I mean... yeah, we don't. And we know it. That's kind of the whole issue. But it's obviously more nuanced or we wouldn't have a problem with the system. We kind of want ownership, or more of it. More say in what we can do with the things we buy.

Licence is a separate category from ownership. Clear distinction in marketing, sales, and operation would help a lot with these conflicts. Selling them with the same techniques, channels, and methods gives players a false sense of permanence even if they're labelled as services.

Not sure what that distinction would look like. But it should look more honest.

Department Of Gaslighting Everyone

"You can find us on Fac-"

No. No, I can not.

You're not a good person. And you know it.

Then they eat him

A. Keep your identity secret

B. Participate in a violent insurrection and brag about it online

Pick one

You're not wrong. I was, however, just making a joke. I'm up voting your earnestness.

He calls it "The Weave." He must have picked it up somewhere, this euphemism for incoherent rambling. Maybe a staffer invented it for him and he liked it. It's clear he doesn't have answers for the questions he's asked because he knows so little and his go-to move is to bullshit his way just convincingly enough that sycophants will praise his vast expertise.

What it is really is scrambled and decrepit brain vomit from a man who was never skilled or intelligent to begin with. He's no longer capable of spinning a bullshit narrative and sounding knowledgeable.

This is like that "sanewashing" thing. "What he means is this..." no. No need to do him any favors.

I like that legal term disgorgement. It makes me visualize a vile, slimy, bloated monstrosity cornered and forced to vomit forth a mass of ill-gotten gains.

Which seems rather apt in this case.

Margie, are the lasers in the room with us right now?

I really want to feel bad for people being deceived for decades by right-wing grifters but it seems there is a rotten core to them that his rhetoric speaks to that I can't forgive.