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  • because regardless of its history, at best it’s been co-opted by hateful people (IE the locked thread) and at its worse it’s a dog whistle for authoritarian/racist behavior.

    Well, that sounds nice, but you seem to have forgotten to bring literally anything to back up any of that.

    At no point in time do I remember going onto r/pcmasterrace and thinking “wow, this place turned into a rightwing shithole, where did all of the nazis come from?”.

    Just because you say that everything’s been co-opted doesn’t mean that it has just because you don’t like the name for arbitrary reasons.

    This whole thing is an argument about nothing.


  • I get what you’re saying, sure. But I don’t see how they’ll remotely end up less pissed off if you take the situation as it already is and then revoke their “rights” to use social media.

    This is just going to make a lot of really angry people a lot more angry.

    Plus, I can guarantee you that people actually organizing on social media will immediately switch to some non-blocked online means of doing so. Trying to handle that would be an impossible game of whack-a-mole.



  • It was funny then, and it’s funny now.

    You do know that rightwing fuckwits actively use people like you as a recruiting tool to show people examples of “how idiotic and heavy handed the left is” when giving them reasons to join up for their Hitlerjerk wank-ring organizations.

    They literally make compilations of examples like this to create the narrative that the opposition has lost their minds and are coming for everyone’s free speech with their cancel culture, and use this to argue that somehow nazism is clearly the reasonable choice in contrast.

    And as ludicrous as that is, it actually works depressingly well.

    A certain willingness to have a sense of humour is a worthwhile thing to have when online. Nobody is being threatened by a reference to a joke about the console wars and the PC Vs Console circlejerk.

    Plus, I have a really good gaming rig, and I tell you, those console peasants have it coming anyway. :P





  • Does anyone else think that being seen as weak and capitulating to Prigozhin here is basically a death sentence to Putin?

    Doing that has to have just put SO MUCH blood in the water for every internal agency/power-block with aspirations of taking him down and replacing him.

    Apparently all you need is 20,000 men and Putin’s defenceless…

    My opinion is that this is going to cause chaos.

    The fact that Putin didn’t have Wagner immediately atomized on the spot suggests that he wasn’t powerful enough to do so. Not a statement that someone in Putin’s position would want to make, I would think.