Thats because people only vote for one of two parties therefore neither party needs to do anything to secure their votes. All they have to do is convince you that the other party is/would be worse rather than actually doing things that benefit people or have a real impact.

Willfully obtuse in what way? You can’t even describe how anything you’ve said is in any way relevant here and immediately result to insults and fanboyism over video games and social media. How ridiculous.

When were those vehicles the best sellers in the world? The Toyota Corolla is the best selling vehicle in the world and has been since 2005 and most years prior to that dating all the way back to the 1970s. Ford did take the top spot with the Escort but that was in 1983.

I don’t see how anything you’ve mentioned is relevant to this situation. What would even be the motivation to have bots writing comments here? Karma isn’t tracked, the place isn’t owned by a corporation, and there’s zero money to be made from it.

Another is that reddit sucks and if you want Lemmy to be reddit 2 you can fuck right off back to reddit

This is a hilarious comment considering Lemmy is modeled to be exactly like a decentralized version of reddit. What are you doing here if this format sucks so bad?

Well you seem to be on a crusade here and I’ve ironically seen you reposting these screenshots multiple times.

Just because the copyright system has been perverted and bastardized by regulatory capture doesn’t mean the concept of copyright is bad. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I don’t see why not when fast food places are allowed to use product images of plastic food on their menus.

Can you actually explain why “it’s an issue?” What exactly makes this post “shit” and how is it harming Lemmy?

They make great points that Lemmy needs content in order to exist and most people aren’t submitting content themselves, so where is it supposed to come from? It sounds like they’ve actually figured out a sophisticated way of filtering out actual issues like seeing the same content here over and over or posts violating community rules or being irrelevant to community topics, so what is left to be upset over?

The only things you’ve mentioned thus far are “billionaires’ social media,” which you seem to be frequently using yourself (and conveniently glossed over from my last reply) and “AI,” but this isn’t some LLM hallucination or fake content (actual issues), it’s an automated tool to filter and share content that was made popular by people on a separate website.

If we didnt have copyright laws then the wealthy would just copy everyone’s good ideas and ensure the people who created those ideas get little to nothing, like Amazon making their own versions of every popular item and selling it for less than the original product.

Who cares if it gets reposted here though? If you have such a problem with reddit then why are you over there so often that you can identify which Lemmy posts are coming from there? Seems pretty hypocritical.

After Brexit and the UK following in the footsteps of just about every shitty thing the US does, I don’t see how one could call them stable.

How about a weighted ball on the end of a light, flexible stick so you can give it a few good whacks from the ground

So that they’re not frozen into a single mass of filets when all you want is one or two.

No they didn’t. Your link, that you didnt even read, qualifies things immediately with Ford’s total sales in the EU only. In reality, the best selling sedan, in both the US and world, has been Japanese every year for the last several decades.

I settle for smaller wins

And that’s the crux of the issue. Instead of demanding real solutions, you’ll settle for nonsense that accomplishes very little so you can feel like you’ve won something and don’t press the issue further but chastise those that don’t jump on the bandwagon with you.

You already addressed what a real solution would look like, but since you think it’s impossible to achieve, you’ve given up and want to condemn anyone who isnt perfectly aligned with you on whatever hill you’ve chosen to die on.

This is just like paper straws or soda taxes. Stop settling for small wins because that’s exactly what the goons running things want you to do

Apparently all the F-series trucks share the same cab now.

Ford stopped selling sedans because they couldn’t build good ones to outcompete the Japanese and SK brands economy wise or German/Japanese luxury and performance wise. It isnt because people want worse gas mileage.

Oregon has mail-in-voting, but also closed primaries so if I registered as Repiblican, I would only be able to vote in the Republican primary.

Not just that but any black hole you might find yourself in when two totally separate government systems don’t agree on one particular detail and neither agency wants to take ownership of the problem so it never gets fixed.

Same in bar/club areas of any big city I’ve been in. They’re there to stop violence not nitpick petty crimes because if they did the latter, their whole night would be wasted on stuff that the prosecutor probably wouldn’t even bother taking to trial.