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@DMC_Ryan That framing sounds good to people in our current brain dead populist times but we didn't arrive at this situation against consumer preferences...

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The case for sweating over the death of physical media w/ respect to movies is stronger than games but either way this is a hill you *will* die on. An all-digital future is inevitable but what we choose to do about it (ie pursuing initiatives like stop killing games) is not.

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@agraybee I get the hostility people have towards games becoming all digital but this was inevitable.

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@klara_sjo oh nooooooooo

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@piperocktheory Respect the hustle honestly

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@JohnSmi41925514 @jessesingal Meh meh meh meh

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@Noahpinion Would be a nice album cover

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@vanillaopinions Hard disagree

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@SJWheeljack I'd listen to that podcast ngl.

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@MZHemingway Cope & seethe

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@hwinkler4real Depending where on the planet your existence was thrown into yeah

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What if they're just really good posters from Nigeria or South Asia? Is that on the table?

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What is a socialist? The problem is there are 87 different varieties of socialism, and you need to zero in on what each person means by the word! Even back in Marx's day, there were different kinds of socialists. Utopians (Fourier), anarchists (Proudhon, Bakunin), Blanquists, Marxists, and many others! Gradually, Marx's ideology of socialism (proletarian revolution) came to dominate some socialist parties (especially the Germans and Russians). Both the Russians and the Germans called themselves "Social Democrats," and at that time this meant "Marxist" (though there were other, non-Marxist socialist parties, like the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries). In the late 19th century, however, a major split among Social Democrats emerged, between the hard-core revolutionaries (Lenin) and the more moderate revisionists (Bernstein). The revisionists argued that maybe workers' lives could be improved by democratic means, not through revolution. Lenin hated the revisionists! Partly because, by 1905, it was no longer clear if "Social Democrat" necessarily meant "Marxist." The 1917 Russian Revolution split the Social Democrats. Lenin renamed his party "the Communist Party" in order to make it clear his boys weren't wimpy revisionists. In reaction, Social Democratic parties in Europe also split. Some took the new "Communist" name (which was just recycling language used by previous socialists, including Marx), while others kept the Social Democratic label, which now only paid occasional lip service to Marxism. While the Communist Parties followed Moscow's lead, the other European Social Democratic parties continued to moderate, especially after World War 2. They became completely mainstream and embraced capitalism (with proper safeguards and a healthy social safety net). So, when someone calls themselves a "Social Democrat," do they mean today's Swedish-style social democrat, who supports capitalism with a strong social safety net? Or are they harking back to the pre-split Russian and German Social Democrats, who embraced Marx's ideas? A lot of Americans, on both left and right, are unfamiliar with this history. The result is that righties often call anything the least bit liberal "communism," while non-Marxist progressives say, "What's wrong with being a social democrat? I believe in a social safety net!" Without realizing that some leftists mean something much more extreme by that label. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has used some fairly radical language, which makes me think some of them are definitely hearing Marx's words echoing in their ears. Darializa Avila Chevalier's praise of communist ideas in her deleted Twitter account makes me wonder if she's the Marxist (bad) kind of Social Democrat! But I think others, like Mamdani, seem far less hardcore. I really don't think he's a Marxist. And keep in mind, young people tend to spew a lot on social media. What someone posted in 2021 to shock their elders or seem cool to their fellows is not necessarily what they believe when faced with the cold, hard realities of governing in 2026.