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Not sure why we’re surprised. And even then, it took a while for the “good” OSes to get good. Windows 7 is remembered fondly because it ended well, not because it started well.

Windows 95: OK Windows 98: Bad Windows 98 SE: OK Windows ME/2000: Bad Windows XP: OK Windows Vista: Bad Windows 7: OK Windows 8: Bad Windows 10: OK Windows 11: Bad

I think the rationalization of shitty behavior is key. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and there is no end to the mental gymnastics or cognitive dissonance people will go through to remain the hero.

It’s almost Occam’s Razor. It’s easier to believe someone is a selfish hypocrite than some kind of moral-less grifter.

That’s not to say there aren’t grifters, just that the vast majority have drunk the kool-aid and keep drinking it because of a warped sunk-cost fallacy scenario. If I stop drinking, I have to admit I was bad and wrong, so I double down and stay the good guy.

They do. That’s why they’re so hateful to anyone who contradicts them.

We’ve spent decades bleeding the middle and lower classes dry.

People get all up in arms about private equity groups buying up companies, extracting any value, saddling them with debt, and then skipping out, and understandably so, but that’s exactly what’s happening with the USA. It’s just at a larger scale. The principle remains the same.

In case you’re talking to a Christian, most believe that everything is a part of God’s plan, even the things they don’t like.

It’s honestly more interesting that this doesn’t match up with the “do you identify as a Christian” stats. It would imply that there are a significant percentage of Christians who think that Trump is outside of God’s plan. Maybe God didn’t have Trump in his bingo card?

For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.