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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'(www.pcgamer.com)

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Jinni@sh.itjust.works
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I wouldn’t call it pretending but… Yeah, no shit.

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waitmarks@lemmy.world
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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?

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fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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If you want those things then you are a republican, there’s no pretending.

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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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If the democrats would have given them those, they’d have continued their “woke capitalism” arc…

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Ænima@lemm.ee
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Fascism and capitalism go hand-in-hand because their goals align almost exactly. I also read or heard that fascism is the enforcement arm of capitalism when the peasants become unruly (ergo regulating enterprise and the leverage of tax in the rich). I’ll see if I can find the quote or video I saw about the comparisons between capitalism and fascism. It was a really interesting read.

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vga@sopuli.xyz
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Do you have an example of a political system that can somehow handle “peasants” becoming unruly without turning into some sort of fascism?

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sumguyonline@lemmy.world
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OK, let me write thus out: Trump = China tariffs; Tencent = 48.4% owner in epic games; Tencent = Chinese military corp; Tim Sweeney = chinas side.

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Rose@lemmy.zipOPM
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Tencent owns 35%.

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fox2263@lemmy.world
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God damnit sweeny. You have had a visit from the ghost of Christmas past or something?

Don’t make me agree with you.

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ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website
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Broken clocks

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