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[Seething Troon Collector]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/09/tech/us-government-considers-a-breakup-of-google/index.html

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/rioXL

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I'll believe it when I see it. Nothing would make me happier than to see Android and Chromium freed from the evil grip of this fucking company.

Problem is, who knows who could take it. Another tech company?, most of them are pozzed. Open Source?, programmer-socks do nothing busybody transsexuals will inject identity politics into everything and run competent volunteers and jannys off. Alt-tech? sure, if you like the entire weight of moral crusaders in internet, business, finance, tech, government, etc. bearing down on you and will make every attempt to destroy you at all costs.

I'm not trying to be a downer here. There are positive outcomes to this possibility. It just needs to be managed correctly.

 

[ForgedBlades]

oh shit

 

[StarkRavingMad]

oh shit

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Yup, he's definitely going for the House seats.

Between his California rally announcement and now this ... He knows that if he can maintain and flip some seats, he's going to secure a Republican-majority Congress.

Trump is playing to win bigly.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Yup, he's definitely going for the House seats.

Between his California rally announcement and now this ... He knows that if he can maintain and flip some seats, he's going to secure a Republican-majority Congress.

Trump is playing to win bigly.

Trump internals showing he is winning every single swing states. He knows he won. He is going for the sweep BABYYYY more


Also

WTFFF

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

A lot of people already know why the electoral college is so important, so I'm not going to sperg about it. Pretty sure I already have sperged about it on this boards anyway lol.

I enjoy your sperging, so sperg away.

 

[mlanguishi]

Trump internals showing he is winning every single swing states. He knows he won. He is going for the sweep BABYYYY more


Also

WTFFF
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That 1-2 combo of epic Trump (eta not debate) rally and her shitty ass 'interviews' on friendly stations really wrecked her hard. I just want there to be a betting odds on if she'll come out and concede or a pull a Hillary and drink and scream all night.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

That falls into a variation of the last line: and who will prosecute/declare the election invalid if someone simply says fuck you and mixes the ballots?

That only works if the postmaster is honest

The problem with "just make a law" is they break the law, and since law enforcement answers to the Democrat government, the law is not enforced.

You are all correct, but the comment I was replying to was operating in the basis of "Just make it illegal". If the counter argument to a different kind of law change is "they'll ignore the law, nobody will prosecute, and it being illegal won't change anything" then the problem your describing is that rule of law no longer applies, and the solution is [Redacted for fedposting, praise be to Samuel Colt] until the remainder decide to adhere to the rule of law.

Problem is, who knows who could take it. Another tech company?

Nobody really comes to mind. Aside from the problem that the only entities that could reasonably afford to get in on the breakup are near monopolistic competitors themselves, there's the simple fact that most of the other hanger on google services really don't make money. Breaking it up is the right thing to do in general principle, but in practice, ad services make up like 75% of their gross revenue, with pretty much the entirety of the remainder being split between googles cloud services and their hardware/android store stuff. The latter could be parted out in a mostly sustainable manner, but the entire ad revenue space is just their wider adsense service. Part that out, and it'll print money - but youtube, search, and most of their other services will lose almost the entirety of their revenue stream when it walks off. In theory you could just expect the buyers to keep contracting with the adsense owner to operate, but in practice who in their right mind would spend "buying google search" levels of money to not actually have control or ownership over the monetization mechanism.

You could try to salami slice adsense, but then you're getting into the court trying to split business regions and verticals on a technical argument, which I cannot see even the most optimistic and aggressive court applying. They're already reluctant to try and make 'business' decisions, this is well outside their wheelhouse.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Trump internals showing he is winning every single swing states. He knows he won. He is going for the sweep BABYYYY more


Also

WTFFF
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It would be the most incredible and hilarious thing on the planet if he can manage to win NY, lol. I'm not holding my breath for it, don't get me wrong ... But could you imagine the meltdowns from the left? Would be pretty epic. Hell, meltdowns will be incoming if Trump just gets enough votes from these states to give him the W for the popular vote.

You never know if you don't try, and that's part of the reason why I love Trump. Unlike other limp wristed members of the GOP, Trump at least tries to win.

And to those rating my last post "optimistic," I get it, but look at what happened in 2022: California and New York being able to flip some House seats to red is what prevented another 2 years of a fully Democrat-controlled Congress for Biden. CA and NY Republicans saved our asses in the midterms, and Trump is smartly acknowledging that.

 

[Necrosan]

And to those rating my last post "optimistic," I get it, but look at what happened in 2022: California and New York being able to flip some House seats to red is what prevented another 2 years of a fully Democrat-controlled Congress for Biden. CA and NY Republicans saved our asses in the midterms, and Trump is smartly acknowledging that.

I mean, if there was a time to do it, it would be now. It's probably the weakest iteration of a US leadership and the weakest grip the DNC has had in their own states that I've seen in decades. People didn't think Trump would win to begin with and now he is looking to secure his second term.

I love the attitude of "you miss all shots you don't take", he has been literally everywhere, so why not?

 

[babadook]

It'd be epic if Trump holds rally in NYC and actually shoots someone in fifth Avenue in front of the cameras

The Joker sequel we deserved but didn't get

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Sounds like an implicit threat to Google: 'toe the line or else we'll let this go through.'

I was actually considering the opposite. People are (half) joking about Biden intentionally sabotaging the Dems for ousting him but if that's his goal this would be a *massive* blow to their ability to control the narrative, not to mention the ill will it would instill in Google etc's execs

Alternatively, it could be a chance to break them up under favorable conditions. Obviously google doesn't want to be broken up, but breaking up under a dem could be a lot more favorable to breaking up under a vengeful republican

It's possible that Lina Khan is just legitimately trying to do her job in an honest manner, she's honestly been the best/only good part of the Biden admin in my opinion and I would very much like to see her stay under Trump, but if there's any thought being put into it as far as political moves go then right now would be the time to do it to cause the maximum amount of damage to the establishment, get it underway under a dem, have it be too late to turn back once Trump is in office. It looks bipartisan so no one really gets to complain, and Trump can rip them limb from limb

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

It would be the most incredible and hilarious thing on the planet if he can manage to win NY, lol. I'm not holding my breath for it, don't get me wrong ... But could you imagine the meltdowns from the left? Would be pretty epic. Hell, meltdowns will be incoming if Trump just gets enough votes from these states to give him the W for the popular vote.

You never know if you don't try, and that's part of the reason why I love Trump. Unlike other limp wristed members of the GOP, Trump at least tries to win.

And to those rating my last post "optimistic," I get it, but look at what happened in 2022: California and New York being able to flip some House seats to red is what prevented another 2 years of a fully Democrat-controlled Congress for Biden. CA and NY Republicans saved our asses in the midterms, and Trump is smartly acknowledging that.

Trump isn't flipping new York any time soon. Too many liberal white Suburbanites and city dwelling swamp creatures.

 

[Rick's Beef Wellington]

It would be the most incredible and hilarious thing on the planet if he can manage to win NY, lol. I'm not holding my breath for it, don't get me wrong ... But could you imagine the meltdowns from the left? Would be pretty epic. Hell, meltdowns will be incoming if Trump just gets enough votes from these states to give him the W for the popular vote.

You never know if you don't try, and that's part of the reason why I love Trump. Unlike other limp wristed members of the GOP, Trump at least tries to win.

And to those rating my last post "optimistic," I get it, but look at what happened in 2022: California and New York being able to flip some House seats to red is what prevented another 2 years of a fully Democrat-controlled Congress for Biden. CA and NY Republicans saved our asses in the midterms, and Trump is smartly acknowledging that.

I haven't seen any public polling for NJ since Biden dropped out, it was looking very good for Trump there then. NY is a giant stretch but he has a real chance in Jersey.

 

[AnotherPleb]

That 1-2 combo of epic Trump (eta not debate) rally and her shitty ass 'interviews' on friendly stations really wrecked her hard. I just want there to be a betting odds on if she'll come out and concede or a pull a Hillary and drink and scream all night.

Harris was the one that insisted on only one Presidential and VP debate despite Trump asking for more initially. It's not his fault that fucking backfired on her to the extent it has.

You never know if you don't try, and that's part of the reason why I love Trump. Unlike other limp wristed members of the GOP, Trump at least tries to win.

That drive to win is one that the Right needs to internalize, because the fucking Washington Generals sure don't intend to learn that lesson.

Trump isn't flipping new York any time soon. Too many liberal white Suburbanites and city dwelling swamp creatures.

He may not win the EC, but flipping enough of NY's house seats by appearing there could be even bigger in itself.

 

[mlanguishi]

I haven't seen any public polling for NJ since Biden dropped out, it was looking very good for Trump there then. NY is a giant stretch but he has a real chance in Jersey.

They tease Jersey every single time I can remember.

The funniest stuff the last few weeks is cope that Florida or Texas will be close for the dems on their side. Ted Cruz might be in a little bit of trouble, but looks ok.

 

[The Ugly One]

You are all correct, but the comment I was replying to was operating in the basis of "Just make it illegal". If the counter argument to a different kind of law change is "they'll ignore the law, nobody will prosecute, and it being illegal won't change anything" then the problem your describing is that rule of law no longer applies, and the solution is [Redacted for fedposting, praise be to Samuel Colt] until the remainder decide to adhere to the rule of law.

The more realistic alternative to fedposting is the next Republican government on either federal or state level going balls-to-the-wall with prosecutions. Problem is, those nancyboys never do anything, because they fret about being perceived as racist or unfair or whatever. Or, more likely, because they're afraid of how Dems will retaliate next time they're in power.

If they manage to steal two elections in a row, then I'm going to say, okay, they achieved their goal. The USA, thanks to decades of mass immigration from the Third World, is now a Third World country like Brazil or Argentina. The idiots who did this think they'll still have a 1st world economy and military, but they're going to find out the hard way that if you have a population like Brazil's, you get all the parts of Brazil you don't want, not just easily-stolen elections.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Trump went on Andrew Schulz's podcast, it's the funny Trump so far who can tank some punches while brushing them off, Schulz's co-host is a little gay with some "America is always great" Short Fat Otaku centrism faggotry, but it's one of those interviews that seems shallow but it's much more real than anything we've seen Kamablah do this week. You can tell the two will vote for him when no one is watching, this is what we need.

 

[Necrosan]

I wish my job was as easy as the job Trump's advertising team is.

I'm honestly shocked at the prospect that she has been in the WH for 4 years and seems to have learned absolutely nothing.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Trump protects his Trump-hat pirates:

 

[John.Doe]

If Trump does hold a rally in Madison Square Garden, as rumored, I anticipate the media will not hesitate to compare it to another rally held there a while back.....