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A tankie is a hardcore authoritarian communist. They're people who support governments and politics like Russia, China, and North Korea. Nearly everyone who learns of them can't stand them, and they don't have any support outside their own echo chambers or as "useful idiots" to authoritarian governments.

Anyone who says tankies are a bigger threat to the US than the Trump administration is either stupid or using it as a strawman to tactily support Trump.

If you do, better hope it's not loaded.

In a Musk-approved world:

• You're hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
• You're hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
• You're the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
• You're the owner and the car hits someone while you're not in it, you get sued for owning it.
• You're the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for "not maintaining it".

Is there no law enforcements with weapons in your courts?

American cops don't protect American people. First and foremost, they protect their own. Beyond that, they protect the establishment that gives them their authority.

As much as I despise the Chinese government and its policies, it does have one thing going for it:

We can do a complete 180 every 4 years, whereas they have a dictator. That stability must be looking pretty appealing these days.

I give it until his next delivery of ketamine.

Same. We got not-the-onioned

3 people showed up, and one of them was the poster... I can already see tomorrow's headline:

Democrats Falling Apart: 33% of Protesters Against Senator Van Hollen were Democrat Voters

Bro, if people hate you and you company enough to employ and pay others to protest, then you and your company must be an all new level of shitty.

His people—conservatives—don't follow logic. They have a victim complex and see anything that negatively affects them as someone else's fault and not the consequences of their own actions. If there isn't an obvious perpetrator, they scapegoat one into existence.

I've debated some of these people and it's hopeless trying to get them to connect the dots. You can keep presenting them with logic and evidence, and they keep shifting the goalposts and changing the topic to justify their beliefs. A summary of one of my attempts to convince someone that Trump isn't universally beloved by average Americans went roughly like this:

• "Trump has improved the average citizen's quality of life"
• "Then why are there 5 million protesters coming out every month?"
• "I haven't heard of any large protests"
• (links to 50501 Wikipedia page)
• "They're 'protesters' funded by the left"
• "All 5 million of them? That would be extremely expensive, even if it's just $100 a person. Nobody could afford that."
• "Remember, all the billionaires are Democrats" (Thiel? Musk?)
• "That's not even their playbook. It's cheaper and more effective for them to lobby for changes that benefit themselves."
• "But they can't do that anymore because Trump is in charge, so now paid protesters are their preferred choice"
• "Suppose they are paid. With 5 million people, there's absolutely no way that they're being paid will remain secret."
• "OK fine, maybe it's only a couple hundred thousand being paid."

I don't doubt that some tiny handful of people would be paid to protest for some reason or another, but I highly doubt it's anywhere close to what MAGA conservatives think. IMO, it's more likely that protesters would be paid by the other side to make the protest violent so they could crack down on them.

Emulation is legal

Unfortunately, it's not that straightforward anymore. Emulation of modern consoles exists in a legal gray area that may or may not be illegal under the DMCA.

With something like the Switch, the ROMs are encrypted in a way that they can only be unencrypted with keys that are derived from data baked into the console itself. Yuzu for example is still protected as an emulator for some hardware/software platform, but it wouldn't be able to run retail games without being able to decrypt the ROMs.

And that's kind of the problem. Creating tools for preservation and interoperability is permitted by the DMCA, but tools that are made in part or whole to bypass DRM measures is explicitly not. That conflict hasn't been tested in court either, so the first ruling is going to be the one that sets the precedent.

This is my problem with your argument, you're saying that because of piracy they're entitled to crack down on emulation.

My argument isnt that they're entitled to crack down on emulation because of piracy. My argument is that people blatantly and publicly using emulators to play pirated, unreleased games emboldens Nintendo.

I believe Nintendo isn't willing to test that gray area in court without having something to support their anti-emulation position. What they want to do is bully devs into settling because it's a low-risk way to kill development on the emulator without opening up that can of worms that could make Switch emulators unambiguously legal. But, the more evidence Nintendo gets to support their argument, the more confident they become in thinking they would end up winning if they don't get that settlement.

Keep in mind that when they did finally go after Yuzu's devs, they went after them for creating software to circumvent the Switch's DRM (that gray area I mentioned) and not for creating an emulator. If they were actually confident in thinking the legal answer to "is an emulator that decrypts ROMs illegal" was "yes," they would've just went after Yuzu a long time ago instead of waiting 7 years into the console lifestyle.

Yeah, you're right.

WOKE libs are trying to destroy hardworking AMERICAN businesses, paying the banks to short @Tesla stock. Manipulation and FRAUD never seen before in American history, and @DOGE is working hard to catch and charge the elites behind it

Although, I'm not sure if two antisemitic dogwhistles is appropriate. Is he at the point where he would just say "the Jews" instead of hinting at it, or is it too soon?

Don't get me wrong: Nintendo deserves no sympathy here. They could do many things to make their games more accessible, but they chose not to.

That's not to say asshats like this deserves any either, though. The homebrew community and emulator developers step in to make Switch software interoperable, and they end up being the ones getting screwed over by both Nintendo and the people who provoked Nintendo.