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I'd like to point out that "do what you can" doesn't even necessarily mean trying to prevent or impede climate change directly. It can also mean building community and providing comfort and protection from the worst effects of climate change to the people you care about.

Yeah, I remember in 2016 when the Hillary campaign's response to "Make America Great Again" was "America is Already Great" and man did that go over like a lead balloon. Democrats fucking love to pretend everything is okay.

Every time I see a headline like this I pray to God there's an onion somewhere around it.

Yeah. Like this is not news to people who have been paying attention, America has never not been the bad guy.

It probably is, but based on how they've been selling America out alongside Republicans for the last few decades, a lot of them also probably think they personally can bug out to wherever before shit hits the fan. We'll see, says the zen master.

Holy fuck. I can't come to grips with how close this hits home.

I don't love Steam's DRM at all, but theirs is the least obtrusive platform, and Gabe demonstrably understands that, and I quote the man himself, "Piracy is almost always a service problem, and not a pricing problem."

Admittedly I'm not happy about the near-monopoly they have on the PC gaming market, particularly because it'll be a sad day indeed if Valve ever goes public and starts pulling scummy moves like Epic, among other platforms. But I'm happy to spend money with a business that treats its employees and customers like people and not untapped resources.

They already are - who's going to enforce their takedown?

I mean pay is also important, but assuming a comfortable paycheck, the time off to use it is more important than dying the richest man in the graveyard.

I think the prevailing idea at the time was that you would become more conservative as you accumulated wealth and property, and while I can't confirm or deny that I would be more conservative if I were as wealthy as my parents were when they were my age, I can attest that the accumulation of wealth and property on which this notion is predicated has not happened for myself and my peers.

Is it any wonder, when told that we will own nothing and be happy by people who have never worked a day in their lives, that we want to burn it all down and piss on the ashes of those who oppress us?

Fuck me sideways. We need to dismantle capitalism like yesterday.

Oh that looks cozy!