History ended three decades ago, but you’ll be paying off your student loans till you die
Right, and he seems to be willing to throw away the audience he built for “speaking out” in favor of a check from the crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. I won’t assume what is and isn’t genuine from Dave Chappelle but to pretend like his bigoted takes aren’t a recent shift is wild. All that being said I have no stake in this argument, I was a fan and all I’m saying is that I am not surprised. Just disappointed.
The comedians Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others decided that alienating their fan base by accepting an egregious amount of money from the conservative monarchy of Saudi Arabia may not be in the room with us right now, probably because he’s on the other side of the Atlantic.
You mean the thing that’s currently happening?
The alt-right are easily amused
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The competition is following an industry leader who is only an industry leader because their other business makes so much money hand over fist that they can just keep dumping money into gaming just to maintain dominance. The answer to the question you propose another question “How can we cut costs and increase profit?” And the easiest way to do that is to reduce labor and raise prices, and if they can get away with it, Monopolize. So yes, Microsoft executives would be doing this exact same thing without the Activision Blizzard purchase. But because they can get away with purchasing all potential competition, they’ll do that first.
The dominance of the two largest video game companies affects prices for everyone. High game prices are justified by “just get it on Game Pass,” which normalizes the cost. Now that subscription prices are also rising, developers are left to face investors with unrealistic expectations based on these corporate practices, an issue made worse by weak regulation. Some people may get it but most consumers don’t care until they can’t afford their gotcha game addiction.
Hear me out, I wouldn’t mind if Google did the same thing with YouTube. That way all the ai slop would be in one feed I can ignore and I can just go back to watching gunpla build videos on autoplay.
As long as they’re being purchased as a replacement for buses that are either at the end of their life or being donated to smaller communities, then sure. This said from the perspective of an American whose city, state and federal governments refuse to fund the public transit that we already have. (╥_╥)
When did I say it’s okay? I just said this is nothing new, it’s not an anomaly. You should be outraged, but don’t act like a for-profit company isn’t going to chase profit incentives, and if they are incentivized to sensationalize, they’re going to sensationalize. If they end up making more money from an outright lie after any litigation, they’ll tell a lie.
Why would anyone do that when you can just complain about needing change, but do absolutely nothing to support or advocate for it! Or better yet, you can just start applying uninformed purity tests to progressive candidates. “She wants to implement the change I want to see, but because I don’t understand how legislation is passed in the US, I’ll accuse her of giving money to Israel’s occupation, and say she’s complicit in genocide” - average internet leftist.
It’s all good, I thought we were just yapping
Unlike a professor who would reject a student’s unsubstantiated claims, a for-profit entity won’t care about evidence unless its absence hurts profits. And you can say that about nearly any commercial news or journalistic organization. Establishing an equitable and high standard of education is the only true way to combat this, and that’s not happening in our lifetime
I guess, but inflammatory and sensationalist headlines have always existed.
If said reporter can’t present quantifiable data/evidence, then maybe they shouldn’t write the article?
What makes you think that I’m not extremely critical of the US government? Not much I can do there other than throw myself in front of an ice agent abducting members of my community. I’m not sure what trans jokes you’re talking about from his variety sketch show days, but if I didn’t cash those jokes then yeah I guess that is on me.