I use forced-birther incidentally.
As for profit, was talking with the missus about this and how fucked up certain things we just take for granted in the US are.
Throne toilets cause hemorrhoids, constipation, exacerbate numerous other conditions and as a result we get halfass fixes like squatty-potty stools to raise your feet so you can make stool easier.
Toilet paper is one of those things weirdly related to weed I'm guessing, paper manufacturers love the idea of people buying tp all the time, using it every time they go, and flushing it before going back to buy more. Can I say for sure they worked to demonize bidets? No, but I'm not surprised I didn't know that you can get retrofit bidet kits for any of our stupidly designed USian toilets until I saw them on twitter.
Disposable razors are fucking stupid, guy faces look weird naked, but convincing dudes that manliness=bare face and disposable razors > straight razors was a clever grift by gilette and them. The electric shaver companies learned from it by discouraging the idea that you can just open them up and clean them out, so instead you should just buy new heads and lotion regularly, or shell out for a cleaning station.
Big box hardware stores love to push their power tools on people, but as a backup they always make sure to have plenty of handsaws around, lots of them with induction hardened teeth that do stay sharp longer, but can't be resharpened unless you want to completely knock them off until you have bare metal and know how to recut teeth. Hard to find good files at one either, huh. Easier to just buy another disposable handsaw, and hey it's cheaper than a circular saw right! I mean, until you buy enough of them it is.
The real fucked up one though, the one that inspired murderous rage when I noticed it, is tampon companies. They set up deals to buy entire aisles from grocery stores to line with their products, and I just bet there are conditions like not being allowed to stock menstrual cups. First time I saw a cup I thought it was some new invention, but they apparently date back to the 1800's, though we DO have new soft feel and bodysafe silicone formulations, though we've had those long enough I was really baffled why I only saw one randomly online one day. Then I realized forcing women to come back and buy a box of these fucked up things that screw with their ph, are uncomfortable as fuck, can cause toxic shock AND KILL WOMEN, and are single use... well that only makes sense if you're out to get repeat customers. Every woman, every month, for a huge chunk of their life? Fuck you tampax and all the rest, fuck you to death and beyond.
I'm sure there are many more examples of these business models that worked great when media buys could guarantee ignorance of better alternatives but start to fall apart when the internet makes it possible to just stumble across these "new improved" but actually old school versions of things.
Being in a hypercapitalist dystopia is fucked up for so many reasons, and most of them aren't even obvious at first.
As for the political positions...
Conservative =/= Fucking Fascists.
We can look at Zipf's Law and the related Pareto Distribution here to guess that a few percent of people are responsible for a much larger percent of anything be it online or in person.
If 20% of the right are responsible for 80% of the fascistic bullshit they're apparently fine with, that's still a full fifth of them down with being fucking nazis, and trump is the smallest percent with the largest share of bullshit there is.
There may be others on here further left than I am, but there's not many of us out here, an ideal society to me would look like the Culture with benevolent AI gods, a default to polite peaceful anarchosocialism with the option to strike out and set up something else if you want.
In practice I just go with socialist and futurist like Marx was, not Lenin, but I can't shed my inherent urge to throw off any claim by anyone that they have power over me.
Government shouldn't exist to force people to do what it wants, it should enable people trying to do better at being themselves, and it should provide a backdrop of safety from various forms of harm.
I don't need the threat of law enforcement to not come over to your house, rob, attack, or murder you. I'm just not going to do it, it's not cool, by refusing such behavior I'm making a statement that others should not do that to me.
Ideally everybody would be able to live like that just fine barring actual fucking psychopaths and the like because people aren't born abusive nazi pricks.
In practice I'm confident that the only reason anybody feels a need for police and prison is "to protect me and my family from criminals" rather than "to keep me from doing some murders" for the vast majority of people.
If our government was doing a good job making sure people don't fall through the cracks and end up struggling and suffering unnecessarily then all but a fraction of a percent of violent crime and theft would disappear.
This is where I disagree most strongly with conservatives: many argue freedom requires the freedom to be a piece of shit and the freedom to fail. I contend freedom from unnecessary failure is more important. Freedom to vs freedom from. Libertarians are an extreme example of the former, I'm an extreme example of the latter.
Conservatives still value freedom and peace. Fascists are willing to trade liberty for security and peace for vengeance over petty grievances.Hank Hill was a conservative, he was the type you may have heard called a compassionate conservative. He was a decent guy at heart, and when he found out he was wrong about something or being ignorant he felt bad and tried to improve himself.
I'd have no problem with someone like him as my neighbor, I knew some of them when I lived in Texas, though Dallas was a much more liberal area than the surrounding burbs and exurbs trended.
Hank Hill would be horrified at modern republicans going along with someone like Trump.
Mike Judge is horrified that we treated Idiocracy like a roadmap.