Or shot.
The past week has shown them that the federal government will defend their claims of “self defence” using flimsy video evidence that shows the contrary. Just imagine how emboldened one of them would be in using disproportionately lethal force against an actual threat instead of a perceived one.
Call them commies. They hate anything related to socialism, but they’re creaming their pants at the idea of the government giving handouts to the people who “deserve” it (a.k.a. themselves) while everyone else lives like peasants during China under Mao.
At least 1,177 people were killed by police in 2025. How many of them 1,177 are now domestic terrorists ?
If you ask MAGA, Miller, Trump, or Noem, 1,178 of them.
It’s not like that’s an attack or anything
Not that they seem to need court rulings to imprison people these days, but ICE jackboots are still U.S. citizens and federal agents. Someone pepperspraying a federal agent would set themselves up for a number of potential charges related to assault with a weapon and interfering with law enforcement.
Don’t forget that with law enforcement officers, it’s “rules for thee but not for me.” You are held to a higher standard than they are, and they have more rights than you.
A lesbian, white mother was shot.
They don’t see her as part of the in-group, so they still think it won’t happen to themselves. For at least some of them, that tune might change when an unarmed Good, MAGA Christian Girl™ is murdered in her own home away from any protests.
Or maybe that is wishful thinking. A lot of them are simply hypocritical psychopaths who think life is a zero-sum game where they win by making others suffer.
scorched from history.
Wiping away history is how you end up with a repeat of history.
His name should be in textbooks, right next to his misdeeds and the consequences of his rule. It should be taught to every student in high school as a lesson in history, civics, critical thinking, and cult indoctrination.
If I had a dollar for every time on Lemmy that I encountered a mysognistic CS student that thinks they know more than they do, I would now have a dollar. And that’s quite a fucking shame, considering I’ve been here for years.
The industry you’re trying to break into was founded by women, LGBT folks, and people who envisioned technology as a path towards the betterment of humanity. Do better. You’re acting like a disgrace to its legacy.
No entitlement necessary.
People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.
What people don’t welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren’t interfering with games they didn’t own.
What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.
The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.
If his decisions weren’t openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.
1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It’s not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.
2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.
3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.
Putting them in prison just feeds the prison industrial complex and the wealthy individuals who lobbied for the very same laws that give them their ability to act with impunity.
Perhaps a one-way trip to El Salvador would be a more appropriate form of justice, both for its poetic irony and the added benefit of depriving income from local, for-profit private prisons?
All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.
You’re an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.
The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.
Republican Party right now: “they’re the same picture!”
Yeah, ok. Now explain these:
Clearly, one family won’t be able to fit in a 1-bed, 1-bath shack. With 3 kids, they’ll need at least 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. Include the grandparents on both sides, and that’s 6 bedrooms, 4 baths. And for good measure, add a guest room with its own bathroom.
It makes perfect sense to reclassify a “single family home” as a 7-bed, 5-bath McMansion. Anything less is just a rental suite, obviously /s
But, as you said, they’re proud of being compared to Nazis. Calling them authoritarians would just give them a fuzzy, tickling feeling in their loins—because “authority” and machismo.
If the goal is to describe their own behavior to themselves in a way that they both understand and will blow a gasket over, calling them communists is pretty much a guaranteed way to do it. Most of them don’t actually understand what “communism” or “socialism” is beyond conflating them with Russia and China-flavored authoritarianism. Add on to that they grew up being indoctrinated into unquestionably believing that communism is the antithesis of America, democracy, personal freedoms, and all that is good in the world.
They see themselves as the good guys fighting evil. Calling them “commies” is, in their own minds and in a single word, outright saying they are the pure evil they hate. The cognitive dissonance of trying to reconcile that thought for even a moment would be agonizing.