Really? That's not what it looks like from here. Looks like a lot of maple syrup MAGA going on there. Or did you "deal with" the convoys yet?
How about you put your money where your mouth is and deal with it before some Texas Lone Rangers show up to take care of it for you. Bullets are almost as cheap as talk.
When was the last time you saw a game that was more than that outside of porn games and maybe dating sims? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Cyberpunk 2077.
I always think of this kind of stuff when these kinds of polls come up because they're always by big corporate companies who put the most shallow of these themes in. People want this stuff like they want strong female leads: they want stuff that actually puts the effort in to make it good, not half-baked content just to maximize market reach or that one gay side character with one line of dialogue mentioning his husband who never actually appears in the movie.
They want a backdoor so they can use it, but so can everyone else if they know where it is. In some ways, that makes it worse than having no encryption at all because it gives you the illusion of safety when in reality, if people know how to jiggle the handle of your door the right way, they can walk right into your living room at any time.
Yeah, I don't think it's some long-running scheme to get Trump into power or whatever. More that he happened to be the right idiot on the payroll when the shit hit the fan.
Trump's ties to Russia have been known forever. The FBI has been trying to pin him for his ties to Russian crime organizations for decades, with all the "gifts" of yachts and planes that they've given him and all the real estate that they own in Trump Towers and the like.
I think he just happened to be there when all the greed and flaws in our system finally broke under the weight of actual schemes to foster extremism in the population for various reasons and the short-sightedness of corporate interests looking to wring the country dry.
I'm in Massachusetts and can report much the same here. Outside the cities, there's plenty of MAGA maniacs. You could see "Trump 2020" flags still up all throughout Biden's term in spots.
Half of the people who voted*
Trump got about the same number of votes this time as he did in the previous election (marginally less, I believe).
It makes little difference to point out, but it's good to remember that the Dems are a bunch of feckless corporate shills who lost the support of their voters, and about a third to half the country simply doesn't vote.
Trump is a symptom and the end result of deeply systemic and cultural issues here, and as an American, I hope you guys make it hurt. Maybe then we'll wake up to the problems here. I doubt it, but at least the economic collapse here will hopefully spare the rest of the world from a dementia patient with daddy Putin's leash on his collar swinging the biggest military budget in the world around like he's got something to compensate for.
My dad had a friend who once had a job basically slapping the rear end from one Pinto onto the front end of another, and he said that one time a safety inspector remarked that he was making them safer than they were rolling out of the factory.
There's a good reason that Hitler's concentration camps and Final Solution were inspired by America's campaign against the native nations.
Massachusetts has a little bit of that as well, though in my experience, it only really means that the tribe members have more relaxed rules around regulated hunting/fishing seasons. Being able to fish out of season and harvest in closed shellfish beds, that sort of thing.
Any YouTube channel in general has to to some extent to simply get people to click. It's crazy how the psychology of it works, and people need to exploit it in order to just not disappear in the sea of YouTube videos.
I remember somebody talking once about why so many video thumbnails have the person's head superimposed on them, and it's because people are like 46% more likely to click on a video if it has a person's face on it than if it doesn't, even if it's the exact same video.
Cruelty like this is a learned trait, too. These kids didn't come up with this on their own, they learned the hatred at home.
Yeah, waiting while your fascists continue their decades-long campaign against science (going back to at least 2005) and keep erasing the aboriginals in your borders and destroying your healthcare system. Canada is just the little brother chasing after America's heels.
How about you stop waiting and do something. The only reason that they're quieter now is because they're united in the nationalist rhetoric and hatred towards ~~foreigners~~ Americans.