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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I give it less than a week before Google donates a sizeable amount to one of his PACs and Donnie does a complete 180 on this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Desperate Donald is not going to be subtle about his demands.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Even a broken clock can be right twice a day, but for all the wrong reasons.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Okay now can trump and Kamala try to one up each other on how hard they'll dismantle Ticketmaster?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes please.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stop making me like Google, Donald.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I had a similar top level comment that fits better here…. So I moved it.

I really hate it when someone you despise does something I agree with. Now I want Google to stick around.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a distraction.

Next week we'll discover some liberty of ours has been revoked by SCOTUS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That's not clever.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol, Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies want's to start a fight with GOOGLE!?!?!?! He needs to have his mental capacity tested. This is a whole new level of stupid. I hope he triples down on it and they fucking bury him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

He's weird too, don't forget about that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol, this fuckin' guy. I swear. It must be so exhausting to be him. When god shows itself to be real and Trump actually dies, they're gonna do an autopsy an him and they're gonna cut open his skull to find a perfectly smooth lump resembling a brain. When they dissect it, the only thing in there is going to be Rube Goldberg-esqe machine that farts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't underestimate him. He may sound like an idiot to us, but we aren't his target audience. He doesn't care what we think of him. He knows what his cult wants to hear and he's plenty happy to chum the water to get them in a frenzy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

No idiots there.

He's still not behind bars despite going to Epstein's.

Most of those who visited the place and probably do the bidding of people having the records are still anonymous.

He is not. He's literally the kind of person who can't be blackmailed with that.

That means he has power to support this behavior, we just don't know what it is.

I'd still be wary of trusting Harris and anyone of D establishment, let's not forget that Trump got elected first time because of them. He shouldn't become president, but Harris' term should be used for a new major party to form IMHO, or it won't get better.

Of course, I'm typing this from Moscow, Russia, so take this with a grain of salt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Why does this feel like Trump is straight up asking google for a campaign contribution lol

[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (2 children)

GOOGLE IS A TRILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION

Trump is so fucking stupid he doesnt even know how his party is supposed to work.

There are no leftist corporations.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

That's the thing. He doesn't care about how his party is supposed to work, or what the party line is. His political stances are entirely based on his feelings and whims. Whoever has most recently slighted or inconvenienced him is enemy number one, only to be replaced tomorrow when some other matter irks him.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

If anything, Google helps the right with their YouTube algorithm that has to be one of the fastest to right-wing radicalization available. You can open up a recipe video on YouTube and a couple of videos later they'll have you on liberals are making the frogs gay style content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I doubt they care. They just give you the most outrageous shit they can, since it makes most people interract with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

People who have power are not right or left anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I read "gay frog style" as Gangnam style... I am very tired

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is pretty stupid. My YouTube searches are DIY home repair, how to play guitar, and fountain pen calligraphy ink/font.

“How about some Jordan Peterson!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's the DIY stuff. You're like a hairsbreadth away from homesteading, survivalist stuff, then prepper stuff, aaaand finally nutjob stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. " how many categorical degrees of separation are your YouTube channels from wacko right wing nut job shit?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Damnit. You are right. Need to start watching some GenZ channels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes but if he threatens them enough maybe they'll fix their algorithm so it isn't serving right wing garbage on a silver platter. I can dream.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Six degrees of Francis Bacon

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

What if i told you that any group, organization or business that places profits and advertising revenue above objective truth and a quality product is, by default, always going to be right-wing aligned?

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