Google has become a colonialist project.

First they gained access to the communsl property of the internet. Then they stole it from the original inhabitants. And now they’re trying to claim a legal right to exclusive control over the property they stole.

I know this is meant as sarcasm, but honestly I sometimes suspect it’s actually to some notable degree true.

First, Trump is collecting so much graft from so many different sources that there’s no way he could serve all of their interests, and he likely can’t even keep track of them all.

Beyond that though, I think that to some degree he actually pushes for things like coal power and gas-guzzling cars and open discrimination against minorities and LGBTQ+ people living in fear because they’re nostalgic reminders of his privileged childhood as an ignorant racist serial-raping piece of shit living off of someone else’s money.

You know - as opposed to his more difficult adulthood as an ignorant racist serial-raping piece of shit living off of someone else’s money…

It’s 1920 and the Pentagon just bought billions of dollars worth of buggy whips.

More to the point, and cynically hilariously, the US under Trump, in just one year, lost any opportunity to be anything other than a second-rate has-been in the future, while the world is being led, as it always is, by the strongest economy with the latest technology.