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All over the West voters have been fooled into believing they have a choice between right vs left politics, between corporate vs workers choices, between national social services and privatized services.

In truth there's only the alt-right wing and the lite-right wing. The Labour Party in the UK, like the Democrats in the US and the Liberals in Canada are essentially conservatives who hide their intentions under 'nice' words.

"...if this is the end of #democracy, it’s been ending for a long time. And not just at Trump’s hands.

The central truth we keep missing — especially on the left — is that Trump is not an aberration. He’s a grotesque continuation. The playbook he uses was written by both parties over decades of eroding democratic norms, consolidating executive power, and circumventing meaningful checks on authority..."

#Trump’s Rule by Fiat a Bipartisan Legacy

consortiumnews.com/2025/03/28/ #duopoly #goodcopbadcop

Consortium News · Trump’s Rule by Fiat a Bipartisan LegacyDemocratic norms have been eroded for years, writes Vinnie Rotondaro, with the cooperation of the same liberal establishment that now acts scandalized by Trump’s every defiance. By Vinnie Rotondaro Common Dreams U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest defiance of the courts — this time refusi

Option 2 ✅ Get #Lidl or #Aldi in. That will shake up the market for sure.

"While Willis has already indicated there is interest from businesspeople in New Zealand considering consolidating to create a supermarket chain, she has also been working on how to incentivise an international player entering the market."

rnz.co.nz/news/political/55640

RNZ · Nicola Willis to announce government plans to encourage third supermarket competitorBy Jo Moir
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@Rusty @dragonarchitect I disagree re: webOS and FirefoxOS.

#webOS failed due to lack of market penetration (there was only like 1 Tablet from #hp) and #FirefoxOS failed because @mozillaofficial didn't even offer to sell devices to folks like me and @fuchsiii that wanted one.

  • The only devices with #Firefox OS in the #EU were a few #NetLock'd #prepaid phones that got sold in Spain (reqiring ID for no valid reason!) and which were essentially useless for anyone outside of Spain.

Add to that the absurdity that #Mozilla basically expected carriers (!!) to maintain and provide the #AppStore|s themselves and you get market fracturing worse than the "P.R." #China (!!!)…

It was mismanaged and self-sabotaged in the worst possible way.

  • Similar to how #OLPC never sold the #XO1 in retail and didn't even offer the "Give one, Get one" deal in most places...

The #Duopoly of #Android & #iOS wasn't unavoidable, but an outcome of #SelfSabotage and halfassed non-commitment by competitors!

A UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds that the Apple-Google duopoly is 'anti-innovation'.

A UK competition authority investigation of Apple and Google's mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly's policies are "holding back innovation” and could also be limiting economic growth.

mediafaro.org/article/20250312

The Safari logo on a phone. | Image Credits: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images
TechCrunch · A UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds that the Apple-Google duopoly is 'anti-innovation'.By Natasha Lomas

#Biden and #Obama are still the deportation kings, and #Trump's fear strategy keeps them out. See how the two primary color-coded #fascists factions of the #duopoly work together towards common #xenophobia #racists goals?

"Trump deported fewer people than Biden a year ago, but border crossings have plummeted"

nbcnews.com/politics/national-

NBC News · Trump deported fewer people than Biden a year ago, but border crossings have plummetedBy Julia Ainsley

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them" ~Julius Nyerere, #HealthCare Edition

"Being outraged only when the #Republicans are in office & refusing to hold the #Democrats accountable for their often equally abysmal policies on #immigration, healthcare, #genocide, & natural resource extraction is precisely why we have #Trump." @-mmills

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#Capitalism #Obama #Biden #RFKjr #Duopoly

"America is a full blown #kleptocracy. The demolition of the social and political structure, begun long before #Trump, makes a few very, very rich and immiserates everyone else. #MafiaCapitalism always leads to Mafia State.

The two ruling parties gave us the first. Now we get the second. It is not only our wealth that is being taken from us, but our liberty."

"We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims." -#ChrisHedges
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the #kleptocrats #duopoly

The Chris Hedges Report · The Mafia StateBy Chris Hedges

#Thailand's #mobile market is now effectively a cosy #duopoly - it's facetious of #BangkokPost to keep up the pretense of #market #competition after witnessing the #regulator and powers of the day failing to stop the True-DTAC merger. #telecoms #BigFail #journalism

#Bandwidth battle begins🧐🤔🇹🇭
" #NBTC chairman Boonbaichaiyapruck said the #auction is expected to attract major #operators,🤥 though the market only has two major operators: #AIS and #True"
bangkokpost.com/business/gener

Bangkok Post · Bandwidth battle beginsBy Komsan Tortermvasana