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  • I don’t speak for anyone but myself.

    My demands are accountability first and foremost. Anyone who has played any part in enabling trump must face consequences. They need to be severe, if not it just happens again.

    Every ICE agent, every GOP house and Senate member, all the cabinet, etc. I am not okay with playing politics over this. It’s black and white. You followed orders that enabled treason, you are treasonous. The least guilty among them should have a minimum of 5 years to serve.

    Beyond that it’s a tax strategy that completely disables the possibility of any person having 100,000,000x the wealth of another person in the country. Like if you have $100M, literally all of the rest of your money can go to those worth less than $1.

    Idk how bout some real antitrust?

    Oh I know, no owning more than 1 parcel of land per county per person.

    No corporate ownership of land.

    C suite liability for corporate personhood or eliminate it.

    Universal healthcare

    Laws against predatory loan practices.

    Dismantling of the Patriot act…

    Total defunding of ice.

    I’d say that’s about the bare minimum.













  • This is a very complicated question. Many Microsoft employees would have a very heated debate over the answer to this question. It was the cause of a ton of internal conflict. Many Windows developers saw the Xbox ecosystem as a cannibalization of their existing product.

    The move was political. Microsoft wanted to get some of that PlayStation money. They were afraid of losing the living room to Sony. Sony had TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and now this other thing, PlayStation, that also plugged into the TV, that all the kids were essentially demanding have equal place among the other Sony gadgets.

    Microsoft already had PCs in homes. Well, operating systems. And many developers would have agreed it makes more sense to blow open the emerging market they were already champions of/adjacent to. But what they didn’t have was real estate beneath consumers televisions. And their competitor had all of it.

    It paid off. They were able to secure a fight over the living room rather than allow a competitor to take it on wholly. Pivoting to PC gaming wouldnt have solved this threat. Their goal was to secure a place in “Home Entertainment” markets beyond “Personal Computer” markets. They succeeded.