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  • 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.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldTough choice
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    Trump separated children from parents and locked them in cages. The majority of these children still haven’t been returned to their parents.
    He tried to illegally ban entire races from entering the country.
    He elected judges to the supreme Court that over turned Roe v Wade, which is resulting in the death of pregnant women who can no longer receive life saving medical care.
    He made Secret Service Agents rent rooms at hotels he owns, funneling money from the government into his own businesses.

    Trump refused the peaceful transfer of power
    Lied that the election was stolen (and has never presented any evidence and his lawyers admitted in court that they have no evidence)
    Encouraged an attempted insurrection
    Idolizes dictators
    Stated he wants to be a dictator Day 1
    Wants people who oppose him to get shot…

    Oh, but some colleges got some funding so I guess that balances it out.








  • Biden tried to do it and was blocked by Republicans. That is somehow evidence that Republicans should be given more power?

    Maybe Republicans need to stop being such predictable boogey men then if Biden so easily manipulated them to his advantage. What Republicans should have done to mess with Biden was to not block it.


  • 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.