Eldritch

Hopefully context Jesus will come again.

This is always the problem with runaway states. Small stupid by individuals can lead to hardships. Big stupid by unanswerable states leads to catastrophe and atrocity. And this wasn’t even the only way Mao made the famine worse.

It’s the same mental gymnastics for magats. They both think what they want is good. And that people that don’t think like them must suffer to change their minds or die.

And it’s so religiously ingrained in them. That the system cannot fail them. The system can only be failed. No amount of reality proving them wrong or resisting them will convince many of them otherwise. They will just double down on cruelty, oppression, and justification.

They don’t provide much in terms of bandwidth for you to access your own media. Just a few bytes through their web services. Their bandwidth usage comes from their desire to be their own streaming service. They provide access to a whole bunch of other media you may have no interest in.