So if these are PACs then it’s effectively the same as donating to the party, just splitting hairs really?

Ok so no one else understands what groups are being referred to in this chart?

And if we change the meaning of words every day, they lose all meaning.

Not really you have to run in one of those two parties for any real chance of being elected.

People like Bernie sanders say they are democratic socialists but run as a democrat while people like Rand Paul say their are libertarians but run as republicans.

American libertarianism is just another form of conservatism. American libertarians don’t support actual libertarian policies like open borders or making all highways toll roads

Traditionally you’d express this with an r sq instead of just eye-balling trend lines…

Lick the boot

Wow... that just sounds like a stupid business practice that disgruntles their customers.

"Liberal" and "Conservative" are not political groups.

As an American, I don't know what that means either. I'm assuming "liberal groups" and "conservative groups" are PACs that support one party or the other, but aren't officially associated with that party.

And that highlights another disgusting part of our campaign finance system. Donations to PACs are less restricted and much easier to hide. They're supposed to be separate from specific parties and candidates, but many candidates run their own PACs. It's a giant, unlimited loophole in the system. Everyone knows it. But nobody can close it because of a bad Supreme Court decision.

Nope! They just put the diagnostic equipment behind programming paywalls that's only accessible to JD techs. Even if you could diagnose the problem without hooking to the machine electronically, you wouldn't be able to reprogram or finalize the fix once it was completed.

All of this was to make sure John Deere made the money on repairs using their techs and their parts. My company uses older series JD tractors (80's and 90's) and they are very easy to work on and not very electronic component heavy. A fuel pump goes out, we know what that looks like and we just fix it ourselves. Something simple like this might cost me $2,000 to do on my own but would cost $5,000 to have done by the dealership (these aren't real numbers of course).

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Yes I understand that, but what are the groups that don’t fall under Republican/Democrat categories here? Other political parties?

Republicans are conservative to ultraconservative.

Democrats are moderates to conservatives with a handful of liberals that don’t have any real power in the party

Oh wow, that sucks! Are they mostly selling yearly maintenance contracts or is it pay as you have an incidence?

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If bitcoin goes up, people start to searching more info about it.

That's just like your opinion man

Man this is terrible. The log scale completely distorts the trend - essentially costs fell by a factor of 100 between 2017 and 2018, and the rest is trivial

Hearsay^ and the man himself said it 😂

that's what they're-saying

It’s called lobbying to get regulations in place/removed to make even more money.

as opposed to there-say

As a non-American, since Republican Party/candidates and Democratic Party/candidates are in their own categories, what political groups fall under the Conservative and Liberal categories?

Edit: Guys, I’m very specifically asking about the data on this chart. Not about the US political system in general.

You know how you can't replace anything broken on your iPhone anywhere unless it's through an Apple store and it's performed by an Apple tech and costs an arm and a leg? John Deere does the same thing.

What used to be simple / or more basic maintenance work that a farmer could perform on their own is now not possible due to programming and must be performed by the dealership. This is an expense small farms can't take on and have been fighting for quite a while now.

U.S. Congress has been playing around with "right to repair" bills for years now; I believe on was just passed recently in regards to Deere, but it wasn't enough.

Fact check is biased and COVID had a huge impact in last year in office