Nah, clearly the out of touch DNC knows something we don’t. Giving Republicans what they want is somehow good, according to them and the bootlickers here.

He’s useful for the people who pay him. Just not the people who he is meant to represent, or the party as a whole.

He represents AIPAC, not New York.

A possible vote on the Epstein files is apparently worth sacrificing healthcare and SNAP for millions of Americans and making Republicans worried about consequences.

Controlled opposition.

Bullshit. I will believe it when I see it.

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.

“No you see, I found one person saying it who was downvoted, that means every leftist was saying it!”

I hope Putin’s Russia just implodes as the people who’ve been stuck under him can have a government that actually respects them.

Preferably with like a implosion of the Kremlin.

His ass.

Always about to run out of money and need peace talks, yet also always ready to strike a sneak attack on all of NATO without a moment’s notice.

Bull Moose Party, 2026!

Primary them, and then they’ll ratfuck your progressive candidates, and run third party if they lose.

They promised big things for the election and then went back to the status quo as soon as it was over.

Same as it ever was for these ratfuckers.

Well you get a different army of brainwashed masses defending them, using more complex words a Republican would never use because it’s above the 6th grade reading level.

Oh that makes it okay then!

Wow it’s almost like we know how they work and their brainwashed sycophants were conditioned to disagree with any criticism of their party.

The ratchet effect with a massively shifted Overton window as made telling the truth become violence to the state.

Mods are cowards for removing this. Civility is what got us into fascism.

You weren’t being kind to start with, so golden rule.

It’s why Cuomo ran as an independent when he didn’t win the nomination, and most were unwilling to back the actual nominee until the day of the election.

They will ratfuck you then wonder why no one likes them.