I am lucky to have insurance through my work, but it’s going to be a bloodbath for a lot of people.

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I’m not sure if the takeaway about it being hard to be a game developer is accurate. Because I know for a fact that there are some really low-effort games that get released on Steam (I’ve seen some), and I would assume that there are a lot more of such games that I have not seen. I don’t know what percentage of those 19,000 games are low-effort slop, but it could be significant, and if those slop games get low engagement it’s just the system working as intended.

I was going to say lie on the floor but that works too.

It very well might not be the author’s intent, but it is very poorly worded to communicate any other intent.

I’ve known for many years that my government (in the US) is doing horrible things regarding Gaza. I’ve also known about horrible things my government does in other places, and to its own people as well. I don’t have the power to stop those things, though. I have tried all my life to make the world a better place, but I’m not the dictator of the world.

I can’t stop those things, but life must go on. So, yeah, I still go about my day “normally”, still trying to do my best to make things better, but with basically no power.

That’s not a rare situation either. More than half of the US had an unfavorable view of Israel during the 2024 election, yet both candidates for president (and most for other offices) supported Israel. And we didn’t really get a chance to choose those candidates in a primary either, since the incumbent president from the nominally left-wing party stayed in the race and no one meaningfully challenged him (as is (stupid) tradition) and then the VP got undemocratically shoed in when he bowed out of the race over age concerns, so we got stuck with another “centrist” candidate (where the center here is the center of the US ruling class, which is nowhere near the center of the US population as a whole). So I didn’t even have a chance to vote for a candidate that was against that particular genocide. I had to vote for the candidate that would do less genocide (including less genocide to my own people).

People outside the US may look at the horrible things that the US does and assume that the people must support those things, but that’s not the case. The fact is that the US is not run by the people as a whole. It never has been (by design), and it has been getting worse for a while now. Even the working class people who do support those things only do so under an intense bombardment of propaganda funded by the ruling class which they have been brainwashed by all their life. So I don’t think that driving a wedge of blame against them is the way either. The way to make things better is to unite the working class against the ruling class.

I don’t think you understand what I meant by that question.

If you participate in society trying to pick the less bad options, someone could look at you and say that you are “going about your day normally”. And also, doing that should be what going about your day normally means because you should be doing that all the time.

I think that the call-to-action to not go about your day normally is effectively asking people to not participate in society at all, which is not practical for anyone unless they have a ton of privilege already.

If you refuse to buy from one unethical company, then you buy from a different unethical company. Or, if you refuse to buy from all unethical companies, you starve.

You have some agency to try to pick less bad options, but you can’t just refuse to participate in the unjust system.

Do you think that the former statement is “punching up”?

I don’t think your assessment of how people react to that statement is accurate at all.

By drawing a connection between a group that rightly deserves scorn (wall street elites) and a race which includes a whole lot of other people, you’re actually punching down on the marginalized members of that race.

Racism is bad, regardless of how you couch it. You don’t need to mention anything about race to make a point about wall street elites being bad. And many Americans do freely make points about how wall street elites are bad.

I don’t think that statement is really accurate either, but it doesn’t actually matter if it is, because being jewish isn’t the problem with them. The problem is them being rich assholes making themselves richer at the expense of others.

Is he collecting them to distribute them on Christmas?

It’s actually just because of one guy who eats 12 billion bananas in his sleep every year.

Easy, I can tell you for free that they have been tampered with.

When you put it like, that, that sounds like exactly what they’d want off the coast of Venezuela right now.

I don’t really see those things as an alternative to “going about your day normally”.

What I read that statement in the meme as is an indictment of everyone who doesn’t drop everything and spend all their energy trying to solve that problem. Which, frankly, is a luxury not available to most people. Most working class people would starve (or at the very least, lose a lot of what little power they do have) in short order if they stop doing their day-to-day activities.

If that’s not what was intended by the meme, it’s worded very poorly. It should be more clear in what it is calling out because as it is, it could easily be applied to basically everyone.

For sure. They shouldn’t have blown up the other boats either, but spilling the oil into the sea would certainly have been bad.

Huh, I wonder why they seized it instead of shooting it like the others? It couldn’t possibly be for the oil, right?

What part of what I said was wrong, and why?

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. I try to choose better options when I can, both in consumption and in politics.

A refusal to purchase from any unethical companies or a refusal to vote for any unethical politicians is a surrender of what little control we as the working class do have, by giving up our votes or our very lives.

You cannot fault the working class just for going about their lives as the ruling class performs atrocities. Encourage them to work for good, yes, but do not place the blame on them for acts that are not under their control. Place the blame on the ruling class, and unite the working class against them rather than sewing division among the working class by blaming those you see as not doing enough.

Eh… what’s the proposed alternative to “going about your day normally”?

Something absolutely should be done about it, but I don’t see any sort of plan here, just blame being cast a whole lot of people who mostly aren’t actually the ones to blame.

I do mind, actually. In that I specifically want my taxes to go to that rather than going to more bombs for genociding Palestinians.