FreedomAdvocate

“Progressives”/Liberals are straight up begging for authoritarian dictatorships.

I missed when calling for smaller government, less regulations, less red tape, untouchable free speech, and less censorship suddenly became “fascism”.

First time on Lemmy/Reddit?

Also ironic is that banning political parties is not compatible with the free democratic order.

So say they ban them…..then what? You think that the most popular political party in the country isn’t going to just reform again while complying with whatever rule got them banned in the first place? Of course they will, and they’ll have the same support, if not more due to the perceived anti-democratic banning of the AfD.

Next stop authoritarian dictatorship I guess? Just ban all elections so they can’t take power?

”We will continue to help, but we will no longer fly around the world as mediators in meetings,”

Not quite what the headline suggests happened.

“Attorney does what attorneys are paid to do”

Articles like this don’t even need to exist.

But they convicted trump……

So with the 5th largest economy in the world, you’re all crying about homelessness and a cost of living crisis and a housing crisis and not enough jobs…..and you think just electing the same people with the same policies over and over again will magically fix the problem? What’s the definition of insanity again?

Are those poorest states in the country also maybe ones that are majority rural?

As for looking through my post history, a few things:

1. Randomly generated username.
2. I wasn’t arguing for “no due process” in locking people up, and to say that shows your agenda.
3. i haven’t spread any “propaganda” or “disinformation”. In fact that was the people I was discussing the issue with, who were saying things like “anyone who misses a rent payment will be locked up indefinitely in a mental health facility” - that’s the very definition of “disinformation”.

So let’s get back on to this topic hey?

Why do you think the democrats will all of a sudden fix the problems? If you don’t, then what possible alternative do you think there is that might be worth a try?

This is a complete false equivalence and I feel that you know that. The idea of a console is to expand it by buying new games. That’s not unexpected.

It's not though. The idea of self hosting isn't to not have any software costs associated with it. Domain names aren't free. VPNs (that you use to aquire content) aren't free. Cloud backups aren't free. Would you prefer everything was free? Absolutely. Do you sometimes have to pay to get the best software for the job? Absolutely, and Plex is that software.

I am a software developer.

Same here! That makes your argument even crazier to me! Someone demanding that your software should be free and should never be changed to be paid even if it means the company goes under is bananas.

The argument is that this is an exceptionally poor business model and as a developer I’m disgusted that people are defending it.

The business model of having the people that use their main product that requires the most development and time and resources, Plex Server, pay either a cheap one off fee (that regularly goes on sale for half price) or a monthly subscription fee in order to use it, is "exceptionally poor"? How so? Is it just that it was free? This business model has been around for eternity. Get people in the door and hooked by offering it for free, then start charging for it. It's one of the actual best business models around, not "exceptionally poor" lol. You're looking at it from the "I want it to be free forever" point of view, not the "We need it to be a viable business with revenue to be able to sustain it" point of view.

until there’s no such thing as free software anymore.

That will never happen, because people will always be making free software to put out there for people to try and to use - and many of them will then transition to PAID because it's not sustainable otherwise. For software to thrive you often have to have full time developers working on it, and full time developers need to be paid.

At the end of the day you’re paying twice to avoid buying IP. Just fucking buy the IP if you’re going to be stupid. Movies are like $12. At $250 you’re paying $2.10/mo in addition to your hosting costs.

Just go buy 20 movies for the same price. It’s so dumb.

I paid ~$100 ~10 years ago for Plex Pass. It paid for itself instantly as I was simply supporting the developers of the software. As a software developer I have no problem doing that. I wasn't forced to buy it, but I did.

I'm not quite sure where you got this $250 figure from though? What is that, the monthly remote pass x 12? Also most people running a plex server get far more than 20 movies a year lol. Pretty sure I got 20 movies last night.

Ah so you just wanted to use one of the go-to insults regardless of context. Ironic given the topic we're in.

You: "CA is fucked"

Me: "CA has been run by democrats for 30 years, maybe it's time for a change?"

You: "You think republicans would be better?"

Me: "Democrats have gotten you in this position, so...."

You: "ANSWER THE QUESTION!"

Come on mate, the question has been answered. How do you not see that?

That meme is used to refer to the "woke far-left" crying about things. Do you think I'm a "woke far-left" "progressive"?