How are PS and and Switch an agent against a monopoly on PC game sales? This is quite a reach

Steam is absolutely a monopoly. It’s as clear as day you just don’t want to admit it.

Even at its height, Standard Oil never controlled 100% of the market either.

Good lord valve fanboys are insufferable. If any other company controlled 80%-90% of sales in one sector of the economy you wouldn’t hesitate to call it what it is, a monopoly.

As if you aren’t aware that tons of AAA only launch on steam.

Yes that’s what they think. They hate that Americans get any choice other than them.

It’s also just stupid. All they’re doing is turning more Iranians against them and increasing support for the regime. It’s toddler tantrum shit.

This isn’t about gaming, where Linux has all kinds of disadvantages on the software side.

This is about OS performance, where Linux is just objectively lighter than Windows.

On what planet is Nancy Made a TERF? She hates trans people but she isn’t otherwise feminist

And now “I love inflation”

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The main reason it’s overrated is that it only applied to broadcast networks. It wouldn’t do anything to hold Fox News accountable, since Fox News is on cable.

It might have helped with the Sinclair style bullshit in local news but they’ve lost a huge amount influence to the internet anyway.

That’s why I mentioned investment. Communication is a tough skill to develop. The Dems don’t need to communicate complex truths, they need to boil their issues down to emotional appeals. It sucks that it’s necessary but it’s a time-tested strategy and it’s just how human brains work.

It’s worked for progressives in the past (i.e. Teddy and FDR were great at image building, messaging and making emotional appeals, although of course it was a very different time)

The GOP has dozens if not hundreds of will funded think tanks and this is one of the things they excel at. The Dems haven’t been short on money historically, but they’ve blown most of it on short term planning while the GOP’s been playing the long game. Because it’s not just their media empire, they have a permanent ground game in every state whereas the Dems only spin theirs up a few months before an election.

Dems need to stop chasing polls and go back to persuasion tactics. The GOP figured this out a long time ago. They don’t care about issue polls because they taught themselves how to manipulate their base and a large portion of independents via appeals to emotion. Just look at how many people have gone backwards on gay rights since 2013. Persuasion strategies take time and investment but they’re highly effective.

Unfortunately the dipshit dems did nothing over the last 30 years to counter the growing GOP media empire so now they’ve made things much more difficult. In fact in some cases the Dems actively shot themselves in the foot by allowing media consolidation.

Breaking up the big media mergers needs to be a top priority for the next Dem president, assuming they can think past the next election for once.

Even in the US I started at 65k which was normal back in the early 2010s for a junior dev. I didn’t reach 6 figures until I’d been in the industry for 5 or 6 years, after changing jobs and then getting promoted. It’s not that different from other stem jobs.

It’s a good job and I can’t complain much, but the Ivy League brats who bragged about their ridiculous starting salaries created a false impression of the industry. They were always a tiny minority and they’re basically non-existent now.

Lmao the vast majority of us never come close to 300k much less start off there. Some of you are totally delusional about tech salaries and believe everything you read.

A victory would be putting Fuckerberg and the rest of the leadership in prison and then breaking meta up into hundreds of useless companies that eventually go out of business. They deserve no less for what they’ve done to the world.

I guarantee you had no idea what the ss totenkopf symbol looked like until it became a useful political tool for you. It’s just another skull and crossbones to the vast majority of people.

He isn’t unopposed, she suspended her campaign she did not withdraw from the ballot. and her funding got pulled because she was getting shellacked in polls.

A coherent argument against what? The comment says nothing of substance. It’s literally just some guy proudly proclaiming his apathy. That’s why I downvoted it.

60% victory margin. No one cares, bub

Go donate to the heritage foundation since you love their manufactured scandals so much

Blue maga are you corpo dems who spent the last 10 years telling us “vote blue no matter who” and “Joe Biden is the most effective president in history” (lmao) all while whining about purity tests (which you force on everyone else now) and going apeshit whenever someone criticizes corpo dems.