You’re right, but Sony seems to be moving away from the PC release strategy now

For a few years, and in the meantime, by consistently choosing the “lesser evil”, you ensure there is no political organization in power that stands in opposition to capitalism and you push the Overton window rightward. So they never actually attack the fundamental problems because it goes against their ideology, things continue to get worse, and the public starts looking rightward for a solution because there is no left option.

The Democrats moving rightward is a documented fact but even with that pattern, people are still like “just vote blue”. Trump was elected in reaction toward Obama, whose greatest achievement was a Heritage Foundation based health care plan. Now, a Heritage Foundation policy becomes lumped with “leftism”. Clinton embraced neoliberalism following Reagan. Etc etc

By not offering a real alternative (and every leftist org was already on the right side of social issues so not sure why people champion Dems on these. Jfc, dems took until like 2012 to “evolve” on most of them) to neoliberal capitalism, then fascist populism starts looking more appealing to parts of the public.

Yeah when EA purchased them.

Some I haven’t seen mentioned:

• The Night of the Hunter
• Ikiru
• Paths of Glory
• Los Olvidados
• El
• The Apu Trilogy
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Nights of Cabiria

Edit: was heading out earlier. Here are some more:

• The 400 Blows
• Tokyo Story
• Wild Strawberries
• Ordet
• The Sweet Smell of Success
• Johnny Guitar
• A Man Escaped
• Pickpocket
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Ugetsu
• The Cranes are Flying
• The Bridge Over River Kwai
• High Noon
• Rio Bravo
• The Searchers

Yep. Trump is America. He’s the president this country deserves, and that is apparent from his ability to win twice.

Anyone who thinks he could only win through some type of cheating we haven’t caught is clearly not hanging out in the living rooms in red states and counties

How much of the country do you think lives in a swing state?

I love reactionaries self selecting themselves from coming here, personally.

The English league is notoriously more physical than the other big leagues in Europe.

Argentina was no more physical than England that game. They were both trading fouls in the first half

I think it’s very close.

Bush launched two wars where the US invaded countries in the Middle East, leading to decades of destabilization in the region and leading to millions dead. His admin coincided with the rise of Fox News and conservative punditry outside talk radio. Patriot act, tax cuts, oversaw the recession, etc.

Israel’s genocide started under Biden, so I can’t exactly put that on Trump even if he’s supported it. This quagmire with Iran isn’t as big as the invasions were.

Trump’s been more damaging domestically with his scotus appointments and emboldening racists, but if you look outside just the US, then yeah I think you can definitely make the argument that Bush was worse.

Piefed is developed like a startup trying to disrupt a market, which makes sense when you consider their motivations and the main admins constant talk about “growth” for the fediverse

I was here before you by two years so the bot masters must be way ahead of you.

The absolute waste of money and time it would be to AstroTurf on Lemmy really just makes me more skeptical to every user crying “bot” than anything.

It’s not a surprise that people with fringe or more radical opinions exist on Lemmy, an alternative platform

This is completely unsurprising when you’re aware of the reasons that motivated PieFed’s development (anti communism). Features designed to limit the voice and reach of certain instances lines up with that motivation. PieFed exists to counteract communist influence in the threadiverse.

Some here who helped push it spin it as a way to make the fediverse more palatable to the average Internet user because they care more about growth than culture, but the underlying motivation has always been to try to separate the threadiverse from its communist roots.

I’ll take the tankie devs over liberal devs every single time, personally. You can say what you want about them and how they personally run their instances, but I’m not aware of them developing any underhanded features like these and others in PieFed.

Infidelity? Of course the worst thing someone can engage in, obviously.

Killing people for punishment with a a clear an obvious error rate that leaves innocent people murdered by the state? 'Well, you see…"

They will really do anything before investing in public transit

The ending of Chinatown really prepares you for a world where evil assholes own everything and continue to get away with anything.

Also, extremely ironic in that way.

Helms Deep is pretty much an ode to fighting back against overwhelming odds and the power of hope. That battle combined with Sam’s words about goodness being worth fighting for. Also, Gandalf’s words in Fellowship about choosing what to do with the world given to you has always stuck with me as motivating words when things seem bleak.

I also really enjoyed the scene in Everything Everywhere All at Once where Waymond talks about how kindness is a strength.

Could probably keep going but those are standing out to me today.

Really strange how many attribute their anecdotes to a wide ranging phenomenon afflicting only one specific generation.

I understand how probable things can be, but good lord, I would be so aggravated if people judged me based on my father’s politics

.ml is my preferred instance too because you get the latest updates first, you get access to all the same mainstream PieFed and Lemmy communities, and you get to choose whether to interact with communist communities like Lemmygrad or Hexbear.

I wouldn’t recommend it to most people though cause most people can’t handle communists. Most would prefer conservatives, even.

And the downside is that certain people will block you or judge you for your instance, even if you were here years before the other instances came to be.

Except that the people who started suggesting to avoid pushing .ml were the Lemmy devs, the instance admins, and that is what this user is referencing. Exactly for the reasons described.

This was back during the surge from Reddit in 2023.

“Most of Lemmy” was made up of communists before then.

Hell, that’s a large part of why PieFed was developed

I like when people don’t act coy about this being direct motivation so thanks.