Katana314 @ Katana314 @lemmy.world

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Antifawhat?

I always heard this term and had trouble working out what it was an abbreviation for. Could you fill it in for me? Asking dishonestly.

This is very much a fair take - and ties back to the realities of the French Revolution. It wasn't actually the poorest people on revolt, but a slightly more wealthy class that had just enough comfort in their lives to make decisions like organizing for change.

I know it's not possible for every person to join. I can only ask for those capable to think about it. For what it's worth, the original post has suggested other ways of contributing aside from attending.

This was the bit that I think scared me at first. It's not suggesting "Stop working now, and stay out of work until we get 10 million members and then Congress acts and then everything's fixed". More like "Add your name to a list, and WHEN there's mass agreement, take the plunge so that there's too many people for businesses to replace."

I neglected to post it on Lemmy when I found out about it earlier. Key word being "earlier" - Lemmy is just one branch of where it's been shared, so don't assume the momentum started here.

I'm dubious of the reality of said comment, or the support it got in upvotes.

Most of us understand that protesting carries risks, and encourage others to risk what they feel okay with.

General strikes take a pretty large mass. To build that, a very important step is making sure more people are aware of how many are committed to resistance.

It's like being invited to a party, and the host says "Well, you're one of the first ten people I've invited, but I'm encouraging others to share-" and you just reply "Nope, I'm not going unless there's already a million people going." Of course, in this case, the protest has been shared outside of just Lemmy, so don't use local numbers as an indicator.

One thing I'd recommend that I'm unsure how to easily obtain, is getting the phone number of a civil rights lawyer ready. It does kind of contradict the point about not bringing phones, I suppose. At the very least, if one is available in the vicinity after attempted arrests it can be useful.

I also feel somewhat guilty, as I will be attending in a very blue state that's unlikely to have so much resistance, so I may skirt some of those rules myself.

This is astounding.

I mean, not the Deepseek or jailing stuff. I mean a Senator actually proposing a law. I thought the way our government worked was, the annoying orange declares a vague uncited threat to be bad, and signs an executive order on it!

In this argument, it's your job to convince me. You didn't. Therefore, you failed at this argument. Accept that failure, or accept that this logic is fucking circular.

You're kidding yourself if you believe there is nowhere else in the world that Israel could get weapons. There are solutions to stop the genocide, but they're in Israeli politics and international pressure.

I love dismantling this take people have on Harris.

You are a bad poster. You didn't convince me with your argument.

That statement, by your logic, is not an opinion - it's "truthful". Disregarding the validity of whatever argument you're making, if you judge it by its convincingness, ignores the intelligence or bias of the audience. Then, it's possible that ANY argument is bad.

Since you, FaceDeer, failed to convince me, Katana314, of your argument, you are a bad Lemmy poster.

In other words, to dismantle that bolded statement above, you have to recognize that voters, themselves, bear some blame for not being receptive to logical takes.

As depressing as it is to ask, I feel I should kick off the brainstorm: Given that this personal information has been doxxed, is there anything that individuals could do to help the affected developers in any way?

More recently I've felt like there's issues with being completely disconnected from any sort of critical mass. If I wanted to join a protest in my local city, I have doubts any of the fringe social networks could organize that. I can do my part to try to get more people on there.

It's part of why I joined BlueSky over X. It's more popular, and issues be what they are, that counts for a lot.

He doesn't need a better source. We're talking about how language is used in society, and it proves that point fine.

I might hate terms like "Rizz" but as long as people use them to refer to a certain context, there's no room to argue that "Technically, Rizz isn't a word!!11"

The only people who can object against hating Nazis are Nazis themselves.

This was the key to his statement and I agree with him.

Video games need to generate acceptable targets. Aliens invading people's homes, PMCs controlled by powerful men, thugs and looters looking to beat up whoever they find, etc.

But it's ridiculous anyone would post "Hey! If aliens did come to our world to take control of our governments, they would be sorely offended by video games about killing them!" On one level because aliens don't exist. On the other because if they were coming to take control of our governments, why would we want to protect or respect them?

Now, replace the little green men with discriminatory, media-controlling purveyors of hate speech. They exist. Everyone sane would rather they didn't. That's all.

That set of games in my library evaporated. I still have plenty of other games.

I’ll admit, if GP was someone’s entry into gaming and they never buy individual games, they would be a bit starved on unsubscribing except for any F2P games (which, tbf, is still a big set of options). But someone only able to spend that much a month on games is not going to have many options anyway; they’re the type that might buy a Ubisoft open world game just to get hundreds of hours through the year for their money.

But you’re also missing that this is very much the agreement and expectation: It is literally over a hundred video games, given the instant you pay them $15 (now I think $20) It is very fully understood to be on rental basis.

I was a big proponent of Game Pass! I still like the model.

Then they fired Tango Gameworks, the devs of MS Game Studios' ONLY goty candidate, Hi-Fi Rush. Now, I am very much: Fuck Xbox.

I’m trying to write a story, and I struggled with this, especially when confronting certain realities:

• While fantasy, the story is meant to reflect some harsh political realities
• Multiple villains are killed, but the heartfelt good guys live.
• The ending has everything fixed and everyone’s happy.

I’m aware most stories don’t come anywhere close to a full happy ending like this. Every Batman story ends with Gotham still a miserable shithole. Every noir story ends with the case solved but everyone broken for it and the city still a dystopia. It generally has good reasoning, to reflect harshness of reality, but that’s a realm of fantasy I really want to venture into; one where things just work out.

I mean, I’ll bite: I enjoyed GP for a while, up until MS went firing-crazy and upped their prices.

Until then, I was very aware I rented games and might not get to play them later. Given that I was generally playing games that were new or sampling genres I don’t play much of, I wasn’t opposed to the time limitation, and the low price was reasonable.

Now that their price increased, I ended it. I am not locked into their ecosystem, and in fact swore off it pretty easily due to their changing circumstances.

I would agree the renting situation is poisonous when it comes to housing, because the model has driven the purchasing price of homes through the sky. But that is a situation with scarcity of goods. You can get video games anywhere.

Even if the Democrats never pass campaign reform, if the Republican party gets obliterated for, you know, being absolutely useless, it opens the option of third (now second) party candidates.