If you want those things then you are a republican, there’s no pretending.
If the democrats would have given them those, they’d have continued their “woke capitalism” arc…
Ffs trump and his lackeys making even Sweeney look good
Yeah, I don’t recall ever reading a Tim Sweeney quote and thinking, “that sounds about right.”
Eh he once gave me an all you can drink pass at the after party for a gaming convention in Melbourne.
So the quote is ‘get whatever you want, drinks are on me tonight’.
Its still a complete mystery how I made it back to my hotel with no map, no local knowledge and on foot.
Likewise, I now feel like I need to scrub clean my soul.
I don’t think he’s able to afford to kiss the ring, otherwise he would.
Why wouldn’t he be? Sweeney is a billionaire, richer than Tim Cook even.
Isn’t that company at risk of bankruptcy?
Not at all, as far as I know. They’re making massive bank with Fortnite and they’re developing the engine used by >50% of modern AAA games.
I think I’m thinking of Ubisoft actually. My b
He’s also swimming in Chinese money, so this might not be a purely altruistic statement.
I’m just sitting here fingers crossed that Gabe doesn’t “donate” to the orange dipshit…
Won’t happen.
trump has opened the portal to Bizzaro World
They ain’t pretending.
Yeah, they may retain a different self-image, but their actions & goals are in line with Republican ideology.
God damnit sweeny. You have had a visit from the ghost of Christmas past or something?
Don’t make me agree with you.
Broken clocks
For the first time in my life I’m actually agreeing with Tim Sweeney. I hate the guy but at least he has the balls to say it like it is. The rest of them are just cowards.
I’m sorry but if someone is pretending to be a Republican
to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately ‘rip off consumers and crush competitors’
doesn’t that just make them… a Republican?
Right? I feel like almost every ‘Republican’ is just an opportunist that likes to cherry pick the things Republicans supposedly stand for these days. I think any people out there who can say that they wholeheartedly agree with every talking point on the Republican agenda (the ones that don’t shift constantly) then they are horrible, horrible, terrible soulless excuses for human beings.
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In case you hadn’t noticed, the Democrats have been just as much into exactly the same thing by actively pushing deregulation and the rest of the Neoliberal mantra as the Republicans.
Those parties differ in the Moral and Freedom planes but Economically they’re very much the same (except right before an election when the Democrats will do a bit of loud but toothless pro-consumer announcements of intentions on things they had 4 years to fix but chose not to).
If you have any doubts, just go check who overthrew the Glass-Steagal act, which ended up causing of the 2008 Crash and who was the President during that time who chose to unconditionally rescue some of the nastiest investment banks around - you’ll find they’re both Democrats.
I really hope this past election will cause neoliberalism to finally die. We’re already seeing signs of it (granted, being replaced with fascism, which isn’t exactly better, but historically, fascism doesn’t last long).
Also, when corporations have to choose between any semblence of even mild socialism (social democracy) or literal fascism, they will choose fascism every time. This is a big reason why we have Trump today; just look at the massive amount of funding that The Daily Wire gets (namely from the Koch brothers) as opposed to any lefty independent media (specifically media who is openly anti-corporate and usually doesn’t take corporate money, like Kyle Kulinski for example).
The fact that the corporations had to choose at all is also an indicator that neoliberalism is dead. Corporations much prefer neoliberalism over fascism due to longer amounts of social stability.
Saammee. He’s an endless stream of bad takes, but I find myself in agreement with this
heartbreaking: worst person you know made a great point
I wouldn’t call it pretending but… Yeah, no shit.
Guys it was just a prank. I’m not really fascist, I was just pretending. I just gave money to the fascists as a joke, isn’t that funny?
Well Tim you went from a -10 in my books to a -8 with this. Keep it up.
I was trying to think of a way to put it, and I think you nailed it.
If you have to pretend to be bad to get your own way, maybe you are in fact bad after all?
They’re not pretending to be bad, they’re pretending to care about what the Republicans care about. They’re very openly bad people
That’s rich coming from Tim Sweeney, but hey for once he accidently spoke the truth
The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
You know what they say about broken clocks.
Doesn’t that just make them republicans?
Thanks Capt. Obvious.
Some people need it mister
So basically the morality of an opportunistic infection
So… Republican.
The Democratic Party too is a big tent
Yes but there was a genuine attempt of the DOJ to apply antitrust laws to big tech. Not saying they would have succeeded and big tech would have attempted to corrupt the process all the way with the Dems in charge. Nevertheless, they seemed to face some risk under Dems that has now passed.
Oh yay what about the other guys.
There’s no other guys if you are simply talking about wealthy opportunists. It’s the same orgy just some people are wearing masks.
The point is none of the plebs are being represented and they’re all online fighting each other
Just because the neighbor’s kid gets to eat ice cream and play video games all day, doesn’t mean you should. You can be better or at least people were misled to believe it.
Yeah, I believe the word you’re looking for is capitalism. Unbridled late stage capitalism.
I’m not used to this kind of honesty from CEOs. This is epic
Trump/MAGA is a big corrupt scam. After election, CNBC had guests that you should go all in on smaller companies, because “deregulation will be magic for them”. Truth is, only those buying Trump’s favour will be granted exemptions from blanket tariffs, and will receive H1B worker allotments. Rest of economy will be destroyed. Tesla specifically gain gain significantly by destroying US/Canada big 3 auto production, and fast tracking FSD approval/deregulation. FB/Google will give enough to ensure tiktok ban.
