This is one of the reasons why the narrative is nonsense that renting games is better because you can easily own “too many games” if you keep buying them and then… oh no!!! You own too many digital games!!!

When you buy an indie game you are supporting art whether you get to the game or not, remember that, which isn’t to say buy random games but I think this statistic underlines how much it does matter to the smaller game developers to take a leap and buy their indie games. It helps that they usually cost 1/50th the cost of a AAA game lol…

I hate Ben Gvir with a passion and I cannot IMAGINE if I was jewish how much more I would hate and despise the man for dragging judaism through the mud in the pursuit of base murder and violence.

“If people get fooled by it, then it is their fault for being fools, I am just making money same as them.”

Yes which is where the essential hypocrisy occurs that is necessary to sustain empire and create two realities that are pruned back violently until one cannot see the other through the spectacle of the roaring volcano of hypocrisy.

What is noteworthy isn’t the hypocrisy, it is what the use of the hypocrisy as a tool suggests as a motive by the leaders that have nurtured this set of conditions.

Don’t become who Netanyahu wants you to become, the only way bigots who rationalize their obsession with violence and subjugation through their fear of everything different than them can keep power in Israel is if they have people they can point to who despise jews in Israel for genuinely antisemitic reasons. This dynamic comes up again and again the longer you consider this tragedy, every action taken by leaders is done to cultivate an equally bigoted resistance in the existential enemy so as to preserve the status quo politics at home.

It is also a mental error to understand this purely as a product of the people living in Israel, this is directly connected to European and US politics and the consequences of them that have been reverberating in the middle east for generations. Support for Israel in the US often centers on christian power centers, not jewish ones and if you don’t step back and appreciate the broader context, than you will hyperfocus on jews in Israel being uniquely evil and desiring of Genocide when in reality the Palestinian Genocide expresses the capacity for the systems we have built to produce, back and sustain Genocide even when it is in plain sight for the entire world to see.

The second largest population center of jews on earth is New York City, which just elected Zohran Mamdani, a muslim as mayor and he is extremely popular. None of this has anything to do with the supposed holy words written on books god has handed down to us as guidance and everything to do with geopolitics, colonialism, xenophobia and empire.

Fuck Israel.

Fuck this, I lived through 9/11 and the stupid fucking Islamophobia that strangled NYC for a decade plus, fuck the NYPD for surveilling innocent muslim New Yorkers just trying to live their lives, fuck Christians who ignore the permission for violence in their own religion to clutch their pearls and fear monger about Islam, fuck dumb bigots who make generalizations about ~2 billion people.

TWO BILLION PEOPLE

How can you possibly deduce ANY meaningful generalization about 2 billion people that isn’t just a generalization about humanity more broadly?

Stoking Islamophobia has lethal real world consequences, people will and already have been radicalized into real and pointless violence from seeing these kinds of ideologies proliferating.

It just makes you sad when you remember Musk wasn’t on it.

This is the real world, you are real, I am real. This space is biased, incomplete and unrepresentative of other spaces… just like all the other places…

However… by the massive polling collapse for support for Israel in the US alone you can demonstrate your thesis is incorrect.

Why the massive polling shift if not a rising human awareness of atrocity? It wasn’t like in the span of several years a bunch of USians developed familial connections to Genocide victims?

No, get out of here with your nihilism and cynicism.

Humans are capable of empathy, and across the world humans are screaming for this to stop, countless jews included. The chorus of people who may have never even met a Palestinian shouting at the top of their lungs to stop this Genocide is overwhelming and stretches across every demographic divide in societies.

The reason it hasn’t stopped isn’t a failing of the average person to care, there really isn’t any evidence of that at least in the US, the reason is the people in power do not care that the majority of us are shocked and gouged in our soul when we wake up to this Genocide happening every day.

You can see the same thing with Germany, if you look at the German government and see how they talk about things vs. how much the German people reject supporting the Palestinian Genocide and Israel again it is CRYSTAL CLEAR why this is happening and it isn’t the fault of the average person being too callous or uninterested.

Unfortunately I think the same way you end up with J.K. Rowling.

The Palestinian Genocide is a product of European/US Colonialism supercharging itself and doubling down on hate until a limit is found, I don’t know if this Genocide is a product of forgetting, rather it might be more accurate to say it is a product of remembering.

I do not need a familial connection to Genocide to understand we are all in danger the world over when Genocide is allowed to flourish.

Also, if you say trans rights are political in attempt to push it out the realm of acceptable discussion, that is an offensive action, expect people like me to treat it as an act of war because it is.

Literally

Radical change is hard!

hmmm

I am so tired of these losers like Rimu who can’t accept the politics of average people have evolved past them and so they claw at these truly pathetic methods of attempting to silence and manipulate people.

It is disgusting and it underlines how toxic and extreme self proclaimed “moderates” or “centrists” can be.

I am a “radical leftist” but I will never resort to these kinds of underhanded and sad tactics undertaken by someone who is clearly lashing out from a perceived loss of power and status.

I aim to convince people of my points, not blatantingly manipulate and micromanage what people can see so they adopt my world views based on faulty premises.

Shame on you Rimu, you sad, toxic troll living under a bridge.

Damn, stupid, commie, tankies censoring everything!! This is why we need to kick them off the fediverse!

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Well my point still stands!

If this isn’t resolved I will no longer post science articles on Mander.

Eewww nope what a creepy choice I don’t like it at all, I hope this was a misunderstanding.

edit ok who wants to make a new science focused instance?

Yes Europe CAN afford not to be scammed.

This article is nonsense marketing.

Every problem that women have is debated constantly in a zillion monthly publications, and daytime talk shows. Women can turn on the TV and spend all day seeing every nuance of their lives endlessly debated, and not once will anyone mention that men might be struggling, too.

lol you want to back that statement up with evidence?

No shit