I worked as a game tester for Red Storm shortly after graduating from college in 2006.

I also grew up playing their games, starting with the original Rainbow Six. There never would have been a Counter Strike or a Call of Duty if it weren’t for Rainbow Six.

Tell him to gobble broken glass.

Israel is also an aggressive, dishonest, genocidal ethnostate, supplied by the most overgrown military apparatus in human history.

Citizens in Israel and the U.S. have an obligation to change our governments and societies for the sake of the entire world. Until then, pearl-clutching over justified blowback deserves no sympathy.

This is one of the more profoundly well-put summaries I’ve ever read on the Internet.

People are going to have to do more than “punch Nazis” before long. If you’re clutching pearls over some high school punches, you need to wake up.

It doesn’t matter. They’re getting what they want. You can play nice and let them have what they want, or you can take some risks, stand for what you believe in, and fight back.

Fighting back against school bullies is also “against the rules.”

Gyatdam, I’m making magnets of this and posting them everywhere.

Everyone gets lost talking about this thing. Purchasing and driving a poorly-engineered or aesthetically-questionable vehicle isn’t the primary problem. That’s not unique. There have always been shitty vehicles.

People who drive these gave $80,000 to empower the Nazis. The fact that they’re shitboxes just underscores that conspicuous consumption and the support and affiliation for and with Fascism are the entire point.

Thank you for providing an implicit demonstration of the output of a grossly underfunded education system.

“Only extremists are pushing for conflict.”

This is a disastrously ill-informed perspective. There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to rising fascism. There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality.

Stop scrolling and sit with these facts. Then stop rage-posting and start planning.

Yes, because if we weren’t captured by a single-party corporate system we wouldn’t be in this mess. Reactionary fascism arises from the material immiseration of the people. If the Democrats were beholden to improving the lives of citizens rather than clinging to power and corporate interests, we would not be in this mess.

Thank you for sharng this. I really needed to see an example of being decent and growing today.

There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to a descent into fascism.

There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality.

If aiding genocide is our “lesser evil,” we don’t have a lesser evil.

But sometimes history comes along and says “too bad.” There is no historical precedent for fascism or extreme wealth inequality being corrected by electoral politics.

If you’re able to comfortably sit on the fence, recognize two facts: One, that’s a position of entitlement (Plenty of people are already having their lives destroyed by what’s happening). Two, being passive is choosing to allow authoritarianism to win.

To reiterate, I’m not a Tankie. I don’t whitewash the heinous history of revolutions, upheaval, and failed government systems. And I am positive that I’m screaming into the void. In every historical example I’ve studied, the comfortable middle class eventually sides with elite authority and not the peasants. And the peasants always lose. But the alternative is too awful to surrender to. Centralized techno-fascism and eventual catastrophic conflict with China are what’s in-store.

Thank you.

Because being a passive centrist while the world slides towards authoritarianism, global conflict, and environmental holocaust is not morally acceptable.

You don’t have to be a Tankie to want to fight these fascist fucks and their suicidal agenda.

In tennis, I’m pretty sure it’s a lime.

I have an inside line at the EPA that administrators are now tracking what websites employees visit on their work machines and wanted to know, specifically, if employees visited “standupforscience.org”.

There was a study years ago about American TV ownership. Size of television inversely correlates with income.

When we’re still asking the question “why?” we’re stuck in disbelief and denial about the reality we’re in.

1/3 of the country is aware and cares, but is too atomized and disempowered to act meaningfully. 1/3 are too comfortable and attached to their slipping consumer entitlement to take risks for the sake of anyone else. 1/3 have channeled their entitlement and/or immiseration into enthusiastic support for what’s happening.

I’m with you, but the reality is that the majority of the country would shake their heads and go back to watching Netflix rather than do anything while you’re being dragged to the camps.