Who said that?
I'm sorry are there other points on the liberal wishlist that would have been better examples?

Or are you one of those people who INSISTS their ideology is "the center" without even the fundamental self-awareness to recognize honestly ones' own biases and where they are in the spectrum of beliefs?

I apologize if english isn't your primary language, as a native speaker would recognize the "but" in that sentence would mean 'everything on the list but that one'.

Or are you simply confirming my point? That if there are 1000 Progressive Points on the Liberal Wishlist, and they agree to 999 but not that last one, they're not to be considered liberal?
If nothing else, you're epistemologically fascinating.

Or you're just dumb? But I really don't think you are, I think you're so incandescently biased it's impossible for you to think/act like a normal person, and just answer the question.

"stuff like underwear, headlight bulbs, even batteries are locked up"
Do you think this was WalMart's choice?

Maybe we need to go back to, y'know, crazy concepts like punishing shoplifters?

This is a lot like the conclusions to the eye-opening video I saw about bread:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
"Why ancient bread was a superfood and modern bread makes people sick"

His salient point is that people used to eat 2-3 POUNDS of bread a day as a staple food, in physically hard lives and were healthy. Today everyone has Crohns & gluten allergies..

Boils down to:
- ancient bread had 3 ingredients - water, yeast, flour
- today's bread has 30.
Modern wheat, processing, ingredients are engineered for yield, speed of processing, and shelf-stability. Then they throw in some missing nutrition and call it 'fortified'.
Basically the gut reacts to today's bread like it's non-organic.

By this article, bread is CERTAINLY a ultra-processed food.

It prompted my wife and I to start making bread ourselves from einkorn.

"Might be going too far" seems to be all the food-industry scolds do now.

Bacon is a "tier 1 carcinogen" - at the same scale as asbestos, diesel exhaust, and neutron radiation.

To your point, though, I recognized the same thing living in Italy and coming back to the US. Stodgy is a great term for the feeling.

So you are being an ideological purist?

They can literally agree with you on EVERY SINGLE ITEM on the progressive-fantasy wishlist, but if they don't want their employees to unionize, in your view "well they're not really liberals then"?

You're not serious, are you?
Do you understand how irrational that is?

...but isn't this mostly a matter of left-pocket/right-pocket $ for Musk?

I'm not even sure how this was meaningful or how there was a transaction. He's head of both companies, isn't this technically just a merger and then transfer of (merger of) funds/assets?

I'm genuinely curious how you can believe that. Or are you making the No True Scotsman purist argument "if they don't adhere to every detail of the creed, they're not in my religion!"?

The business logic against unionizing servers in a drone, meaningless, replaceable, low skill, high-schooler level job is obvious.

At the same time the company can donate heavily to liberal candidates, have its website constantly promoting/celebrating famous leftists, it can close its shops sympathetically when illegals are being arrested in the area, they can have special holiday pricing for Marx's birthday, they can mandate everyone wear a keffiyeh as part of the uniform, and have little prayer services at the end of each shift that the Great Orange Baboon has an anyeurism.
I think you get my point.*

* if these are bad/snarky examples, that's my fault; it's hard for me to not see these as ridiculous, performative silliness at base. That's a failure of my own imagination, no intentionally to taint the example.

I think the point is to ALSO have a mechanical exterior latch that safety/rescue personnel have available that isn't disabled by a electrical failure too.

Fire them all. Replace with Robots. If Starbucks just sells coffee, I might return as a customer.

(Although not sure why I'd abandon the coffee shops that I've meanwhile patronized who never did get distracted from, you know, serving coffee....)

The moment Starbucks employees said "we stand with Hamas" as far as I'm concerned I hope they all have the opportunity to immediately move to Gaza and start helping with the rebuilding of terror-tunnels, rocket factories, and hostage-cells. I problems with things Israel does, says, and stands for (like I do pretty nearly any country) but Hamas is purely a violent terror organization, uninterested in ACTUALLY helping the people of Gaza have better lives.

If Starbucks employees 'stand with' them, then they can stand in the street unemployed and I'll cheer.

I know this is very non-internet-2026 but let's try to look at this with a teensy bit of nuance?

A company can be
a) against its servers unionizing,
AND
b) deeply liberal politically

This is not mindblowing IRL. It is normal.

I know one political side in the US today is very, very 'purist' in its dogma: "if you do not agree entirely with every jot and tittle of every single radical position, you must be an alt-right-fascist"...you know the old thing we all made fun of Bush Jr's simplistic "with us or against us" nonsense? That.

In REAL life, people have all sorts of reasons to believe what they believe, and not everything (!) is informed/guided by politics.

2003 Europe "We don't want to depend on US GPS systems!"
2006: EU mints Galileo collectible coin! (/snort)
(2 decades follow)
Dec 2026: 26 of 30 operational satellites.

So we should expect this new SATCOM program to be operational by...2049... maybe?
Hey, at least we'll probably have a collectible coin for it minted by 2030!

...that TV companies chase down stupid rabbit holes like 8k, 3d tv, UltraSuperMegaHDR, smellovision, or whatever.

Because that almost inevitably pushes the prices for all NORMAL TVs down. I don't know of any industry that's seen as steady price decline as video ?

I know -philes will insist that they can't *bear* to watch anything less than 16k on a 120" screen from the 3 foot distance you'd need to sit at to see the difference, but IRL 99% of consumers truly don't give a shit.
I'm not a luddite: I think there's a legitimate need for 4k / 2160p as screens get bigger (not that most people even need their giganto-screens in a little 12' x 12' room - a 65" screen @ 8' corresponds to the 30-35deg viewing angle around the middle of a small movie theater). And OLED absolutely was a step up in color quality and precision, objectively.

But, yes, Samsung, LG, TCL, Hisense, Sony: please chase all of the silly techs and whatever more you believe you can convince the public they need. Hell, give 3d another swing this year, maybe? In the meanwhile, I'll cheerfully watch as even good quality 65" TVs drop past $500.

Their argument boils down to "well if it's a synthetic actor, we represent them too, so we are entitled to $".

No, no you aren't.

By that logic, if I draw a stick figure, I "owe" someone some $. If I sell it, I owe them some of that.
To be fair, congress has already laid the ground for this, with the idea that if I draw a big stick figure sexing a little stick figure, that (to some in Congress) is borderline kiddy porn.

I'd wager 3/4 millennials and 90% genz couldn't tell you whether the Cuban crisis was before or after WW2, so I'd consider your question moot.