It's ok to be angry about capitalism
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uh you do know that’s because the coup FAILED rather than him accepting the result right? Trump simply failed to get himself installed as an illegitimate president. Why argue that’s a point in his favor?
The "coup" didn't even delay Biden's confirmation by a single day let alone come close to Trump staying president. There is like no alternate multiverse where Trump is president in 2020.
Again. Because it failed. He tried and failed. We don't like in an alternative universe where he didn't try at all.
So instead of a greedy corporation eating all the shark card revenue/micro-transactions both greedily corporations and union employees can pillage gambling addict’s wallets. Tell me why I who doesn’t not work at rockstar has never been in a Union minus the Meijer Union which kicked me out for being neurodivergent should care about this. And yes I am still mad about the shark cards call me when they end.Rockstar is in trouble. Good, they brought it on themselves. People and parliament are fighting back. This is why the term greed is good can burn in hell.
Chris Bratt (@chrisbratt.bsky.social)
One of the people who makes People Make Games. [email protected]bsky.app
Chris Bratt (@chrisbratt.bsky.social)
As the union has already stated, this "public forum" refers to a Discord server used by its members to organise. There was also a general channel here which non-union employees could be invited into if they'd shown an interest in joining. This channel had more than 300 members at its peak.
Chris Bratt (@chrisbratt.bsky.social)
So what was being discussed? From what I've seen so far: union recruitment, pay and working conditions. We've seen examples of employees comparing salaries and bonus payments, discussions which are arguably protected by the UK's Equality Act of 2010.
Nathan Grayson (@nathangrayson.bsky.social)
late last week, workers of different stripes gathered outside rockstar's nyc office for a protest in solidarity with fired devs in the uk/scotland. the message, as fired rockstar workers head into a hearing this week, is that they've got global support, and bosses can't hide [contains quote...
Eurogamer (@eurogamer.bsky.social)
GTA developer Rockstar's firing of union staff "deeply concerning", says UK prime minister Keir Starmer https://www.eurogamer.net/gta-developer-rockstars-firing-of-union-staff-deeply-concerning-says-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer
Because it failed.
What do you think the alternate universe where Jan 6 succeeded at causing enough chaos in the proceedings to allow the fake electors plot to succeed would look like? Or hell, one where Mike Pence was on board with the fake electors plot?
Hell, if it had merely been successful enough to prevent the count from occurring on Jan 6, it could have set off a legal crisis as the date for the count my only be changed by law (and it not happening Jan 6 would require such a law to be passed), and the GOP including Trump (who could simply let it sit on his desk without signing) are nothing if not good at obstruction could simply not allow that to happen until after noon on Jan 20. At which point you have a full blown constitutional crisis in which no one is legally president and it would be up to SCOTUS to figure out what to do, 3 of them put there by Trump and another 2 serving Heritage above the law or Constitution, meaning a likely 5/4 split on the side of something like leaving Trump in power until a new date for certifying the 2020 election could be passed into law in the usual fashion, which the GOP could prevent from happening until at least midterms.
The bill that made the Jan 6 count essentially entirely ceremonial rather than a required part of the process was passed during the Biden admin, specifically to prevent another coup attempt by that vector.
So there was one post back, which I couldn't find, that basically says people in other countries care about education vs being rich. Again, it depends. Some rich people are trust fund babies who coast by in life, and there are educated people who aren't hard-working and or productive and or smart in terms of IQ, which, in my definition, is a mix of reading speed, comprehension speed, and how well you do on the SAT/ACT/Gaokuo/College exam is an example. Again, it's not me saying that,t it's American employers saying that, they want most, if not all of these traits.
Also, rich people, upper-middle-class people, and middle-class earners are likely to have their full Maslow's hierarchy of needs met. Their children are likely to be successful due to the way their parents teach them edit: and their environment. The fear is not that you tax the rich and they take their jobs with them, it's really that they take their on average high capability human capital with them. People with trauma in their lives make for poor leaders unless they get lucky, and it doesn't get them to have a substance abuse disorder or mental illness, like JD Vance(He was able to graduate from Yale Law and write a best-selling book, something few have done) or Johnny Kim, or any number of people in American society. Whereas, for example, my trauma gave me two mental illnesses, and ADHD. Whereas someone who was raised by parents who both went to college, and is rich, won't have that problem, and if they do not to that degree.
Edit2: In America, we don't gatekeep as much with who can go to college or what major they can pick with like an exam. Many countries do. Just food for thought.
Also, rich people, upper-middle-class people, and middle-class earners are likely to have their full Maslow's hierarchy of needs met. Their children are likely to be successful due to the way their parents teach them edit: and their environment. The fear is not that you tax the rich and they take their jobs with them, it's really that they take their on average high capability human capital with them. People with trauma in their lives make for poor leaders unless they get lucky, and it doesn't get them to have a substance abuse disorder or mental illness, like JD Vance(He was able to graduate from Yale Law and write a best-selling book, something few have done) or Johnny Kim, or any number of people in American society. Whereas, for example, my trauma gave me two mental illnesses, and ADHD. Whereas someone who was raised by parents who both went to college, and is rich, won't have that problem, and if they do not to that degree.
Edit2: In America, we don't gatekeep as much with who can go to college or what major they can pick with like an exam. Many countries do. Just food for thought.
Stop blindly accepting what zero-expertise nobodies on Twitter say.
Some of these are outright lies ("FBI admits plainclothes officers in the crowd") and others are just irrelevances ("some guy claims it was a setup") or political claims ("Patel says Pelosi to blame"). There's nothing substantial here.
You are way smarter than this. You already know the Republicans cult are full of shit.
No, he doesn't know it's a load of shit, because he is a "cult" member.
He's been repeatedly posting this sort of stuff for years. That's not because he's some wide-eyed ingenue who regularly and reliably falls for right wing misinformation by accident, it's because he's a fully paid-up, voluntary, adherent of the Trump / Musk ecosystem and that's what he believes in.
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He ain't the only here to do it. Another cult member left in a hissy fit (Critical Gaming), because almost no one here liked Charlie Kirk, and Kirk's "friends" and even his own wife, don't give an absolute fuck about him.
funny online rumors say the wife now sleeps with JD Vance and his couch. Dunno if that’s true but her having any sort of ties to that filth already shows what person she is.
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
www.thebignewsletter.com
tl;dr:
Pepsi and Walmart have a scam going whereby Pepsi ensure Walmart have the lowest prices and Walmart prioritise Pepsi products' visibility in-store. Except this actually causes Americans to pay more for their sugary drinks, because Pepsi makes all other vendors raise their prices for Pepsi products. It also hurts smaller retailers, who can't compete with Walmart. This went to the Biden FTC towards its end of term, but once the Trump FTC took over, they buried it. Just they didn't bury it very well, and now it's all come out.
Capitalism, eh?
Once again showing why greed is good os full of bull. All I gotta say is, thank God I cut down on pops all the way back in 2018. I've been mainly drinking lemon and lime water with no sugar or sparkling water i can't even remember the last time.I bought a pop from walmart of all places though.Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
tl;dr:
Pepsi and Walmart have a scam going whereby Pepsi ensure Walmart have the lowest prices and Walmart prioritise Pepsi products' visibility in-store. Except this actually causes Americans to pay more for their sugary drinks, because Pepsi makes all other vendors raise their prices for Pepsi products. It also hurts smaller retailers, who can't compete with Walmart. This went to the Biden FTC towards its end of term, but once the Trump FTC took over, they buried it. Just they didn't bury it very well, and now it's all come out.
Capitalism, eh?
To an extent, I don't entirely blame Pepsi. After all, it is just a low-quality Coca-Cola knock-off, and no wonder it would need to cheat for sales.