Since Donald Trump’s election, his opposition party hasn’t acted much like one. The same cannot be said of Bernie Sanders, who hit the road this weekend in red states in an effort to stoke pushback to Trump’s slash-and-burn plutocratic governance.
Pepsi and Coke aren’t on the same payroll, but they do a lot to convince you that there’s only two options, and the other one is trash that will ruin your life.
It’s in the interest of both to shape your thoughts into believing that it’s either-or, because on a world of limitless free choice, no one would rational pick either of them at all. Limiting competition into a semi-collusive self-reinforcing duopoly is illegal when both sides sell things. When they sell ideas, it’s not illegal.
Coke is here saying that only people like Coke. Pepsi sitting around their thumb up their ass going I got nothin’
The vast majority of our government is currently not trying to stop this, even the people that are supposed to be in the other side are basically doing nothing.
You can’t belittle this by calling it the cola wars. I’m pretty sure we’re good and boned on both sides based on their actions.
Well, I would say you aren’t effectively understanding the D stance of “let them burn it down and then we’re the only alternative.”
Also, it’s that cola wars is a binary choice everyone understands.
Coke is telling people that everyone only loves Coke while they use colorized Holocaust videos and the worst disco tracks in their commercials. Pepsi is sitting around saying “Don’t do anything, don’t say anything, and all these unforced errors will push everyone to us eventually. We can even save money by not doing advertising campaigns right now. We don’t need to do anything.”
Which is a damn fool thing to do. But that’s the best play for Dems. Not for Americans. And it’s how, mark my words, that the 2026 midterms won’t be some Blue Wave bloodbath, and the GOP might very well retain the Senate at the very least, maybe even the House, pushing them harder to the right.
Complicit inasmuch as them wrongly assuming that simply sitting by and letting it all burn is going to mean an easy and assured midterm victory.
You can’t win an election when there’s no country left.
I don’t think that’s deep enough. I think they’re on the same payroll as Trump’s team.
Pepsi and Coke aren’t on the same payroll, but they do a lot to convince you that there’s only two options, and the other one is trash that will ruin your life.
It’s in the interest of both to shape your thoughts into believing that it’s either-or, because on a world of limitless free choice, no one would rational pick either of them at all. Limiting competition into a semi-collusive self-reinforcing duopoly is illegal when both sides sell things. When they sell ideas, it’s not illegal.
Broken analogy.
Coke is here saying that only people like Coke. Pepsi sitting around their thumb up their ass going I got nothin’
The vast majority of our government is currently not trying to stop this, even the people that are supposed to be in the other side are basically doing nothing.
You can’t belittle this by calling it the cola wars. I’m pretty sure we’re good and boned on both sides based on their actions.
Well, I would say you aren’t effectively understanding the D stance of “let them burn it down and then we’re the only alternative.”
Also, it’s that cola wars is a binary choice everyone understands.
Coke is telling people that everyone only loves Coke while they use colorized Holocaust videos and the worst disco tracks in their commercials. Pepsi is sitting around saying “Don’t do anything, don’t say anything, and all these unforced errors will push everyone to us eventually. We can even save money by not doing advertising campaigns right now. We don’t need to do anything.”
Which is a damn fool thing to do. But that’s the best play for Dems. Not for Americans. And it’s how, mark my words, that the 2026 midterms won’t be some Blue Wave bloodbath, and the GOP might very well retain the Senate at the very least, maybe even the House, pushing them harder to the right.
Nobody is burning shit down. They’re installing 1984. They’d be standing in line in front of the apple store that closed down permanently.