It’s not that they don’t care about Ukraine, it’s that his handler wants to take Ukraine and Donnie Krasnov is pushing that agenda.

Yah, Japan should be pushing to control the specifics of how a company based in another country. That’s the right move. This guy is big brain. Clearly.

So, your argument is Japan should be pushing to control the specifics of how app stores work against a company based in another country, because pushing specifics of how to control kernels on the same devices which actually enforces the closed ecosystems on a company based in another country isn’t the right move. Got it.

Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

Yeah, he thinks he’s the master artist of the deal, nobody has ever made deals like him. Huge strong men have come up to him, tears in their eyes, saying “Sir! We’ve never seen a deal made like you made, ever!”

Or some shit.

Ok, the private comments arguing that 24k votes don’t matter that’s eeeeuge!

California district 3 has ~780,000 people in it. There are more uninsured people in that district than the loss margin.

The 2.5% of the population which is too young to vote and 4-6% which are ineligible for other reasons still leaves more than enough to have changed that election.

Repeat that across 30-60 other districts across the US and now you have enough to impeach the Cheeto flavored fuckwad.

But apathy and laziness is just too fucking easy.

It’s just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It’s like the people who thought China paid the tariffs…

The Constitution doesn’t provide a mechanism to recall the President, VP, a Senator or a Representative. Why do people think it’s easy to undo fuckwadary?

You can impeach him, but that would take the House and Senate to actually hold him accountable. The House needs to vote to do it.

The house is almost tied. That’s who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are.

218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.

Let’s see, take New York for example.

26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.

5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.

People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn’t matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.

Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.

Apathetic morons who don’t realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.

District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.

Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state… Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.

So, if you think that your vote for president doesn’t matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you’re a fucking moron who can’t grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.

And don’t get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.

Every fucking vote counts.

And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we’ll keep getting the shit we deserve.

Ah yes, because unless you’re on a government payroll, you’re clearly unqualified to point out superficial policymaking. Must be nice to believe that calling out performative regulation is the same as claiming omniscience.

GrapheneOS does primarily run on Pixel phones—because those are the only phones where the hardware allows verifiable, secure boot processes and full control over firmware. Samsung and most others lock down key components and make it impossible to truly sandbox or audit the system at the level GrapheneOS demands. That’s not a limitation of the OS—that’s a limitation of the closed, proprietary design of most Android OEMs.

Which, funnily enough, is exactly the problem.

The Japanese ruling is essentially: “Hey, stop forcing your apps, but keep the same Google-dependent infrastructure, monetization model, and walled-garden app stores.” It’s like demanding Coke remove the label from the bottle but still sell it in the same vending machines—still Coke, still their turf.

If they actually wanted to disrupt the monopoly, they’d be mandating real platform openness—allowing non-Google OS installs, pushing for hardware-level access standards, and ensuring devices don’t lock out third-party operating systems or app ecosystems.

But yeah, let’s all clap for another fine and pretend something changed.

Days. The on-off-on electronic/cell phone tariffs are an example

Yeah, I wish I could see Steve’s reaction as he learned it

And so we won’t fix the real problem and just react.

It works on some Samsung devices. The entire reason it doesn’t work on more devices is because the manufacturers don’t release the kernel source. Or did you miss that in the docs?

Better question is, why would the courts not order the kernels to be open for open firmwares?

“Let’s order a for-profit company to eliminate their profit method, and ignore the actual problem” is a specialty of ignorant courts… And commenters.

So the courts, instead of addressing the real problem of phone makers only making hardware that for-profit partners can write software for, they just order the for-profit software makers to… remove the profit?

The fuck kind of ass-backwards thinking is that?

Not going to do much. If they actually wanted changes and not fines, they’d do something truly novel like order the manufactures to use GrapheneOS or some other actual open source OS that doesn’t depend on financing provided by the app stores and ads.

Otherwise, you’re just making a show for the sake of showmanship, empty gestures.

and the highest thing someone can aspire to be is a parent

Be a good parent.

Far too many out there are shit, or at best mediocre parents.

If you’re going to say the church, the school, the neighbors, other family members, anyone else is who should raise your kids, you should aspire for a vasectomy.

If you aspire to just pump out kids for a number game, you missed the Dark Ages. Though a Mennonite community may be your thing.

Hey, can America borrow your courts for a bit S. Korea?