Nah, the authoritarians are acting like authoritarians? Unheard of. Next you’ll tell me they’ll do ideological purges, which is just “pledge your loyalty to our state and hope the next guy doesn’t kick you out.”

No, Maoists are a different line of thinking that is inspired and influenced from Marxist-Leninism, which was a corruption of Marxism.

The point still stands, Maoists and Anarchists have different solutions to the same goal, and one is willing to bully and remove the other even before the revolution has started, let alone finished. And it’s not anarchists.

I have mild respect for Mao in parts, but Maoists and MLs are not the same. They will however gladly do anything to the people questioning the need of a transition state.

Edit: Also it’s rather telling that in the article about how Maoists are literally seriously injuring anarchists, your only issue is “erm actually, Maoists aren’t MLs, they’re MLMs” instead of anything meaningful, let alone a “hey that sucks, I don’t like that they’re hurting comrades.”

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick.”

“Why do anarchists distrust MLs? Left unity!”

Fucking bastards.

StarCraft was one of my favorite games growing up. I can still quote most of the Terran units.

I don’t know when or where to say they officially went from “Good with issues” to “Bad with some good games”. Doesn’t help they ignored their work culture for over a decade.

I agree they’re better. I am also blinded a tad, they made Team Fortress 2, my all time favorite game.

But they’re better for now. There’s nothing stopping them from changing their ways when Gabe retires/dies. Maybe they have a private agreement/contract for the next guy to abide by. Maybe they don’t.

All I know is, Valve is mostly good right now. All major players in the tech space had some good intentions at one point (except Facebook). Google used to be about finding content on the internet quickly, easily, and without ads. Now they hide content, spam you with ads and fake overviews, and fight ad blockers.

Let’s not forget Valve started the microtransaction hell of gaming with their crates in Team Fortress 2. It worked so well they made the game free for more people to buy more crates. Blizzard’s Overwatch didn’t make you buy a key to open them, Valve still does.

Will Valve turn evil overnight? Probably not. But when Gabe is gone, the next billionaire will be as greedy to start with. They’re far from the greediest gaming company, but they probably won’t roll back any of their percentage cuts or ease off on the gambling in their games.

And I’ll just have to sign and shake my head as I told people that trusting a company you like remaining a company to like isn’t a good thing in a world like ours.

If you made people’s nostalgia, they will defend you.

Nintendo has defenders. Disney has defenders. Blizzard has defenders. And so on.

People will defend a company for free because they did something cool ~20 years ago.

Check the mod log, even on their new Piefed one it’s growing. Their world one was even longer.

Honestly a decent reason why they act as they do. They live for attention and humiliation is a hell of a feeling.

“But the evil leftists hate me when I defend Nazis and have casual misogyny! I’m the victim here!”

For what? Calling out that the state can’t give you rights, only take them away?

.world might ban us but only if we called out when their favorite war criminal did it.

Oh my bad, I’ll make sure that the people who moved papers covering up war crimes just didn’t follow orders before they go to trial.

There is no innocent IDF member, even if they were brainwashed into serving. Just following orders isn’t an excuse, we learned that via the Nuremberg trials.

I feel no sympathy for an IDF member, as I do for the American soldiers in Vietnam. Drafting doesn’t absolve you of war crimes, even if you feel guilty of it. People died, and it’s their fault.

They hate progressives more than fascists, not a shocker they deserve it.

Or instead of joining the IDF, you get the jail time of a few months.

But I guess they’re just following orders, so they’re actually absolved of the rape and genocide.

We need it to be even higher.

Oh well, maybe if they refused and got jailed instead we’d wish the ZioNazis better. The IDF is nothing but a colonialist mass raping genocide machine.

Yes, death to the IDF. Fuck every single one of them.

Almost like the nominations were rigged and the media hated someone who would ruin the rich who own the media’s income.

I have edited the title from ID check to Age Verification check . It was not misleading on purpose, it was a mistake on my end from my day posting it was a bit wild.