Dont get your hopes up. The democrats have yet to show any ability to regain seats. they'll likely just swing harder towards Cheney and get rocked again.
Thought i responded to this, but oh well will do it again.
Epic, EA, Microsoft, sony, ubisoft all have a long history of poor worker conditions or anti-consumer practices.
Valve and gog have 20+ years of decent but not perfect history of worker and pro gamer practices.
The contention in this thread is from people who think valve cant be trusted because capitalism and those who say as long as they continue good behavior they're a better choice than any of the others in the space. While epic has never shown this procommunity behavior.
Basically gog is valves only real competitor and since they dont support linux or provide many of the game featurss valve does for developers its no contest.
Thats because they have a reputational problem that makes them toxic to the gamer base. If they ever get market share that split will change willy nilly.
Critical thinking 101: what happened to dems power last election? Oh right. Lols.
No one asked her to denounce isreali we asked her to uphold american laws regarding weapon sales to genocidal groups. The fact isreal is such a group is their problem that only they can fix.
Look when all the air in the room is being sucked up because you're supporting a genocide and you cant make any argument around your other (and in this instance: non-existent) beneficial policy positions. Then yes, you fucking change your position on a genocide, not that a decent candidate would have held such a policy to begin with.
Gaza literally tanked both harris and biden. Democratic voters were not quiet about their ire. Instead harris decided the path to victory was check notes parading with the daughter of a war criminal. Which Im sure went over well with a base that has traditionally been checks notes anti fucking war.
Oh you mean that the result of the parades with cheney didnt net harris any votes? Im shocked, shocked I tell you.
So you're correct the election wasnt decided by a single issue. It was a absolute catastrophy of a series of decisions by harris, biden, and the dnc that lead to the monumental fuck up that was the 2024 campaign all predicated around the absolutely disgusting and inhuman policy of unconditionally supporting Israel.
If harris hadnt had that policy the argument against harris would have been far weaker even though she still was a shit candidate.
But you idiots tried to bury your heads in the sand and you lost as a result despite a clear and loud message from the base. You shits couldnt defend the position only try and say trump is worse.
Well news flash trump wasnt the problem, you were. The people you needed the support of were the people who would never vote for trump in a million years, the people who show up when candidates offer the working class something. The people who think you never support a genocidal regime.
And now you sit here trying to blame the people who didnt show up for your check notes genocidal party for the position you're finding yourself in. Its fucking hilarious.
Finally: single issue voters are 100% correct when the issue is genocide. Yes, the solution was as simple a position change. You see her inability to shift her positions to match the wants of the electorate is why she lost.
If you cant shift from pro genocide to anti genocide who the fuck is going to think you'll shift on healthcare? Economic issues? Breaking up tech monipolies? Which i repeat: harris had no positions in those categories that align with the democratic base either.
God you mfers are dense. Its bad enough you idiots ran around for a fucking year defending fucking genocide. But to think gaza was the only issue harris failed on with the democratic base is another level of stupidity. It was simply the most egregious issue.
My favorite part about all this was immediately post election you had democratic reps coming out saying fuck the transgendered population cementing their transition into the Republican party.
some day you twits will figure your shit out and stop electing trash like harris and biden. until then shrug. reminder: the democrats just let critical portions of the clean air act reversed via legislation without so much as a single fillibuster. seriously you twits need to stop defending and electing these pieces of trash.
you're upset people are supporting a cause you support. got it. fuck you're a moron.
anyways; yes, trump taking power was a bad thing for them. just as harris and biden were empirically a bad thing for them.
Ms. 'I wouldn't do a thing different' would have continued enabling the genocide just as trump has. objectively neither candidate mattered on the issue.
The reason moron harris courted republican's is because she didnt have a damn policy supported by the left wing electorate. in fact her entire campaign was designed precisely to piss us off.
Are you happy with how that worked out? no? oh. well maybe you shouldn't support fucking corporate genocidal enabling candidates. now kindly fuck off and enjoy your state mandated fascism. you morons certainly earned it.
even if they do become pro-consumer you shouldn't spend there. because it'd be a temporary affair and soon as they win market share from steam it'll disappear.
Na you're just incredibly dense and slow. The people of gaza died in September, you're just catching up to this fact now and thinking you're somehow insightful.
So in a month when they start digging the graves and you think you have some undeniable evidence that you were somehow correct in choosing genocidal asshole A over genocidal asshole B dont waste your breath you'll be as moronic then as you are now.
Harris ran the most idiotic and fucking misguided campaign i have ever seen and now we're all paying for it and you blindly keep supporting her run after she literally had the worst results in modern history.
Itd be funny if it wasn't so sad. Now we're entering the the terrorism stage of a collapsing democracy. Enjoy.
Yeah you guys lack both critical thinkig, 2nd order effects, and a moral compass and its caused everything to get worse. 👍 Remember you lost. Maybe you should revisit your analysis and try harder this time.
For example: thinking a base heavily populated with antiwar individuals will support a candidate advocating for a genocide. Jfc you're idiots .
Its not propaganda to tell people what she supports. My entire argument is she and the Democrats are fucking idiots who can't read the writing on the wall.
She needed to give reasons to support her and her entire campaign gave her base reasons to reject her.
gaza
unwilling to commit to keeping lisa khan.
unwilling to reform health care.
unwilling to address economic hardships for the middle class.
willingness to gaslight americans over the presidents mental state. (Which calls into questionanything she says but thats just icing on the cake)
Jfc christ and you wonder why people didn't show up for her.
because they know better than your tests obv.