Earlier this week Bernie Sanders called for an end to "school lunch debt". The senator, and one of the Democrat candidates for president, tweeted that it "should not exist in the wealthiest country in the history of the world" and pledged to "provide year-round, free universal school meals" if he won the White House.

LOL, imagine thinking Democrats would nominate someone standing on a "let's feed poor people's kids" platform. Was never going to happen.

My favourite thing about this is just how thoroughly predictable it was.

And I don't mean in hindsight either, tons of people called it the moment Elon started hanging around Trump.

yeah but they're choosing to watch that out of millions. It's not because that was literally just what was in the house so it was that or nothing.

Erik the Viking. I think it came with petrol coupons or something. Never seen it mentioned anywhere since.

I remember they once tried some similar shit with the Kerberos protocol, sneaking a patented feature in there so they could then seize the whole thing in the name of Active Directory, but I think they were forced to back down(?)

I’m actually having difficulty finding details on it now because they’ve done a solid job drowning the story out from the search results...

It's a bit more nuanced. Trolling and ragebait absolutely was a thing, but there was still a certain sense that it was just part of the Wild West nature of the internet. Someone posting racist garbage on a phpBB would be a minor irritant that would catch a bit of flak but be otherwise ignored.

These days it's entire office blocks full of professional trolls armed with advanced analytics, profiling systems and AI paid to push political agendas. And the most frustrating part of it is that despite the fact that everyone knows this to be true, it's still working anyway and we have elected officials of ostensibly Developed countries repeating obvious bullshit they saw online.

It's obvious from context that by "Democrats" I meant the Democratic Party. The post I replied to was ranting about how protest voters who refused to vote for Kamala are to blame for fascism.

Corbyn in the UK ten years ago had a huge groundswell of popular support that at one point looked like carrying Labour to a 1997-style landslide, until he was taken down by an organised campaign of pearl-clutchy disingenuous accusations of anti-semitism over his support for Palestine; a campaign that the neoliberals in his party were all too happy to play along with.

I think he's probably trolling us, because he's doubling down on it elsewhere in the thread in face of all the people explaining it to him. Nobody is that dumb.

Participating in democracy doesn’t lead to fascism, capitalism does.

Democrats are Capitalists. The entire rest of your rant doesn't follow from the first sentence.

The tweet was specifically talking about their $299 card that also has a 16Gb version. OP is shitstirring for clicks.

Homophobia is the fear that a gay man will one day treat you the way you treat women.