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They're still scumbags though

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[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

A few things:

  • Unity is still bleeding money. They have a product that could be the basis for a reasonably profitable company, but spending billions on a microtransaction company means it is not sufficient for their current leadership. It doesn't seem wise to build your bussniess on the product of a company whose bussniess plan you fundamentally disagree with.

  • It would be the best for the long term health of bussniess-to-bussnies services if we as a community manages to send the message that it doesn't matter what any contract says - just trying to introduce retroactive fees is unforgivable and a death sentence to the company that tries it.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the W reference was so early 2000s.

On a related note, I heard somewhere that the reason Bush “messes up” that quote is that he realized mid sentence that he didn’t want a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”.

May just be a rumor though.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You had me going until the first blunder of the old saying. Oh GWB², your antics paled in comparison to today's Trainwreckublicans.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

George W. Bush is still the torture president, the surveillance state president, the police state president, the war on terror president and the war profiteering president.

Oh and the signing statements president.

Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize in his first year just for the act of Not Being Bush.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Not to bash Obama, but how many of those things did Obama stop doing? GIMO is still open, five eyes was started under him, and Biden was the one that pulled troops from Afghanistan.