It’s both. EA was always a parasitic company, but PE accelerated the extraction of value by saddling it with an unsustainable amount of debt. It’s a zombie company now.

“Private equity” isn’t a monolithic structure that can be easily defined. It’s just private companies with an exotic corporate structure. You can’t really target them because you will target other private businesses in the process. What you can do is regulate their behavior so that a lot of their financial schemes are no longer profitable. Like, you shouldn’t be able to buy a hospital and then create a shell company to lease it back to itself while investors pocket the rent. PE finds creative ways to stiff banks and consumers with financial engineering and that’s what needs to be addressed.

Ya, but the grass roots support for the DSA are actually organic. If the Tea Party wasn’t entirely manufactured, it was at least co-opted at it’s inception.

The centrists are more angry about the DSC who want to help people than the Rs who want to destroy everything.

What’s also funny is that the consulting class are absolutely fleecing the Republicans right now. The Rs have 2:1 spending advantage and it’s barely showing because they bought ads too late, which made them more expensive, and the ads they are showing are lazy and/or dumb shit like Talifreako and They/Them!

YSZ is used in fuel cells and sensors.

Anytime I see a gigantic paragraph of bullshit I know it’s AI.

Gender affirming fashion.

Translation: Banks are pulling stock investments to crash the economy so they can beg the Democrats for a bail out.

His weird haircut before his broccoli phase was him trying to cosplay as Caeser.

His ego can’t handle that he’s one hit wonder.

My theory is they want the democrats to win so they can come hat in hand to congress and ask for bailouts for this totally not essential and speculative industry.

Come over here to the USA and enjoy the freedom to not have healthcare or be in a union.