I wouldn't call it pretending but... Yeah, no shit.
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Guys it was just a prank. I’m not really fascist, I was just pretending. I just gave money to the fascists as a joke, isn’t that funny?
If you want those things then you are a republican, there's no pretending.
If the democrats would have given them those, they'd have continued their "woke capitalism" arc...
Fascism and capitalism go hand-in-hand because their goals align almost exactly. I also read or heard that fascism is the enforcement arm of capitalism when the peasants become unruly (ergo regulating enterprise and the leverage of tax in the rich). I'll see if I can find the quote or video I saw about the comparisons between capitalism and fascism. It was a really interesting read.
Do you have an example of a political system that can somehow handle "peasants" becoming unruly without turning into some sort of fascism?
God damnit sweeny. You have had a visit from the ghost of Christmas past or something?
Don’t make me agree with you.
Broken clocks
They ain't pretending.
Yeah, they may retain a different self-image, but their actions & goals are in line with Republican ideology.
Well Tim you went from a -10 in my books to a -8 with this. Keep it up.
I was trying to think of a way to put it, and I think you nailed it.
Ffs trump and his lackeys making even Sweeney look good
Yeah, I don’t recall ever reading a Tim Sweeney quote and thinking, “that sounds about right.”
Eh he once gave me an all you can drink pass at the after party for a gaming convention in Melbourne.
So the quote is ‘get whatever you want, drinks are on me tonight’.
Its still a complete mystery how I made it back to my hotel with no map, no local knowledge and on foot.
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He's also swimming in Chinese money, so this might not be a purely altruistic statement.
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For the first time in my life I'm actually agreeing with Tim Sweeney. I hate the guy but at least he has the balls to say it like it is. The rest of them are just cowards.
I'm sorry but if someone is pretending to be a Republican
to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'
doesn't that just make them… a Republican?
In case you hadn't noticed, the Democrats have been just as much into exactly the same thing by actively pushing deregulation and the rest of the Neoliberal mantra as the Republicans.
Those parties differ in the Moral and Freedom planes but Economically they're very much the same (except right before an election when the Democrats will do a bit of loud but toothless pro-consumer announcements of intentions on things they had 4 years to fix but chose not to).
If you have any doubts, just go check who overthrew the Glass-Steagal act, which ended up causing of the 2008 Crash and who was the President during that time who chose to unconditionally rescue some of the nastiest investment banks around - you'll find they're both Democrats.
I really hope this past election will cause neoliberalism to finally die. We're already seeing signs of it (granted, being replaced with fascism, which isn't exactly better, but historically, fascism doesn't last long).
Also, when corporations have to choose between any semblence of even mild socialism (social democracy) or literal fascism, they will choose fascism every time. This is a big reason why we have Trump today; just look at the massive amount of funding that The Daily Wire gets (namely from the Koch brothers) as opposed to any lefty independent media (specifically media who is openly anti-corporate and usually doesn't take corporate money, like Kyle Kulinski for example).
The fact that the corporations had to choose at all is also an indicator that neoliberalism is dead. Corporations much prefer neoliberalism over fascism due to longer amounts of social stability.
Right? I feel like almost every 'Republican' is just an opportunist that likes to cherry pick the things Republicans supposedly stand for these days. I think any people out there who can say that they wholeheartedly agree with every talking point on the Republican agenda (the ones that don't shift constantly) then they are horrible, horrible, terrible soulless excuses for human beings.
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If you have to pretend to be bad to get your own way, maybe you are in fact bad after all?
They're not pretending to be bad, they're pretending to care about what the Republicans care about. They're very openly bad people
That's rich coming from Tim Sweeney, but hey for once he accidently spoke the truth
The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
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Epic got so much bullshit for - reads annotation - making platform exclusives that were only temporary and helped developers with stable financing with better terms.
After pulling those games off other stores, some of which refused to refund pre orders
Epic halted development of UT4 for Fortnite. They are dead to me.
Blame market demand. Quake was also halted. UT4 was halted 3 years before Fortnite was out. Fortnite wasn't even supposed to be a battle royale, it just coincided with the popularity of one. The original game mode Save the World that it implemented wouldn't even had had any crossover with the fps multiplayer deathmatch shooter genre. Even games with novel mechanics like Titanfall have struggled and failed to survive in it. I think the generation that never got into Minecraft and think of it as just as a joke kiddie game is still resentful of the types of games it encouraged and continues to do so.
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Eh? I think they're trying to prevent Musk from becoming an AI god.
More like some kind of sad joke/curse god that thinks its all knowing but really sources all its knowledge from reddit meme threads.
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So basically the morality of an opportunistic infection
Doesn't that just make them republicans?
Yeah, I believe the word you’re looking for is capitalism. Unbridled late stage capitalism.
One of the only CEOs speaking truth.
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