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That both of you felt the need to qualify your statements, “right now”, bears out my assertion.

They suck but they suck less.

Perchance this clarification of my views will help a bit.

Think about two race horses.

One always runs the wrong way, never tires, and if it stumbles the same bookies who claim it’s a winner will cover it up. It will mindlessly trample anything it encounters running the other way too.

The other sometimes runs the wrong way, sometimes it doesn’t, but it’s a lazy critter and also one that frequently stumbles before it can ever cross the finish line even when it runs the right direction. It also has a habit of biting at any horse that runs the right direction when it’s running the right way (it’s super docile when it runs the wrong way).

The first horse is factually dangerous, for running the wrong way means horses sane people would bet on are constantly bring run over and injured by it.

The second horse is factually useless, as well as a constant irritant to better horses.

Now imagine the bookies have got together to make it very difficult to ever bet on another horse.

“Useless” without any dancing around it just plain sucks.

“Dangerous” is always worse than useless though.

And the handlers of the dangerous horse want to change the direction the race is run in to suit their horse and would be happy to ban any other horse from ever running against it. That includes the useless horse.

Problem is the handlers of the useless horse are just as useless as the horse is, and fancy the other handlers to be their friends.