PowerCrazy

I have no issue subsidizing food. It shouldn't be a race to the bottom. Different food has different costs and that's ok.

Nice analysis. As usual the way the sausage is made is to make sure that people involved in these things make money and the government consumer protection role is vacant. Of course if imaginary property wasn't protected by the same government who doesn't give a shit about consumer protections, then these types of mergers wouldn't matter. Show runner could still create their same shows and just stream them on the internet even if all the traditional broadcaster were owned by a single hostile entity.

tl;dr, Copyright and Intellectual property rights haven't increased the public good since before Walt Disney died, abolish them.

Middle Class isn't real. You are either a renter or an owner, property tax increase along with a rent ceiling and a vacancy tax only affects the owners.

You are the only person I've seen that calls Trumps 2nd term Trump 2.0.

By whom? Do you call FDR's last term Roosevelt 4.0?

I wonder what happened to Occupy Wallstreet? Did it just go away as mysteriously as it arrived, or was there perhaps federal action behind it's dismantling? Since you remember Occupy Wallstreet, could you tell me why it "crumbled?"

I also think he’s by an order of magnitude more likely to be elected by the country at large than Sanders / AOC et al.

Maybe instead of vibing with what the Neo-liberal ghouls that fund the DNC say, we try to run politician that want to improve our lives and not just tax-breaks for entrepreneurs?

California is closer to Libertarian state then to a socialist-deomcratic state.

I think so, or rather I think that the average US voter aligns more with Gavin Newsom’s policies than with the policies of a hypothetical alternative candidate that Salon might prefer

The Baily's do not exist. People want universal healthcare and to be able to work a single job to make a living wage. They don't want tax breaks for entrepreneurs.

Trump is still Trump, he has a second term, but he is still the same trump. No one calls the same person in their 2nd term "2.0" Trump 2.0 will be whoever the person that replaces Trump will be. He'll be younger, and possibly more dangerous.

Trump is the result of "lesser of two evils" voting. Maybe try doing something different this time?

Pretty sure the deification isn't his billionaire status, but his founding and direction of Steam. Would the picture be more acceptable to you if his net-worth were only 999million? At what level of wealth would that picture be acceptable to you?