At least you didn't spend $40k for the privilege

OS X and iOS are completely different beasts, iOS is a closed off nightmare whereas OSX is basically just stable pretty Linux missing a few packages and costing more

First pass I read as Mangione played the CEO in among us and they were in a discord group together, and admitted that that was a very eerie circumstance. But nope, Mangione is just a normal 20 something.

And when there is money it's often earmarked in ways that severely restrict its use for, e.g., paying for software

Absolutely agree with you but as xmunk said, Sinema will do her dumb curtsy thing and bam, now trump gets another supreme court pick on day 1 because the Dems really only have 49 seats for preserving democracy

I for sure think that the DNC aren't to blame in the same way that a firefighter who uses a garden hose to try to put out a burning house isn't responsible for the smoking ruins when there are other people throwing molotovs through the windows, slashing the tires of the firetrucks, and getting the neighbors to throw bricks at the firefighters.

That being said, if my house was on fire and it was clear that I couldn't get the active vandals to stop despite them burning themselves in the process, I think it's justified to work on replacing or training the firefighters to be more competent and/or rutheless with dealing with the threat.

I think she's using it less as therapy and more as a way to win arguments is the problem

I read it as when America is committing it's greatest sins, e.g. committing slavery and genocide, are examples of it failing to live up to its progressive ideals. Still a wild American exceptionalism take

This premise gets thrown around a lot but I actually disagree. "Every time people turn out" is always also thrown in there like some arbitrary thing--when I think the past several election cycles have shown that when there are younger, more progress candidates who make it past the primaries turnout shoots up. Courting the 3% uninformed flip-floppers by moving right is a losing strategy when you could be motivating your own party to turn out by moving left and driving turnout up. There's no money in that though, so dumb centrists get wooed

In all three cases, he can do it as long as Congress gives him that power. In this case it's unlikely Congress will push back on banning Russian software, in the other two the republicans have promised to block any executive effort

One could make the case that it is a patriotic duty to divert money from fascists that would otherwise go to fascist causes

Oh ho ho, where have you been that you think they'll hold their own side to this standard?