Under communism you need a wiki to know which Half Life 7s are supposed to be sequels to the Half Life 6 you played because the abolition of intellectual property means we’ve abandoned the false idea that an official sequel to something from 20 years ago can exist when all the people who created it have moved on to different projects, or at least different parts of their lives.
I’m positive she is talking about Yanis Varoufakis and he’s worth listening to over most if not almost all other European politicians (a low bar I know).
Yanis Varoufakis actually described Gabe/Valve as like unknowingly anarchist or something. It’s in an interview on YouTube and I think he’s wrong. He does this rhetorical thing where he describes capitalist enemies as way smarter than they are to end up with SuccDem conclusions.
Somewhat thoughtful people having critiques of actual existing capitalism is incredibly common no matter how aligned they are to capitalism and no matter how much they benefit from the current conditions. If Gaben has something interesting to say on the matter, even through Varoufakis I’m happy to read, I don’t think that his position makes it impossible just unlikely.
Maybe we need to hand it to him that he is contend with his 1 new yacht per year lifestyle rather than pushing for becoming a trillionaire like most of the other well known American billionaires. Surprisingly well adjusted given his position.
Maybe we need to hand it to him that he is contend with his 1 new yacht per year lifestyle rather than pushing for becoming a trillionaire like most of the other well known American billionaires. Surprisingly well adjusted given his position.
As far as I’m concerned, if he’s not out there funding Nazis and other right wing consent manufacturing mechanisms, then he’s towards the bottom of the list of billionaires I want lined up for the guillotines. His name never comes up in this Epstein shit or anything otherwise political besides antitrust stuff. He sounds like he’s just enjoying being a nerd with money. He can sit out in the ocean doing his video games, scuba diving, and other hobbies while we deal with the more pressing issues.
Though Steam Library’s handling of sharing and licensing is an absolute pet peeve of mine.
On lemmygrad they were seriously talking about whether Gaben is a socialist.
This can only be described as false slander.
A single person asked a question, not a crime, not a problem. People responded. No one argued he was a socialist. They were talking seriously. They usually talk in a serious tone. They were not seriously suggesting (made it the fuck up) that he was a socialist. There was analysis of for example private vs public companies, shitting on valve, discussion of Huawei and the larger economic picture.
I would never formally believe he’s ideologically a socialist based on all known informationabout him, but possibly a class traitor? And even then, “class traitor” is something he might do in the future, not something I’d say he currently is. Either way, critical support for the man who does good things.
And big time criticism for all the fucked up shit he’s doing (normalizing child gambling addiction is probably all I know about).
Thanks for the link. I don’t think your summary of it was that accurate, it was just one user being silly, really.
I think if anything this is another demonstration of the dangers of revisionism causing a complete ideological rot, because someone makes excuses for one thing and then that thing, having been excused, is used as an excuse for another, and so on. It comes across as being a slippery slope fallacy on my part, I’m well aware, but I’ve seen people do this several times.
I also think that one commenter was at least half right about private companies, in that it’s more possible for one to be “nice” (in scare quotes) than a publicly-traded company that is dragged around much more actively by speculative market forces due to being controlled by the bourgeoisie as a class, as they said. Doesn’t change that Valve is still a capitalist entity and no more proof is needed of its robbery of workers than that abominable mega-yacht that Gabe got, which completely discredits the “nice guy” performance. He’s literally just Bill Gates for g*mers.
On lemmygrad they were seriously talking about whether Gaben is a socialist.
socialism is when you play games on linux
Socialism is when you play windows games with proton. Communism is when you play native Linux ports.
Wow this socialism stuff sounds great
It ain’t bad.
“Socialism is when capitalism” is an evergreen take
In socialism we would be on half life 7 or 8
Under communism you need a wiki to know which Half Life 7s are supposed to be sequels to the Half Life 6 you played because the abolition of intellectual property means we’ve abandoned the false idea that an official sequel to something from 20 years ago can exist when all the people who created it have moved on to different projects, or at least different parts of their lives.
Abundance
But how am I supposed to know which media to enjoy without Disney telling me?
Ex finance minister of Greece worked for him at one point and claimed he was a very misguided left anarchist in terms of politics
Definitely not trusting the finance minister of Greece on anything
I’m positive she is talking about Yanis Varoufakis and he’s worth listening to over most if not almost all other European politicians (a low bar I know).
He was loudly against forced austerity and I know him mostly for railing against technofeudalism and explaining to a “progressive” lib that China is not in fact the USA.
Holy shit he owned a lib with facts and logic
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
She is probably talking about Varoufakis
VANIS, NO
DON’T LET THE BILLIONAIRE MAKE YOU THINK ‘YOU CAN FIX HIM’
Yanis Varoufakis actually described Gabe/Valve as like unknowingly anarchist or something. It’s in an interview on YouTube and I think he’s wrong. He does this rhetorical thing where he describes capitalist enemies as way smarter than they are to end up with SuccDem conclusions.
Somewhat thoughtful people having critiques of actual existing capitalism is incredibly common no matter how aligned they are to capitalism and no matter how much they benefit from the current conditions. If Gaben has something interesting to say on the matter, even through Varoufakis I’m happy to read, I don’t think that his position makes it impossible just unlikely.
Maybe we need to hand it to him that he is contend with his 1 new yacht per year lifestyle rather than pushing for becoming a trillionaire like most of the other well known American billionaires. Surprisingly well adjusted given his position.
As far as I’m concerned, if he’s not out there funding Nazis and other right wing consent manufacturing mechanisms, then he’s towards the bottom of the list of billionaires I want lined up for the guillotines. His name never comes up in this Epstein shit or anything otherwise political besides antitrust stuff. He sounds like he’s just enjoying being a nerd with money. He can sit out in the ocean doing his video games, scuba diving, and other hobbies while we deal with the more pressing issues.
Though Steam Library’s handling of sharing and licensing is an absolute pet peeve of mine.
He did it with Trump and the tariffs, for instance.
He’s not though, what petty-bourgeoise nerd shit are they imbibing?
It’s on the communism community if you want to do this to yourself.
Nope I subjected my brain to enough worms today, thank you. I’ll leave it to my imagination
This can only be described as false slander.
A single person asked a question, not a crime, not a problem. People responded. No one argued he was a socialist. They were talking seriously. They usually talk in a serious tone. They were not seriously suggesting (made it the fuck up) that he was a socialist. There was analysis of for example private vs public companies, shitting on valve, discussion of Huawei and the larger economic picture.
You were there I think misunderstanding some things but anyways your description of it is false: (Ref: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9744686/7297089)
An extremely vaguely defined “cooperative” label is all it takes!
I would never formally believe he’s ideologically a socialist based on all known informationabout him, but possibly a class traitor? And even then, “class traitor” is something he might do in the future, not something I’d say he currently is. Either way, critical support for the man who does good things.
And big time criticism for all the fucked up shit he’s doing (normalizing child gambling addiction is probably all I know about).
Class traitor is still too generous imo, I honestly think he’s pushing Linux so there’s less future dependency on Microsoft
OS Traitor
Could you link to that?
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9744686
Thanks for the link. I don’t think your summary of it was that accurate, it was just one user being silly, really.
I think if anything this is another demonstration of the dangers of revisionism causing a complete ideological rot, because someone makes excuses for one thing and then that thing, having been excused, is used as an excuse for another, and so on. It comes across as being a slippery slope fallacy on my part, I’m well aware, but I’ve seen people do this several times.
I also think that one commenter was at least half right about private companies, in that it’s more possible for one to be “nice” (in scare quotes) than a publicly-traded company that is dragged around much more actively by speculative market forces due to being controlled by the bourgeoisie as a class, as they said. Doesn’t change that Valve is still a capitalist entity and no more proof is needed of its robbery of workers than that abominable mega-yacht that Gabe got, which completely discredits the “nice guy” performance. He’s literally just Bill Gates for g*mers.
https://hexbear.net/post/6722230