I’m saying there didn’t need to be results tampering for the election to be a sham. The ruling class doesn’t need to undermine their own system in such an obvious way in order to get the results they want. So even if the precise count was perfectly understood, with perfect transparency and security, it would still be trivially easy for the wealthy and powerful to manipulate the outcome as a class, to manufacture their own voter base, and obfuscate their individual roles in doing so. The exact count of the election isn’t the only thing that operates on blind faith.

So let’s say we spend all our energy fighting for perfect election transparency, whatever that means, to be and remain the case forevermore. For what? So we can vote for a person that might win, and if they win might implement their platform, and if that platform is effective might solve some of our problems, and if those problems are solved we might be making progress towards a society that might be more equitable? And when one or all of those cases don’t follow, as all evidence and history points to being the case, then we can finally feel justified in pointing fingers at other voters who are just as powerless as we are? Why don’t we just cut to the chase and fight for a system that grants direct power to the majority, the working class, and eliminates the influence of capital?

We’re arguing over stale crumbs right now man, over a party that did everything they possibly could to tell us they would not be addressing our needs, come on this is silly and a distraction at best. Whether or not we operate on the assumption that Trump’s win was legitimate, the system is just as rotten and the path to moving beyond it is exactly the same.

Excuse me for making assumptions and wall-of-texting you but this whole voter blaming thing really gets under my skin and the election tampering meta to me lands way too close to that conclusion for my tastes.

The alternative was also actively throwing the election and very openly had zero interest in meeting the people’s demands. I don’t know how anyone was surprised at the result.

Who said anything about streaming services? What an absurdly silly way to throw away money in this day and age. In this economy?

I kid, but yeah OP was asking about browser/jellyfin streaming.

Can you say anything about privacy?

I’ve yet to see a convincing explanation of why China would even be interested in this data… what good would it even be to them?

We know American tech, media giants, and government contractors and agencies use it for profit and domestic control but, even if you believe China is just as much of a dystopian capitalist surveillance-state as the USA, what profit is there for Chinese capitalists to extract from American data that they can’t already extract much more efficiently through American data brokers? As for the government end, is the interest in having control over Americans in American territory even comparable to that of the American government? It’s not like the vast majority of the data would even be actionable or relevant to the Chinese government.

It just doesn’t make sense for Chinese capitalists/government to be even a fraction as aggressive in surveilling Americans as their American counterparts. It seems more like a distraction to me and an excuse to avoid talking about American surveillance being every bit as bad as you imagine Chinese surveillance to be.

As for being the “largest exporters in the global market”, if the profit was all that enticing on a private scale, the US capitalist class certainly could have chosen to compete with China in that avenue. They chose to boost their short term profits by deindustrializating instead. What does that tell you?

Sure, if you assume their “political enemies” are the Republicans. Rather than assume incompetence; because, you’re right, this is a pretty glaring oversight that only bumbling incompetence could begin to explain away; you could make a much more fitting assessment with the “political enemy” being the working class.

That is who this law is being wielded against, the only ones who were ever threatened by it, along with being completely disempowered to abuse it against the ruling class who passed it. Those are the enemies that fit your description.

Nah this definitely sounds like a situation where “it’s the end of your senior year and there’s no other way we can effectively reprimand this behavior” and he might have already been a problem student.

There was a kid that shit his pants at my middle school. Left a little nugget that slid out of his basketball shorts in the hallway. I guess there was also some on his seat which nobody noticed until a girl in the next class sat in it.

The problem is that a capitalist system will not allow itself to be reformed in this way, as the “reforms” that Marx poses are antithetical to the very foundation of capitalism.

To give some accessible examples; you can’t house homeless people or give people healthcare and higher education because homelessness and debt is a whip to keep the workers working for whatever wage and conditions are offered by a capital owner. You can’t deconstruct racism because it was invented in the first place to keep the working class at war with itself rather than struggling against the conditions set by the ruling class. You can’t stop imperialism because infinite growth requires infinite and unrestricted expansion into new territories.

The system of capitalism manufactures its own required conditions through cruelty and social inequality (and yet, it’s these very things that lead to resistance), and without those necessary components the whole system collapses. The ruling class will not allow this to happen, because this system serves their material interests, and thus fundamental change cannot happen until the working class; whose material interests are directly opposed to those of the ruling class; is in power. The ruling class will pay lip service and the occasional half-measure in order to obscure this reality and make “reformism” seem possible, but 1) that is all they will do especially in the absence of a real threat to their power and 2) they will always eventually claw back even the smallest and hardest-fought of crumbs. Crumbs are good and all but there comes a point where our energy is better spent fighting for the whole cake.