Can you name a billionaire who doesn’t match that description?

Under censorship you’ll not create . . . good meals

Are you saying that the Soviets censored recipes?

Usually it’s my friend Cowbee here who tells people to read things, but here I will:

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

“Brainwashing” is a reactionary myth (that originally comes from orientalist stories of Chinese hypnosis that were used to explain-away defectors in the Korean war) that is used to position the believer in a position superior to the masses (“sheeple”), and which only knows how to treat the latter condescendingly as blind followers of this or that, which is not how you do mass organizing if you want to succeed.

It’s not because they think they can be billionaires, it’s because they’ve been taught (and in a minority of cases this is true) that they are better off going after the crumbs that billionaires leave them than trying some other system.

What does this even mean? What victims? Clearly you don’t mean the victims of harassment campaigns.

The monetization director should never say anything ever and should be beaten with a stick if he tries, but the standpoint the article is writing from is clear:

the unveiling of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which quickly gained controversy for numerous allegations that Ubisoft was mispresenting Japanese heritage through unpopular artistic design choices.

“unpopular artistic design choice”, hm? What does that mean?

Neither the author’s writing nor the quote from the director actually name it specifically, but we can infer that it’s probably talking about Yasuke, which means that unfortunately this ghoul director is probably completely right and this author is no better than a concern troll.

That last part, “… like you always do …” Is not a normal US speech pattern.

What the hell are you talking about? Of course it is. It’s not just a valid construction, it’s idiomatic!

Yet your uname is Southern Boy.

The Geography Understander has logged on. There are souths other than the Southern US.

It’s pathetic how you immediately jump to trying to insinuate that the other user is a foreigner pretending to be American so they can do dezinformatsiya when it is neither clear where they come from nor where they claim to come from.

but when you start talking Zionism, it gets close to antisemitism

Conflating anti-zionism and antisemitism is antisemitism, straight up, and it’s a form that zionists love using to silence opposition. Israel should not exist, and there is nothing antisemitic about that statement.

Fair enough!

The conditional is right there

I’m sure Vance was lying, but if these were anything like the Presidential debates, there would definitely be a strong Democrat bias. You can’t possibly think that Walz didn’t get fact checked because he was a perfect little angel with flawlessly honest rhetoric, right?

Disclaimer: I didn’t watch very much of the debate because, as others said, it was boring, but Harris sure as shit lied in her debate.

what’s opposing nationalisation and public ownership is and always has been purely ideological

It’s private interests seeking to maintain their own profits. The ideology is downstream of that.

I hope so

There are certainly criticisms to be made of it, but characterizing them as “the bad guys” in a conflict with Israel because they do [thing Israel has been known for for decades] is either sarcasm or rank stupidity

You could be clearer next time by adding an /s

It self-consciously is the reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLNCcLfIkM

Israel only has lobbying groups that are allowed to operate in American politics because the US was already dedicated to zionism. Otherwise there’d be, like, a Chinese AIPAC lobbying for the PRC or something.

States aren’t people, dog

I think Bibi was technically born in Israel and spent his early childhood there but lived in Philidelphia during the period that he went to high school.

Israel serves a geopolitical purpose destabilizing the Middle East and suppressing development of rival countries (e.g. assassinating that nuclear physicist in Iran).

Take it from Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLNCcLfIkM

“Both sides are just as bad!” is the bullshit

It’s not that they are identical, it’s that delineating between the Hitlerites and the Strasserites just isn’t very meaningful compared to the understanding that they are wings of the same monstrous entity that needs to be destroyed. You don’t even need to Obamas embracing Bush and saying “same values” to see that, but seeing that makes denial inexcusable.

The first-past-the-post voting system sucks; the resulting two-party system sucks; but

The hand-wringing isn’t the worst part, but it’s definitely the most annoying. “Don’t worry, I’m disavowing Harris while I vote for her in my non-swing-state, so it doesn’t count even as she uses those votes to claim legitimacy just like Biden did”.