invest in our community so really we should be giving them more”

“Unions bad! Here’s an anecdote about a union being not effective one time”

“If we double the minimum wage then they’ll have to start charging double for everything! A burger flipper shouldn’t be making as much as an EMT! The Free Market™ will pay workers what’s fair”

That’s why they started up the “Democracy is bad, actually” talking point.

I mean, I’ve only gotten those from one tracker, and haven’t gotten them since I’ve removed that one tracker. Sonarr at least recognizes it’s not a media file and won’t copy it to your media folder. And you can use regex filters with qBittorrent. There hasn’t been a legitimate use of .arj in what, 30 years? So you won’t be missing anything by filtering it.