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- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
I think you misunderstand. I’m not saying I’m in favor of this law.
By state’s rights, I’m referring to the way republicans pretend they want the freedom of choice where they are actually just looking for excuses to keep doing what they’re doing. In this way, letting parents choose is functionally identical: parents won’t choose, so it is equivalent to doing nothing.
There has to be a cultural shift for anything to change.
Kids seeing stuff they shouldn’t isn’t itself a problem,
If I’m being perfectly honest, I do not give a shit if 9-year-olds can see titties. Like, my other argument against this government overreach is that I don’t know what problem it’s supposedly solving that can’t just be solved with better sex-ed.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
I feel like I’m standing between two really stupid positions here.
On the one hand, just let parents teach their kids is basically a state’s rights argument. A lot of parents won’t teach their kids, so… do we care? Does this matter? We should probably mount a stronger effort then.
On the other hand, we don’t need the government to get involved to stop 9 year olds from seeing titties—we just don’t! Websites the world over have implemented 2-factor-authentication more or less by themselves (
and probably because they want to spy on you). And, no one says the word r----- anymore because if you ever do, a bunch of anti-bullying PSAs will be really annoying about it in your replies.Not every social problem needs to be solved by swinging around Thor’s hammer. We do have other means.
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 day ago:
Ah, that false quote is beautiful. It’s like watching an effortless right hook delivered squarely onto the jaw of whoever Rocky Balboa is fighting.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
What if that pedestrian was Donald Trump?
Drunk driving, like, as a rule, is really, really bad. It’s incredibly very awful. … But I’m still gonna pop the shampaign.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
- people taken w/o violating any actual crimes - the detention facility is for those suspected of immigration crimes
Wow.
You know, it’s no wonder you live in a red state; you’re still bought into the republican propoganda. I believe you that the “immigrants” rounded up into unmarked ICE vans will be tried fairly, and only the vile criminals among them will be deported to an El Salvador slave camp.
- the intent was genocide - intent for detention facility is temporary holding until people can be tried or deported
Deporting people en masse is genocide.
even the conservative Supreme Court would very likely strike this down.
The conservative justices are loyal to the Republican party. The Republican party does not want to be held accountable. What on earth gives you the idea they’ll want to strike this down?
Look at Trump’s approval rating.
His approval rating is only down among Republicans because his tariffs have been hurting them and not the brown people they voted to kill.
They thought the white ethnostate Trump would usher in would make them lions among sheep, and they are only upset that they are among the sheep.
—Not to mention, listen to any on-the-streets interviews with republican voters about their disapproval, fucking all of them say they’d vote for him again.
it could get very spicy indeed.
Absolutely beside myself at your cavalier attitude. I do hope your state gets everything it voted for.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
“Russians do X,”
*Russia.
You keep making this mistake. I’m starting to think you’re doing it deliberately.
Because propaganda associated the terrible actions of the Japanese government with the Japanese people
Are you not reinforcing the idea that a country’s name refers to its people by insisting that everyone else and not you are the ones nefariously conflating the two?
The idea that a people are the same as their country is nationalism. How are you battling nationalism by preventing people from saying a country’s name?
If you said “Netanyahu did this,” and fair, he does a lot of things, would the racist not assume that the Isreali people elected him and thus agree with him anyway? Because they’re “of the same kind.”
You seem to think that their racism is derived from a simple misconception and not, like, a deep-seated fear and paranoia.
If you see someone say “Isreal does this,” then assume they mean the state. If you see someone say “let’s bomb Isreal into the shadow realm,” then politely snap their neck. It’s not that hard.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
You think that caging brown people “for no reason” is a disgusting comparison to the Holocaust?
This is unreal. I didn’t see this conversation coming at all. You’re actually doing nazi apologia. You’re refusing to acknowledge the pressure building in your pipes only because the pipes haven’t burst yet. How many brown people do you want to die before you’re willing to concede this? Do we need to wait until the full 6 million?
they do have to follow US law in how they treat people
No. They don’t.
- Neither Democrat congress members nor journalists are allowed to see what’s happening inside that camp. Rather, they are, legally, but they’re being prevented from doing so anyway.
- The Democrats are weak and refuse to punish Republicans for anything. If there is no threat of punishment, they can just do whatever they want. Republicans have abused this weakness of Democrats like 5 billion times.
- The Big Beautiful Bill includes a provision that judicial funds cannot be used to pursue rulings. This passed, so, if it can’t be repealed, this means it is illegal to use funds intended to punish criminals to seek punishment for Republicans breaking the law. This kills the law.
Call them out on actual policy issues
Call them out for being evil. Their policies are evil.*
If the majority of Republicans are not evil, as you say, then they should have no problem dropping the line. They can form a new party, and the current one can be dropped into a wastebin in hell.*
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
I said it shouldn’t only be easy.
and glamorising the fact that things had to be fought over more than a lifetime.
Those people are stronger than you, so sure, yeah.
I can just call the US government support number to voice my disapproval, can’t I?
Let me lay out a strategy for you:
VISA has decided conservative authoritarianism is cool.
We bully them into rescinding this.
Later, VISA decides again that conservative authoritarianism is cool.
We bully them into rescinding this.
Later, when we have the means, we take their processor from them.
Now, we don’t need to bully them. We own the processor. We decide what it does.
The above plan is, literally, all I’m arguing for. You’re with everything until that final step. Why are you so against taking power?
If you don’t trust the people in government, you should be in government then. Join your own country’s, pressure the US.
If you would like “we” to be International, by all means. Go for it. I won’t stop you. I don’t need our PayPal to be owned by the US. Maybe all countries have their own PayPal. Maybe the UN governs one.
None of these problems get solved whatsoever, though, if you refuse to be in power. One day, VISA will just stop taking your calls. You’ll get an answering machine that says, “We won the game for control of the world. Eat shit.”
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
where people attribute problems to the people of a nation rather than its leaders.
But you’re the one doing this. I’m not conflating people with country here. OP isn’t either.
Yet we get hate crimes against the people that come from a region just because their government did something stupid.
Are you proposing that racists, when they hear “Russian government” instead of “Russia,” will stop being racist? I don’t really know what to say to that.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
The problem is people wanting to force others into their worldview,
No, I will force nazis into my worldview, actually. They can come willingly, or we can beat them into submission like we did 80 years ago.
What, actually, is wrong with you? Building alligator auschwitz does, in fact, make you a bad person—if you seriously disagree with this, then you and I are enemies.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
“Americans do X”
*America. Look at the title again.
I gotta be honest, I don’t understand what you’re fighting for here. That people in Finland will have a slightly better opinion of you? Mexico will know you’re one of the good ones?
Russia has done a lot of disagreeable things, I’ve got to imagine its people are pretty upset about it.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
anyone affiliated w/ him
Well, this is what I’m asking for, so I sure hope so.
but it’s probably somewhere between Trump and Bush.
So, keep in mind, republican voters are not upset with Trump because they’ve decided they no longer want a border wall. The architects of Project 2025 don’t need anything from Trump but political power, which they already have.
The next election cycle, if it’s real, I do imagine will swing back, but it cannot just “swing back,” it needs to deal with the sickness plaguing the US. That sickness is the republican party. That sickness is the republican voter.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
What if they said employees of your company all support a thing? That would include you.
But no one is doing this. America is a state.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
shouldn’t
Shouldn’t?
because that’s better?
It is better.
I don’t trust the US government to not immediately misuse their power
Sounds like you should be involved, then. To keep them in check.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
Why not enforce these standards through legislation, then? Doesn’t the world’s payment processor, a political body you can’t appeal to when it fucks up, seem a bit heavy-handed?
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
There should just be a nationalized payment option.
I realize this sounds ridiculous given Trump’s government, but do keep in mind that Trump is the private sector. Ultimately, he represents credit card companies in this fight.
Is it a good thing that conservatives want to dismantle USPS? I don’t think so.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
Only in the sense that crypto is an alternative payment method in the same way that pulling out is an alternative to condoms.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
If Trump comes out and says some dumb shit, you can’t just say “AMERICA WANTS THIS”, because that is obviously untrue.
You need to realize how insanely defensive you’re being. Why? For what?
Think about what you’re arguing for for a second: America doesn’t want AI, only Trump’s administration does. Is this not all of politics?
“America doesn’t want free health care, only some of its democrats do.”
“America doesn’t want ranked choice voting, lots of people in Wyoming hate ranking things. And math.”
“America doesn’t want gay marriage, there are still lots of people really upset about that supreme court ruling.”
You’re drawing a scenario in which “America” can’t actually “want” anything because no one ever agrees on who America is.
I’m being competely serious: you need to unwrap your ego from all this. This isn’t about you. ICE raids aren’t your—you specifically—your fault. No one is saying it is.
America is a really, really big machine, and sometimes it does things I don’t like. Sometimes it does things I do. You know what I mean?
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
How do you refer to the machinations of a state?
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
You know, this might actually be really bad politics.
Trump is not the only person at the top. He’s kind of a lame duck, actually: he just does whatever Miller says. The only time he steps in is when he’s personally insulted by something because he desperately wants everyone to know he’s a very special boy.
I do take issue with democrats blaming everything the republicans are up to on Trump specifically, as if the party might return to normal once he dies.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
I just, I do not understand why this upsets people so much.
I work for a company that does things I don’t want them to do all the time. I’ve never felt like someone saying “[the company] wants to do [this thing]” was ever referring to me specifically whatsoever.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 week ago:
Ba-dum-tss*!*
Leaded actually makes you the most smart because it makes your brain heavier. 🙂↕️
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
Why should it be easy? Do you only do things that are easy? Was World War II easy?
Your forefathers spent months, years, working on projects some of them didn’t even live to see completed. You want your activism to be easy? This is pathetic.
Of what use are you to humanity if the only victories you’ll reach for are ones doable over a saturday? Whose grandchildren should even bother to remember your name?
When we win this one back, I think VISA should restrict you specifically from buying any porn games.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 week ago:
To be clear, I’m talking about leadership. It’d be a bit like celebrating J.K. Rowling for her advocacy against spousal abuse, meanwhile, she’s still dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into nazi anti-trans groups. More of a broken clock situation than a slippery slope.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 week ago:
I think it would be different if the provocateurs in question weren’t, like, religious zealots or whatever. I have little confidence their aim is to move the needle in a direction I’d like it to go.
I’ve argued with plenty of do-nothing dip shits about Just Stop Oil who are concerned solely with getting to work on time and, apparently, the plexiglass in front of famous paintings. But the difference is, Just Stop Oil is a cause I can get behind. I’m not worried that supporting them would also lead to mandatory chastity cages, you know?
I mean, I will admit the first steam list I saw, I thought “This seems bad. Can’t imagine missing any of these titles, though.”
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 week ago:
Free market baby. If VISA decides it will lose money processing payments for hentai games it’s their prerogative to not process them.
You’re so right, and I’m obviously happy when things like this happen. Thank you, VISA. Thank you, Mastercard. Thank you, Capital One. Thank you, American Express. Praise be to God, guns, and government. Amen.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
…By yourself?
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
The problem is that government even has the power to do those things.
How would you stop them from doing this?
you can’t solve government problems with more government,
Not when you aren’t in power. This is your fundamental flaw: You complain about the world, oh how you have complaints, but you have no will to power, no vision.
Plant a fig tree; it will benefit your grandchildren.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
It’s easier to start a competing company than it is to start a competing government.
Not when Trump’s government refuses to do anything about all the slapp suits PayPal levies against you for treading on their financial turf.
You need a powerful standing army for the latter,
Corporations, without oversight, just become warlords with their own standing armies. You’re not getting out of this one through the low effort of simply buying a different brand of latte, man, I’m sorry.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
Your cynicism can’t defeat me, man. I am God’s holy warrior. I crush weak pessimism like yours beneath the weight of my iron will.
How is it you think private companies will be more easily coercible when Trump’s cronies are the private sector?