Bouzou

I was going to suggest this one!

pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons

Look, I’m not here to defend the pharmaceutical industry, but at least they’re fucking REGULATED.

Unlike, say, the supplement industry which he so loves… That’ll tell you: take these 50 expensive potions and you’ll get better, not the thing that has been rigorously tested & proven over generations.

Yes, that was my first question: what about Photoshop as an image editor? What is a comparable replacement for that?

I don’t know how it stacks up price-wise, but I’d argue Bluebeam is a far superior PDF editing program. It even covers some word processing, Illustrator, and some PowerPoint adjacent things.

That being said, I can’t see it as practical for the average consumer.

It’s even worse than that: he’s testing the boundaries.

He’s testing if he can get away with deporting an innocent man. He’s testing if he can ignore the Supreme Court without consequences. He’s testing if the Salvadorian president will stand firm and be his good little concentration camp boy.

If they are successful, it means they can imprison ANYONE they want to.

If they are successful, our Bill of Rights is about to come crashing down.

Not just government – the official White House account. It’s… dystopian…

Well my argument is that they fall under a different analogy. Something like a car and wheelbarrow? They’re both used for transportation, sure, but they also have two distinct functions that don’t cancel each other out.

Truly. Trump and his ilk are like if you made the antithesis of Christ’s teachings in lab…

Religion. They are the “Christian party.”

I mean, literally none of their actions reflect the teachings of Christ, but culturally they have entrenched themselves as the only religion Christians can choose (at least, from the view of many Christians).

I am more trying to argue that Pinterest and Reddit/lemmy are fundamentally different enough that they aren’t really interchangeable.

I personally use both, but, again, for wildly different purposes.