For me the difference is there is nothing stopping competitors, Valve is not locking them out of the market in any way. If they don’t want to spend the time to build a good competing product, that’s on them. And additionally, PC gaming is just one platform for gaming

It is petulance

I’m blaming the party as well. But nothings perfect in life, when it comes down to it you have to choose the best available option. Bloods on people like yours hands, no matter what kind of excuses you want to try to make. Good job making it easier for the fascists

What part about I agree with you but the alternative is more people dying do you not understand

Nah man, no pretending. But there is an evil and a lesser evil. I just don’t see any logic behind not voting for the lesser evil. It will benefit nobody and harm more people. I would vote for a 3rd party in a heartbeat if they had a good campaign run. It’s pretty easy to tell if a 3rd party has made any kind of a splash by election date. In this last US election there were no other options, period. The Democrats suck, I get it, but those that didn’t vote for them are making things worse.

I generally believe it’s important for people to view third party options as viable, because really they are only not viable if we believe them to be. But to have a chance to win that kind of party needs an extraordinarily well spoken and revered leader. In this last election we didn’t have anyone that got the bill

I don’t think it’s enough, but it is enough to vote for them over trump. If you feel otherwise I can only suspect you are privileged enough to not be effected by Trump’s actions, great for you, not great for the people being killed by ICE or blown up outside schools.

If there was another viable option I absolutely would not have voted for Kamala, but there wasn’t so how is not voting supposed to be the better option?

If you look at what Biden accomplished in his term he actually did quite a bit for environmental protection.

But even if Harris did do fuck all, it’d still be better than this

I hate windows as much as the next lemmy user, but turning down a well paying job because I don’t want to use the OS 99+% of businesses use, means you must be at a level of stability I cannot even fathom.

And not you, but OP was kind of a dick calling IT lazy. As someone go works in IT myself, a lot of departments these days are woefully understaffed. We’re not going to support any extra software, causing us to work more overtime hours, because one douche is throwing a hissyfit

God you must make a ton of money

Enough for what? Extreme gratitude, yes. But the post is asking why so many people on the left seemingly ignore the faults of the Soviet Union. And no, winning ww2 does not justify turning a blind eye to any fault of the Soviet Union, that’s ridiculous, as it would be for any nation. And especially so when they entered the war out of necessity.

Then why did they not end the treaty when UK entered the war but when the Nazis invaded the ussr?

My point is just that the ussr was not some righteous world hero, as was seemingly being alluded to

You can say whatever you want. The fact is the Soviets had a treaty with Nazi Germany and only fought back when forced. And honestly knowing that the Nazis would be a threat to them and still making the treaty just looks worse for them

Standing up only after you are betrayed isn’t quite as impressive as standing up because it’s the right thing to do. Soviets would have been happy to sit and do nothing until the Nazis started threatening the Soviets. But, still, yes the Soviets kicked ass

Imagine buying one in the first place

You can take away my auto complete, performance monitoring and all that jazz but you can’t tell me a debugging system isn’t absolutely essential if you actually want to finish a project in a reasonable amount of time

No they aren’t you are right. But Dem and rep interests have changed significantly over their existence, so it’s not like their platform changing is totally impossible. Also, there are plenty more than one allowed party, they don’t normally get much traction though. Is it not natural in a system that allows multiple parties, for the voter base to generally fall into a few large groups?

There are some abominable democrats, but there are some good ones too. Your statements are simply not true for a solid portion of democrats. It is a fantasy to think things would be much better if the Dems get this admin out though, I agree. And to get anything done there is pandering required with the other leading party, which I think stops the Democrats from becoming as leftist as many would want to. So yeah, progress is hard. It seems to me that the political perspective of Americans across the board needs to shift left before much change can be had, so that the Democrats are true leftists and the Republicans are less far right

One of the key characteristics of fascism is autocracy. You could argue that applies today but certainly not for decades. Regardless of if, from your perspective, neither party aligns with your goals and are far right by that standard, they are still working against each other.

Answer this because I’m curious of your perspective. Is Russia fascist, and if not why not? From what I have been exposed to (which certainly is biased admittedly) Russia is at least as far on the fascism scale as the US, they have a lot of similarities in my mind, but nobody on here will say that, but then turn around and label the US fascist.

Well, I wouldn’t really say it’s fascist quite yet (maybe I’m ignorant) but it’s well on the way. My point is it could get a lot worse before it gets better