It’s also dumb to pretend the “boring” era wasn’t politically aberrant as well. They were setting the stage for what we are seeing now, and it’s telling that people are only getting upset now that fascism is getting focused inwards and domestically instead of outwardly towards other countries.

Only thing you enlisted in is ribs night at Golden Corral.

That only changes if people fight which is why it is important that the world stand with Ukraine against Putin and the fascists of this world.

And there’s the rub. You can’t just stick your fingers in your ears when Ukrainians are aiming to end combat and pursue negotiations, and then turn around and say you are “standing with Ukraine”.

Put simply: to stand with Ukraine means to affirm the hopes and agency of common Ukrainians - which is definitively not what you’re doing.

Consider this thought experiment:

In 5 years, supposing the grueling combat has continued, and 95% of Ukrainians definitively and undoubtedly wish to end combat, is it really “standing with Ukraine” if you reject this number and insist they continue to fight to “save the world from fascism” while you yourself have not enlisted?

Maybe you can cede your home and all your possessions to Putin? You realize that is what you are defending right?

Nope, it’s actually a simple question:

Do you think the Ukrainian common people should be the primary agents in determining whether or not to continue combat?

The fact that they want the war to end doesn’t mean they want to surrender.

How does this follow or relate to anything we’ve discussed so far?

It’s like asking "would you like peace?

It’s actually not like that at all. It’s actually pretty simple:

Which of the following statements about the war with Russia comes closest to your personal views?

Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war

Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible

Don’t know/Refused

What is it with yall refusing to believe any opposing viewpoints are organic?

Those 69% of Ukranians who want to end the war via negotiation - are they Russian bots as well?

You know you can go enlist, right?

I think what you meant to say was,

I for one prefer Ukrainians continue throwing themselves in the grinder

Despite the fact that,

More than three years into the war, Ukrainians’ support for continuing to fight until victory has hit a new low. In Gallup’s most recent poll of Ukraine — conducted in early July — 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory.

This marks a nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022, when 73% favored Ukraine fighting until victory and 22% preferred that Ukraine seek a negotiated end as soon as possible.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/693203/ukrainian-support-war-effort-collapses.aspx

Edit: grammar

Also this goes to prove again that Steam/Valve is not a monopoly

How does a company announcing a new item for later release disprove its status as a monopoly? How does a game company designing a better product than a bumbling social media company disprove its status as a monopoly? Can you explain?

Some 73% of developers see Steam as a monopoly

Steam satisfies the FTC’s definition of a monopolist

I’m not taking a stance on whether or not valve is a monopoly, but claiming that a press release for upcoming items (that have yet to even hit the market) disproves its monopoly status seems wrong.

The fact that customers enjoy the products that a monopoly makes doesn’t disprove its monopoly status. It just proves there is still some ounce of good engineering winning over shortsighted financial decisions in Valve’s leadership.

Right, like I said, 4k120hz is a very limited market. However, for those of us with living room OLEDs, 4k120hz would be very much appreciated. The couch gaming experience on a 77 inch 4k120hz oled is pretty wicked.

Fair enough. The displayport has limited use though, given how there aren’t many (any?) large 4k120hz televisions with displayport. And let me be clear, that’s no dig against displayport (which is the better standard). As far as I know, certain shady license deals keep hdmi artificially ubiquitous on televisions.

Eh, that’s not really how it works. It all comes down to the HDMI standard. The HDMI 2.0 used by the steam box has a max officially supported output of 4k60hz. You need HDMI 2.1 to get 4k 120hz - regardless of the capability of your machine.

No 4k120Hz. bummer. To be fair, 4k120hz is not a primary market pull.

I really dig it. Take your time, though. Last season ended with a cliffhanger and I dont think any more is coming till late next year.

This is the gag in From. Pretty good show.

I think of the German people who did nothing

Yup… It’s painful. I’m with you. There was a great answer below.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/19861394

The point is not to shift blame to the democrats. The point is to make light of the fact that the dems are controlled opposition, and they still serve the same capitalist class that maga does.

Until we abandon the capitalist, bourgeois parties, the descent into fascism will continue - as the democrats ensured after waffling each time they were in power these past few decades. No amount of lesser evilism or electoralism will get us out of this.

How do you think fascism happens? Voter apathy?

I don’t like the Democratic Party, I don’t like most of its elected officials, most of its policy, but I refuse to give it up

And that’s just pure liberalism. The complete unwillingness to do any sort of action outside of the ballot box.

“Sure, we just careened of the cliff of fascism by having blind faith in liberal electoralism, but I still believe that liberal electoralism is the only way to proceed”

Until you obtain revolutionary politics and read Marx, youre going to be lost and confused as to why our “enlightened civil society” is going backwards at light speed.

If you are really interested in another perspective, I can provide reading.

It actually makes a ton of sense and has oodles and gobs of historical precedent. Fascism is what happens during capitalist crisis. When you weaken education, revoke social safety nets, delay retirement age, encourage unaffordable housing, withhold wages, withold healthcare, and promote wealth inequality, you’re going to get fascists. The emerging fascist wing is anything but irrational. They are reacting to real issues, and so they flock to the only people who appear to actually get anything done: the right.

At the moment that the “normal” police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium – the turn of the fascist regime arrives. Through the fascist agency, capitalism sets in motion the masses of the crazed petty bourgeoisie and the bands of declassed and demoralized lumpenproletariat – all the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm