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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This is good advice, but I really wish we lived in a world where consumers could bond together and get laws passed that make this type of crap illegal so that buying TV's (or any type of appliance for that matter) didn't involve having to do research on weird non-consumer hardware just to have a nice experience.

EDIT: some morons in my replies keep on saying shit about "voting republican" and We Do In OtHeR CoUnTRiEs. I'm not american, I don't live in america, and I cannot remember the last time I set foot in america. Shut the fuck up, nobody asked you.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

In other words, you wish we lived in a democracy instead of a plutocracy. 'Cause that's exactly how it's supposed to work. This thread is squarely about the FTC failing to do its goddamn job, because this should not be legal.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We can you idiots just keep voting Republican

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This kind of fucking attitude is why Dems always have sand in their potato salad. "This wouldn't happen if democrats never lost an election :( " Miss me with that shit. Trump is talking about using military force to annex Panama and Greenland and making Canada the 51st state and you've got online Democrats sitting in the corner timidly and indirectly suggesting that maybe ads wouldn't be so bad under them. The Democratic party deserves to get bullied until they grow a spine and start giving people a real reason to vote for them besides "republicans bad". Call me when we get AOC hopped up on barely sub-lethal amounts of cocaine and she bites Gavin Newsom's head off like a praying mantis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Are you sure. Maybe if we lean in a little further right these "moderates" who are considering authoritarian rule might just change their mind.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Consumer rights is a bipartisan issue, Dems fuck us over too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just look at the printer situation. It's gonna get worse. Much worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

As long as brother b&w laser printers are still not enshittified, everything's right in the printer world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Books it is then

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

We do have that in other countries (so in this world), and you're going to laugh, but the Dutch one is literally called the Consumentenbond.