If you want those things then you are a republican, there's no pretending.
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If the democrats would have given them those, they'd have continued their "woke capitalism" arc...
I wouldn't call it pretending but... Yeah, no shit.
Guys it was just a prank. I’m not really fascist, I was just pretending. I just gave money to the fascists as a joke, isn’t that funny?
Fascism and capitalism go hand-in-hand because their goals align almost exactly. I also read or heard that fascism is the enforcement arm of capitalism when the peasants become unruly (ergo regulating enterprise and the leverage of tax in the rich). I'll see if I can find the quote or video I saw about the comparisons between capitalism and fascism. It was a really interesting read.
Do you have an example of a political system that can somehow handle "peasants" becoming unruly without turning into some sort of fascism?
Ffs trump and his lackeys making even Sweeney look good
Yeah, I don’t recall ever reading a Tim Sweeney quote and thinking, “that sounds about right.”
Eh he once gave me an all you can drink pass at the after party for a gaming convention in Melbourne.
So the quote is ‘get whatever you want, drinks are on me tonight’.
Its still a complete mystery how I made it back to my hotel with no map, no local knowledge and on foot.
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I'm just sitting here fingers crossed that Gabe doesn't "donate" to the orange dipshit....
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For the first time in my life I'm actually agreeing with Tim Sweeney. I hate the guy but at least he has the balls to say it like it is. The rest of them are just cowards.
I'm sorry but if someone is pretending to be a Republican
to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'
doesn't that just make them… a Republican?
In case you hadn't noticed, the Democrats have been just as much into exactly the same thing by actively pushing deregulation and the rest of the Neoliberal mantra as the Republicans.
Those parties differ in the Moral and Freedom planes but Economically they're very much the same (except right before an election when the Democrats will do a bit of loud but toothless pro-consumer announcements of intentions on things they had 4 years to fix but chose not to).
If you have any doubts, just go check who overthrew the Glass-Steagal act, which ended up causing of the 2008 Crash and who was the President during that time who chose to unconditionally rescue some of the nastiest investment banks around - you'll find they're both Democrats.
I really hope this past election will cause neoliberalism to finally die. We're already seeing signs of it (granted, being replaced with fascism, which isn't exactly better, but historically, fascism doesn't last long).
Also, when corporations have to choose between any semblence of even mild socialism (social democracy) or literal fascism, they will choose fascism every time. This is a big reason why we have Trump today; just look at the massive amount of funding that The Daily Wire gets (namely from the Koch brothers) as opposed to any lefty independent media (specifically media who is openly anti-corporate and usually doesn't take corporate money, like Kyle Kulinski for example).
The fact that the corporations had to choose at all is also an indicator that neoliberalism is dead. Corporations much prefer neoliberalism over fascism due to longer amounts of social stability.
Right? I feel like almost every 'Republican' is just an opportunist that likes to cherry pick the things Republicans supposedly stand for these days. I think any people out there who can say that they wholeheartedly agree with every talking point on the Republican agenda (the ones that don't shift constantly) then they are horrible, horrible, terrible soulless excuses for human beings.
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Saammee. He's an endless stream of bad takes, but I find myself in agreement with this
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If you have to pretend to be bad to get your own way, maybe you are in fact bad after all?
They're not pretending to be bad, they're pretending to care about what the Republicans care about. They're very openly bad people
They ain't pretending.
Yeah, they may retain a different self-image, but their actions & goals are in line with Republican ideology.
That's rich coming from Tim Sweeney, but hey for once he accidently spoke the truth
The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
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Well Tim you went from a -10 in my books to a -8 with this. Keep it up.
I was trying to think of a way to put it, and I think you nailed it.
God damnit sweeny. You have had a visit from the ghost of Christmas past or something?
Don’t make me agree with you.
Broken clocks
Doesn't that just make them republicans?
So basically the morality of an opportunistic infection
I'm not used to this kind of honesty from CEOs. This is epic
Yeah, I believe the word you’re looking for is capitalism. Unbridled late stage capitalism.
I've done nothing but trash talk this man, but I have to take this opportunity to praise and give him the respect he deserves for calling this out.
Trump/MAGA is a big corrupt scam. After election, CNBC had guests that you should go all in on smaller companies, because "deregulation will be magic for them". Truth is, only those buying Trump's favour will be granted exemptions from blanket tariffs, and will receive H1B worker allotments. Rest of economy will be destroyed. Tesla specifically gain gain significantly by destroying US/Canada big 3 auto production, and fast tracking FSD approval/deregulation. FB/Google will give enough to ensure tiktok ban.
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