Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

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  41. I hear what you're saying and I still think you're right about them planning for a worst possible outcome. However, I remain unconvinced that such a worst possible outcome will actually happen. They have a duty of care to shareholders to plan for the worst. I do not buy the argument about them not planning for a good outcome as some kind of evidence they don't think that's the most likely outcome. Firstly, no one needs to plan for a slap on the wrist, and secondly even if such planning were taking place we wouldn't see it. That wouldn't be general knowledge around google campuses. It would be a very selective group of people in the c suite and legal, who know the whole thing. People who will not talk about it even if you're their best friend who does a journalist podcast. If we look at the details of the Microsoft case and the Google case they are ridiculously similar. They even had similar set ups in court transcripts. But you also have a new administration taking office in 5 days. That includes a new DOJ. The Trump administration is stacked with monopolists. Some of which have their own antitrust cases coming down the pipe. You really think they're going to let this Google case buck the trend and create new precedent that puts them at greater risk? I don't buy it for a moment. I'd also like to point out that if you and I can see with transparency what Google is doing as their backup plan, then prosecutors and judges can too. So if they were really trying to nail Google to the wall, this back up plan wouldn't work the judge would order the sale of Chrome to an entity google has no involvement with. That you acknowledge this back up plan might work, is an acknowledgement that the courts are willing to overlook transparently obvious things and aren't really going after Google that hard. And if that's the case, a fine instead becomes much more likely. I have a long history of getting these kinds of predictions right too. Maybe I'm wrong this time, maybe you are. Time will tell.
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  49. It's weird that you separate out woke and DEI as if they're different things. It's also unhelpful that you use these code words, like woke, like far left, but never seem to acknowledge what they mean. They mean socialism. These are socialists. 19:37 You are talking as if it's obvious that Debian want to succeed. That socialist tech journalists want Debian to succeed. That their goal is to grow their distribution. But that's not how socialists think. Yes, they're watching as SUSE and Debian burn to the ground. But they're cheering as it does. Just like they cheered when Malibu burned years ago and they're cheering now as Palisades burns. It's deliberate. There are many in the far left writing and talking about it. Burning down the large institutions is a core tenant of socialism. It's their first step to their so called utopia, which is our dystopia. It's their dystopia too they just haven't clocked on yet. But listen, if you genuinely thought socialism could create a lollipop world where everyone was happy all the time, no one suffered, everyone got along, everyone lived in luxury, no one had to work if they didn't want to, etc, etc. If you had no grounding in practical reality or maths, so you genuinely believed that was possible and was something your ideology could create, and people opposed it, you wouldn't like those people much either. You'd probably think those people were the worst people too. So you can't try to appeal to their practicality or common sense in order to stop kicking people out of their projects who disagree with them. Not only do they genuinely believe the people they kick out are awful people for standing in the way of their utopia, but Debian also is part of the system they view as the problem so it has to be turned to ash so that utopia can be built upon it.
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