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And Trump has proven that reasoning invalid. Things are never going back to the way they were before now that he's shown just how much you can get away with. Until mechanisms are put in place to prevent such corruption and deal with his kind we can't trust the government to handle anything.

I already said it wasn't ideal. At least Trump had to do some shit first to fuck with tiktok. You think that wouldn't have been immediate if tiktok was controlled by the government?

It's not ideal but at least people aren't getting their credit cancelled because they said something mean about Trump online.

Which is the situation we're dealing with here.

A corrupt government can also be bought off by the companies to not fuck with things so that they at least remain functional.

In an ideal world, yes I'd rather these things be regulated in a way that the companies are accountable but that is not the world we live in. Moving this to the public sector now would just put even more power into the hands of our horrible government. Better to have everything split up so all the greedy malicious assholes are looking out for themselves than to have it all in the hands of one group who will do whatever they want with nothing to impede them. Regardless of consequences. Fix the government first , then give them control. You can't legislate based off the idea that it will only be well intentioned responsible adults running things.

I just looked it up on Google maps and yeah, that appears to be the case. All the nearby hotels have highways or a river between them and the stadium.

At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits. Trump will gladly blow the whole thing up regardless of consequences just to feed his ego. Like with the tariffs.

Imagine having a medical bill that could be paid by an amount of money that fits in a jar.

It was just a little woopsy daisy while he was shitfaced. Who hasn't accidentally shot a person or two after downing a bottle of white wine? It's unavoidable.

So then you do understand how having our transactions controlled by the government is a bad thing?

You want trump in control of our commercial transactions?

Yeah. I got fired once from a sales job because of it. I could not make myself push shit on people that they didn't need.