CileTheSane

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Obviously that steam guy was probably coming from a place of bad faith

The Steam forums actively encourage this kind of bad faith behavior:

  1. when a post gets a new reply it's moved to the top of the forums. So as long as people are engaging with a post, even if it's just to make fun of a bigot, it keeps getting pushed back to the top.

  2. Users can "award" posts for various things (helpfull, cool, funny, etc) and users have taken to giving 'Clown' awards as a way of making fun of posts. Whenever one of your posts gets an award, you are given Steampoints you can use in the Steam cosmetics store.

This results in every game having bad faith posts "complaining" about wokeness so that people will make fun of them with Clown awards as a way to farm Steampoints. The developer bringing attention to it just helps them get more.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

That "that that" that was in the OP is grammatically correct.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court justices are nominated by the president and then the house and Senate approve or deny the nomination. The current justices were nominated by Democrat majorities.

It's the Senate that approves nominations to the supreme Court.

Of the Supreme Court Justices that voted to overturn Roe v Wade:

Amy Coney Barrett was approved by a Republican controlled Senate.

Samuel A. Alito was approved in 2006 by a Republican controlled Senate.

Brett Kavanaugh was approved in 2018 by a Republican controlled Senate.

Neil M. Gorsuch was approved in 2017 by a Republican controlled Senate.

Clarence Thomas was approved in 1991 by a Democratic controlled Senate.

4 out of 5 of the Supreme Court justices that voted to overturn Roe v Wade were approved by Republican majorities. Two of which happened after the Republicans used their majority to block Obama from being able to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court. The one approved by Democrats happened 33 years ago when American Politics were significantly less partisan.

This is why I pushed you to stop speaking in metaphor and say something factual, because once you did you proved you were not speaking about actual reality.

Republicans abuse power to push through their agenda, and your response to that is to allow Republicans to continue to have enough power to continue to abuse the system while you blame Democrats for not stopping them. Your arguments make no sense in reality so you have to hide them behind metaphor.

"Why didn't Democrats stop them"? Because they did not have the seats to do so. Refusing to give them seats won't allow them to stop Republicans from overturning the next civil right while they continue to turn back the clock on progress.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How exactly did they "invite the other guy over and help him steal it"?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Are Democrats holding a gun to your head? Or are they saying "if you leave him alone with your stuff he's going to steal it, you better leave me alone with your stuff as I won't steal it."

"Could you lock up my stuff so he doesn't steal it?"

"No, I'm just not going to touch your stuff."

I'm still angrier at the person who is actively trying to steal my stuff.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

If one person is standing by not doing anything while another person steals my stuff, I'm definitely going to be more mad at the person who actually stole my stuff.

If I am forced to leave one of them alone with my stuff I will make sure it's not the stole from me.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

It's the Republican politicians that actually robbed you of those rights, and you are actively helping them get more power to do it again. Make it make sense.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

inability to protect abortion rights

"I was robbed"

"I blame you more than the thief because you should have protected your stuff better!"

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

"Be more than just orange man bad"

Here's a list

"Kamala bad"

I thought we were asking for more than just "opposition bad"?

But if we're going the "opposition bad" route find me a single item in that list that Trump wouldn't make worse.
You know, the entire topic of the thread: even if Kamala isn't good, Trump is significantly worse in every way, and one of them will be president.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

Looks like the campaign has a whole bunch of things besides "orange man bad". All there on the official page easy to find.

It seems like someone saying the entire campaign is "orange man bad" hasn't bothered to listen to anything being said and is just focusing on the most salient point in a bad faith effort to discredit them.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago

So they have a great reputation with people who aren't gamers?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Companies will charge what the market will bear. If Netflix increases prices and lowers quality and people keep paying the higher price for lower quality, then Netflix will keep doing it. It's up to consumers to not pay for enshittification in order to stop it.

 

This is a weird one.

I am subscribed to Risa@startrek.website When browsing on my phone I can see the thumbnails just fine. When browsing on my desktop ublock origin blocks the thumbnails and avatars, but only from the startrek.website instance, and only when I'm accessing it through Lemmy.ca

If I go directly to startrek.website I can view everything fine, and other instances I am not encountering this issue with. Any idea what might be the cause? I am using Firefox.

 

I can go to the main page of a Lemmy instance and see whatever is active on that instance at the time, but is there a way to get something like r/all for all federated instances?

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