Just need to vent...

I think Bezos is putting mass in orbit too.
He's not a pauper, but then poor people usually do not build groundbreaking (disruptive) companies.
Ford and Edison weren't exactly warm and cuddly but I do not keep that from driving cars and using electric light bulbs.
Steve Jobs was a tin-plated jerky jerk face, but I have an iPhone in my pocket because despite the fact that their company politics do not exactly align with my own they gave our DOJ the middle finger a while back and.....their products WORK.
Besides......they give teachers and veterans a 10% discount.
Alphabet's corporate culture, employee demographic, and political donations strongly lean 'progressive' but I 'Google' stuff every day and use Chrome whenever it's available.

I need my stuff to WORK.
I don't care what they do in the head-shed or if the CEO is a wild-eyed, bed wetting, leftist who shovels money into the DNC with a front-end loader - which they probably are NOT if the stories about the DNC having to get a reverse mortgage on their building is true....

I get fiber internet free of charge as a company benefit and it's a pretty good product.
It has failed more times than my cable internet did but those might be growing pains with a new buildout.
Generally speaking fiber is more reliable than cellular because buried glass doesn't get struck by lightning, burned up in a wildfire, or iced over in a winter storm.
Starlink has issues too but I have not experienced any weather issues (rain fade or lightning) and I overcame ground obstruction issues easily enough by elevating the panel.
My system has enjoyed a 100% up-time for the last 8 months.

I use SL as a $10 'throw it in a bag and go" backup and as mentioned as a fallover for alarm and camera when it is fixed to the chimney.
I have it rigged so that I can pull the panel down in minutes without tools and throw the system in a bag to either ride out a hurricane in my central office or take it with me if I have to relocate.
Katrina taught me that even in 2005, basic services can be interrupted for a prolonged period of time and that people do not plan to fail but they generally fail to plan.
But hey....that was 21 years ago - riiight?
RIGHT?!
Hurricane Florence was in 2018....and although I was not personally affected that storm taught me that junk happens and we puny humans aren't going to outgrow autumnal storms, wild fires, ice, flooding.....etc....etc.
The "E" in my PACE plan is HF Digital radio.
In a complete, plugs out, infrastructure-free environment I can send and receive email and do very basic comms stuff, even if Starlink is down.

I worked a trouble only a few years back where an equipment failure caused a near total cellular outage for a six county area. This is less likely in more congested areas of the country because of path diversity BUT 'less likely isn't NOT likely.'

TIFWIW.....

 

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" if the CEO is a wild-eyed, bed wetting, leftist who shovels money into the DNC with a front-end loader .., "

I assume this a trivial artifice to present US Political Left as 'way out there'. With no comparable presented on US Political Right. Rightish whacks ought not examined, because, well, there ought to be a reason for not.

Readers here now surf on media seas they choose. And treat them as probative. Supporting. Providing flotation

The big thing about Overton Window shifting is you ought not notice, or ought not say so, if you did.

Quote above is from a strong Overton Window shifter here. Would merit our attention even if not forever offering personal opinions on, well, everything.

Our collective punchbowl is improved by a wide variety of fruit.

 

...or...
realize you can't control who others vote for- example :

Bernie Sanders a purported Socialist who is a multimillionaire with multiple high-end homes (don't begrudge him a bit for his prosperity but he could turn down the hypocritical nonsense he spouts a bit)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ;
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress, but like many of her “Squad” colleagues, she has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.
The Bronx and Queens Democrat has owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt since her election to the House in 2018. That’s the same amount she owes now.\

Massachusetts Mayor
Democrat Mayor Who Can’t Speak English Busted for $1.5 Million COVID Loan Fraud - KTSA

Minnesota man honored as 'outstanding refugee' charged in Medicaid fraud case

Perhaps it is high time to vote for -people- rather than any political party

strongly support democracy and vote in elections but realized long ago my local elections are what matter most and almost all of the local elections in my neck of the woods are non-partisan...

 

Regardless of which side of the aisle is doing the spurious activity, you don't EVER expect them to legislate punishment such as losing all of their retirement, right? Nope - just the embarrassment of getting caught & having to resign.

 

47 was actually convicted on some of his charges, other cases were stopped due to maga electing him. Big charges, bigger than the charges you show here and complain about.
Wait there’s more, America was formed as a socialist country, an ideal, no more King. Almost all countries are socialist, like we live in societies helping one another for the common good. It’s in your Declaration and your Medicare is an example.

 

That might be conflating some different things; kinglessness or kingfulness doesn't determine the economic organization.

The country was formed about 190 years before Medicare, and about a half century before 'socialism' was a word anybody used. You might find concept similarities in older sources (like Luke-Acts), but it doesn't seem that the founders of the US were explicitly socialist in their vision.