Instead it’ll be the America First party led by Fuentes. All the bigotry, just more inclusive cause they hate Israel and Jews as well.

If you work across the aisle with fascists to exclude people based on skin color, gender identity, support the bombing of other civilizations for profit, instituting policy to drive people into poverty and criminalize it, that uh checks notes sounds like it aligns with fascism.

Capitalism and fascism/authoritarianism are bedfellows. Neoliberals believe capitalism is correct, we just didn’t do it right.

Those of us to the left recognize the system is working as intended.

Look at how far left these guys are 🙃

https://lemmy.today/post/55322496

Soooo far left

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR0qvQZdhmI

The republican party. Aka modern day fascists.

Maybe the DNC and establishment neoliberals too, who ushered in fascism.

Sounds like a great time for that age verification/face scanning/id scanning, right? Right?

We should have a 20 hour workweek, the same pay, and hire more people and train them. More time to be human.

Capitalism isn’t built for that. It’s built to burn you dry so someone else lives in luxury because they already had a bunch of capital and want to make more.

Americans hit with record high everything due to capitalism and fascism.

That’s right. COD and Madden blur together for me. EA and ABK are just conglomerates of corporate greed after all.

Have you seen the state of older COD games on steam? Hacks that crash your pc, add malware, etc just by walking by a person, crazy stuff.

Activision seems to be doing just fine.

But yes, let’s burn books, movie reels, records, etc because they might offend someone somewhere.

Games (and software) are one of the few forms of media and free speech that are subject to this.

Hence why streaming, e-books, etc come in to push in convenience while removing ownership/independence.

I see it tangentially related in how it operates similar to fossil fuels/renewables. The industry wants you to keep buying. They can’t control the sun, wind, etc, so you don’t need to rely on them.

Same kinda thing here, they want you to rely on them and keep buying the newest thing. And if they delete your old version, welp, guess you better come get the new one (especially when they “remaster” it with 0 effort and slap it on a new digital storefront.)

I just hate the profit motive lol

Looking at you sports and COD gamers 👀

To help:

https://zenodo.org/records/8161056

https://delistedgames.com/resources-to-help-you-keep-up-with-delistings-and-shutdowns/

Being owned by fascist billionaires and your survival being dependent on a paycheck unfortunately does that to people. Especially with decades and decades of propaganda focusing on individualism and dismantling education.

We wouldn’t be here right now and/or there would’ve been a general strike already if there were any real worker protections and social safety nets.

Meanwhile, instead, give up your privacy for age verification.

Instead of a safe, which requires parents to be accountable, why not have routine in home government inspections? It’s to protect the children.

(Also, yes, no guns would do it, just drawing a parallel here in our stupid governments oppressing us)

Elon, you’re an idiot.

But go on, protect your own comfort by hiding scores rather than facing criticism head on. That’s real confidence in your ideology.

Elitism has never, and will never, be applied fairly. Hierarchies create fascism. “Capability” is never assesed neutrally, it’s assessed by existing power structures and by those in power who look and think similarly. Hence, bigotry, hence fascism, hence authoritarianism. If you believe we live in a meritocracy right now you’re either a billionaire, politician, or just a useful idiot.

Your ideology literally disgusts me.

Gotta back those donors and “work across the aisle.”

C’mon guys, white supremacy isn’t that bad. We’ve got free Klan hoods from the republicans.

Democrats calling for more war?

It’s like we’re an imperialist nation and both major parties and reigning in fascism or something…

Not like we’d actually pay reparations for an illegal war and impeach and convict all those responsible with treason.

I’d even say deport them to Iran.

It’s a moral panic being co-opted by those in power. (Ironically, many of those in power being predators themselves, especially here in the US where they’re a major political party 🙃)

Some I can think of off the top of my head:

• The Patriot Act
• COINTELPRO
• The Satanic Panic and resultant legislation
• The War on Drugs

Legitimate concern gets amplified to a moral panic and then legislation is quickly put forth but is never tested or thoroughly understood. And given that most legislation today is written by lobbyists…well 🤷‍♂️

I’m sure stupidity is a part of it, but that might be a bit too convenient. It’s usually some genuine intention that then gets swept up and captured by malicious infrastructure. They know what they’re doing. They’re narcissists, unempathetic, and the most willing to exploit. Capitalism in a nutshell.

That’s why I’m saying hold the parents and the corporations accountable. Peel back data collection and restrict algorithmic content altogether. Enforce/provide parental education for online technologies and children. Basically, pay attention to your kids, be interested in them and their lives. The infrastructure exists on these social media platforms to restrict and monitor access, as well as it exists at the router level and at the device level as well. It’s the parents who purchase the device and provide internet access. Would we be ok with in home governmental inspections on all of us so that kids can’t have access to a gun or alcohol? No, it’s up to the parent to protect their child from danger. Why is this any different? Why should we all give up our privacy?

As I said, hold the corporations accountable. It was never about children in the first place.

I would try avoiding saying fascistic/bigoted/elitist/authoritarian things then. Just some friendly advice.

Social media is absolutely addictive and making people unhappy.

But how do you enforce this without removing anonymity?

Once again, they’re going the corporate/government friendly route of surveillance. Ban VPNs, age vefification, soon we’ll be required to use biometric checks to access the internet.

These chucklefucks will do anything other than attempt to solve the problem. Which is more education and help for parents while holding parents and the corporations accountable. But that would cost money rather than having lobbyists and donors fund them even more so 🤷‍♂️

It all comes back to capitalism.